Author Archives: Alexandre Gauthier

Web server stability issues

We are experiencing some intermittent problems with the web server architecture — applications sometimes stop responding at all and apache seems to become stuck — it also seems to affect the fastcgi module which renders all the non-php web applications unusable. We have narrowed the problem to a potential culprit: APC, the PHP cache framework [...]

Redmine maintenance complete

Upgrade to Redmine the 1.0-stable completed successfully. Access to service has been fully restored. Some problems were encountered in regard to gem compatibility with the i18n enabled templates. For future reference the error encountered when rendering i18n’ed templates was: ActionView::TemplateError (missing interpolation argument in “%m/%{count}/%Y %I:%M %p” Freezing rails 2.3.5 to vendor and editing vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb [...]

Mercurial central repository issues [resolved]

Following an upgrade to Mercurial 1.6, hgwebdir.cgi got merged into hgweb.cgi. We overlooked that bit and the apache integration broke. As of now, it is functional again. We promptly switched to hgweb.cgi but against what the documentation advertised, it was not a complete drop in replacement and would fail to execute no matter what. We [...]

So, here we are.

I finally decided to fill the void of my primary domain with something. This website will act some kind of hub between all the services I run and provide, and the bits of code and knowledge I wish to distribute, regardless of their target audience being extremely limited. I hope that eventually this can bloom [...]