Step 1. Open a terminal and type
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
or whatever text editor you like using to open up your apache configuration file for editing.
Step 2. Under the sections headed <Directory /> and <Directory /var/www/>:
Change the line 'AllowOverride none' to 'AllowOverride All'.
Step 3. Open up a terminal and type
hostname
This will display your hostname.
Step 4. Open up a terminal and type
sudo gedit /etc/hosts
or whatever text editor you like using to open up your hosts file for editing.
Step 5. Modify the first line so it reads
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain yourhostname
Step 6. Open up a terminal and type
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Restart your computer.
It will now work.
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Showing posts with label localhost. Show all posts
Friday, 26 April 2013
How to set up sendmail on your Ubuntu LAMP localhost
This is beautifully simple:
Step 1. Open up a terminal and type
sudo apt-get install sendmail
This will install the complete sendmail application. It will take a minute or so to complete.
Step 1. Open up a terminal and type
sudo apt-get install sendmail
This will install the complete sendmail application. It will take a minute or so to complete.
Step 2. Open up a terminal and type
hostname
This will display your hostname.
Step 3. Open up a terminal and type
sudo gedit /etc/hosts
or whatever text editor you like using to open up your hosts file for editing.
Step 4. Modify the first line so it reads
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain yourhostname
Restart your computer.
It will now work.
Monday, 16 May 2011
Use of wood and paper textures
This example makes use of textures, both wooden and paper. It's the starting position of putting together a website for a local carpenter. I also use one of the Google fonts to add a handwritten effect.
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Local carpenter</title>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Reenie+Beanie' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<style>
html, body
{
font-family: 'Reenie Beanie', arial, serif;
background:url(images/coursepaper.jpg);
}
#mainContent, #footer
{
margin:0 auto;
width:800px;
}
#mainContent, #paper, #footer
{
position:relative;
padding:20px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 4px 4px 4px #737373;
-moz-box-shadow: 4px 4px 4px #737373;
box-shadow: 4px 4px 4px #737373;
behavior: url(scripts/PIE.htc);
}
#mainContent
{
background:url(images/plywood.jpg);
min-height:440px;
}
#leftSection
{
float:left;
width:140px;
}
#subNav
{
float:left;
width:136px;
margin-left:60px;
}
#subNav a.subMenu, a.subMenu:hover
{
font-size:2em;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
#subNav a.subMenu
{
display:block;
height:96px;
background:url(images/woodenbutton.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
margin-top:0px;
padding-top:20px;
padding-left:20px;
}
#subNav a.subMenu:hover
{
background:url(images/woodenbuttonover.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
padding-top:24px;
padding-left:24px;
}
.menuSelected
{
}
img
{
}
p
{
font-size:1.4em;
}
#paper
{
float:right;
background:url(images/paper.jpg);
width:500px;
min-height:300px;
}
#footer
{
background:url(images/plywood2.jpg);
position: relative;
min-height:40px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<br />
<div id="mainContent">
<div id="leftSection">
<img src="images/stamp.png" alt="stamp">
<div id="subNav">
<a href="subPage1.html" class="subMenu menuSelected">First</a>
<a href="subPage2.html" class="subMenu">Second</a>
</div>
</div>
<div id="paper">
<h1>Welcome to the Local Carpenter</h1>
<p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui.</p>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div id="footer"></div>
</body>
</html>
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Local carpenter</title>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Reenie+Beanie' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<style>
html, body
{
font-family: 'Reenie Beanie', arial, serif;
background:url(images/coursepaper.jpg);
}
#mainContent, #footer
{
margin:0 auto;
width:800px;
}
#mainContent, #paper, #footer
{
position:relative;
padding:20px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 4px 4px 4px #737373;
-moz-box-shadow: 4px 4px 4px #737373;
box-shadow: 4px 4px 4px #737373;
behavior: url(scripts/PIE.htc);
}
#mainContent
{
background:url(images/plywood.jpg);
min-height:440px;
}
#leftSection
{
float:left;
width:140px;
}
#subNav
{
float:left;
width:136px;
margin-left:60px;
}
#subNav a.subMenu, a.subMenu:hover
{
font-size:2em;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
#subNav a.subMenu
{
display:block;
height:96px;
background:url(images/woodenbutton.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
margin-top:0px;
padding-top:20px;
padding-left:20px;
}
#subNav a.subMenu:hover
{
background:url(images/woodenbuttonover.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
padding-top:24px;
padding-left:24px;
}
.menuSelected
{
}
img
{
}
p
{
font-size:1.4em;
}
#paper
{
float:right;
background:url(images/paper.jpg);
width:500px;
min-height:300px;
}
#footer
{
background:url(images/plywood2.jpg);
position: relative;
min-height:40px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<br />
<div id="mainContent">
<div id="leftSection">
<img src="images/stamp.png" alt="stamp">
<div id="subNav">
<a href="subPage1.html" class="subMenu menuSelected">First</a>
<a href="subPage2.html" class="subMenu">Second</a>
</div>
</div>
<div id="paper">
<h1>Welcome to the Local Carpenter</h1>
<p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui.</p>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div id="footer"></div>
</body>
</html>
Monday, 7 February 2011
Zend on XAMPP on localhost on Windows
I learned to use the MVC psuedo design pattern through codeigniter. MVC seems to be commonly used through the Zend Framework. I learned PHP through a Zend course and was keen to have the Zend MVC Framework on my XAMPP localhost server. So I followed the instructions from the Zend website, which weren't great.
First of all, before you begin the tutorial from the Zend website, you already have the Zend Framework on XAMPP. It's in the PEAR directory. So you just need to replace this with an up to date version.
The other thing you need to replace is zf.bat, which lies within the php directory.
Another thing you need to do before reading the Zend instructions is edit your hosts file. Here are a couple of lines from mine:
127.0.0.1 quickstart.local
127.0.0.1 localhost
Now. Here is the crucial one. If you follow the Zend instructions to the letter, you are left with a localhost which only works with the Zend Framework. You don't want this. What about all the times you are not using Zend?
So, you need to use 2 ports for your localhost. One for Zend and one for everything else. Then you can set
up your VirtualHost entries within httpd.conf like these:
Listen 80
Listen 8080
<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerName quickstart.local
DocumentRoot C:\xampp\htdocs\quickstart\public
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory C:\xampp\htdocs\quickstart\public>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot C:\xampp\htdocs
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory C:\xampp\htdocs>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
You can then go to your web browser and use :
http://quickstart.local:8080/ for Zend and
http://localhost/ for everything else.
First of all, before you begin the tutorial from the Zend website, you already have the Zend Framework on XAMPP. It's in the PEAR directory. So you just need to replace this with an up to date version.
The other thing you need to replace is zf.bat, which lies within the php directory.
Another thing you need to do before reading the Zend instructions is edit your hosts file. Here are a couple of lines from mine:
127.0.0.1 quickstart.local
127.0.0.1 localhost
Now. Here is the crucial one. If you follow the Zend instructions to the letter, you are left with a localhost which only works with the Zend Framework. You don't want this. What about all the times you are not using Zend?
So, you need to use 2 ports for your localhost. One for Zend and one for everything else. Then you can set
up your VirtualHost entries within httpd.conf like these:
Listen 80
Listen 8080
<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerName quickstart.local
DocumentRoot C:\xampp\htdocs\quickstart\public
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory C:\xampp\htdocs\quickstart\public>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot C:\xampp\htdocs
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory C:\xampp\htdocs>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
You can then go to your web browser and use :
http://quickstart.local:8080/ for Zend and
http://localhost/ for everything else.
Friday, 24 September 2010
SMTP from XAMPP on a localhost using your Google mail Account
This may seem a little obscure but believe me, this blog could save you a lot of time.
Imagine you have XAMPP installed on your Windows computer as localhost. You are writing an application which requires e-mails to be sent and you need to test your code. You have a Google e-mail account and you'd like to use the SMTP service which comes with that.
Let's start by creating our little PHP script which we are going to use for testing.
<?php
mail('jimmy@googlemail.com','test subject','test body');
?>
There. That wasn't too difficult was it.
Next we need to edit our php.ini file. The php.ini file will be in something like C:\XAMPP\php. We are looking for the [mail function] variables. For which we need entries like this:
[mail function]
sendmail_path = "C:/xampp/sendmail/sendmail.exe -t"
Couple things to note from above. The smtp_port and look carefully at the slashes of the sendmail_path.
Now we are on to our final step. We need to edit sendmail.php which would be under something like C:\XAMPP\sendmail. You need to replace the contents of the file with something like this:
[sendmail]
smtp_server=smtp.googlemail.com
smtp_port=587
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username=myaccountname@googlemail.com
auth_password=mypassword
force_sender=myaccountname@googlemail.com
You must now restart your Apache service in order for it to work.
Now to test your script. Open up your web browser and load it like this http://localhost/myscript.php
Check your Google mail account to see if it's arrived.
Good luck!
Imagine you have XAMPP installed on your Windows computer as localhost. You are writing an application which requires e-mails to be sent and you need to test your code. You have a Google e-mail account and you'd like to use the SMTP service which comes with that.
Let's start by creating our little PHP script which we are going to use for testing.
<?php
mail('jimmy@googlemail.com','test subject','test body');
?>
There. That wasn't too difficult was it.
Next we need to edit our php.ini file. The php.ini file will be in something like C:\XAMPP\php. We are looking for the [mail function] variables. For which we need entries like this:
[mail function]
sendmail_path = "C:/xampp/sendmail/sendmail.exe -t"
Couple things to note from above. The smtp_port and look carefully at the slashes of the sendmail_path.
Now we are on to our final step. We need to edit sendmail.php which would be under something like C:\XAMPP\sendmail. You need to replace the contents of the file with something like this:
[sendmail]
smtp_server=smtp.googlemail.com
smtp_port=587
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username=myaccountname@googlemail.com
auth_password=mypassword
force_sender=myaccountname@googlemail.com
You must now restart your Apache service in order for it to work.
Now to test your script. Open up your web browser and load it like this http://localhost/myscript.php
Check your Google mail account to see if it's arrived.
Good luck!
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