To get my feet wet, I wanted to test an installation of WordPress MU (multi-user) edition. The installation seems too problematic on a Windows workstation, even when running in an environment such as AppServ , WAMP, XAMPP, or Uniform Server. My preference is XAMPP. I have tested and used all these environments. I originally preferred the Uniform Server as it…
Read More »I have read throughout the internet many different methods to enable the JRE plugin in a Firefox installation on a Linux box; however, I was not able to get the plugin to work. Accidentally, I found the right answer from the source. There is also a procedure for Firefox, though I had selected the one for Mozilla 1.4 or later….
Read More »You already have JBoss ready and operational. JBoss can be started through a command line or through a shell script that you have created; however, these steps are manual and an automated approach is desired. The goal is to automate JBoss as a service or daemon. There are many, many tutorials that are all over the internet that offer scripts…
Read More »Atlassian JIRA is a bug and issue tracker. Atlassian JIRA lets you priorities, assign, track, report and audit your ‘issues,’ whatever they may be — from software bugs and help-desk tickets to project tasks and change requests. After installing JIRA, on a CentOS 5.2 Linux installation, I wanted to automate the starting and stopping of JIRA by creating a service….
Read More »Before, I continue, I want to preface this with I am a novice with Linux. Having played with Ubuntu versions 6 through 8, I never really could get into this particular distro of Linux as I understand that all root activity must be performed in a terminal windows with a prefix of sudo. I recently downloaded Red Hat Enterprise 5…
Read More »A recent task required an installation and setup of a JBoss Application Server on a Linux box. I originally selected the Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS Server Edition for this task since I have had a little more experience with Ubuntu. I have graduated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (RHEL) and CentOS 5.2. I created A RHEL virtual machine with VMware…
Read More »Using a Windows box with Putty to install and execute jboss with it’s own Tomcat instance using the default port of 8080 on a fresh built Red Hat Enterprise Linux box, everything looked to be fully operational; however, I could not access the web address from a remote box. I quickly realized that the firewall was fully operational (from previous…
Read More »To install another application, I needed to install the JDK (Java Development Kit) on a RedHat Linux System. I found a good set of instructions and worked through the steps for a successful installation. The Redhat installation used is Red Hat 5 Enterprise Edition with the GUI. Using the GUI makes it possible for a newbie to maneuver through these…
Read More »A recent task was to setup a JBoss Application Server on a Linux box. I had selected Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS Server Edition for this task. I created an Ubuntu virtual machine on a VMware Workstation. This was a fresh install and the only optional installation package added during the installation was LAMP, which should have nothing to do with the…
Read More »I am learning Linux as quickly as possible. I am using this site as a repository to support the bits and pieces of code that I have found useful. The following example is code to remove apache2, however, is useful to remove any package, just replace apache2. sudo apt-get purge apache2 sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install…
Read More »LAMP, an open source web development platform based on Linux, is an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (Perl or Python). Using terminal, enter the following line to install the LAMP stack. sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql php5
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