RedMine on CSE, part 2

So, after my last post, I pretty much had RedMine running under webrick.  Wasn't too bad.  RedMine looked pretty cool.  As advertised, it was Trac with more out-of-the-box.  Great.  Now I wanted it to tweak it and run it under CGI, as that's all I can use (as of 2011s1) on the CSE web server. …

RedMine on CSE

So, I tried to install RedMine on CSE today.  I've installed Trac on CSE before, so I thought it would be as straightforward.  Boy, was I wrong. Problem #1: ruby 1.8.6 or 1.8.7 is required, but only 1.8.5 (and 1.9) is installed on the cgi servers Solution #1: Compile and install ruby 1.8.7 locally. Problem …

CSE webserver annoyances

So, CSE's webservers have a few annoyances. 1) https://host/dirname redirects to http://host:443/dirname/ 2) no SSL certificate for username.web.cse.unsw.edu.au The first can be worked around with an explicit Redirect rule in a .htaccess. The second can't be, and you have to redirect to http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au or cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au if you want a valid SSL certificate for your webspace. …

New Blog (setting up wordpress in CSE)

Figured I'd start a blog to keep track of all of my CSE-related activities, separate to my personal stuff. For a first entry, setting up WP on CSE.