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Passenger (mod_rails) updates

When updating Passenger: sudo gem update passenger passenger-install-apache2-module The second command is important as it compiles the apache 2 module (caught me out for a whiles, hence this post). Ensure that the module is properly added to your config file. (e.g. /etc/apache2/apache2.conf) by confirming its pointing to the new directory for the updated version of [...]

Installing MySQL, Apache2, PHP, and WordPress with MacPorts

I’ve recently started working on a website project using WordPress.  I’ve got a production environment where I run this blog on my ubuntu server (VPS) hosted by slicehost.  But because I’m going to muck around with themes and plugins I decided that I’m better off doing that locally on my Mac.  So this is the [...]