Ubuntu Forums - FYI

[Ric Moore]

On 07/22/2013 01:29 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 22/07/13 01:50, Matthew Sturdy wrote:
>>
>> On 21 July 2013 11:25, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au
>> <mailto:blchupin at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     What I am surprised about is that I would have expected an
>>     avalanche of posts stating that vBulletin is being run on a server
>>     using Linux but so far no one has come up with such an assurance
>>     which indicates to me that Windows is involved.
>>
>>
>> looks like Ubuntu from here:
>>
>> $ curl -I �http://ubuntuforums.org/
>> HTTP/1.1 302 Found
>> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:49:25 GMT
>> *Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)*
>> Location: http://ubuntuforums.org/announce.html
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>> �
>>
>>
>   Interesting in that just before I went to bed I had a browse thru the
> vBulletin site and found the entry that (paraphrased as I didn't capture
> it, silly me), "At the present time Apache is not supported". However,
> just now as I was about to reply I went back to get a snapshot of what I
> read last night to quote here and that entry had disappeared!
>
> However, what you show above does not negate the possibility that
> Windows is being used because Apache is also available for Windows. And
> the "(Ubuntu)" after the "Apache/2.2.22" is only the title given to the
> forum.
 >I< mentioned that they use proprietary software and when I went to 
that vendor's site, it advertised only Windows at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vbulletino
...it started as a Win project, and I don't see where anything loosely 
related to Linux is mentioned in that article. "On 22 July 2010 the BBC 
reported that there was a serious flaw in vBulletin software that allows 
anyone to easily access the database username and password" That was a 
year ago. I would like to think that any Open Source offering would have 
a hole like that patched within a day or so. Ric
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My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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