09Jan 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

Intall Apache, MySQL and PHP on Ubuntu 8.10

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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 The following method is obsolete and not recommended.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 (I have selected NCHC, Taiwan as the mirror to download this package, you may try another) Extract the files Chmod the files to have nobody ownership Configure xampp security Start xampp with this command Stop xampp Restart xampp Login to ftp using the username nobody and the password that you have set up in the…
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08Jan 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Download files from a http authenticated directory using wget

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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 Luckily, we can pass two arguments to the same command and tell wget what the username and password is 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
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