Brandon’s Blog

Michael Jackson 1958-2009

First off this is a (late) response to Christer Edwards way of simplifying his public Dropbox URL's  with .htaccess and mod_rewrite, it can be found here.

While his solution works, it leaves the URL ugly e.g. a Picture of my son and his toy duck at would redirect to http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/461492/eric-n-duck.jpg . Below is my solution to the "problem". Simply setup apache2 as a reverse proxy for your public folder on Dropbox.

Here is the sample config I use on http://storage.imbrandon.com/ , its just a couple of added lines to your vhost/httpd.conf ( change the number after the /u/ to your Dropbox user ID number ).

<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /dropbox http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/461492/
ProxyPassReverse /dropbox http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/461492/


So now when you visit http://storage.imbrandon.com/dropbox/eric-n-duck.jpg the URL never changes.

Tonight begins the end of a great ( IMHO ) Sci-Fi story.

I just hope that someday it may be continued in written/novel form. Ahh the things dreams are made of.

I'll leave it to the reader to translate the title ...

According to Netcraft 20 Million Chinese websites running on "QZHTTP" ( apparently serving mostly the qq.com domain ) just came out of no where, or are at least crawl-able now.

What does this mean? To Me it just means more Questions, I cant seem to find any information on QZHTTP. Is it Open Source ? GPL ? Based on Apache ? Totally from scratch ? etc. etc. etc.

So "Dear Lazyweb" what does it mean? Will QZHTTP overrun IIS in web server market share for 2nd place, what about even Apache in 1st ? A quick Google ( don't you like how google is a verb now ) didnt turn up much other than another blog post with just as many questions and not any answers or comments.

Congratulations Debian on the Release of Debian 5.0 "Lenny" , I know everyone on the team put in many many hours of hard work into the release and its good to see everything went smoothly.

Cheers !