If you wish to change the time of your Linux based system by keeping your current time zone intact, then run the following command with necessary modifications to get it done.
date -s “26 Feb 2010 18:52:00″
I ran into a problem today, my team member asked me to password protect a directory in such a way that when someone access it via Web URL, it should first ask for password. Once user is validated then it should lead him/her to the actual web page.
Guess what is the most easy way to do it, I followed the following method and it worked perfectly. Since Apache is the web server and usually it is handling hundreds of websites on a single server so it is not a wise way to make changes in its configuration file often. We will achieve it via .htaccess.
Now go into the directory in which you wish to apply this restriction and create a .htaccess file (off-course if this does not exist already) and add the following lines with necessary modifications ( The only modification will be that you will need to change the path of the root directory of your applicaton).
AuthType Basic
AuthName “Admin”
AuthUserFile “/var/www/html/MYAPP/passwd”
require valid-user
Now create a file with name passwd at /var/www/html/MYAPP/ path and add the username and password in the following formate:
admin:K1/BaQTbqe0Eo
where admin is the username and the encrypted value after: is the password.
Restart apache service and you will be seeing the login prompt appearing on application launch.
Today morning, I was stunned to see the Google Buz loaded into my Gmail accout. Upon exploring I figured it as a great thing. Let me list down the key features of Google Buzz:
Symfony is the collection of classes written in PHP and it is the most commonly used PHP Framework. Here are the steps to install it in Linux ( The following instructions should work on all Linux distros, I followed them on Fedora Core).
First of all make sure that Pear is already installed, open the terminal and download the go-pear file by running the following command:
wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear
Once the go-pear is downloaded, run the following command to install Pear to your system.
php go-pear
Then follow the onscreen instructions and you are done with the Pear installation in some time. Once the Pear installation is completed, then it is the piece of cake to install symfony. ( Sometimes symfony may also require the ‘dom’ extension to be loaded).
