I have a previous post which demonstrates how to add HTTP Authentication by .htaccess.
.htaccess – Setting Password For Your Web Folder
But if it does not work and shown the following error in the Apache error log
Use the following command to add user with default home folder and bash as default shell.
Done =)
Reference: Create new user account in Ubuntu Linux from command line
For security reason, we’d better disable the root SSH access to server. Follow the steps below. (root privilege is needed)
1. Edit the SSH config file
The file command also works in Linux. But unlike Mac, u don’t need to have the -I parameter. Continue reading Linux – Check File Encoding
ImageMagick is built on Ghostscript which i have introduced in the following post previously.
Ghostscript – Convert PDF Cover/Page into PNG
I am working on my Rails project with the Paperclip gem which requires ImageMagick. Installation of ImageMagick in Ubuntu is very simple. Just grab it by apt-get. Continue reading ImageMagick – Manipulate Image Files by Shell Commands
There was a DoS attack on wordpress.com in early March 2011 and i had no way to access the Eureka! blog in Hong Kong. so i setup a proxy server in my Linode VPS to manage my blog. This post shows you the installation of Squid server in Ubuntu. Continue reading Squid – Setup a Proxy Server in Ubuntu
Setting up Sendmail to relay public SMTP server such as Gmail is quite difficult. In the past, i just kept looking for the blog posts in Google and found that people have different ways to setup Sendmail, but not all of them could be repeated successfully in my setup. After so many trials and errors, i made the relay works but i couldn’t fully understand what’s going on in the setup.
So this time, no more Sendmail, i would like to use Postfix instead. Continue reading Postfix – Relay via Gmail
You can access the SVN repository through the HTTP protocol after you have integrated the SVN server with Apache. The following steps were done in Ubuntu Lucid (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).
1. Install the Apache2, Subversion and libapache2-svn.
I want to share a folder in my Ubuntu virtual machine to my Windows host. That folder contains the Rails applications such that i can edit them on the Windows host.
1. Install the Samba server
I am learning Rails 3 @ Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. A very nice and detail tutorial with many examples for beginners. Highly recommended.
But i got some problems when i tried to setup the Autotest for the RSpec framework. Autotest is a continuous testing tool which run the test suite automatically based on the files you have changed. RSpec is a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework for Ruby. After a few hours of struggling, i finally made it work.
1. Create a new Rails project without the default Test::Unit framework.
Continue reading Rails – Integrate Autotest and RSpec in Linux
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