non-random ramble

I just learned how to put up a messages when you log in to a server…

sudo vi /etc/motd

its not a script so dont need to put “echo” just type what you want.

For a cool ascii text generator, see http://asciiset.com/figletserver.html, I like banner3 as a font.

Have just been toying with this site and now it looks beautiful. just 1hour and the lovelly theme here. plus a tag cloud in the sidebar!

theme  is Barthelme theme by Scott

I Have finally gotten around to working out how to use the gallery software on this server.

It is sweet and can be viewed at

planet-ix.com/pictures

well ive been having a few teething problems with getting my site working properly so am going to post the fixes.

All of the problems were with Safari, not dreamhost which works fine.

Basically i had to reset safari completely after downloading a new version which i guess makes quite some sense as maybe its not quite compatible with th ecookies etc.

i was still seeing a weird behaviourwith the wikki main page though – it was showing me a really old cached version of th eindex page and refused to update it :

its very wierd though – safari must do some odd caching which it doesnt reset when getting an index page.

so:

I go to the URL http://www.planet-ix.com/mindweb/

and its supposed to loade the file called index.php right ?

this it does but it seems to be loading an old cached version which means it doesnt redirect properly to the main page which has the url

http://www.planet-ix.com/mindweb/index.php?title=Main_Page

right so i tried to edit the index.php and put a different string in there to proove this.

I still see the old page.

So i thought i will replace the file completely and created a new empty file called index.html which should override the index .php.

sure enough after a couple of clicks and refreshes (it didnt recognise it straight away), i get it to return a blank page at index.html

then by some miracle when i rename the index.html, and refresh the page, everything works !!

who knows but maybe it would be worth a tip somewhere on the faq incase anyone else comes accros it.

now i am happy dreamhost customer all my web work:)

Well, i have finally got around to sorting out my website – its not quite in the way i wanted to do it (i had very complicated plans which might get done one day) but it was very easy and quick thanks to changing my hosting to dreamhost who have atuo installs for all kinds of cool goodies such as a gallery for pictures ( and even a wiki!!)