Web Development & Stuff » Fedora

Override Authtype in sub / child directory .htaccess file

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:18:02 +0000

I had a whole site that was .htaccess password protected using Apache authentication:

1 2	AuthType 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:

1	Satisfy any

The password prompt is now gone for that directory ;]

Reload bash_profile / profile without starting a new shell session

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:47:34 +0000

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:

1	source ~/.bash_profile

Mount remote file system on your local file system over SSH – SSHFS

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:07:26 +0000

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 system on). All you need on the remote system is SSH. This is already installed on most systems.

You can install SSHFS on OSX with Mac Ports:

1	port install sshfs

On the local client system add the user you’re going to connect with to the fuse group. That group was created when you installed SSHFS:

1	gpasswd -a localuser fuse

Create a directory on the local filing system to use as a mount point:

1	mkdir /vhosts_servername/

Now connect to the remote system using a command line like this on the client:

1	sshfs localuser@yourdomain.com:/remote_directory/ /vhosts_servername

Nice ;]

64bit PHP 5.2.5 compile error (Fedora Core 8)

admin — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:53:50 +0000

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:

1	configure: error: mysql configure failed. Please check config.log for more information.

This confused me a little and I spent quite some time investigating possible issues with MySQL. The config.log was pretty useless!

After a fair amount of reading I came across this directive that solved the issue (should have known!):

1	--with-libdir=lib64

So my final configure command looked like this:

1	./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-libdir=lib64 --with-mysql --with-zlib-dir=/usr/include/ --with-openssl --with-curl --with-config-file-path=/etc/php.ini

No more errors! Joy ;]