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Setting Up a Local Web Development Environment on Snow Leopard

Published February 11th, 2011 to Development

By default Snow Leopard comes bundled with Apache, PHP 5.3 and common libraries like GD that you’re likely to need for local web development. Since it’s quite easy to forget the location of the edits required I’m documenting the process for my own needs but ho...

Installing ionCube loaders on your Media Temple (dv) 4.0 Server

Published February 11th, 2011 to Development

One of the drawbacks of upgrading to the Media Temple (dv) 4.0 is that by default PHP 5.3 doesn’t have the ionCube loaders installed, heres a quick guide on getting sites that require ionCube loaders running again.

Improving Security on Your Media Temple (dv) 4.0 Server

Published February 08th, 2011 to Development

Not to say that the Media Temple (dv) servers are setup particularly badly by default but by changing to a non standard configuration and disabling some services you’re not using helps to tighten up security a little more. Here’s a quick guide of some of the t...

Disable Open Base Dir Restrictions on a Media Temple (DV) 4.0 Server

Published February 06th, 2011 to Development

This is a pretty common issue, particularly when running certain content management systems on servers with Plesk installed that sets directory restrictions by default, fortunately it’s pretty easy to fix on a per account basis if you have root access to your...

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