Some interesting findings from web-dev land…
I had a whole site that was .htaccess password protected using Apache authentication:
12AuthType Basic
etc etc
I wanted to allow public access to a sub directory. I had to Google it for quite a while and finally worked it out. I added this to the child directory .htaccess file:
1Satisfy any
The password prompt is now gone for that [...]
I always used to log-out / log-back-in to shell, to allow changes in my .bash_profile to kick in. I’m guessing this would work in OSX with your .profile file too but I’ve not tested it. Anyways, I discovered you can reload the script on the fly using:
1source ~/.bash_profile
Lots of love going about today! This time, the recipient is SSHFS which allows you to mount a remote filing system onto your local tree over SSH. In a virtual hosting environment (/vhosts/ etc) it’s pure joy to work with.
You’ll need to install SSHFS on the client (the machine you want to mount the remote [...]
I recently moved over to the 64bit version of Fedora Core 8.
My plan was to compile both Apache and PHP from source, as they require a fair amount of customisations for my needs.
The Apache compile went without problems but using my regular configure directives for PHP (5.2.5) threw this error:
1configure: error: mysql configure failed. Please [...]