If you run WordPress on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or its free cousin CentOS then you will likely run into the following error after you have unpacked WordPress, installed it and tried to do your initial setup: Error establishing a database connection This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php …
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Time Sync on VMWare Based Linux
In many cases it can be quite difficult to accuracy keep time on a virtualized operating system due to the complex interactions between the hardware, host operating system, virtualization layer and the guest operating system. In my case I found that running Red Hat Linux 5 (CentOS 5) on VMWare Server 1.0.8 resulted in an …
Installing Windows Server 2003 on Xen on Red Hat Linux 5
After being challenged several times during the process of installing Windows Server 2003 into a fully virtualized Xen environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5 or CentOS 5) I decided that a quick tutorial for those of you who wish to install in exactly the same way would be helpful. There are several …
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Managing Apache and Subversion Through Active Directory (Part 1 – Authentication)
In my previous article, Installing Subversion on RHEL5, we went over how to install the Subversion server and how to make it accessible through the Apache web server. This solution is great but leaves us without any user authorization and authentication. For most Subversion instances these are features that we will want to have. We …
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Installing ruby-sqlite3 on Red Hat or CentOS Linux
For my development environment, I like to SQLite3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS.) When working with the gem installer for the sqlite-ruby package I kept getting an error on my newest machine. I searched online and found no answers anywhere while finding many people having this save problem. I have found a …
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