Category: Technologies to build applications
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Nano, an alternative to vi to edit Linux configuration files
My journey into administering Linux from a Windows PC continues. Today’s challenge is to edit configuration files such as .htaccess. There are several options; If you have installed Webmin you can use the nice graphical UI over ssh. You can use WinSCP over ssh to edit locally on your PC using Notepad and then synchronise…
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How to enable the WordPress theme editor in a Bitnami distribution
I use ssh to edit all my files but it is possible that access via WordPress itself might be useful sometimes. For example to give ad-hoc access to another developer. From Bitnami docs on how to edit WordPress files, How to edit the WordPress files? For security reasons, WordPress files are not editable from the…
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Accessing Webmin as http://localhost:10000 through an ssh tunnel
If you have an EC2 server it is great to install Webmin on it but it undesirable to expose it through the EC2 firewall. An easier and more secure way to access it is using PuTTY to create a tunnel from a local port to a remote port. When you have done this you can…
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How to give two developers access to the same Linux directory
Linux file administration falls short of what I am used to on Windows. In particular only one user or group have have permissions on a file. In Windows you can create as many groups as you like each with different permissions on a resource and then drop users into them. On Linux you can only…
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How to connect as root using WINSCP
In my previous post I noted that I had not succeeded in in connecting to a linux machine as root using WINSCP when using the bitnami virtual machine. My development implementation works, so I have progressed to using the cloud hosted bitnami instance. This comes with public key access rather than password access. This actually…
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How to install WordPress Multisite on Virtual Box
I do all my development on a Windows 7 computer but the natural environment for WordPress execution is Linux. I would like to use my tools on Windows and then see the running code on a Linux box. One way of doing this is to use a virtual appliance. This is what we are going to…
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Don’t do checklist for web design
I am doing quite a lot of WordPress design at the moment for Lewisham Under Water Hockey Club and Dulwich College Christmas Fair so I will bear this check list of things not to do in mind. http://mashable.com/2014/01/14/outdated-web-features/#!
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Tomcat 7 on Windows is not UTF-8 by default
When building web applications one typically uses UTF-8 encoding thoughout to ensure that you can send and receive text in multi-byte languages such as Russian, and Chinese. The Window 7 version of Tomcat is (insanely) not UTF-8 by default. This is because it picks up the default encoding from your installation of Java which is…
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Skype stops Tomcat 7 working on port 80
I recently reinstalled my Rialo application server on a Windows 7 Home Premium PC. I changed the port in server.xml from 8080 to 80 but Tomcat no longer would serve pages. After about an hour I found a forum post that blamed Skype. Sure enough I stopped Skype and Tomcat now runs. c:\ netstat -abn…
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ant install, deploy does not work after upgrading from Tomcat 6 to Tomcat 7
There are several issues the manager URL has changed the default tomcat-users does not give the necessary permissions ant needs access to additional jars the task syntax is less forgiving (to me anyway) All this and more in this great post. http://paulgrenyer.blogspot.co.at/2011/11/catalina-ant-for-tomcat-7.html
Dr James Bayley 