How to Enable SSL on Xampp with Vhosts
If you need to enable SSL on Xampp whilst stilling using vhosts, follow the next few steps. It assumes that you already have vhosts enabled. Open xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf Around line 19 you should see “NameVirtualHost *:80″, below this line add “NameVirtualHost…
Setting up a Cron with Plesk using a PHP File
I have a Server with a Plesk control panel and I wanted to automate a PHP script using a cron (or crontab). Within Plesk it’s called a scheduled task. The problem is its not that user-friendly (but like everything it’s…
Installing LAMP on Ubuntu
So I been getting rather annoyed with CentOs recently, mainly due to the lack of PHP support above 5.1.6, especially with all the cool features of 5.3. Also I always seem to have massive trouble installing anything like Mcypt or…
How to install Memcached on Xampp on Windows 7
For one of my Zend Framework web applications I’m going to install memcached. I am currently using file cache however think memcached is a much better way to go. This post is one in a series: Installing Memcached on Windows…
Enable mod_rewrite in xampp
For some reason my install of XAMPP didn’t have mod_rewrite automatically enabled? Not really sure why but basically below are the instructions on how to enable .htaccess mod_rewrite in xampp. 1. Go to the directory of installation <C:\xampp>\apache\conf 2. Open and…
How to edit php.ini from ssh
Type: 1. “cd /etc” 2. “ls” Check that there is the php.ini listed if not you will have to ask your hosting provider where it is. 3. “vi php.ini” Find the bit in php.ini you would like to edit. 4….
Getting .htaccess to work on windows apache
Could figure out how to actually write the .htaccess file in windows as when i tried to rename the txt file I created to .htaccess it popped up an error saying “You must type a file name”. The solution: 1….
SSH Commands for FTP
Ok so one of my servers is with 1and1 and they provide free backup space via ftp. However you can only access it via the server you have with them, this means logging into your server using putty (SSH) from…
SSH Mysql command line
Ok so i had a huge amount of trouble trying to upload a sqldump file (large sql file) into the mysql database with phpmyadmin. It kept timing out, even when I increased the timeout and upload file size larger in…
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