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HELLO WORLD! (It is cool to be connected)

View the last 100 visitors of my homepage HERE and zoom till you see their home :-)

You'll need a lot of patience...Since there is no VMWARE Converter for Linux... My objective is to virtualizes my Internet server running SUSE in a VMWARE to ease the migration to a more powerful and up to date server.

I am using RSYNC since:

• I have no access to the machine, So I can't stop the server and make a binary images of the disk as the server is in a STRATO data center in Germany (Berlin)
• I don't like operations down time.

I HAVE TO virtualize my server because:

• The operating system SuSE is too old and is no more security patches available.
• I want to have a local reference in VMWARE of my Internet server.

This tutorial can be see as an add-on of this one : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9942 (very good by the way) I just complete the missing steps or document some issues I've encountered..

A lot of people have tried numerous times to download files from my download section without
success, the error message was always the same

Unrecoverable error "PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10)"

Also, Some tried to unpack the zip file locally using stuffit/Winrar/7Zip and get an error suggesting
that the archive is damaged.

Only Internet Explorer users were having issues, this is because of Internet explorer not able to handle
compression of all file types. I solved the issue by changing my mod_deflate.conf which now look like the following:

<Location />
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript

# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</Location>

I found that I had to use application/x-javascript instead of application/javascript to actually get javascript files on my
server to be served compressed.

mod deflate documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html