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Keep VPN Connection alive

Recently i had a VPN connection with OpenSwan that didn’t stay alive. Adding the following option to the config fixed it

dpdaction=restart

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64MB VPS

I switched from Typo to Wordpress . I thought it would run a little faster on the 64MB VPSĀ  i use on my server. But WP uses MySQL as a backend and that doesn’t really help.

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Typo with Phusion Passenger

I’m running this blog now with the Phusion Passenger mod for Apache.

Normally this Apache directive should be enough to start your rails app.

VirtualHost *:80;
servername mydomain.tld
documentroot /var/www/html/typo/public
/VirtualHost&gt;</pre>

I had to change it to the following though to get it to work.

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