vStone Blog

Yesterday, I finished putting up the Kickstart BASH page. More information can be found here.

At the same time, I fixed some SSL issues I was having on my home-webserver. Apparently, ssl doesn’t play nice with Namebased Virtual Hosts – which gave me some issues getting the right certificate in place. It’s a self signed one so you might get a little warning about that. It’s not going to change any time soon (as long as I’m hosting the svn repo myself that is).

Planned for later this evening: Setting up http://kickstart.vstone.org/, which will host the actual script in action. I ran into some problems again here: since my webhosting puts subdomains in a subfolder in my htdocs root, I had to do some magic rewriting to forward only ‘kickstart.vstone.org’ to the proper location.
For those of you who care: the solution was to add a rule to my wordpress rewrite rules in the .htaccess file. I’ve added the condition to check whether or not the server was accessed by ‘www.vstone.org‘ or ‘kickstart.vstone.org‘.

.htaccess file

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^(http://|https://)(www.)?(vstone.org).*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^kickstart.vstone.org.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress

Don’t you just hate it when you have an idea, you scribble it on a piece of paper and after a while you have too much pieces of paper dealing with the same thing. Or even better, the paper have served as barbecue fuel already… I have this problem all the time. So I went looking for a online brainstorm package. Originally, I wanted to find some php project dealing with this that I could set up at my home server.

But then, I ran into Bubbl.us. What is Bubbl.us? From their website: "Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online."

So if you feel the need to brainstorm and you want to stop wasting paper, just register and have a blast.

Update: I noticed they have a wordpress plugin too. You can find all the information here.