Setting up Virtual Hosts in Apache on Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite is straight forward after you have your local Web Development environment up and running – get your web development up and running first including Apache, PHP and MySQL following this AMP stack guide here 10.10 if required. The process of setting up Virtual Hosts is done easier in …
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Up and running with wp-cli for WordPress on Mac OSX
WordPress has a command line tool which operates similar to what Drush does for Drupal, it is called wp-cli and runs on OSX/Linux operating systems with a minimum of PHP 5.3.2 or later and WordPress 3.5.2. Install wp-cli on OSX curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar Make it executable chmod +x wp-cli.phar Move it into your Path mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp In the above …
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Set Up Development Site only for Certain IP Addresses
To allow only certain IP addresses access to a development website and direct all other traffic to a maintenance or other page you can achieve this with the .htaccess file in your webroot directory. The following code can be used in a root level .htaccess file of the web site. Create a ‘maintenance.html‘ or other named file …
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Setting Up a Malware Scanner on your WebServer
Getting and installing a malware scanner in place on your web server is something that needs to be done as a priority, pretty much as soon as the server is set up, if you are on shared hosting then this will probably not be possible as you don’t control what you can install on a global basis …
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Fastest Way of Installing Drupal 7.26 on Mac OS X 10.9 , 10.8, 10.7
Fastest Way to install the latest Drupal 7 version on Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9 or 10.8 Drupal is a quality CMS application and is as simple or complex as your needs vary, it runs on the same foundations that Mac OS X Mavericks or Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard provides similar to …
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How to add a MySQL password for XAMPP on OSX
By default an installation of XAMPP is passwordless, which is not so cool. To secure it launch Terminal in Applications/Utilities and run: sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp security This will put you into an interactive dialog with the command… Here you can set 3 passwords: the XAMPP home page aka http://localhost/xampp/ MySQL phpMyAdmin FTP What you …
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Taking out the Big Boys – Finding the Large Files on a Linux Server
Making space on a server is a never ending task, taking out the big unnecessary files will speed up the process. Errant log are an example of files may be building up on your limited disk space. This command run on Linux: CentOS, Red Hat & Fedora and via command line access to a cPanel …
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Get Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin working on OSX 10.9 Mavericks
Get your Local Web Development Server Up & Running on OSX 10.9 Mavericks With the new OSX Mavericks being installed faster than any predecessor, getting the AMP stack running on OSX 10.9 Mavericks is is pretty much the same as on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. This tutorial will go through the process on getting Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin running on the …
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