Archive for May, 2008

Installing XDebug from source

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

XDebug is one of the best debugging and profiling tools for PHP. This video tutorial will show you how to compile and install XDebug on Ubuntu Hardy Haron 8.04 Server Edition.

In the tutorial I have mentioned a Zend Developer series of articles about using XDebug. The link to the articles.

Timeline:

00:25 Checking the XDebug version in repositories
02:40 Downloading XDebug
04:35 Installing packages required for compilation
05:30 Compilation
06:23 Manual install of XDebug
08:20 Configuration of php.ini
14:00 Checking if everything installed correctly
14:29 Look at XDebug available options

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Episode #7. Installing XDebug from source by ralphz from ralphz on Vimeo.

Apache with SSL

Monday, May 26th, 2008

This time I will show you how to install Apache web server with SSL. In the video you will also see how to access your Subversion repository, created and configured in previous episode, via SSL and SSH from Eclipse.

Whole process of configuring SSL certificates is automated using the Bash script I have prepared especially for this episode. You can download it here easycaandreq.sh

If you find this script or video useful please leave a comment.

Have fun.

Timeline:

00:20 Installing required packages
00:40 Using the custom script to install certificates
02:55 Configuring the script
06:00 Creating certificates
08:00 Explaining files created by the script
09:00 Configuring Apache 2
11:40 Creating virtual host for our SSL conections
12:25 Moving certificates to /etc/ssl
14:00 Adding SSL configuration options to virtual host file
17:42 Restarting Apache 2
18:50 Checking the configuration
20:33 Checking SVN via SSL (See Episode #5)
23:10 Removing password from Apache 2 private key
24:20 Configuring Eclipse to access SVN repository via SSL
27:40 Accessing SVN repository from Eclipse via SSH
30:50 Adjusting permissions on development server so SVN commits work with SSH and SSL connections

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Episode #6. Apache with SSL by ralphz from ralphz on Vimeo.

Subversion repository + Apache

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

this time I will show you how to install and configure subversion repository on your development server. We will basically start where we left off in Episode #4. Tutorial will also show you how to set up Apache to access repository via http and with authorization and authentication. Have fun.

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Episode #5. Subversion + Apache by ralphz from ralphz on Vimeo.