Archive for the ‘Infrastructure’ Category

Twitter over capacity

Posted: 23rd May 2011 by Grant Perry in Business, Industry, Infrastructure

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….

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 [...]

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 control
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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 [...]

As recommend by the Microsoft crew I had enabled automatic updates… Big mistake! After my laptop installed the batch of updates released on the 9th of January my laptop began endlessly rebooting. It blue screens as soon as is starts to load Vista. To make things even better even safe mode does the same thing. [...]

Zend debugger – without Zend Core/Zend Platform

Posted: 16th December 2007 by Grant Perry in Apache, PHP

Zend 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 [...]

I’m running a development server virtual machine on my Vista laptop using Parallels. Trouble is being on a laptop sometimes I’m on the road so a Host only network suits me, but other times I’m at home so I want the guest machine to connect to my home network. Up until now there has been [...]

cintraAD: Adding SVN and Trac users

Posted: 20th September 2007 by Grant Perry in Linux

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 [...]

cintraAD: Setup a new Trac project

Posted: 20th September 2007 by Grant Perry in Linux

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 [...]

cintraAD: Setup a new Subversion repository

Posted: 20th September 2007 by Grant Perry in Linux

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 [...]