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Run your own online radio station with icecast2 and ezstream (howto)

Posted by Wim Koorenneef on 2010-10-16 04:05 CEST

Always wanted to be a dj at your own online radio station? Well, spend 15 minutes of your time and start broadcasting. It's really that easy.

I will show you how to build an online streaming server with icecast2 running on ubuntu 10.04. And I will be using ezstream to feed a mp3 playlist to the server.

Conneting to ziggo homedrive with webdav using Ubuntu

Posted by Wim Koorenneef on 2010-03-28 09:07 CEST

Connecting to the webdav server of my provider Ziggo is easy. Just use Ubuntu's 'connect to server' function. As you can see from the screenshot you need the following user data:

• Server name: homedrive.ziggo.nl
• Directory: user @ home.nl
• User name: user @ home.nl

It is recommended that you create a bookmark (here: Homedrive). This way you can click the bookmark in Nautilus and enter the given directory.

Connecting to WebDAV with davfs2

Posted by Wim Koorenneef on 2009-03-01 08:05 CET

Some time ago I wrote about using fusedav to connect to a webdav server. For some reason I could only read from the server. Writing always resulted in an error.

Today I used davfs2 for the first time and writing is working like a charm. Configuration is a little bit of work however. First I installed davfs2 via apt-get, then I ran dpkg-reconfigure to make davfs2 run suid as root. The last step involved an entry in /etc/fstab and creating a directory in /media. Also make sure you are a member of the davfs2 group.

sudo apt-get install davfs2

Renew SSL certificate for Dovecot

Posted by Wim Koorenneef on 2009-02-21 21:04 CET

For some reason Dovecot started to complain about an expired ssl certificate. Well, actually my mail client thunderbird complained. In order to renew the certificate I used the following commands:
openssl genrsa -out server.key 1024
openssl req -new -x509 -key server.key -out server.pem -days 1826
cp server.key /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
cp server.pem /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem


The important bit while creating the certificate is the common name. Fill in localhost or your server's domain name.