The month of June is my birthday month, today is my birthday. I seldom update my blog because of two things. First, school year in the Philippines is June 10, goodbye to summer vacation. We are all busy shopping and preparing for the things needed for school. Is this the first time I mentioned here that I am a mommy of three sons? Well, that’s the reason why I can’t update my blog on daily basis. I blog on my free time only. Last week, my desktop was infected with Trojan Horse virus came from a wallpaper my son downloaded without informing me. My sister installed something I don’t know and mess with some of my installed softwares. I thought, I have to reformat my computer but reformatting and reinstalling softwares is time consuming and I’m worried with my files. Anyway, good thing that my computer is okay now. Going back to my birthday… the whole month of June will be a link love month on this blog as long as you comment to any posts here. I have Top Commentator (monthly reset), Lucia LinkyLove (5 comments becomes dofollow), Commentluv plugins and planning to install the entrecard dropper plugin soon. To my top commentator for this month, a simple token of appreciation awaits you.
ThePlanet determined that no servers in the data center have been damaged. Nonetheless, they are down because power is out. According to ThePlanet as of this writing, they do not have an estimated time to repair at present. Their staff and management continue to work things out. Entrecard was down for almost 12 hours already as of this time. I assume that today is Entrecard droppers’ day-off. I hope everything will be back to normal tomorrow.
Entrecard displayed this outage information at the moment:
There was a fire at our datacenter resulting in the failure of some of our systems, our database server appears to be offline still, we’re working on it and we’re really sorry about the issues at this time. more information arriving shortly.
Quoted below is the email I’ve received from entrecard team this morning:
Greetings,
Unfortunately, there has been an electrical fire at the data center housing Entrecard’s servers. The servers have not been damaged, but the site may be down for as long as 12 hours.
Entrecard is hosted with ThePlanet, and this fire has effected over 9000 websites, as many of the world’s most popualar websites are hosted with ThePlanet. They are working around the clock to get their data center back online, and we are hoping that they get it back online fast.
Thank you for your pateince and understanding with this rare and frustrating problem. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing we can do but wait for The Planet to get their datacenter back online.
Please check back with Entrecard in 12 to 24 hours.
By default, files that you want to share on Raccoon mobile web server is in E:apache/htdocs folder on your mobile. With no configuration, your mobsite looked like index of downloadable files.
If you have files with different categories, you would not want to place all your files in E:apache/htdocs folder. For instance, mobile ebook files should be on their right folder in able for you to read them, putting them all in htdocs folder means unreasonable memory usage. See the point?
Make sure that you understand httpd.conf file and make a backup of this file before editing. The steps below is to make drive e: (MMC or memory card) as your “document server”. This way, no need to move all files to E:apache/htdocs folder.
Edit httpd.conf using System Explorer.
Look for these lines:
# Uncomment the following two lines if you want to provide access to
# the entire filesystem of your phone. I’m sure you keep you door unlocked
# at home also.
#
#Alias /c-root/ “C:/”
#Alias /e-root/ “E:/”
– Remove # before Alias /e-root/ “E:/” and change e-root to your server name.
Ex: Alias /glitch/ “E:/”
Look also for these lines:
# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
# DocumentRoot “E:/Apache/htdocs”
– just remove the words Apache/htdocs from the last line, it should be like this:
# DocumentRoot “E:/”
Of course, if you open the whole drive e: there are folders you dont want to be seen on your mobsite. Then, we have to hide these folders. Look for these lines:
# Uncomment the following line if you don’t want to let anybody unknown
# see your home-page.
# Require valid-user [/Directory] [Directory "C:/Nokia/Images/"]
# Change ‘valid-user’ to a specific user or comment the line out if
# want to allow access to anybody. Require valid-user[/Directory]
– Remove “#” from the third line and replace [Directory "C:/Nokia/Images/"] with [Directory "C:/"]
– Below the edited line… add additional line, change the location to E:/System/ to hide memory card system files. Additional line is equivalent to another folder like images, etc.
example: Require valid-user [/Directory] [Directory "E::/Images/"]
– Change “[" and "]” to greater than and less than sign.
Click back and save the file.
Take Note:
All the html files should be placed at drive e: or your memory card. Make folders and subfolders if necessary, just make sure that you place the right file location on the html file.
If you’re not confident on html editing using System Explorer, you can use FExplorer or use the MMS trick.
The image above is the screenshot of my Raccoon mobsite, Drive E (MMC) as the document server and a separate html page for repligo category. With this procedure, you also need to make html files which will be discussed soon.
As I’ve discussed from my previous entry, knowing IP address is important especially on using mobile application intended for sharing files like Raccoon mobsite (mobile web server) and Comobi. Both these mobile applications need internet and/or GPRS in able to have connections to other party.
I don’t want to sound complicated, I am using a mobile application called IPviewer to know my IP address. This is an easy and reliable mobile application for me, tried and tested on my symbian phone. Just make a connection using built in browser, Opera, Opera Mini, fget or any mobile applications you know for Internet/GPRS connection. Open IPviewer application without closing connection, at the bottom of the page, you will now see your IP as shown in the image.
A disconnected connection when reconnected means another IP address. So, when using Raccoon or Comobi, refresh IPviewer to get the new mobile IP address.
Many times from my past articles that I mentioned about IP address without discussing briefly what it is. To advanced usage of mobile phones, knowing one’s IP address is indeed important in able to use mobile application intended for sharing files like Raccoon and Comobi.
IP stands for Internet Protocol, is a unique address that certain electronic devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard. In laymans terms, it is sort of like a thumbmark of current connection, the location and other information of an IP address can be traced.
When I started blogging at wordpress.com, I stumbled on a blog that has a widget of current visitor’s flag. As a newbie that time, I was really fascinated on how that works and flattered seeing my flag on other blogs. It took me time to figure that out.
There’s also an instance that a spammer once accused me of deleting her comments which I didn’t approved for the reason of malicious, not related comments and pretending to be different persons but have the same IP address. Understanding IP address is important for this situation.
Upon digging deeply on IP address, I found out that there are many possibilities on manipulating IP address. I stumbled on a website and learned interesting things from their articles and tools. I’ve tried checking my ip with these reliable tools.
IP Location, Map and Details – If you want to know the location of a certain IP address and some information, you may enter the IP address and find it here.
Email Source IP Address – This tool displays the estimated location, an IP address of an email.
IP Traceroute – This tool displays the geographical location of an IP address.
Visual Traceroute – This tool displays the mapped graphical location of a traceroute from the server to the requested IP address.
DNSbl Check – This tool may help you check if your IP address is listed with nearly 100 DNS based anti-spam databases.
IP to Hostname Lookup – This tool displays the hostname of an IP address.
Hostname to IP Lookup – This tool displays the IP address of a hostname. I’ve tried www.ebooktechie.com and it display my IP address.
Advanced Proxy Check – This tool can help you check if information is exposed if you are using proxy server.
The month of June is my birthday month, today is my birthday. I seldom update my blog because of two things. First, school year in the Philippines is June 10, goodbye to summer vacation. We are all busy shopping and preparing for the things needed for school. Is this the first time I mentioned here that I am a mommy of three sons? Well, that’s the reason why I can’t update my blog on daily basis. I blog on my free time only. Last week, my desktop was infected with Trojan Horse virus came from a wallpaper my son downloaded without informing me. My sister installed something I don’t know and mess with some of my installed softwares. I thought, I have to reformat my computer but reformatting and reinstalling softwares is time consuming and I’m worried with my files. Anyway, good thing that my computer is okay now. Going back to my birthday… the whole month of June will be a link love month on this blog as long as you comment to any posts here. I have Top Commentator (monthly reset), Lucia LinkyLove (5 comments becomes dofollow), Commentluv plugins and planning to install the entrecard dropper plugin soon. To my top commentator for this month, a simple token of appreciation awaits you.
