Ubuntu 10.10 was released earlier this month and I thought that I really ought to learn more about Linux, so I decided to install a web server and ColdFusion on an old laptop I had. I'm pretty new to Linux so I expect these instructions could be better, but I wanted to document them for my own purposes and maybe they help others take to leap to Linux. Read more »
If like me you get bored of firing up Notepad (or equivalent) and then having to browse to open up the hosts file, then you can simply create a shortcut to it, which automatically opens up the hosts file in Notepad. To do it: Read more »
Just a quick post with a handy bit of code I write this morning to list all the virtual hosts you've got defined in your Apache conf file. This lets you build a menu of all the running sites on your Apache server. Read more »