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Raspberry Pi Technology

Custom 503 error page for Apache

A 5xx error code is returned by a web server when something went wrong: The server was not able to process the request. For a reverse proxy, a common 5xx error message is 503, meaning that the backend server is not reachable. In the technical architecture of my blog site, the Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 8 yearsMarch 9, 2017 ago

Technology

Download files with wget

A tool for download web resources is wget. It comes with a feature to mirror web sites, but you can also use it to download specific files, like PDFs. This is very easy and straightforward to do: wget <url> Example: wget http://localhost/doc.pdf This will instruct wget to download the file Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 8 yearsMarch 7, 2017 ago