Monthly Archives: January 2007

PAM Authentication for Apache, Trac and SVN

Thursday, January 4th, 2007
I’m going to describe how to get two of my favourite development tools, Trac and Subversion, to authenticate against PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module). For those who might not be familiar, Trac is a wiki that has integrated SCM and issue tracking. It’s written in Python and it’s incredibly useful. I’ve been using Subversion for version [...]
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Xen Hosting

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
I recently made the decision to move from a shared hosting account to a dedicated server. I was very happy with my shared hosting provider (WebFaction) but it’s not uncommon for me to have several websites or trac wikis or subversion repositories all going at once. I need these to be accessible to me [...]
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Introduction to mod_python

Monday, January 1st, 2007
This article will provide a brief introduction to mod_python, a tour of what you can do with it, and some pointers to further resources should you want to explore it in more depth. I will assume that the reader is comfortable programming in Python (although no specific knowledge is required) and is familiar with Apache [...]
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