Category Archives: Unix

add xCode install of git to your path

Posted on September 3, 2012 by mindeater

http://vandadnp.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/git-from-command-line-after-installing-xcode-on-os-x-lion/ export PATH=”/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/libexec/git-core/”:$PATH

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OS X apache permissions

Posted on September 3, 2012 by mindeater

Setting up a web server on OS X other than the built in one and serving sites from the Document directory always causes permissions headaches this stackoverflow response helped nut it out ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2001881/correct-owner-group-permissions-for-apache-2-site-files-folders-under-mac-os-x ) In Summary This is the most … Continue reading →

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Chmod Web directories from the command line

Posted on April 1, 2011 by mindeater

find /path/to/base/dir -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 find /path/to/base/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 these guys rock http://superuser.com/questions/91935/how-to-chmod-755-all-directories-but-no-file-recursively

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Joomla install with php running as nobody

Posted on December 16, 2010 by mindeater

Use this from command Line > chown -R nobody . Don’t forget to change the owner back to the account or ftp won’t work – never good comes from the instructions here: http://help.joomla.org/content/view/40/132/

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Getting rid of files from the command line

Posted on November 6, 2010 by mindeater

Dreamweaver’s check in and check out functionality can be quite useful when working with more than one person on a site but it creates heaps of .LCK files. If you want to remove them from the command line go to … Continue reading →

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