Category Archives: Server Admin

Using grep to scrape web pages

Posted on September 18, 2009 by matt

In preperation to scrape a number of web pages, I used grep to make a list of URLs I need to scrape.  The list of URLs was in an RSS file. grep -P “\<link><\![CDATA\[(.*?)]” hawkeye_stories.xml > hawkeye_stories_links.txt

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Bash script to backup a WordPress web site

Posted on August 26, 2009 by matt

The script (backup_site.sh) for backing up a site has been modified.  It now accepts parameters. Parameter 1: domain Parameter 2: database [optional] Parameter 3: subdomain [optional] Run as root /home/root/sites/backup_site.sh gazlab.com matt_wp matt #!/bin/bash SITE=$1 SUBDOMAIN=$3 DBNAME=$2 if [ -z … Continue reading →

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Don’t upgrade yet!

Posted on June 11, 2009 by matt

I know how tempting it is to press that upgrade button, but don’t do it without backing up those files. Backing up your files first is just too quick and easy to skip when doing it from the command line. … Continue reading →

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Linux and Apache commands

Posted on February 16, 2009 by matt

Here are some commands that we use at the Gazette on our Linux web server.  It is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. Reload Apache Conf file /etc/init.d/httpd reload Restart Apache apachectl -k graceful (didn’t work on Rackspace) Restart Apache … Continue reading →

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