Tag «LAMP»

Protecting a web directory in Virtualmin

Virtualmin makes it easy to protect websites (or just parts of it) with an email / password combination. The nice thing about it is that you have granular control over which user has access to what. The user doesn’t have to remember a new password, it will simply be his/her old email password. Let’s see how it works! Go to …

dealing with VirtualHosts in XAMPP

If the URL schema of http://localhost/foldername isn’t working for you, or you just want to test the webpages behavior with the live address, you need to configure so called VirtualHosts in Apache. Usually that is done by editing httpd.conf but XAMPP has a different (and much easier) approach to this. Let’s take a look! First …

TortoiseSVN installation and configuration

TortoiseSVN is a windows Subversion client. The really neat thing about it is, that it integrates into windows as a shell extension, meaning that you can easily use it from any kind of file manager you want. Let’s see install it! There are separate 32bit and 64bit versions available for download at this link. If …

Installing and configuring XAMPP

XAMPP is a really versatile web development kit for PHP and/or Perl. It includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl and a lot of other nifty programs, it has a nice control panel, even has an FTP server. Best of all: it is cross-platform. In this how to we will install it and configure it. First of …