Archive for the ‘Web servers’ Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

Installing Trac and some plugins

Posted: 18th September 2007 by Grant Perry in Apache, Linux, Programming (app), Subversion

Trac is a popular open source issues management system written in Python. It also features a wiki and subversion browser. There are also countless plugins that have been created for it some of which I’m surprised aren’t included in the base install. I’m installing this on a Ubuntu server, so you may need to find [...]

IP address binding with IIS

Posted: 31st August 2007 by Grant Perry in IIS, Web servers

This little trick has saved my life with quite a number of times!! But took me a while to find, so here I am sharing… Lets say you’ve already got IIS running on your 2003 server, but you want to install several other web servers (or just one.. Hehe). You’ve already assigned a number of [...]