ISD Podcast Episode 101 for April 5, 2010. This podcast is our contribution back to the community where we will discuss the vulnerabilities of interest, information security related news hopefully providing you a few laughs and a little knowledge.
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Brandy is someone who just has a vocal talent but she’s usually showing us that talent while in the comfort of her own bathroom! LOL. I’ve actually showcased a few of those Brandy bathroom moments here on the site and always wanted to have the opportunity to ask Brandy, » Why the bathroom? » butHip Hollywoodasked her instead below:
The 404/Not Found error message is one of the most hated screens on the Internet; it indicates that though you, the browser, were able to communicate with the server, the page you need was not delivered either because it was not found or because the server for some reason was configured to not fulfill the request (which is happening in some countries with pages containing illegal content).
So you’ve spent countless hours trying to find the best system to use for your new site. Maybe you were lucky and a friend turned you on to WordPress. Now comes the even bigger problem of figuring out where to host the site. While you need to be careful in making your decision, I hope this guide makes it easier for you.
Subversion is a wonderful tool for managing your projects and therefore a must have for any systems administrator for creating backups which allows you to spot changes on those backups you have. In this post I am again, taking the example from one excellent post which highlights the basics of SVN installation on one of the most widely used distributions of linux «CentOS». Subversion on CentOS
4/2/08 – Added php.ini settings to use the proper MySQL socket at /tmp/mysql.sock.
3/23/08 – After going through these instructions on a new Leopard system, I made a few minor updates. The steps should now work for Leopard as well as Tiger.
While options abound, MacPorts may be the easiest option to configure a local web development environment on your Mac. I’ll mention a few of the other options and then share the steps I’ve used to install Apache 2 and PHP 5 with MacPorts.
We will use Apache 1.3.*, because it’s not recommended that we run PHP on Apache 2.0 on wondows sistems. First, download the following programs:
- Execute Apache’s installation program and install it wherever you want, with the default options.
- Extract the MySQL database on the same folder of apache (the same folder than htdocs)
If you’ve ever needed a very fast, stable, no frills, web server to serve up some pages on a home system, then look no further than nginx. The server is rock solid and gets the job done. And the setup and configuration is unmatched in simplicity for other servers of similar capability.
Nginx is native to the UNIX platform, so you’ll need to get a precompiled version or install Cygwin. I opted for the former because there’s already a package available by Kevin Worthington that works very nicely.
The FreeBSD Ports Collection is a very easy way for users and administrators to compile and install their applications like Apache on a FreeBSD machine. You can type «make install clean» in corresponding directory, the system will automatically fetches the application source code, either from a local disk or via FTP, unpacks it on your system, applies the patches, and compiles it. If all goes well, simply type “make install” to install the application.
Example Nginx Configuration for Development on Mac OS X
Useful for setting up multiple development Kete instances.
Filename: example-nginx-for-dev-on-mac-os-x.txt ( view )
Document type: text/plain ( Replace description with document text )
server { listen 80; server_name your_app;