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I’ve read quite a few articles about the changing landscape of marketing, how regular ads and old-style marketing is no longer trusted. I suppose companies have over-promised and under-delivered for too long. Instead PR firms are adding blogging into the mix, which probably means blogs will be ruined in the long run For now though blogs are still trusted, especially when it’s regular people who write about products.

So, why this post? Well, it seems the few posts I’ve made here on lighttpd seems to have attracted some minimal attention and I received an email regarding a new book on lighttpd, published by Packt publishing. This despite the fact that I am what can only be called a cursory user of lighttpd. It contained a link to a gratuitous chapter so I decided to play along and pubically comment on the chapter. If you don’t like this kind of thing then you should skip the next post.

I had some problems hosting bzr on therning.org. I gave up on getting the development version to push via FTP and settled for missoring using lftp instead. However, branching from the published mirror failed. I got the following from bar (version 0.6.2):

% bzr branch http://therning.org/magnus_bzr/epilicious
bzr: ERROR: HTTP Error 406: Not Acceptable
  command: '/home/magnus/bin/bzr' 'branch' 'http://therning.org/magnus_bzr/epilicious'
      pwd: u'/home/magnus/prog/tmp'
    error: urllib2.HTTPError
  at /usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py line 480, in http_error_default()
  see ~/.bzr.log for debug information

The file wouldn’t even be handed out to a web browser. I managed to track down the problem, a percent sign ‘%’, in the file name. It turned out the Apache server is using mod_security. A .htaccess file with the following contents in the a directory turns it off for the directory and all sub-directories:

<ifmodule mod_security.c>
  SecFilterEngine Off
  SecFilterScanPOST Off
</ifmodule>

The made my bzr mirrors work just fine.