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Tag: leopard

Setting hostname on Leopard permanently

One of the annoying things about Leopard is that it keeps changing the hosting to whatever the DNS server dishes out and in my case its something like 12-32-145-23.config, not the most pretty/useful naming convention. Also means that it looks really ugly on the terminal. So here are the commands to reset it permanently so [...]

PHP, Mail and OSX Leopard

I have been trying to get my old apps to send emails, but for some wierd reason I couldnt get it working out of the fox. If you have had similar problems, you can try out this. Step 1: Update the hostconfig file. Add the following line to /etc/hostconfig MAILSERVER=-YES- Step 2: Update variable myhostname [...]

Using macport to setup php5 / apache2 on Leopard

As you can tell I got myself a new macbook and its pretty much ritualistic to install apache/php5 on it for me. I agree it comes with both of them pre-installed but really I just like to do it for the easy of configuration. I have written earlier how I compiled everything on Leopard in [...]

How to enable apache mod_rewrite on ubuntu

I have been moving my development to Linux lately and had the first real struggle getting the rewrite stuff working on Apache. Problem wasn’t that I didn’t know how to do it, (BTW usually i would prefer to have a self compiled version of Apache as I would know what’s in it) but that the [...]