Change of plans

Being a software engineer, I’ve changed my fedora migration plans at the last minute. Basically, since the web stuff was the easiest to test, I’ve gone ahead and migrated it already.

This was done with the very excellent iptables portforwarding and was relatively easy to accomplish.

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -d $EXTERNAL_ADDR—dport 80 -j DNAT—to $INTERNAL_ADDR:80

Everything seems to be working, I see the rdf parsers scrolling by, and a recent visit by some scumbagware as well. The catch of course is that the webmail I use is pointing at the wrong IMAP server. But I can do without webmail for a while.

Fedora’s /etc/httpd/conf.d is a very nice idea, basically you drop httpd.conf snippets in there and they get evaluated, perfect for packaging up webapps. Hmm, maybe a movabletype RPM would be helpful…....

I’ll hopefully migrate the mail stuff similarly some time on friday. After that, we get to see how well Fedora Core handles VIA C5 processors.