Somehow, I either forgot my password, or I did something to mess up my MySQL instance. it is a development machine, so I don’t really care about the databases on it. I just wanted to remove it completely from my machine. I actually had two copies of mysql installed. One from Mac Ports and the [...]
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This documents how I create Ruby on Rails applications and deploy them to my server. I have created a bare bones apache web server that hosts ruby applications using MySQL. It also assumes you have Ruby on Rails set up on a Macbook Pro. Server Side User mkdir ~/myrumbleapp mkdir ~/myrumbleapp/www mkdir ~/myrumbleapp/www/current mkdir ~/myrumbleapp/logs [...]
General Install Ubuntu 9.1 server using the Bare Server option The first thing I like to do is add my account to the /etc/sudoers file. This just guarantees that I can always use sudo, even if I mistakenly mess up my group assignment. sudo visudo # /etc/sudoers root ALL=(ALL) ALL user ALL=(ALL) ALL user should [...]