Joon You

It finally hit home that Tim Russert is no longer with us.  It’s really difficult to watch our historical election without Tim Russert.

Regardless of what happens today, history will be made.  We can have nation’s first Black President or first female Vice-President.  I’m hoping for the latter, but nevertheless, it’s rather exciting time.

Another sad thing is that those crazy people in California is voting for Prop 8, which is an insult to humanity as it can possibly rewrite the definition of a marriage.  I just hope enough people come to their senses.  If the vote for “No” goes through, it will mark the day I stop supporting Apple and Google in any way.  They actually used their corporate funds to support “No” vote.

This may be the first election where I’m not voting along my party line.  Yes, I will vote for non-Republican candidates.

It sometimes amazes me how stupid I am. I forgot to maintain my DNS records and my servers were down for couple of hours.

On another note, please make sure you check out Security Now! podcast over at twit.tv on DNS. It’s really interesting and should give you some insight as to why it is important to keep your eyes on DNS servers.

For last two days, I’ve been having a bitch of time trying to get Apache reverse proxy to work correctly with my backend server. It happens that the when I hit the URL for my wiki, it exposes the backend server’s address and port. In fact, it was just redirecting it rather than serving up the pages.

I finally got it to work correctly. Here’s my solution.

Front-end Apache (my load balancer):
Apache Config – within VirtualHost directive

ServerName www.yourdomain.com
ServerAlias yourdomain.com
ServerAlias wiki.yourdomain.com
ProxyPreserveHost On
BalancerMember http://{host name}:{port number}
ProxyPass / balancer://{balancer name}/
ProxyPassReverse / balancer://{balancer name}/

Backend Apache (real server with MediaWiki)
Apache Config – within VirtualHost directive

ServerName {host name}
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
ServerAlias wiki.yourdomain.com


I would love to explain this explain how this fixes the issues, but I’m just too damn tired. If you need further explanation, post your comment here and I’ll respond to it.