depicus

Adding a website in OSX for debugging or testing

Sunday, December 4th, 2011

1. First edit your host file so you have a quick URL to use in your browser

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sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

2. Edit the Apache config file to add a virtual server

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sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

and add

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# Depicus Web Site
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin anybody@example.com
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Depicus/"
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Depicus/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ServerName Depicus
ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/Depicus-error_log"
CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/Depicus-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

3. Restart Apache and you are good to go.

Tags: Apache, Host
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Stop Apache serving .DS_Store files – or any files

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

If you view or copy files from a Mac to a webserver it will place .DS_Store files in that directory. To fix add in your http.conf or .htaccess file

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<Files .DS_Store>
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy All
</Files>

Then restart Apache for this to kick in.

Tags: Apache, OSX
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Blank page when trying to install Joomla on OSX10.6

Friday, September 10th, 2010

If you get a blank page when you try and install Joomla check to make sure you have safe_mode turned off.

Now safe_mode is set in your php.ini file but also in httpd.conf. The php script below may help you debug a few errors.

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<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "SECRET") or die(mysql_error());
echo "Connected to MySQL<br />";
mysql_select_db("test") or die(mysql_error());
echo "Connected to Database";
phpinfo(); 
?>

Tags: Apache, Joomla, PHP
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