November 2007

My grandfather passed away earlier today. Thank you for all the support over the last couple weeks.

If you’re the kind of person who believes in prayer, please pray for my grandfather, Dale Rex. He’s in the hospital and could use some help.

I’m moving on November 23 or 24. Please let me know if you want to help and which day is best. Many hands make light work. I will provide the customary pizza and beer.

Jeff and Nicole, I think you’ll be happy to know that my new apartment is on the ground floor.

Portland people: Keep an eye out for the Wordstock Red Book. You only have a couple more days to find one. (via Christine, who really needs to write something)

iPhone displaying a web application

Upgrading to Leopard may break your web server

This evening, I finally found the time to write a small web application for the iPhone only to discover that the web server on my Mac was not working correctly. Every URL not returning a 404 in /~matt was returning a 403 Forbidden. After some searching and tinkering, I realized that my Apache configuration was not copied from Apache 1 to Apache 2 during the upgrade to Leopard. If you’re having this problem, you need to copy the files in /etc/httpd/users to /etc/apache2/users and restart the web server. If you made any changes, such as enabling PHP, to /etc/httpd/httpd.conf, you’ll need to make those changes in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, as well.

Ze Frank has posted a new video. He says he plans to post a few more. I’d forgotten how much I used to enjoy watching the latest episode of The Show after a hard day at work.