Nathan Bridgewater

As a developer, I don’t get to play with the IT side of things quite as much as I would like to.  So I enjoy the little things, like learning how to use a reverse proxy on Apache.  At home, I only have one IP coming in with my regular Internet connection, and I want the ability to run multiple servers inside my network on port 80. In the past, I’ve always just setup a new port and routed it to whichever server I wanted. 8080 here, 8081 there, etc. Well with Apache reverse proxy (mod_proxy), I found it was very easy to setup route requests to other internal servers.

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Updated June 23, 2010!

Lately, I’ve been really digging the new Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop and web server. So I’ve been meaning to get a post out here describing how I got Mono trunk installed since it comes packaged with 2.4.4.  After much testing, I finally have finished getting a script to work with a fresh, vanilla install.

I stumbled on this blog post by Boris Schieman where he wrote a bash script to compile and install the Mono trunk.  I made a few tweaks to it for a vanilla linux install for the tagged 2.6.4 release and setup another one for updating a mono trunk build using the daily tarballs. I’ve successfully tested both versions on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. I’m just a casual linux/mono user, so use this at your own risk.

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