Today, I experimented a bit with another open source content management
system (Magnolia). Magnolia is base don J2EE so that would give
me a bit more control than Mambo perhaps because I know J2EE but not
PHP on which Mambo is based.
Because I downgraded my ADSL subscription from comfort to standard, I had to
reconfigure the modem. What I did not realize was that this
reconfiguration somehow erased all the port-address translations in the
modem. As a result of this problem, all services on the site were
unreachable from Friday evening 4th March to Sunday evening 6th March.
The server now regularly reconfigures the modem with the precise PAT settings so that this problem cannot occur anymore.
Just ordered another hard disk sled in addition to the two I already
have so that I can use a total of three disks to store my data on and
easily swap disks while still using mirrorring onthe server. Basic
idea is to store the third disk in another (geographic) location and to
exchange one of the disks every now and then. This way, I allways have
a (fairly) recent backup of all my data.
Also scheduled regular verification of the RAID array using cron. The
highpoint RAID scheduling functions are not working it appears.
Got search engine friendly URLs to work now.
I am now really starting to like Mambo. Man, why didn’t I use this before?
Installation of Mambo on SuSE Linux 9.1 was a breeze. Just following
the installation instructions. This means installing the required mysql
and php packages (straight from the SuSE linux 9.1 dvd). The most
difficult part of the installation was the configuration of mysql
because that documentation is not that good.