There is nothing worse than trying to contact a site without an email. It gets even worse when trying to contact a Ford main dealershit, I mean dealership.This explains why not to trust Fords and their dealershits any longer (obviously I mean Ford dealerships).
I purchased a newer car recently from Chariots, London Road, Romford. What a great car, reasonable price, diesel, and reasonable mileage.
Then we decided to purchase a newer car from Allens of Romford, Allens of Romford are a very well known dealership which was deemed to have a lot of respect (not any longer, they are a bunch of f***** scumbags). In fact they are the biggest bunch of scumbags around (that I currently know). They stitched us up for every last penny in insurance deals, then refused to give us the second key for the car, and conveniently forgot to give us the MOT certificate for the same new car.
Obviously, I am not one in taking this quietly, and several email later to the Trading Standards & other interested parties including the DVLA, and fraud office. Here is a typical email :
Hello, Technical issues: At the University in which I work, we use Linux heavily for
web servers. SuSE was the preferred option, but a move was made to Ubuntu
(because of NO costs involved). After a quick and steep learning curve, I have
to say, I like Ubuntu as a working environment. There is always detailed
documentation available, and once you get acquainted with where to look -
usually available in google, then everything just works. I like the Apache webserver, and spend a great deal of time
working with Linux servers. Here is my guide on how to get you started: Firstly, two very good guides -
Ubuntu1 &
Ubuntu2 (If any of these commands do not work,
try adding sudo as the first argument). Ubuntu has a synaptic package manager, I tend to prefer
using apt-get install in a command window. Most of my work is in an ssh shell
rather than at a desktop!
So, you have a fresh install of Ubuntu. The first thing I always do is understand how the
firewall works: sudo ufw status - will tell you that the firewall is
off sudo ufw enable - turns it on and blocks everything For apache - 'sudo apt-get install apache2' - leave out the
single quotes. Answer is Y, I want to install this package and any
dependencies. This will install all relevant packages if you accept the
defaults. Next you need to set a servername, this is not needed
for a local development server running on port 80 on localhost. Add a file /etc/apache2/conf.d/fqdn and add
one line: Servername yourservername Next, edit /etc/apache2/envvars and add your username
and usergroup for the server; for my local Apache2 installation I changed the
user to kevan, as I am the local administrator. You can use a variety of virtual sites, I tend to
prefer to make all changes in the top level configuration folder; I think this
is where Ubuntu makes itself confusing. So, if you want to use my directions,
all changes are made in the apache2.conf file My development environment at home ( and work) is always
through MS windows, and therefore I usually setup an samba share to do this (I
will explain this another time). #Folder sites-enabled is a set
of links to sites-available Apache is controlled by the commands '/etc/init.d/apache2
start / stop /restart / reload'. All are good, some are better. Now, the next part is to organise superusers, add some
content, and add server side includes. Next The source for pwauth is in /export/pwauth-2.3.8 (I
edited config.h and
I have just completed purchase of a 4 year old vehicle from Allen
Ford of Romford. The purchase price was about £9000, and also I
purchased three separate additional insurances, i.e. a warranty to
ensure that the car was finance–free, safe and in a valid condition.
A second insurance was a three year warranty against breakdown. A
third warrant was a gap insurance in case the car is ever stolen,
this insurance would increase the amount to the cost of the car
purchase.
Firstly, the company refused to give my wife the MOT certificate and
the spare key for the car at collection time as we had lost the MOT
for our own vehicle. This was explained and the alleged dealer was
not sure if this was a problem – idiot. There was no haggling over
the price offered and therefore totally unreasonable.
Secondly, the costs of the car, including the three insurances, and
the credit agreement were scribbled on the back of an envelope; and
I am unclear what I have been charged for. This is not good practise
or legal considering the amounts spent. There is no clear
documentation on the cost of credit either, just a lot of scribbles.
I am not particularly happy with this level of trade as it was as we
entered into this agreement through good faith, and I would not
expect a main dealership to deal with their customers in such a
shoddy manner. The paperwork is also appalling. This is especially
so, considering all of the various extra costs incurred which appear
to have little effect on the final outcome.
Can you advise whether I am entitled to a full refund for this
vehicle if they continue to be unreasonable.
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Apache Web server - Ubuntu
Edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
To add SSI
a2enmod include
Inside <Directory> changes are as follows to include SSI
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/local/Web/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
DirectoryIndex index.shtml
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .txt
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .shtm
AddHandler server-parsed .htm ]
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
To confirm that SSI work,
Use the wording in an .html file
<!--#include virtual="/includes/header.txt"-->
Makefile)
Edit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
Run 'sudo a2enmod authnz_external' to enable authnz_external & restarted apache
http://www.pyxzl.net/store/authnz.php
## Copy across source files & binariesto /usr/local/pw*
In /usr/local/pw* are binaries for pwauth & unixgroup - copy these to
/usr/local/bin/
sudo apt-get install libpam0g-dev
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-authnz-external
a2enmod authnz_external to enable authnz_external & restarted apache
Also:
sudo
apt_get install libapache2-mod-authz-unixgroup
Then enable it as a module
sudo a2enmod authz_unixgroup
#There were some problems with getting pwauth to run as kevan
Ensure it is owned by root.nogroup and chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/pwauth
##The /etc/pam.d/pwauth was causing all of the problems and all lines in this
are now commented out. ##
#############
# 3 php & mysql
sudo
apt-get install php5-cli
sudo
apt-get install mysql-client-5.1 [This downloads all dependencies]
sudo
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
sudo
apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql
Asks for [mysql] root password for mysql as part of installation
#Create /etc/mysql/my.conf and add the line bind address = localhost
my.cnf already exists with this information
Test as 'mysql -u root -p'
sudo
apt-get install phpmyadmin
[Selected apache2 as web]
Used mysql root password as part of installation, and also for phpmyadmin to
access mysql.
Edit Apache2.conf with this line at the end:
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
Restart Apache2
http://localhost/phpmyadmin - login
######################
Tomcat - re-installation
Downloaded Tomcat6.0.26 and unpacked into /usr/local
Soft link as /usr/local/tomcat6
Stop current tomcat - /etc/init.d/tomcat stop
[I will probably completely uninstall this version]
cd /usr/local/tomcat6
bin/startup.sh
##
Copied jdom.jar in tomcat6/lib/ folder
May need others as we go ........
http://localhost:8080/
- works
Finally, I need to get mod_jk working again
## These were original instructions - check through again
#sudo apt-get install tomcat6 - no
# Installs to /var/lib/tomcat6 - no
apt-get install libapache2-mod-jk
Edit this file
/etc/libapache2-mod-jk/workers.properties
This needs editing, including pointing it to the correct tomcat folder,
e.g. /usr/local/tomcat6 & correct Java_HOME
Enable this module?
a2enmod jk [already enabled]
Edit /usr/local/tomcat6/Server.xml
remove comments
#<Connector port-"8009" etc
# Turn on tomcat connector
# Mod_jk settings
# These go in jk.load in mods-enabled
LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so
JkWorkersFile "/etc/libapache2-mod-jk/workers.properties"
JkLogFile "/var/log/apache2/mod_jk.log"
JkLogLevel error
In csee2.conf add lines similar to this, dependant on the application, this is
for sample, obviously:
JkMount /sample/* ajp13_worker
JkMount /cig* ajp13_worker
JkMount /axis2/* ajp13_worker
Restart apache2 & tomcat6
## Samba
This is the very last thing to configure
## That's all
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