If you are a beginner with DNS then you might find this quick article useful. Recently I have had to play with various DNS records to get mail servers and web servers working. (more…)
MySQL is a very popular relational database. It can be used by many different applications and thankfully the installation procedure is a snap. For this tutorial we will be compiling MySQL 5.0.45 from ports with some custom options. I did this on FreeBSD 6.2 release but it should work on FreeBSD 6.3 and 6.x. (more…)
Firstly let me just say that I had quite a few problem with Lighttp (aka Lighty), and some of them related to PHP. However, I now have Lighty, PHP, and MySQL playing nicely and… it’s fast! This was tested with: Lighty 1.4.18 and PHP 5.2.3_1 on FreeBSD 6.2. (more…)
I have recently had a hard time getting FreeBSD to ‘play ball’ by sharing it’s resources via AFP. I have compiled this guide to help others through the traumatic experience. I was using FreeBSD 6.2 release and Netatalk 2.0.3 from ports. Though I have heard it works on 6.1 and 6.3. (more…)
For the last couple of months we have been using a subversion server I setup for our version controlling. More recently I have experimented with newer (better?) version control systems. Subervion (svn) uses a central repository form which everyone must checkout working copies, and commit their changes there. However, there exists DRCS, or distributed revision control systems. These allow users to branch from other users, and commit to their own branches; or the central-model can be used.
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Have you ever wanted to show the contents of another user’s directory in a folder of your own? Or perhaps for whatever reason wanted to have the contents of a directory in two places at once, but without copying across? Well in Linux there is a way. Directories can be bound to other directories. The contents of one directory shows up in another, change one, and you change them both. Say for example you had the following directory /usr/home/fred but you wanted it to appear in Tom’s home directory also. (more…)