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The first problem I ran into, was not being able to do any Linux installation at all…turned out I had to upgrade the bios (latest version can be found at Intel site).

Second problem…as I had to use USB to install the system: how was I to make a working bootable USB drive. Turned out that on the sourceforge site there is something called UNetbootin. Search no further, this tool works perfectly and I’m going to use it a lot !

Now I’m looking at a great D510MO based running system.

At home I’m running a Windows 2008 server (Exchange 2007 and mostly file sharing) that is also hosting two virtualized Debian environments: webserver and mail server.

As all HTTP trafic is serviced by the Debian machine, I had to figure out a way to forward all the traffic for www.elconsultancy.nl to this 2K8 machine (running IIS). Why…trying to make my first steps into the SilverLight world.

The solution:

As most stuff also this could be handled really easy by using the reverse proxy. Two steps to handle this:

1) Edit the Virtual Hosts file:

<VirtualHost 192.168.50.80:80>

ServerName www.elconsultancy.nl

ProxyRequests Off

<Proxy *>

Order deny,allow

Allow from all

</Proxy>

ProxyPass / http://192.168.50.1/

ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.50.1/

</VirtualHost>

2) Enable the proxy module:

a2enmod proxy_http

Yeah, it really is that easy !

Change the Rules

Please check this link, it helped me a lot (by using the HttpNamespaceManager).

Before starting the replacement I searched on the Internet for a good how-to for this replacement as I never extended a soft RAID. Here are the steps I took to get to the extended situation (as there was no complete how-to there for me…):

1. Replace one disk with the new disk and have it synchronized (unfortunately, my setup did not show any progress and it took 4.5 hours to complete). This synchronization is done by the OS, in my case Windows 2008. By watching the disk activity light I could tell it was still syncing. After that reboot and make sure the status of the RAID is no longer critical, but functional.
2. Replace the second disk with the new disk and have it synchronized as well (think it must have taken the same time….decided to go to bed at this point). After that reboot and make sure the status of the RAID is no longer critical, but functional.
3. Press Ctrl + F to get into the RAID utility.
4. At this point I had to delete the RAID set and recreate it to get the full size.
5. In disk manager the additional disk space was displayed and I was able to have my D drive extended (standard Windows 2008 functionality).

For those running into the same guest:

You can automatically mount your Windows drive every time you login to your Mac by adding it to your Login items. In System Preferences, Accounts, choose the “Login Items” tab and add the Volume to the list of apps that automatically start up.

create a file called /etc/apache2/conf.d/virtual.conf

include the following text:

#
# We’re running multiple virtual hosts.
#
NameVirtualHost [your IP]:80

Now you can create a file in your /etc/apache2/sites-available map called (in my case) e-miel.net with the VirtualHost tag pointing to the NameVirtualHost mentioned above:

<VirtualHost [your IP]:80>

With this no errors will be logged after restarting Apache2.

Btw, I ran into this error:

_default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 80

It seems that /etc/apache2/ports.conf also contains a “global” (don’t know for sure if that is the correct word) variable that holds the NameVirtualHost value.

After configuring the machine it seemed to work smoothly but from time to time Apache2 was not responding to any requests (though the mail server was running perfectly).

It turned out that by using <Virtualhost *> (yes, I definitely am lazy !) the problem was caused by my second not used nic. Disabling this one did the trick, the server is up and running 24/7.