Rich Bowen

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Rich Bowen is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, working primarily on the documentation for the Apache Web Server. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, where he spends his free time GeoCaching. He also enjoys flying kites and reading stuff by Charles Dickens and his contemporaries.

Rich is a coauthor of Apache Administrators Handbook and Apache Cookbook.

Rich, or DrBacchus--his handle on IRC--also spends entirely too much time on #apache. You can find him on the web at http://www.drbacchus.com/journal/.

Apache Cookbook by Rich Bowen , Ken Coar Second Edition December 2007 Print: $34.99 Ebook: $27.99	What's New in Apache Web Server 2.2? by Rich Bowen February 2007 Ebook: $9.99
Apache Cookbook by Ken Coar , Rich Bowen November 2003 Ebook: $23.99

Rich blogs at:
http://wooga.drbacchus.com/

RedHat Summit Summary

June 18 2013

Last week I attended the Red Hat Summit in Boston. It was, for me, equal parts pep rally and intensive OpenStack training.Jim Whitehurst's keynote was just great, because it reemphasized how much RedHat really *gets* Open Source, at all levels of the organization. So, this part was pep rally for… read more

VuPoint Magic Wand portable scanner

June 17 2013

I just bought, returned, and bought VuPoint MagicWand scanners.Here's the story.The first one I bought was this one, which is a hand-held scanner wand thingy that scans to a micro SD card. That part works great. The other feature was that you could transfer the files wirelessly. There wasn't much… read more

Open Help Conference, 2013

June 17 2013

This weekend I attended the OpenHelp Conference in Cincinnati. Unfortunately, I was only able to go to one day of it, as we had to be back for something Sunday morning.It was smallish, and so there was a lot of good conversation and brainstorming.The focus was both documentation and support,… read more

Mac OS X Time Machine disks on Linux

June 03 2013

Useful information about accessing a Mac OS X Time Machine backup disk on Linux: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080623213342356This information has proved very helpful over the last few days - although what I ended up doing was plugging the drive into a Mac and scp'ing the data across the network, since that was less… read more

What I've learned at SourceForge

May 20 2013

Today I'll be leaving SourceForge and taking a role at RedHat. Please don't think for a moment that it's because I don't like SourceForge. I continue to think that SourceForge does community *way* better than either Github or Google Code, and while there are places where the platform can improve,… read more

Maqetta

April 05 2013

Today I discovered Maqetta - http://maqetta.org/ - which is exactly what I was looking for about a month ago. It's a browser-based HTML5 editor for creating mobile web app thingies without having to actually know anything about mobile CSS. read more

A Haiku, in honor of today's meeting

April 05 2013

For a brief moment,I thought I had no meeting.It was very nice. read more

FitBit - Not what I was looking for

April 02 2013

This evening I returned the FitBit I purchased a few days ago. It wasn't what I was looking for.So I guess it's best to define what it is that I was looking for. Basically, I want everything that Strava does without having to lug my phone around. I thought that… read more

Chores

March 10 2013

Disclaimer: I don't require, or even particularly care about, your approval of my parenting style. I will cheerfully ignore any parenting advice you offer. Unless you're my parents.My kids are very goal-driven. My son wants to save for a new iPod. My daughter wants a particular pair of shoes. These… read more

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Making Apache httpd Logs More Useful
Publish Date: Feb. 1, 2007Apache httpd's standard text logfiles are well understood and useful, but they don't always give you enough information to troubleshoot problems. Apache 2.x provides several new modules that produce more logfile information--the number of bytes transferred, the rewrite rule matching, which requests complete and why, and the complete output of all headers. Rich Bowen explores these options. Caching Dynamic Content with Apache httpd
Publish Date: Nov. 16, 2006Dynamic websites tend to be easier to manage than large collections of similar static files, but they often get many times more reads than they do writes. Every database hit and page generation can eat up precious CPU cycles. Rich Bowen shows off mod_cache, which trades disk space or memory for CPU and can help improve performance on your servers. Sending Apache httpd Logs to Syslog
Publish Date: Oct. 12, 2006Apache httpd's standard text logfiles are well understood and useful, but sometimes they're not the best option. The mature and flexible Unix syslog system offers plenty of opportunities to improve reporting and security. Rich Bowen explains how to join these two systems together. A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: Sep. 8, 2005Rich Bowen is back with another installment in his occasional series based on conversations on #apache. In this article, Rich discusses a particular Apache Web Server annoyance, the Options directive, and he explains how it works and why it does what it does. Rich is a coauthor of O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: Apr. 28, 2005Rich Bowen is back with another installment in his ongoing series based on conversations on #apache. This week, he provides examples of using RewriteMap--which are lacking in its documentation and online--in this mini-tutorial. Rich is a coauthor of O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook. A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: Mar. 24, 2005If you've tried editing in WebDAV, you've likely encountered a permissions problem, as well as the problem of needing to edit your PHP files. Rich Bowen has a simple and effective solution to both of these problems in his latest #apache column. Rich is a coauthor of O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook. A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: Feb. 17, 2005Rich Bowen is back after a hiatus with another column based on his conversations on the IRC channel #apache. Rich explains why it is in fact possible to run name-based SSL virtual hosts on Apache. Rich is a coauthor of O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook. A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: Sep. 23, 2004In this month's column, Rich Bowen tackles an Apache security issue. Learn how to configure Apache to send a different Server response so no one can identify what version of Apache you're running or any of the modules you have installed. The less information your server reveals, the safer it will be from crackers. Rich is a coauthor of O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook. A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: Aug. 19, 2004Rich Bowen is back this month after a brief summer hiatus with his latest column based on his conversations on the IRC channel #apache. Want to know how to make your web site faster? Rich has some tips to enhance your server's performance. Rich is a coauthor of O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook. A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: Jun. 17, 2004In Rich Bowen's latest column based on his conversations on the IRC channel #apache, he attempts to answer a question that comes up at least once a day, but which doesn't have one clear answer: whether to use Apache 1.3 or 2.0. Find out why the answer is not a simple one. Rich is a coauthor of O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook. A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: May. 27, 2004File permissions are a major topic of conversation on #apache -- the IRC channel on which Rich Bowen often lends a helping hand. In this latest article in the series based on his #apache conversations, Rich covers the hows and whys to setting up file permissions on Unix machines. Rich is a coauthor of Apache Cookbook. A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: Apr. 22, 2004In this latest installment in the series based on his conversations on the IRC channel #apache, Rich Bowen walks through three error condition scenarios administrators have encountered and shows what to do about them, in order to create a more welcoming, less "Forbidden" web site for end users. Rich is the coauthor of O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook. A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: Mar. 18, 2004In this latest installment in the series based on his conversations on the IRC channel #apache, Rich Bowen takes you on an interesting trip through the history of mod_imap, and why some modules hang around long after they're no longer in use. Rich is a coauthor of O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook. A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: Feb. 26, 2004Rich Bowen tackles yet another common Apache dilemma in the latest installment in this series based on his conversations on the IRC channel, #apache. This week he delves into the sometimes confusing world of modules: when to enable them, when to disable them, and why. A Day in the Life of #Apache
Publish Date: Jan. 8, 2004In this installment of his new series based on conversations on the IRC channel, #Apache, Rich Bowen tackles configuration issues in the sometimes bewildering world of virtual hosts. By the time he's through, Rich will have even the most confused Apache administrator creating a functioning virtual host configuration. Rich is coauthor of the recently released Apache Cookbook.

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