Installing Fedora 10 on Microsoft Virtual PC was a biggest challenge for me in last 3 days, at one moment I thought I should move to Virtualbox and I wanted to give a try to Virtual box once I made this post virtualization tools . But unfortunately VirtualBox screwed up my WinXP host many times […]
Fedora 10 on MS Virtual PC – Installation problems (issues) and solutions
January 10th, 2009public/private key authentication with PuTTY on fedora 10
December 27th, 2008First, check sshd is running on your server service sshd status This will say whether its running or not. If not running check whether its installed and the service is made to run on boot. Once you do that, you need to generate a set of public and private keys. Download puttygen from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Following […]
Virtualization tools
December 23rd, 2008I was breaking my head installing Fedora core 10 on my microsoft virtual PC without any success. I went on searching more virtualization tools as I needed to get my fedora 10 get going… Here are some info 1. Microsoft Virtual PC – Available for free from microsoft. Just go to microsoft.com , downloads section […]
Starting LAMPP automatically on startup
April 3rd, 2008For starting LAMPP automatically on startup, add the following line to you /etc/rc.local file /opt/lampp/lampp start where /opt/lampp is the location where XAMPP files are kept. You will have to substitute the path to your XAMPP in the above command. Do let me know whether it worked for you 😉
XAMPP an easy LAMP installation solution
February 25th, 2008Earlier I had messed up my LAMP test server trying to upgrade PHP from 4 to 5 and it was a real headache till I got everything to work.. Someone asked me a question – is there a simple way to install everything (Apache, MySQL PHP with necessary modules) in one shot without configuring each […]
500 OOPS: cannot change directory: FTP error
February 14th, 2008Hmm.. I had got the above error from vsftp. I googled around for some time and got some info on getting through this situation. I just ran following command at shell.. /usr/sbin/setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1 This worked for me, what about you?