Monthly Archives: December 2011

Installing Apache Solr on CentOS

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Alex

Apache’s Solr search platform is a common solution for more flexible and better performing searches on sites that have outgrown their database’s built-in search facilities. Here at Nexcess, the most common use is by clients with Magento Enterprise Edition (the … Continue reading →

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Debugging Apache Rewrites and Redirects

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Sean

Apache’s mod_rewrite and mod_alias can be very useful, but they can also be a huge pain to debug when a problem arises. Luckily, there are a few things that can help, and since you’re probably not the first person attempting … Continue reading →

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Features of Grep

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Mark

In my last blog posting I wrote about features of the less pager. Its one of those very common Linux utilities that everyone uses but no one reads the man page to learn about features. Just like less, everyone uses … Continue reading →

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