Archive for the ‘Dev-Box’ Category

Dev-Box: mod_rewrite and Virtual Hosts for your Apache

This is gonna be a quick one, but I think you’ll find this quite useful … if you don’t already know it by heart ;) As I promised in my initial Dev-Box post, I promised to give further useful instructions/tips for your development VM, so here we go: mod_rewrite and Virtual Hosts for Apache. Two [...]

Dev-Box: Installing a Mail Server

It’s been a while, but I’m back with another useful tutorial for all those out there using VMs like my Dev-Box. Last time I talked about getting SVN to work on your VM and now time it’s all about setting up a mail server, something you need for pretty much every web application you might [...]

Dev-Box: Installing SVN

My last post about setting up a Virtual Machine to use as your local webserver was quite the success (hits increased from about 30 to nearly 1000 within 2 days…and dropped back to somewhere slightly above the old value by now) and I promised I would write some more tutorials on how to install some [...]

Dev-Box: Virtual Machines for Developers

This post goes out to all the coders using a Windows machine for development. Might be interesting for others aswell but I can’t say much about that as I’m a Windows user myself ;) So what is this about? Well, some time ago I ran into smaller problems when trying to move a website from [...]