Apache server is installed by default on Mac. Access the configuration settings for Apache by going to $ cd /etc/apache2/ $ vi httpd.conf To enable php, edit httpd.conf and uncomment the line #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so Uncomment other lines that you may want to load in your system. As you are enabling PHP in your system, you may want to change the DirectoryIndex to DirectoryIndex index.php index.html Default group/user settings inside Apache on Mac is _www:_www (more…)

Below set of steps involve setting up Tomcat 6 on CentOS 5 with Java 1.6 Download Apache Tomcat $ wget http://apache.parentingamerica.com/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.36/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.36.tar.gz Go to opt/ folder and extract Tomcat $ cd /opt $ tar -xzf apache-tomcat-6.0.36.tar.gz Create a tomcat user $ useradd -d /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.36/ tomcatuser Change user permission on tomcat folder $ chown -R tomcatuser:tomcatuser apache-tomcat-6.0.36 (more…)

To setup Rails on windows after Ruby and Rails setup, i) Edit hosts file in windows environment and set the server name in the hosts file to 127.0.0.1 myrails In this example, i have used "myrails" as the server name for the project. ii) Edit httpd configuration setting on WAMP to make sure proxy and proxy_http module is turned on (check if it those lines are not commented out) LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so (more…)

Add the following list of lines into .htaccess file or to vhost configuration file appropriate to the folder within the website <Directory /securedata> Order Deny,Allow Deny from all </Directory> Same will be the case for denying files within directories <Files ~ "\.ini$"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> The above lines of code will be helpful for us to prevent .svn files, .ini files, .htaccess files, include files from display within Apache

First, download the Zend framework and unzip the file contents to a location. At the time of the writing ZendFramework-1.11.12 was in use and we have used that version in this example. Key content of the download is the /library folder which has Zend libraries in it. Then, go to the "conf" folder that was created when the site was created. Inside the conf folder, create a new file and name it vhost.conf Add the below contents to vhost.conf and save it. (more…)

$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart After configuring Apache server settings on the name server, you may encounter a message "[warn] NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.3:80 has no VirtualHosts" The issue may be due to more than one entry of NameVirtualHost lines in the configuration settings. You can find this out by $ grep NameVirtual * -R site1:NameVirtualHost *:80 site2:NameVirtualHost *:80 Linux Solution: Remove one of the occurance of the NameVirtualHost and the warning message that you receive will vanish.