Category: Dev-Box

  • “Fix” phpMyAdmin timeout after 1440 seconds

    If you are a regular user of phpMyAdmin like me, then you’ll have more than once had the problem of returning to your phpMyAdmin tab after a while and being prompted to login again, because you’ve been idle for 1440 seconds (=24 minutes). This is particularly annoying if you were in the middle of debugging…

  • 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…