There is some construction going on towards a universal login (joy!). If your login doesn’t work from the prompt in the update bar, remember you can click “login” on the upper left of the update bar to access the gallery and blog. This login also makes the forum posts visible in the updates bar.

CSS3 is money, and we’re banking it.

I think that the crowd that visits our site is nearly assured to have an updated browser, one that supports all the best of new Internet standards. Thus, I moved to insert a nag for Internet Explorer users. Electronox will pretty much now support only the latest versions of Gecko and Webkit based browsers. I think it’s a move for the best.

Kicking things off is a few new themes in development. I guess I don’t really mean “new” – these are more like updates to the strong foundation Dane created with the original Mobius themes.

Enjoy the small facelift. Of course, if you don’t like the facelift, suck-it just let me know how you want it changed and we can bust out a design we all like.

Before you ask, no, nothing is final and I still have some work to do here and there. But if you want to help me with suggestions or searching for places that need some tidying up, you can preview the forum theme for yourself with this link:

http://www.electronox.net/forum/index.php?style=28

Nick: so we getting drunk?
Dane: I’m too full for drank. Let’s do shots!

*phone rings*
Mom: “how’s the lake?”
Dane: “pretty hungover — WHERE ARE THE BOAT KEYS!?”

There exist guides innumerable for this, but I recently went through this somewhat of a hassle and figured more documentation certainly wouldn’t hurt the situation. This is for a server located at trac.yourdomain.tld with multiple projects located in the the folders trac.yourdomain.tld/projectname1, trac.yourdomain.tld/projectname2.

Replace $projectnameX with your project’s name. Use the defaults for the trac-admin installer, except where it asks for your SVN Repository folder.

# apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn trac
# mkdir -p /var/local/svn/$projectname1
# mkdir -p /var/local/trac/$projectname1
# mkdir -p /var/local/svn/$projectname2
# mkdir -p /var/local/trac/$projectname2
# svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/local/svn/$projectname1
# svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/local/svn/$projectname2

# trac-admin /var/local/trac/$projectname1 initenv
# trac-admin /var/local/trac/$projectname2 initenv

# htpasswd -c /var/local/svn/$projectname1/conf/passwd $proj1username
# htpasswd -c /var/local/svn/$projectname2/conf/passwd $proj2username

//Additional users
# htpasswd /var/local/svn/$projectnameX/conf/passwd $addUser

Next, we need to configure Apache, this assumes you have SSL on port 443 configured. If not, you can just run over port 80 without the redirect.

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Tomas: Hurry up and turn your computer on!
Ryan: I can’t I need a spike bar and a 2 prong to 3 prong converter.
Tomas: I don’t care, do it now.
Ryan: Don’t make me get out my pocket knife and make a wiring abomination.
Tomas: DO IT.
Ryan: But we would all die in a fire.

As a note to myself and any other DDWRT-wielding Namecheap subscribers, the correct format for the dynamic DNS setup page is this:

• DDNS Service: Custom
• DDNS Server: dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com
• Username: makesomethingup
• Password: [your really long Namecheap DDNS password (click the Dynamic DNS button on the left side of the Namecheap management page to grab it) - this isn't your Namecheap account password!]
• Hostname: mythirdleveldomain -a my2ndthirdleveldomain -a my3rdthirdleveldomain
• Url: /update?domain=mydomain.net&password=lotsofnumbers&host=

Keep the url blank after host! You can also set the update interval to 1 (updates everyday). Click Apply Settings and watch it go!

Edit: I recently found that the -a parameter in the hostname field allows multiple host updates.