Seth Chisamore schisamo

Redirect: Temporary and Permanent

What is an HTTP Redirect?

HTTP redirection, or URL redirection, is a technique of pointing one domain or address to another. There are many uses for redirection, and a few different kinds of redirection to consider.

As you create content and administrate servers, you will often find the need to redirect traffic from one place to another. This guide will discuss the different use-cases for these techniques, and how to accomplish them in Apache and Nginx.

Auto-enable Local HTTP Caching in Test Kitchen

Note: total experiment and hack, looks nasty, could be awesome:

Setup

Drop the kitchen.local.yml into $HOME/.kitchen/config.yml
Install polipo (with Mac: brew install polipo, with Ubuntu: apt-get install polipo)
Drop polipo-start and polipo-console somewhere useful (perhaps $HOME/bin?)

Packer and Serf Download "APIs"

Added some endpoints to make scripting Packer or Serf installs easier:

http://downloads.packer.io/latest/darwin/amd64

http://downloads.packer.io/v/0.3.10/darwin/amd64

etc. Just replace the version and platform with the one you want.

Setting up with Chef, Windows Version

I decided I'd do some work on Windows today, and noticed a lot of my software was out of date, and there were new dev tools that I want to install. I am tired of installing this shit over and over again every time I have a new computer or wipe the OS. Thankfully, that's what Chef is for! So time for an experiment. Now that chef-client -z is out in Chef 11.8 (yay!) it's time to take the leap and start using Chef to set up my Windows 7 workstation. My goal is modest(ish):

Update HipChat (I want to use the new Windows msi instead of the Adobe Air version)
Update Sublime Text 3 (don't need to first-install it yet)
Use the development console tools outlined here

The stretch:

	# for i in 1423 1074 4031 2523 2965; do speedtest --simple --server $i; done

	Ping: 24.319 ms
	Download: 700.10 Mbit/s
	Upload: 140.30 Mbit/s

	Ping: 22.411 ms
	Download: 475.84 Mbit/s
	Upload: 132.55 Mbit/s

	# A sample Guardfile
	# More info at https://github.com/guard/guard#readme

	require 'guard/guard'
	require 'mixlib/shellout'

	module ::Guard
	class Kitchen < ::Guard::Guard
	def start
	::Guard::UI.info("Guard::Kitchen is starting")

	vagrant box add smartos http://cuddletech.com/tmp/smartos-latest.box
	mkdir smartos && cd smartos
	vagrant init smartos
	vagrant up

	vagrant ssh

	Using Omnibus configuration file /home/msf/git/omniscan-omnibus/omnibus.rb
	Could not extract version information from `git describe`. Setting version to 0.0.0
	Building python-crypto for omniscan project
	Something went wrong...the Omnibus just ran off the road!

	Error raised was:

	Don't know how to build task ':build'

	Backtrace: