As a follow on from Django on OS X - getting started here’s what happened after I took Stuart’s advice, installed Xcode and atempted to add mod_wsgi to apache. Before I start let’s just clarify that I’m using MAMP Pro 1.7 on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4. This provides me with Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) PHP/5.2.3 DAV/2. Read the rest of this entry »
As I’m somewhat picky about the code produced on my sites I was really keen to remove the comments describing each TYPO3 content element. This is the sort of thing I mean:
<!-- CONTENT ELEMENT, uid:122/textpic [begin] --> <a id="c122"></a> <!-- Header: [begin] --> <div class="csc-header csc-header-n1"> <h2 class="csc-firstHeader"> Time-served Designer & Webmaster available for challenging permanent positions and short-term contracts. </h2> </div> <!-- Header: [end] --> <!-- Image block: [begin] --> <div class="csc-textpic-text"> <!-- Text: [begin] -->...
Increasingly I find myself having to add custom meta data in order to validate my ownership of a site. Both Yahoo and Google offer webmaster tools with the option of either adding a static html page or including custom meta tags.
Although its easy enough to quickly upload an html file most of my sites would require explicit tweaks to the .htaccess file to allow the plain html to be served. Without the exception being added the request is caught by the application and a 404 is thrown.
Adding a custom meta tag is therefore the path of least resistance and with a TYPO3 site running TemplaVoila you have two options: Read the rest of this entry »
Wanting to publish an RSS feed on a TYPO3 site recently I ran into errors relating to the php configuration of Dreamhost. To solve this I followed the instruction for using your own modified version of php.ini on the wiki which essentially copies the latest Dreamhost version of php.cgi and php.ini into a newly created cgi-bin directory.
I started to get this error while I was monkeying around with the latest version on my MacBook.
Cannot find tslib/. Please set path by defining $configured_tslib_path in index.php.
I had to go as far as to have a quick look at index.php to discover that I’d incorrectly named my typo3 folder (er, symlink actually). D’oh!
I’d decided a while ago to invest some time learning Python, already had MAMP Pro happily running on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4 so it made sense to push further and have a look at Django - the Python Web Framework. I’m following the beautifully written Django Book and an amalgam of google results. Read the rest of this entry »
As I find myself rarely needing to network my MacBook Pro with anything nowadays I inevitably find myself having to trawl a noise of Google results to obtain the desired effect.
Should be straightforward enough. I’ve enabled file sharing on the mac and been networking most flavours of Windows over the years. The problem is that on authenticating as the appropriate mac user from the Vista end the expected mac user-name format of macmachinename\user-name isn’t accepted. Read the rest of this entry »
