WE-USB, my (or Kahaf’s) first project is now up and running. You may visit it at http://www.we-usb.com

Quote for their homepage:

WE-usb is a free virtual memory stick service for you to simply store or share your personal photos, videos and documents online.

As stated above, the project was developed and delivered on behalf of Kahaf (software development startup).

It should be noted that I did the backend development for the site (in Ruby on Rails — RoR). Thanks to Gary and Nadeem for their cooperation during the course of the project.

Recently I was trying to configure apache2 to act as a proxy to mongrel (Ruby on Rails), so I added the following directives to my httpd.conf

<virtualhost *>

    ServerName test.example.com
    <proxy *="">
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </proxy>
    # Proxy directives
    ProxyPass /phpmyadmin ! # don't want proxy forwarding for phpMyAdmin
    ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000/
    ProxyPreserveHost on

    # Logfiles
    ErrorLog  /var/log/apache2/test.example.com.error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/test.example.com.access.log combined

</virtualhost>
</pre>
However, as soon as I used to restart apache after adding this code, it always threw 503 - Service Unavailable. The error log showed a number of lines like this one:
<pre>[Thu Jul 09 11:37:13 2008] [error] (13)Permission denied: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:3000 (*) failed

In short it has to do something with permissions in SELinux which doesn’t allow httpd to connect to network and the solution is this command:

# /usr/sbin/setsebool httpd_can_network_connect 1

Thanks to the help found here and here.

Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of my readers.

I know the post is a about 10 hours and 29 minutes late , but I was away for Eid Holidays and didn’t have access to internet :)

Regards,
MI

Muslims around the world would be celebrating Eid today and tomorrow. I wish all of my readers (of any religion) a happy Eid.

Eid Mubaarik!

May Allah shower His blessings upon all of us.

On this day, My homeland (Pakistan) is being ruled by a dictator and constitutional judges are facing all kinds of brutality at his hands. I appeal my readers (of any country) to contribute to restore the judges and rule of constitution in Pakistan.


“Dark clouds surround us on all sides for the moment but we are not daunted, for I am sure, if we show the same spirit of sacrifice as was shown by Ibrahim, God would rend the clouds and shower on us His blessing as He did on Ibrahim” — M. A. Jinnah (Eid-ul-Azha message, 24 Oct 1947)

Today I received the attached photo with the following comments:

Police at work in Lahore. If you needed visual proof of pre-poll rigging here it is. The bicycle is the symbol of Musharraf’s PML Q. So much for Musharraf’s claims about fair elections! Every instrument of state will be used to ensure the results are according to Musharraf’s plan, his life depends on it as he knows he violated Article 6.

Even if we say the comment is exaggeration of political activists, isn’t Musharraf trying everything to save himself. He admitted himself on Al Jazeera the other day that he imposed emergency (and sacked the judges) because they were going to give their verdict against him.

My opinion is that, like any desperate man, Musharraf has started to put everything on table.

here’s the photo

Police at work for Musharraf League

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