Install and configure Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin on OSX 10.8 Mountain...
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Drush is a command line utility for administering Drupal websites, what you can do in the backend GUI you can do three times as fast on the command line. Version 5 of Drush can administer Drupal...
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By default git the popular software code management software (SCM) is not installed on cPanel/WHM CentOS server before version 11.36, you may need to add in a new repository package manager which...
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If you have a Drupal installation in a subdirectory and change it to another subdirectory the image paths are going to be incorrect, the path sees the initial subdirectory as the root folder.You can...
View ArticleFastest Way of Installing Drupal 7.23 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...
View ArticleBacking Up a VPS cPanel Server to Amazon S3 Bucket
Some webhosts offer remote backup storage at a cost, some do random weekly backups and don't like to talk about it - but will do a restore on request at a cost. With cheap available cloud service at...
View ArticleConnect to Amazon S3 Bucket from the Command Line in OS X
This process requires a couple of Unix tools installed, s3cmd and gpg (optional), s3cmd is the command line tool used to connect to Amazon S3 and gpg is an optional secure tool allowing data transfer...
View ArticleHow to set up Virtual Hosts in Apache on Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks and OSX 10.8...
Setting up Virtual Hosts in Apache on Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks or Mountain Lion is straight forward after you have your local Web Development environment up and running - get your web development up and...
View ArticleiNode What You Did Last Summer
How to find out how many inodes you are using on a hard disk or in a directory?Most hosting plans have a limitation on inodes - so you need to know how many and where they are being used if you need to...
View ArticleInstalling PEAR on OSX 10.9 Mavericks and OSX10.8/10.7
PEAR is a poplular PHP package manager, it doesn't come by default on OSX, how to install PEAR on OSX 10.9 Mavericks and earlier versions of OSX.Check if you have itpear versionIf not, move into:cd...
View ArticleHow to Find and Delete Files in Directory Based on Modification Date
How to find and delete files in a Linux directory based on when the file had been modified from a certain amount of days ago - this can be useful for dealing with directories with copious amounts of...
View ArticleHow do I know if my website has been hacked?
Check with GoogleIf you think that your site may have been hacked but are not too sure - you can check to see what Google thinks at the following...
View ArticleUpgrade MySQL Database from 5.5 to 5.6 on OSX 10.8 Mountan Lion
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View ArticleGet Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin working on OSX 10.9 Mavericks
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View ArticleInstall Drush via PEAR on a cPanel Server
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