I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal 1. Enable MySQL. 2. Create a database in MySQL called joomladb. 3. Create a new user called jadmin that has full priviledges to this database (the user does not need to be called jadmin, but that is the username we will be using for this walkthrough). 4. Download the latest stable release of Joomla. 5. Extract the tar files into a new folder (for this example we are going to call it joomla to keep things easy). 6. Make the following folders writeable for Joomla administrator/backups/ administrator/components/ administrator/modules/ administrator/templates/ cache/ components/ images/ images/banners/ images/stories/ language/ mambots/ mambots/content/ mambots/editors/ mambots/editors-xtd/ mambots/search/ media/ modules/ templates/ 7.…
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Review of my Mac OS X Server Little Black Book
Title: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book, Author: Charles Edge Publisher: Paraglyph Press, distributed by O’Reilly Published: 2006 Price: $34.99 URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1933097140/ Roger Smith, SVMUG, June 18, 2006. Audience: Users and system administrators trying to get the most out of Mac networking with Tiger Server. Content: The book is divided into 18 chapters, each focused on some aspect of server functionality. My opinion: Very much task-oriented, this would get a lot of use next to the console of a Tiger server. It is setting next to my server and will stay there. There is an embarrassment of riches these days when it comes to OS X Server books. Until 10.2…
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Howto Install awstats on OS X
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Here are the steps for setting up AWStats on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Server. 1. Download the last stable release of AWStats from www.awstats.org to your desktop. 2. In the Finder, navigate to /var/log/httpd 3. Backup and remove any old web logs. 4. Open Server Admin. 5. Select Web:Settings:Modules 6. Make sure the “perl_module†and “php4_module†are enabled. 7. Click Save. 8. Select the “Sites†pane. 9. Double-click the entry for the site you are going to enable stats on. 10. Select the “Options†pane. 11. Enable CGI Execution and Server Side Includes (SSI). 12. Click Save. 13. Select the “Realms†pane. 14.…
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Installing MediaWiki on Mac OS X
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal 1. Create a database in MySQL called wikidb. 2. Create a new user called wikiserver that has full priviledges to this database (the user does not need to be called wikiserver, but that is the username we will be using for this walkthrough). 3. Download the latest stable release of MediaWiki from http://mediawiki.sourceforge.net. 4. Extract the tar files into a new folder (for this example we are going to call it wiki to keep things easy). This can be done using the tar -xvzf mediawiki.tar.gz (or subsititute your file name for mediawiki.tar.gz 5. Make the configuration files writeable using the command chmod a+w config…
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DIsable Insecure Passwords in 10.4 Server
You can use the NeST command to control which protocols that Open Directory uses in Mac OS X 10.4 server. To do so you’re going to use the -setprotocols option from the command line, followed by the protocols you would like to disable and then the off string. For example, the following would disable APOP: NeST -setprotocols APOP off The following would then reenable it: NeST -setprotocols APOP on
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Xserve RAID: Reset Controller
Unmount any Xserve RAID volumes hosted by the RAID (especially Xsan volumes). Press the reset button on the back of the controller module for about ten seconds. You should see the controller restart and then the controller should be reset. Sometimes you need to reset both controllers. You don’t have to reset the whole controller to just reset the password. To do that, you can press the reset button for about 1-2 seconds and then try to authenticate through RAID Admin to reset the password. By default the password to view the Xserve RAID, once reset is public and to edit settings, the default password is private. By default the IP…
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Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book on the Way!
I have signed the contract to write my first book. Woo-hoo!!!