Who would have thought a website with such significant infrastructure behind it could ever reach capacity… Something quite big must be happening somewhere in the world! Or maybe it’s just all of America talking about one of Operah’s final shows….
Archive for the ‘Infrastructure’ Category
$50 off Dreamhost hosting – Promo code GIVEME50OFF
Posted: 28th July 2009 by Grant Perry in Apache, Application development, Dreamhost, Infrastructure, Linux, Web development, Web serversTags: cheap, discount, Dreamhost, hosting, price, promotion
I’ve had my hosting with Dreamhost now for a little over a and have been very happy with!!! I was previously using Site Ground but converted for the following reasons: Dreamhost allows you to host unlimited domains, databases, email etc under your account Dreamhost allows complete control of your DNS (so you can point a domain/sub domain to [...]
Software I couldn’t live without…
Posted: 7th May 2009 by Grant Perry in Development tools (app), Programming (web), Technologies, Web servers, WindowsTags: best, development, favourite, software, tools, top, utilities
Over the years we all build up our own collections of tools which help us be more productive little soldiers. We realise a need for something to help us to achieve an end goal, or a lot of the time just ask ourselves “surely there is a faster and easier way of doing this”. The [...]
Setting up WebSVN on Dreamhost
Posted: 8th November 2008 by Grant Perry in Dreamhost, Subversion, Version controlTags: Dreamhost, Subversion, SVN, WebSVN
WebSVN is an amazing PHP based interface in to your subversion repositories. Consider it a glossy online GUI to your code! This is a basic tutorial to set it up on your web server… I should note in advance that I use Dreamhost as my hosting provider, so you’ll need to double check your exact [...]
Zend debugger – without Zend Core/Zend Platform
Posted: 16th December 2007 by Grant Perry in Apache, PHPZend debugger is basically the server side component that is used by Zend Studio. You need this to do your remote debugging!! Normally you’d find this included in an installation of Zend Core or Zend Platform. However we aren’t using Zend’s apache php bundle so this little gem has to be loaded… It’s hard to [...]
Adding additional Trac and SVN users is relatively simple. With Trac you can do this under Admin when logged in as an administrator thanks to the WebAdmin and AccountManagerPlugins! For adding a new subversion user just use this command: htpasswd /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd john_smith This user will then have access to all of your subversion repositories because [...]
To create a new Trac project follow these steps: sudo -s -H trac-admin /var/trac/project initenv trac-admin /var/trac/project permission add admin TRAC_ADMIN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/trac/project Now to setup the new Trac project with the same plugins as the example project. This also uses the same password file. So use unique usernames and users spanning multiple [...]
To create a new Subversion repository follow these steps: mkdir /var/svn/project mkdir ~/project mkdir ~/project/branches mkdir ~/project/tags mkdir ~/project/trunk svnadmin create /var/svn/project svn import ~/project file:///var/svn/project -m "Initial directory import" After this you’ll see the three directories added. rm -rf ~/project chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/project apache2 -k restart Now you should be able to point [...]