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I've swithed the FTP server port to 2021, even though I've had the router forwarding to 21 ... still not working. In fact, it doesn't seem to matter what I set the router to, port 21 seems to be the only working port. Hhhhmmm ....

I'm using FTP on the command-line in Linux. I have searched to see if there is a port setting, but I can't seem to find one. The FTP server is set to listen to port 8021 (to my best knowledge) and the router is set to forward to that port. Still no dice. If there is a particular FTP client you think I should try, let me know. Linux preferred if possible. Thanks to all! Bill

I've set up Net::FTPServer on my computer to run with my MD 10 Official/Apache2 setup. It kind of works. I can FTP to my router address from another machine on that router. But when I try to do this via my IP address I get 2 different results depending on my router settings. If I send port 21 through to 8021, my internal FTP access port, and try using FTP I get "Connection refused". If I try to use a different port, say 2021 in my case, it just hangs. I know the service is working on my machine, but I just can't seem to get it beyond my router. Does anyone have an idea on this? Thanks! Bill

Looks like they are reselling TCH services. They've accidentally left references to TCH on their web site pages too. Whoops!

I don't think that there IS a locking function in MySQL like there would be for a datafile. Is this custom code? It sounds like it might be. I would recommend that you cause the error and have it print out the SQL that you try to send to the MySQL database. Sometimes, as sort of a cheat, if the SQL error is not immediately obvious, I'll copy the SQL to PHPmyAdmin to see what error code I would get executing it there. Just a thought!

I love it Mike! It looks gorgeous! Good for you! I can't think of something that has been so much of a linch-pin in our family than our house has been ... if you are talking about things of course. Enjoy, enjoy!

I find that TCH responds well to pre-sales questions in these forums and you can always grab the text later if need be. Give that a try!

Sorry about that ... looks like we cross-posted!!! That is weird about the directory thing that you ran in to. I did not change any defaults on the Apache 2 server that I'm running and yet the home (/home/bhermonat/) directory worked. Well we both got ours to work. I just wish I hadn't spent so much time on the "s" in .htpasswds ... silly me! However, I think the information gained (permissions and AllowOverride) were all part of the solution. That's my exuse for today's learning experience! I thank you (again) for your continued help!!! Take care my friend! Bill :Nerd:

FYI ... I have my .htpasswd file as 777, created by the user (bhermonat) not root. My .htaccess file I believe is 644, also created by user bhermonat. Did you use root or a user to create your files?

My two files look like this now: .htaccess >Options All -Indexes AuthType Basic AuthName "ID and Password required." AuthUserFile /home/bhermonat/.htpasswd Require valid-user .htpasswd >test123:KLXIEaYC9D/Pc Does that help?

I'm feeling a little silly, but I found the answer. I went down the same road as you ... I found the AllowOverride directive and changed it the same way you did. Still nothing. Then I did a logical thing, based on what I found in a google searched ... I checked my Apache error logs. I found this: >(2)No such file or directory: Could not open password file: /home/bhermonat/.htpasswds Sure enough ... if I looked close enough, one file I created was ".htpasswd" and the other ".htpasswds". I changed them to match and wouldn't you know that it worked! However, you're still stuck. Check the error log ... what does it say?

Thanks Raul. I'm going in the same direction of examining Mandrake's default configuration too. I would think that it would be an "all or nothing" if it was a setting issue. The fact that I get prompted for an ID and password, but none of them work, still puzzles me. Thanks for your efforts. I hope we both learn something from this.

Hmmmmmmmmmm ... I found that in resetting my router recently I grabbed a different internal IP number, so I corrected that and now my sites are available to the web at large. But the .htaccess still rejectes ever ID password combination that I try. Still stuck ...

I've tried 755 and 777 on the .htpasswd file with no change. Hmmmmm ... I've been accessing my machine through http://localhost/ ... could that hamper the operation of the password requirement? I've tried to use the external IP address, but it doesn't seem to work. I have a particular port that should route to my machine and with or without the port doesn't seem to work. I'll check my router settings again just to be sure it's going where it should. Any other ideas you have ... please let me know!!! Thanks!

On my machine I have a web server running (Apache/Linux) but I'm having a weird issue with getting an ID and password working via .htaccess. Here's my latest try of the two files: .htaccess file >Options All -Indexes AuthType Basic AuthName "ID and Password required." AuthUserFile "/home/bhermonat/.htpasswds" require user testme ... and the password file ... >testme:f9Ef3llg.gkm6 I do see a password screen, but the ID and password I supplied don't work. It's like I'm typing something in wrong. It just comes back with the same password screeen no matter what I type. I've tried several different ID and password files, recreating the files several times. Nada. One thing I noticed is that, as root, I can simply use the "htpasswd" command all by itself to create the password file. I thought the root access might be throwing things off so I created it with the user account too, but couldn't just type "htpasswd ..." it had to be "/usr/sbiin/./htpasswd". Is that strange? If there's some part of the picture I'm missing here let me know. Thanks!

HHHmmmmm ... No. (me) :Nerd: I guess I need to find a better way to send e-mail to my board folks.

As my keyboard goes tippity-tap, I wear a smile knowing and having faith in the operating system I use. Linux ... a developers dream. What a great way to develop and test! However, the fun creative side of me is starting to have withdrawls. Are there any real games out there, besides those couple dozen applets that come with the KDE and Gnome, that run on Linux? What about those first-person RPG? The shoot'm up games? The sim-whatevers of the world? Do any of them work on Linux???? I didn't choose Linux for games, but I have some free HD space that wouldn't mind being used. All work and no play ...

It's all good, right? Well, Raul, you described some of my frustrations. It's not very noob friendly. Not that it has to be, but the number of bugs I ran into weren't that impressive. I'm more of a "release it when it really works" kind of a guy. So if a piece isn't working very well, don't release it. Save that for the beta testers if they are willling to work through the issues. I would probably rather NOT have the apparent ability to do automatic updates and not rely on that functionality. Otherwise, it starts to look more like a M$ distribution of Linux. And that wont go over well with the community! I think for now I'll keep using MD 10 Official. They've got a quality project going as far as I can tell and everthing seems to work right off the CDs. Time to get cracking I guess! Thanks for all the info! It's always very helpful.

I just tried to send my first bulk e-mail note through a new Invision board I set up. I currently only have 27 members registered, one is a test ID. I sent the bulk note out about 2-4 hours ago. I received the note through my Admin account, but not through my test ID. Is there a way I can be sure that the note was sent out to all members??? I'm not feeling like the note went out to everyone and I need to verify this. Thanks!

I'd let you use mine, but I'm not sure where it goes in my monitor! I've run the CD on an AMD 400mhz, and it was not too bad ... considering. I tried it out on an AMD 2000+ and it flew! You could barely tell the difference between that and a HD loaded system (512MB ram helps too).

I consider Raul the "Linux King" ... trust his advice and follow it! Another option you might consider is a "Live CD" version of Linux. The first one I gave a try is Knoppix. It won't run as quickly as a loaded version, but it's about as simple as falling out of bed, or crashing your Windows operating system. Just download the file (It's a CD image that you burn) and then boot off of it. You don't have to change anything on your computer. Then, if it looks too scarey, take the CD out and reboot. No harm, no foul. It's a great first step IMO! Good luck! Thumbs Up

Oh yeah, one other weird thing. On a download, the numbers were all weird. The speed was all over the place and so were the accumulated download totals. I wasn't aware that FC2 was more of a Beta (maybe Alpha) release of RH. If there wasn't a major bump, like internet access, I'd join up and test it out. But the lack of an internet connection would make that difficult. I'll keep the disks around and see what develops here, on their site and on the future possibility of machines on this end.

Well, my experiment with FC2 wasn't that encouraging. My first attempt on an old box delivered conflicting results, especially with maxing out the PCs CPU. Which I couldn't find out why as no particular process seemed to be hitting it so hard. So I dropped it. I received the last of the few parts need to assemble 2 new Athlon XP 2000+ boxes (my first assemble from scratch). (a few hours pass) I decided to try FC2 on one of the new boxes. I liked the way it started. The install program keeps the questions to the minimum if you want. Installs fast. Once I was up I was almost instantly greeted with the need to upgrade. I like the fact that it tells you this and that upgrading was seemingly uneventful, although it took multiple steps. The final step moved me to the 2.6.6..... core. Here's were things didn't go so well. After the install I had 2 ways to boot ( the old core or new one). I thought I'd be just dumb if I chose the old core. At boot-up time evertyhing seemed normal, until I tried to get on-line. Something happened that dissabled my internet connection. Everything I tried would not enable it. If I booted the old core, I was on-line instantly. I tried for some time, but no go. I gave up and gave MD 10 Official a try (I've used MD 10 Communinty). They've cleaned up the install process and the upgrade process also worked as smoothly. Everthing was great. No problems. So, for now, I'm sticking with MD 10 Official. I gave FC2 a try because it seemed to receive from Raul, who I consider to have the TCH corner on Linux knowledge. But later comments from him, and my expereince, leave me to believe that FC2 might have a few issues left to work out. Any comments to share on this would be appreciated!

My intention is just to run a Linux only box. I have a couple of boxes in the make and one old box that I'm trying to load FC2 on now. I had MD10C loaded, and it seemed fine and responsive. So far I've had just one minor difficulty that has made it a major pain on this old box. It doesn't seem to acknowledge the serial mouse that's conected that MD10C did. I haven't done any looking on the FC site or forums yet, but I plan to. I'm just doing a "test install" just to get the look and feel. I'm using the Gnome v.s. the KDE that I've been using with MD. Oh, one major thing. FC2 is maxing out the CPU on this old box. It's a K2 running at 366mhz. Yes, it's old but MD worked well. It has 256MB ram. Is FC that much more demanding on the CPU or is it Gnome? Not doing anything the processor goes between 80% and 100%. That seems odd to me still ... Any info on the CPU nature of this beast would help. Oh, and yes, I do plan to fry&try MD 10 Official too. Same idea there ... see how it is different and the same. Thanks for all the info and suggestions! woooot

I know there's a crowd of TCH folks out there that have found a haven in Linux. I made the switch back about 4 months ago myself. The stability and functionality and software that you attain is just really top-notch. Thumbs Up My expereince is pretty limited to most. I've done the Knoppix CD, which got me thinking that Linux was much more than just a server based OS. I recommend it for those who just want to peek at Linux without doing anything to thier current hard drive or OS. Just download Knoppix, burn it as an image CD, and boot it. There are many "live" cd's that you can check out now besides them too. Anyway ... I've been using Mandrake 10 Community for a while. It's been good. Stable as a rock. But there have been some hardware compatibility issues that have plagued me. The sound card issue that I have finally discovered isn't completely covered unless you buy the retail version. I just thought that was kind'a cheezy. I'm just about ready to start putting together 2 new AMD systems and I will be needing to put a new operating system on them. I thought I'd give FC2 a fry&try. Any feedback on the pros and cons of FC2? Installation? Use? Compatibility? I would kindly ask the the M$ fans not post their "I've never had a problem" replies. This post isn't a slam on M$, or their users. It's an exploration on FC2. Thanks!