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My instant messaging communications platform

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by
Patrick
on March 26, 2008
in Internet development, Linux (general) and This machine
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I’m using this setup for quite a while now. It’s great in many ways - here some of the reasons:

  • I can access it from multiple hosts at once
  • I can use one unified user interface for all instant messenger protocols and IRC
  • I can access the platform even through my mobile phone via GPRS / WLAN
  • I have logs of all communications in one central place

This is how a few free software components work together to make it possible:

Overview (OpenDocument format)

Or as PNG file (rendered with GIMP):
Overview (PNG)

Apache 2.2

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Patrick
on September 5, 2007
in Gentoo Linux and This machine
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Apache 2.2.4 aka www-servers/apache-2.2.4-r12 in Gentoo has been stabilised, so I went through the upgrade. A lot of things changed in the configuration files, I hope I got everything right… we’ll see ;) The vhosts and webapps I tested all work flawlessly.

New SSL certificates

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Patrick
on June 1, 2007
in This machine
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Today I got two mails from StartSSL that my certificates (valid for one year) are about to expire. So I went through the process of obtaining new ones, and just now I finished installing them (one on my webserver for https://patrick-nagel.net and one on my mailserver (mail.patrick-nagel.net)). I think it took me half a week to figure everything out the first time (one year ago), but this time it went quite smoothly, within an hour or so.

Thanks to StartCom for that service! :)