Archive for the 'Fedora Core 5' Category

301 Redirects with Apache .htacess file

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

I’ve just spent more time than I care to in the last couple of days trying to figure out rewriting urls with Apache, both through .htaccess files and directly in the conf file. Today was relatively painless, as I just had to come up with a way to 301 redirect all “extra domains” and some […]

Installing MySQL Query Browser on Fedora Core 5

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

I was visiting my parents back in Vermont last week, but right before I left I decided I wanted to install MySQL’s Query browser. Running mysql from the command line works, but sometimes it is nice to have a GIU, especially since the program has help docs for syntax, multiple tabs open with queries and […]

Setting up Fedora Core 5 for Zend Framework

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

I installed Apache and MySQL through yum without a hitch and decided I needed to compile my own version of PHP 5. I ran into some problems compiling PHP5, but after resolving those, I had a working LAMP platform. The way ZF is currently set up, it really only works from the root directory of […]

Installing Flash on Fedora Core 5

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Just started using Fedora Core 5. I installed it a couple of weeks ago, but have been working a lot and haven’t played around much with it. I decided I needed to install flash and downloaded it from Adobe. I untared the file and followed their instructions, but it didn’t work. I also tried issuing […]

Fedora Core 5

Friday, May 12th, 2006

I finally got off my ass and installed Fedora Core 5 on my desktop. I had an early attempted foray into desktop Linux about 2 years ago, with a dual partition of Fedora Core 2 and Windows 2000. It worked alright, although I used Windows more than Linux and I ran into a couple problems […]