Fitting into seasons time I thought about sharing a red wine cake recipe with you. 😉

Ingredients:

• 4 eggs
• 250gr butter
• 1 vanilla flavoring
• 250gr sugar
• 1/8 – 1/4 litre red wine
• 250gr flour
• 1 backing soda
• 100gr crumbled chocolate
• 1 tea spoon cinnamon
• 2 tea spoon cacao

Preparation

• In a bowl, mix the eggs, sugar, vanilla flavoring and butter
• Sieving flour, backing soda, cacao and cinnamon together and spread it into the bowl
• Finally add red wine and crumbled chocolate
• Bake at 200∞C for a duration of 60-70 minutes

Enjoy 🙂

Sometimes we have to place content on our webserver we want to protect and only accessed by privileged users.

A basic security can be established by a password restricted folder access, enforced by the Apache Webserver itself.

This can be done by some simple instructions added to our .htaccess file:
(In case you haven’t already a .htaccess file, just create a new file calling it .htaccess and locating it in the folder you want to protect.)

AuthType Basic
AuthName “Protected Area”
AuthUserFile FILE
require valid-user

These commands will tell the Apache webserver that the folder in question (and all below) are now protected and it needs a valid combination of username/password to access it.

• AuthName is some free form text you can specify, telling the visitor what you are asking for and Apache Webserver will show in it’s dialog box.

• AuthUserFile is the reference to the stored .htpasswd file containing all valid username/password combinations to access the folder in question (ususally and best located out of the protected directory tree).

Having that done we now need to create the necessary .htpasswd file which we can do interactive on our server with the command:

htpasswd2 -c FILE USER

Assuming html is your webroot, a valid example, for protecting a folder called images below our webroot and using demouser/demopassword as user credentials, would be:

.htaccess:
(Locate this file within the folder images and be aware to use an absolute path for AuthUserFile, as for www.domain.com would be wrong!)

AuthUserFile /home/username/html/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName “Login for Secure Area”
require valid-user

.htpasswd
(Create a new file called .htpasswd and locate this file within the folder you’ve specified within AuthUserFile path.)

demouser:$1$OHq3K5v3$pvFrGsHjWwYjpkZhc70T9.

Doing a repeated rman database time based recovery

RMAN>
run{
…
alter database mount;
…
set until time “to_date(‘27.10.2008 23:30:00′,’DD.MM.YYYY HH24:MI:SS’)”;
…
restore database;
recover database delete archivelog;
alter database open resetlogs;
}

without rman catalog repository can fail with error:

RMAN-20207: UNTIL TIME or RECOVERY WINDOW is before RESETLOGS time

To solve the issue

• list the incarnation id of the database

RMAN> list incarnation;

using target database control file instead of recovery catalog

List of Database Incarnations

1   1   ORAV10  76765624 PARENT  1         22.11.2007 16:44:40
2   2   ORAV10  76765624 PARENT  4921103   09.04.2008 11:38:07
3   3   ORAV10  76765624 ORPHAN  15854298  27.11.2008 11:43:33
4   4   ORAV10  76765624 CURRENT 15854298  27.11.2008 17:38:11

• set the database in mount status to incarnation id that is fitting to the selected restore time

 
RMAN> shutdown immediate;
RMAN> startup mount;
RMAN> reset database to incarnation 2;

• repeat the database time based recovery

Be careful: Do not restore controlfile. If you do so, incarnation is set the latest id and you run into same error.

RMAN> list incarnation;

List of Database Incarnations

1   1   ORAV10  76765624 PARENT  1         22.11.2007 16:44:40
2   2   ORAV10  76765624 PARENT  4921103   09.04.2008 11:38:07
5   5   ORAV10  76765624 CURRENT 15783824  10.12.2008 16:03:56
4   4   ORAV10  76765624 ORPHAN  15854298  27.11.2008 17:38:11
3   3   ORAV10  76765624 ORPHAN  15854298  27.11.2008 11:43:33

In some cases you get errors during recovery
ORA-00283: recovery session canceled due to errors
ORA-00081: address range [0x60000000000A7D70, 0x60000000000A7D74) is not readable
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kcvsor_current_inc_rdfail], [0], [], [], [], [], [], []

In this case you have to restore an adequate controlfile created in selected recovery time frame and that has the same incarnation as the datafiles (see also oracle support Note:378273.1)