Okay people (assuming more than one person actually reads this blog), it’s geek time again. I recently had to setup a Fedora 13 based PHP server that needed to talk to an Oracle database and frankly had a tough time with it. I was able to get it working though and thought I’d write the [...]
If you know me, you might know that I’m a nerd. I love Linux and use it for all my servers at home. Debian is my flavor of choice. For a long time now I’ve wanted to convert my laptop to Linux but have never felt like it was a realistic option as, even though [...]
Well, I haven’t written anything overtly nerdy in a while so it’s time. I was working on generating a self signed SSL certificate so I could run an encrypted web page on Apache on Linux and couldn’t remember how to do it. I was able to find the information I needed and get [...]
When I was setting this blog up I just couldn’t figure out how to connect to MySQL remotely. I found this article on www.cyberciti.biz/ and it did the trick. Thanks!
By default, MySQL database server remote access disabled for security reasons. However, some time you need to provide the remote access to database server [...]
