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Enabling Drupal CleanURL with Mac OS X Version 10.7.2

SG — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:22:56 +0000

This might as well work with other versions of Mac OS X but I just know that this steps work with Version 10.7.2 which I am running.

I have already installed apache, php and mysql on my macbook. I just migrated to Mac from Linux. Since being a newbie to Mac OS, I had to spend an hour or so to figure out how to enable CleanURL on Mac.

So here it goes, the steps to follow to enable clean URL on Drupal with Mac OS X version 10.7.2:

1. Open /private/etc/apache2/users/[username].conf and then change ‘AllowOverride None’ to ‘AllowOverride all’.

2. After that open /Users/[username]/Sites/drupal/.htaccess and change ‘RewriteBase /’ to ‘RewriteBase /~[username]/drupal’

3. Finally restart apache2.
sudo apachectl restart

How to Share Data Card Internet Connection Between PC and Android Phone

SG — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:57:35 +0000

Sharing of internet connection between computers or between a computer and a smartphone (with WiFi capability) using Wifi Ad-Hoc Networking is popular. But this form of networking is not supported by Android devices. There are ways to make Ad-Hoc networks to work with android devices by configuring files on the device but I am not going to go to that.

Instead there are methods using a software based virtual access point like Windows Seven’s Wireless Hosted Network technology, Virtual Router Manager and Connectify. Windows Seven’s Wireless Hosted Network only runs on windows seven and hardware specific. Virtual Router Manager didn’t work for me. Therefore, I used connectify (newer 2.2 version didn’t work, I used an older version 1.2) and successfully shared my data card connection between my laptop (Dell Latitude E5500 with Windows 7) and my android device (Samsung Galaxy Ace).

Listed below with screenshots are the steps to follow:

On your computer (Laptop/Desktop):

1. Download Connectify 1.2 and install it. Once complete, you can access Connectify from the icon in the Taskbar

Click for higher resolution picture

2. Fill in the settings panel with your prefered WiFi name, password and internet connection to share. For Internet connection, there are options listed as No Internet Sharing, Mobile Broadband Connection, Local Area Connection and Wireless Network Connection. Since I have a data card, I selected Mobile Broadband Connection for Internet

3. Click on “Start Hotspot” to start sharing

4. On your Wireless Connection Status, click Details to get the network connection information, note the IPV4 Address

On your Android device:

5. Go to Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi Settings

6. Open Advance settings menu

7. Select the Use static IP option

8. Enter your desired IP address (For example: 192.168.2.2) into Ip Address field

9. Enter your IPV4 Address (For example: 192.168.2.1) into Gateway field

10. Enter 255.255.255.0 into Netmask field

11. Enter your internet connection’s DNS server (use ipconfig /all command to get DNS info) intoDNS 1 and DNS 2. As an alternative, you can alternatively use Google Public DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

12. Connect to Wi-Fi using your password

13. Disconnect and Reconnect Wi-Fi (or Restart your Android device), if it doesn’t connect.

14. Check your internet connection on your Android device using a browser

15. When you go back to the Windows 7 machine you can see the device(s) connected. It also keeps track of devices that were previously connected as well.

Connectify does the job of creating a hotspot easily and quickly.

Installing Dzongkha Font & Configuring Dzongkha keyboard in Ubuntu

SG — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:20:25 +0000

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) LTS to show you this.

1. Go to system menu and under preferences, click on keyboard. You will see a ‘Keyboard Preferences’ dialog as shown below:

System>Admin>Keyboard Preferences

2. Go to layouts tab, and click on add. You should see ‘Choose a layout’ dialog as below:

Choose a layout

3. Choose a layout either by country or by language

4. If by country, select Bhutan and click add.

Keyboard layout for Bhutan

5. You will now be seeing Bhutan after USA listed in the layout tab of Keyboard preferences as shown below:

Bhutan listed under layout tab

5. Now you should be seeing a language (USA) on the top panel. If you don’t then click ‘Apply System-Wide’ button on Keyboard preferences.

Language Option

6. Click on language (USA) on the top panel to change it to Bhutan and vice-versa

7. Now to install Dzongkha font, open a terminal under Application > Accessories > Terminal, and type:

sudo apt-get install ttf-dzongkha

8. This will ask for the root password, enter your password and hit enter

Terminal

9. To test go to Application > Office > OpenOffice.org Word Processor, change the language option from top panel from USA to Bhu.

Ubuntu – Enabling clean URL in Drupal6

SG — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:11:25 +0000

The easiest way to enable cleanURL Ubuntu is:

1. enable rewrite module on apache.

a2enmod rewrite
(This can be disabled by doing: a2dismod rewrite)

2. Set directory permission.

You must find the file that sets permission of each directory for apache. In ubuntu, it is in

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
Edit the page so that the directory that you will be using to serve webpages has “AllowOverride All”.

The file should read like this:
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all

3. Just restart apache and it should be working:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

This should enable CleanURL in Ubuntu.

Convert WMV to AVI in Ubuntu

SG — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:57:33 +0000

Here is the fastest way to perform WMV to AVI conversion:

1. sudo apt-get install mencoder

Mencoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filetring tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is a close sibling to MPlayer and can convert all the formats that MPlayer understands into a variety of compressed and uncompressed formats using different codecs.

2. mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi