If you ever need to create a Drupal core patch, you may need to check-out main branch of the appropriate version. CVS URLs for those are not easy to find, so here they are: Drupal 5:\ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal -z6 checkout -d drupal-5 -r DRUPAL-5 drupal Drupal 6:\ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal -z6 checkout -d drupal-6 -r DRUPAL-6...

The best way to install MongoDB on yum-enabled Linux distributions (CentOS or Fedora) is through yum package manager. MongoDB.org provides repositories (depending on your OS and CPU architecture) that you should add to your list of yum repos: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/CentOS+and+Fedora+Packages Once you have the repository properly installed under /etc/yum.repos.d you can install the latest stable mongoDB...

In httpd.conf:\ LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 111.222.333.444 ExtendedStatus On where 111.222.333.444 is the IP of your server.

Got an error today I have never seen before (shocker) while trying to set up something on Debian Lenny. Took a while to find the culprit, but when I did it was so annoying, decided to share it here in case it saves headache to somebody else. So, I was just trying to run a...

If you generated your ssh key pair, did everything per instructions and still can’t log-in using the keys, you may be a victim of the most common ssh key problem: incorrect permissions. Permissions both on the server and the client machine (if your client is Linux/Unix or Mac OS-X) must be set properly, which is:...

Yum is a great update manager for RedHat/CentOS Linux. Unfortunately, default repos are typically way behind the stable releases of the packages contained in them. If you need to install PHP, MySQL, Python or other major package, you will find that the versions in default repos are old to the extent of being useless. This...

This was not easy to track down in the documentation, but for anybody that may need it, here’s the XML list of locales supported by Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/translations/FacebookLocales.xml

If you want to use the latest version of RubyGems on CentOS 5.x you need a later version of Ruby than what you can get from usual sources (CentOS, CentOS-Test or RPMForge Yum repos). I still have not found a yum repo that allows to install 1.9.x branch of Ruby (for installation instructions by compiling...

Unfortunately, CentOS 5.5 comes with a very old version of Ruby: 1.8.5. Even the latest rubygems require at least 1.8.6 to install. To make things more dire, centos-test and rpmforge yum repos do not carry a more up-to-date Ruby version. If you are fine upgrading to just 1.8.6, and want to use Yum, see my...

How many times have you accidentally opened a protected file with vi, edited a whole bunch of stuff in it and only at the point you wanted to save it, have you remembered that you’d forgotten to “sudo” before editing the file? If you do a lot of Unix work, I bet this has happened...

The very fresh and raw 0.1 version of http://loadtest.io is now available for your enjoyment. What is It? LoadTest.io is multi-threaded load-tester with auto-discovery. It is ideal for load-tests that target breadth. You give loadtest.io some initial URLs and it will crawl the rest of your website, auto-discovering links as it goes. It will also...

For the [hopefully very infrequent] times when you still need to deal with CVS, in 2010, and [god forbid] fix something you messed up there, here’s how you can revert an accidental commit back to the previous version. First find the revision you need to revert back to by running: cvs log screwed_up.code Once you...

As I sit here on a hot, humid Friday night with my scotch and my laptop (21st century #fail), in a thoroughly air-conditioned room, I try to make myself useful. In this unbearable heat, only a desperate socialite would even think about going out. I, myself, much prefer pointlessly scrolling through the day’s worth of...

With the VPS expansion you can now get a (very) small virtual private server (VPS) for a very affordable price. However, when you get a server with something like 256MB or 512MB RAM and a portion of CPU power, using default MySQL/PHP/Apache settings is a pretty bad idea. Performance and scalability tuning of a server...

GoogleCL is a command-line client to Google services that was released recently. It should appeal to Web geeks, many of whom, in my non-scientific observation, are Mac users. GoogleCL documentation suggest you use MacPorts to install it on Mac. Now, I have to admit - it really pisses me off when people talk about installing...