Wildcard VirtualHost with Apache2
Set your ServerAlias directive to *.domain.tld - Here is a quick example.
<VirtualHost>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias *.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/path/to/site
</VirtualHost>
Now everything.example.com and anything.example.co...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Install and Serve a Rails Application from PHP Subdirectory Using Apache, Phussion Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition
Here is how to install a Rails application out of a subdirectory (rather than as a subdomain) with the Apache web server(Apache2). In this example I'm going to use my own blog which is a Wordpress installation and serve a Rails application from the subdir...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Mod_Python and Web.py on Ubuntu
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First install mod_python for Apache and then restart/reload the server.
apt-get install libapache2-mod-python
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
apache2ctl restart
Next grab the web.py framework from webpy.org. You can grab the tar or use easy_in...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Split a Large File Into Smaller Files on OSX or Unix
Use the split command.
split -l 1000 name-of-file output/directory
You can set the number of lines (the "-l" flag) to split on and also the location of where the split files should be saved. Note, the output directory must already exists....
Written by Sean Behan on 10/08/2013
How to Use Named Variables with Postgres and PHP PDO Driver
You can write reusable scripts with Postgres by taking advantage of named variables.
A named variable starts with a `:` in your sql script. Here is an example
select :a_number
You can then use this statement with `psql` and the `--variable` fl...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/11/2017