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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • What Does it Mean to Have Unlimited Storage in the Cloud?

    We've seen big announcements recently about unlimited cloud storage offerings for a flat monthly or fee. Dropbox offers it for subscribers to its Business plan. Similarly, Google has unlimited storage for Google Apps for Business customers. In both cases, though, you have to be part of a business group of …

     Posted on  March 31, 2015
     and last updated April 01, 2015
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Blocking /xmlrpc.php Scans in the Apache .htaccess File

    Someone out there on the internet is repeatedly hitting this blog's /xmlrpc.php service, probably looking to enumerate the user accounts on the blog as a precursor to a password scan (as described in Huge increase in WordPress xmlrpc.php POST requests at Sysadmins of the North). My access logs …

     Posted on  September 03, 2014
     and last updated September 04, 2014
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Fronting Tomcat with Apache HTTPD to Remove Ports and Context Paths

    In this How-To guide, I show a combination of software and configuration to clean up URLs by removing the port numbers of the Java servlet engine (Tomcat) and the context path of the application. The goal is to create "cool URLs" that are are short (removing the unnecessary context path …

     Posted on  September 19, 2007
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Solr-ized MARC Record Catalog

    Rob Casson of Miami University announced this weekend the beta availability of their video catalog. In a subsequent posting, Rob describes the user interface elements. Rob and the crew at Miami are seeking feedback on the interface, so if you have some be sure to offer it to them.

    A …

     Posted on  June 04, 2007
     and last updated June 05, 2007
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Killing Off Runaway Apache Processes

    Well, something is still going wrong on dltj.org — despite previous performance tuning efforts, I'm still running into cases where machine performance grinds to a halt. In debugging it a bit further, I've found that the root cause is an apache httpd process which wants to consume nearly all of …

     Posted on  February 26, 2007
     and last updated February 26, 2007
     ·  3 minutes reading time