Quick tip: If you’re wanting to have your Apache document root point to a network share in Windows, here’s what you have to do: Change your DocumentRoot to the network share (drive remapping doesn’t seem to work). Example: DocumentRoot “//path/to/share” Make sure to update the DocumentRoot path in your <Directory> config Edit the Apache service [...]
Having difficulty connecting to MySQL through PHP 5.3.x? Know that MySQL and PHP are properly configured? Using Windows Vista / 7? The problem may very well be that you’re connecting to ‘localhost.’ According to Joe Bedan, simply changing ‘localhost’ to ’127.0.0.7′ will fix the problem, and he’s right! According to another forum post, this is [...]
Occasionally, I pretend to be a Python developer. Thus far, my IDE of choice has been PyDev + Eclipse. Recently, I did a few minor upgrades to my development box that allowed my to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista 64. Before I could begin using Eclipse, I needed to install the latest version [...]