DISQUS

As a celebrity photographer (and no I'm NOT a paparazzi) I'm sick and tired of the DMCA shield.

"Gee, they swore it wasn't stolen property. Well, look around the house and if you prove anything was yours take it back with our apologies."

I should be able to enjoy life making new work not hunting down illegal uses of past works.

Yes, but where's the revenue on these types of sites for the photographers's work that's being stolen?

Just looking at a few of the celebrity profiles and unless I'm mistaken, it appears that the users can submit the photos being used.

So is this yet another service that profits off the IP of photographers until such time that the photographer alerts them that their copyright is being violated?

I love these companies that hide behind the "We take it down as soon as we're notified" BS.

We've liveblogged the Oscars for about ten years, heck, even before it was called liveblogging.

It might seem crazy considering how many viewers there are, but each year we still get email from readers in countries that don't see the broadcast until the next morning. Or a film buff caught at a shift job where they don't have TV but they do have a computer.

I agree the process can be crazy at times, but not everyone is connected 24/7 and it can be valuable.

I still shake my head at the money and valuations giving these companies that are full of copyright violations.

Just wait till somebody like Getty goes after them for displaying thousands of their celebrity photos.

A quick config question...

I'm reverse proxying to an Apache server...when I run a script that takes a lil' while to produce some input (e.g. an Amazon product fetching script) nginx will sometimes not present the output, even though the Apache script is still churning away in the background. What timeout setting do I need to adjust in this situation?

2scoundrel: I might have a bit of an "aha" moment here...fired up firefox's live headers and rec'd this after hitting the "send":

Location: http://www.myserver.com:8080/webmail/src/right_...

So, it looks like the Apache backend is misbehaving and not trying to redirect to

"https://www.myserver.com/webmail..."

I've seen several pages on how to configure Apache as a reverse proxy, but can't seem to find much on how it should be configured to be the backend.

Thanks.

Made a partial jump last night...

Fired up nginx running an ssl connection and reverse proxying it to Apache.

All seemed to work okay. Fired up Squirrelmail and was able to read messages just fine. I did notice a problem when I tried to send message. After I hit "send" in Squirrelmail, the page wouldn't refresh to the message list, but stayed in the message edit page. The message DID get sent (I checked) but Squirrel wouldn't leave the compose message page.

I checked the error logs for nginx and saw this message:

SSL_do_handshake() failed (SSL: error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 aler
t bad certificate) while reading client request line, client: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: www.myserver.com

Here's the server config:

server {
listen 443;
root /usr/local/apache/htdocs;
server_name www.myserver.com;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /usr/local/apache/conf/server.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/apache/conf/server.key;

ssl_session_timeout 5m;

location / {
root shtml;
index index.shtml index.html;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
proxy_redirect off;

proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

client_max_body_size 10m;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;

proxy_connect_timeout 90;
proxy_send_timeout 90;
proxy_read_timeout 90;

proxy_buffer_size 4k;
proxy_buffers 4 32k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k;
proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
}

Is there a nginx mailing list or forum? I feel bad always asking you these questions before I try and switch our site from lighttpd to nginx.

But on that note...

The nginx site mentions "quick log rotation" but I can't seem to find anything on it. I pipe apache and lighttpd logs through cronolog right now. Can nginx do that and if so, what would the syntax be?

Welcome to Toronto! I'm here too.

I just thought of something...

If nginx is running the ssl and reverse proxying to apache, does the _Apache_ have to be running ssl...or is the connection between nginx and apache encrypted. Just thought of that after reading some info on Pound and seeing how it acts as an SSL wrapper.

Thanks for the resource. How do you have nginx reverse-proxy to http and https for apache?

It looks really interesting, can't wait to try it out.