I’ve been working on a project for a while on my main dev machine, but needed to run it on my laptop too.

Usually copying a site across is quick but this time I re-installed the OS too, everything went OK except for some reason I couldn’t log in to my drupal site.

Eventually I noticed that while the site appeared to be working, every page was being served with a 404 header.

Shamelessly copied from:

Configure Apache SSL and Subversion in Debian in 683 seconds

This just saved me lots of time and I want to keep a copy for later - just in case…

Mar 26 2005

(The apache2+SSL part was taken from the article Debian, Apache2 and SSL by Ian Miller)

This is fairly well documented on the apache site - but you have to pull info together from a few pages and the importance of virtual servers is easy to miss.

I’ve long been impressed with the wayback machine and found it very useful to find things that have disappeared from the rest of the Internet.

I use cvs a lot in software development and find it a real life saver to be able to restore any file I have been working on at any point in it’s history. This really helps me to find out when and why things went wrong, saving me from making the same mistakes again.