Ionic is a framework for hybrid or progressive mobile app development. Throw in electron and you can get a desktop app too! Note that this will only deal with android app development, there are likely many more steps involved with iOS. We need the following software setup – NodeJS – ionic is build using node.… Continue reading Getting Ionic framework up and running on Ubuntu 14.04
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Setting up Varnish for Drupal on CentOS 6
Varnish has an offical repository so let’s add it to Yum as outlined on https://www.varnish-cache.org/installation/redhat sudo rpm –nosignature -i http://repo.varnish-cache.org/redhat/varnish-3.0/el6/noarch/varnish-release/varnish-release-3.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm sudo yum install varnish Set Varnish to start on system boot sudo chkconfig varnish on Setup DAEMON_OPTS in /etc/sysconfig/varnish, something like below. It will be commented out by default: DAEMON_OPTS=”-a :80 \ -T localhost:8080 \ -u varnish -g… Continue reading Setting up Varnish for Drupal on CentOS 6
Setting up memcached with Drupal 7 on Centos 6
Firstly get access to RPMForge repositories. Next install memcached: sudo yum install memcached sudo service memcached start memcached -h Check memcache stats: echo “stats settings” | nc localhost 11211 watch “echo stats | nc 127.0.0.1 11211” Configure memcache: sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/memcached Configuration details for memcache can be found here Install the PECL memcached extension for… Continue reading Setting up memcached with Drupal 7 on Centos 6
Installing RPMForge repositories on CentOS
By default CentOS Yum has a pretty poor selection of packages compared to something like Debian. So it can be a good idea to add RPMForge to get access to more up to date packages. cat /etc/redhat-release uname -a Now choose the appropriate repository for the CentOs version and architecture: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge Install the repo: wget… Continue reading Installing RPMForge repositories on CentOS
Setting up a self signed SSL certificate with Apache
I’m assuming you have Apache installed. Enable the SSL mod for apache: sudo a2enmod ssl Create a directory for the certificates: sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl Generate the certificate: sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365000 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key -out /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt Openssl will ask for some information, make sure you set the FQDN properly, the rest… Continue reading Setting up a self signed SSL certificate with Apache