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XDebug doesn’t show local variables in Komodo, NetBeans or Eclipse PDT
Lovely surprise that came sometime after upgrading Lucid Lynx(and thus to PHP 5.3.2) – Xdebug doesn’t show local variables. Fortunately that’s a known issue that is fixed in Xdebug 2.1.0RC, but since...
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Installing Mercurial 1.5, 1.6 or 1.7 on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04
Lycid Lynx’ repository by default set to install Mercurial 1.4.x, which is great, but as of today that’s already 3 major releases behind To get yourself on the latest and greatest version of Mercurial...
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Apache 2 and HTTP Authentication with PAM
There are 2 ways(at least that I know of) to get Apache 2 to use PAM for http auth: Old mod_auth_pam, which I believe is not developed anymore and also posses some security risks Newer...
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How to move MySQL storage to RamFS or TmpFS partition
Whether moving all MySQL storage to a tmpfs helps with speeding it up or not is questionable but I needed to do for some testing purposes, so this is a short overview of how I did that hopefully will...
View ArticleHow to install Mono on RedHat/Plesk 8.6.x
Mono is a savior if you’re migrating Windows sites to Linux/Apache stack. I had to do this just recently and had to setup Mono on RHEL box with Plesk 8.6. It was relatively straighforward process and...
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Gnome Do, Docky, upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 and an odd case of...
So I finally upgraded to 10.10, a bit behind the curve but whatever. For the most part it went surprisingly swimmingly. I only had 2 issues First one – gnome-do docky theme was gone. And apprently it’s...
View ArticleBuild OpenLDAP 2.3.x from sources on Ubuntu
It happened so that I needed to build a particular version of OpenLDAP on Ubuntu and use that instead of the one in Ubuntu’s repository. Here is a quick guide as to how it worked for me: 1. Get BDB 4.3...
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How to install Xapian 1.2.5 PHP bindings on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
Starting from version 1.2.x, Xapian repository on Ubuntu does not contain php5-xapian package apparently due to the license incompatability between GPL and PHP license(great…) Issue is discussed...
View ArticleUbuntu 11.10 or 12.04 fail to boot after upgrade due to software raid...
Since I first started using Ubuntu back in ’09 with 9.04 I had issues with my software RAID array roughly about every other time I am trying to upgrade to a newer version. Almost everytime the issue...
View ArticleSimple chrooted FTP setup on EC2 micro instance
Source environment: Ubuntu 1. Install vsftpd apt-get install vsftpd 2. Edit default config at /etc/vsftpd.conf Make sure the you enable these: local_enable=YES write_enable=YES chroot_local_user=YES...
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