Tuesday, December 21, 2010

How to access Windows XAMPP server online

Besure the firewall is OFF then type your xampp server ip on other computer within the network or you may try it outside your network using port forwarding

How to enable mod_rewrite in ubuntu 9.04 (might work in other version)

n default installion of apache2.2 on debian never enable mod_rewrite default. So you may need to enable .
First install the apache2.2 with this command :
debian user please use “su” before start this process
ubuntu user please use “sudo su” before start this process
apt-get install apache2 (it will install apache 2.2)
now use locate to find if the mod_rewrite.so is availble on your server
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locate mod_rewrite.so

it will found in “/usr/lib/apache2/modules”
new apache follow some folders to enable and desuable mods.
so now do this:
cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
touch rewrite.load
gedit rewrite.load (you may use any editor to edit this file)

now paste this following line
LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so
Then edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default
Find the following
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all

and change it to

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all

and finally restart Apache