I recently snagged rcrowley.org when someone didn’t renew it and spent a bit of this morning transitioning everything into place. The site itself was easy. I just setup a new domain on TextDrive and copied all of the code to this new domain. The database is shared, so no mysqldump‘ing was necessary. Then I replaced the .htaccess file at richarddcrowley.org to forward traffic to the new domain before deleting the code part of the site from that domain.

The RSS feed is handled by FeedBurner, so changing the source there was no big deal. However, I’d like to transition over to feeds.feedburner.com/rcrowley instead of feeds.feedburner.com/richarddcrowley. I have both going right now and have changed all my links to the new one. If you would be a kind soul and change your RSS reader to point to feeds.feedburner.com/rcrowley, I’d be nearly eternally greatful.

So I’m setting up a server for a project I’m starting (more on that as it develops), following my own instructions (http://old.richarddcrowley.org/blog/view/123). It turns out they’re not quite right anymore and I can’t figure it out.

I’m getting constant 403 errors even though RewriteLog seems to indicate that my rewrites are happening correctly. The solution is of course to google for the solution, but in most of my searches, my old site is the top result. Uh oh.

But I figured it out thanks to Server Watch forum users. In a nutshell, Ubuntu now forces you to explicitly enable more bits of the Apache proxying system by hand. Thus:

a2enmod proxy
a2enmod proxy_balancer
a2enmod proxy_http
a2enmod proxy_ftp
a2enmod proxy_connect