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SMF Bridge for Joomla! Discontinued

I am lucky, I am using WordPress and not Joomla!

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.

WordPress: PhotoGallery Plug-in

I am looking for a free add-on to our community site that will show picture gallery of activities which was suitable for my requirement. I have used Gallery, Coppermine, SMF Gallery and finally I found WordPress Plug-in that is called NextGen Gallery. I would recommend this one. Very simple to use and install on your wordpress site.

PHPMyAdmin: Wrong permission on config file…

I have encountered a problem when I am trying to access my phpmyadmin, the following error came up:

Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!

I am thinking of some access control list error.  I have searched the web and found article pertaining this error. The link is not on english but you can see that config.inc.php control is set to 777 (means writable).

Disable Directory Listing in Apache

I have installed Ubuntu Server 7.04 linux and setup as LAMP Server. By default, directory browsing is enabled but it is not advisable on production website. I have searched the following information on how to disable directory listing on apache from linuxassassin‘s website.

Setup Ubuntu 7.04 LAMP Server

I am previously using Ubuntu Server 6.06 for the older machine (Compaq Deskpro EC) and planning to migrate to a greater CPU power. Have tried using Ubuntu Server 6.06 on HP DX 2700 but it doesn’t work. It cannot identify network interface on the machine due to the machines latest release

MySQL – Moving Out

Evaluating system is a very tough work. Now, from the test web server, I need to move the system to a much higher model of machine. I need to copy Web Pages, and Database. For example, I need to move WordPress to new machine. I use the following guide:

Make sure that you can connect to new Linux machine especially in MySQL, I use the article posted on cyberciti.biz about How do I enable remote access to MySQL server.

Next sted is to copy the database to new machine. I use the article from mysql about Copy MySQL Database to other Machine.

After the database, copy the webpage using the rsync command. I use the article from Ubuntu dapper’s ubuntuguide.org website about How to copy files/folders from local machine into remote Ubuntu machine (rsync).

Lastly, you need to modify database settings so you may able to connect to your MySQL database.

Linux Commands

Here are some common linux commands that I use to install and manage may Linux machine:

Assigning root password – sudo passwd root

Checking partition size – sudo df -h

Checking folder size – sudo du – hs <folderpath> / sudo du -chks (summary)

Change File and Folder permission – sudo chmod 777 /var/www/smf -R

Copy File – sudo cp -R <source> <destination>
Remove File – sudo rm <file>

Create Directory – sudo mkdir <directoryname>

Copy file to remote machine – rsync -v -u -a -r –delete –rsh=ssh /var/www/ root@remotehost:/var/www/
Others will be posted on this page regularly…

Linux Services

Here are the common installation guide in installing Linux services especially in Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06:

SSH Daemon

sudo apt-get install ssh openssh-server

Apache

sudo apt-get install apache2

PHP5

sudo apt-get install php5

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

MySQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

sudo vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf ==>> allow mysql to be available all over the internet

comment out #bind-address = 127.0.0.1

mysqladmin -u root password your-new-password

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Enabling MySQL to be access remotely

sudo vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf

uncomment #bind-address = 127.0.0.1

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

create user – sudo mysqlmanager –passwd

Install MySQL for Apache HTTP Server

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

uncomment ;extension=mysql.so

save and restart apache – sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Gallery

sudo apt-get install gallery (do not restart apache)

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

sudo apt-get install jhead

sudo apt-get install libjpeg-progs

Samba

sudo apt-get install samba smbfs

sudo smbpasswd – a system_username

sudo vi /etc/samba/smbusers (new file)

insert system_username = “network username”

Share with read/write permission

sudo mkdir /home/mponteres/mponteres_share

sudo chmod 777 /home/mponteres/mponteres_share

sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

replace

;security = user

with

security = user

username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

[Group]

comment = Group Folder

path = /home/group

public = yes

writable = yes

valid users = system_username1 system_username2

create mask = 0700

directory mask = 0700

force user = nobody

force group = nogroup

sudo testparm

sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

URL Source: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper