I just came up with this question today morning when I am not able to even check or see old mails in my Windows Live mail account.
I had previously blogged about Windows Live policies on the number of email per hour and you know what? I cannot even get ANY email pass through that server to my hotmail live account even though my domain (and all its IPs) are not blacklisted.
Check the screenshot that I have been redirected to since morning
WARNING: Please use this method to install Apache, PHP and MySQL because its more suitable for most of your needs and has options to auto-upgrade your installation. The following method is obsolete and not recommended.
After trying to install Apache, MySQL and PHP on Ubuntu 8.10 via several methods listed over the web. I opted for xampp package for linux.
It is as easy as ABC
Download the xampp linux package from their official website
wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xampp/xampp-linux-1.7.tar.gz
(I have selected NCHC, Taiwan as the mirror to download this package, you may try another)
Extract the files
sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.tar.gz -C /opt
Chmod the files to have nobody ownership
sudo chown -R nobody:root /opt/lampp/
Configure xampp security
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp security
Start xampp with this command
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
Stop xampp
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop
Restart xampp
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart
Login to ftp using the username nobody and the password that you have set up in the “xampp security”
To uninstall xampp
sudo rm -fr /opt/lampp
Enjoy!!
I wanted to download something off a sub-domain using wget that I have password protected using .htaccess
so the following command was NOT working
wget http://secure.asim.pk/myfiles.tar
Luckily, we can pass two arguments to the same command and tell wget what the username and password is
wget http://secure.asim.pk/myfiles.tar --http-user=myuser --http-password=mypass
Works Great!!
If you are using Ubuntu 8.10, have not enabled root user and trying to download to a directory that has “nobody” or “root” as owner then try pre-pending it with sudo
sudo wget http://secure.asim.pk/myfiles.tar --http-user=myuser --http-password=mypass
From the little help that I can get over the internet, I found out that you need to install the following packages to prepare the system for Webmin installation.
Run the following command over SSH or Ubuntu Desktop’s terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal).
sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl
(Learn how to configure SSH on Ubuntu 8.10 if you want to have a remote access to your Ubuntu box).
Download the latest version of Webmin by running the following command (visit webmin download section for newer versions)
wget http://ignum.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.500/webmin_1.500_all.deb
Downloading Webmin
After the package has been downloaded, run the following command to install it
sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.500_all.deb
You should now be able to login to Webmin at the URL https://localhost:10000/ using root or any other user with sudo access.
The first issue that I had after installing Ubuntu 8.10 was that I could not connect to SSH on it because SSH server is not installed on Ubuntu 8.10 and it never asked me if I wanted to make a selection of what software packages I need to have installed. I guess thats why they are making a less then 25 min install promise.
Here’s how you can enable / configure / install SSH on your Ubuntu 8.10
Open a terminal window by selecting the Applications menu and selecting Terminal from the Accessories menu. In the terminal window enter the following command and press enter to execute it
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
It will automatically download and install the SSH serve and configure it to run on port 22 (default port).
Ubuntu 8.10 SSH Access
I will write another article to explain how you can change the port or enable / disable the SSH server.
I recently felt the urge to have a development testing environment on Linux (LAMP). I tried CentOS first since it is one of the leading industry standard Linux server. I was disappointed to see that CentOS does not have a 5.2.x series of PHP that I could install via “yum” (am not a very advance user so does not wanted to build it by typing long queries in SSH just to find out that I left some core thing in the first place).
I did a bit of research and found out that Ubuntu could be a better choice. Luckily I had the latest version of Ubuntu already shipped via Postal Mail (aka Snail Mail) and this time the CDs DID get through the customs.
For those new to Ubuntu, you can either download it or request FREE cds from Shipit.Ubuntu.com.
Ubuntu 8.10, the latest release, is a breeze to install and start running. I used VMWare Workstation to run it on my Windows installation.
Ubuntu 8.10 Preparing Diskspace (nice graphics)
Ubuntu 8.10 Scanning Files
Ubuntu 8.10 Installing System
Ubuntu 8.10 Shutting Down after complete install
I just set up a test application and set my email address to be one of hotmail, after some time the emails stopped coming through, further inspection revealed that these emails are being bounced off HOTMAIL server because it has a limit of 30 emails per domain per hour (in my case it was asim.pk domain).
If you want to use CakePHP’s bake tool on Linux command line (like I have development environment on Linux) then you can ssh to your linux box as shown in the screen shot below
Second, you can execute the cake bake command in the following manner
./cake/console/cake bake
as shown in the picture below
