configuration

Git SSH repository FAQ: How do I set up a private Git server on a remote ssh server, such as an A2 Hosting web server? (i.e., how do I create my own private SSH Git repository on an A2 Hosting server?)

I just created a new domain on an A2 Hosting web server, and one of the reasons I chose A2 is because they offer/allow Git hosting, specifically Git hosting over SSH.

If you've never set up a private Git repository over SSH, well, fear not, me either. But, I just got it done, and here's how I did it.

Since I can't seem to ever remember this, here are some notes on how to configure a Name Virtual Host (NameVirtualHost) on an Apache web server. In particular, this is from the httpd.conf configuration file that I use with MAMP on one of my Mac OS X development systems.

In short, as I'm developing two different applications, one named "cato" and another named "zenf", these are the important name-based virtual host lines from my Apache configuration file:

Drupal database configuration file FAQ: Is there something I can do to quit having to change my Drupal settings.php file every time I go from my Development Environment to Testing and Production?

Yes! One of the things I didn't like about Drupal when I first started working with it was the settings.php file in the sites/default directory. I thought that was THE database configuration file, and you had to keep changing it when you went from Development to Testing to Production.

As a few thousand people saw earlier this morning, Day 3 of the conversion to Drupal was filled with a little comedy. First, I ran into a MySQL "can't create/write to file" error message caused by not having the open-files-limit cranked up high enough.

Here's some Perl code that I just pulled from a working program that demonstrates how to read a human-readable configuration file in a Perl program: