This post is an adaptation of the original article “How to install and configure Django on a Linux shared hosting account” from a2hosting with the following changes: 1. ‘myapp’ changed to ‘mysite’ to make the text more usable with the original django tutorials (where ‘mysite’ is used throughout the text); 2. Added the Prerequisites section; […]
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“WordPress password reset doesn’t work”
There’s various articles and tutorials on the web explaining how to reset your WordPress password using different methods (email, ftp, emergency scripts, mysql, phpmydamin). Unfortunately a large portion of them, particularly the ones using mysql and phpmyadmin to reset the wordpress password will not work. Or rather – they will work but there is a […]
Using curl and POST requests to automate data retrieval from a website
Problem: A site contains data which is of interest to us. The data is uniformly structured and available for examination by the general public (i.e. no login required) but is not automatically accessible, i.e. viewing it requires repetitive user interaction (such as setting a date range, clicking a ‘submit’ button, etc). In addition, usually the […]
Setting up multi web site developer testbeds/sandboxes on localhost
Scenario —————————————————————— You are maintaining several web-sites (site1.com, site2.org, etc…). Having just one web-site at localhost with all files (DocumentRoot) at /var/www/html is not an option for you. You need to be able to test all of them and to access them in a convenient way. Solution Setup apache with Virtual Hosts, give your sites […]
Setting up a ‘LAMP’ server (Linux-Apache-mySQL-PHP)
… copied as-is from : http://fedorasolved.org/server-solutions/lamp-stack Very useful info, everything works like a charm (I tried on FC15) so I am replicating this here in case that page ever gets archived, goes offline, etc. I will see if I can add some more info about setting phpMyAdmin here as well. Doing the work The best […]
How to install drupal in a sub-directory
I tried to install a drupal site in a sub-directory of a domain and I ran into some problems. I will explain here how I solved them. Many forum topics and issues on drupal.org and elsewhere on the web discuss how to install drupal in a sub-directory of your domain and to have it appear […]