Posts Tagged ‘Serverstuff’

Emulate sendmail on your Dev Machine

February 8, 2011 by marco · Leave a Comment
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In order to prevent email delivery during development and log all email messages that would have been delivered, you can actually do a simple trick: Replace the file /usr/sbin/sendmail (on Ubuntu, use ‘locate sendmail’ to find it if it lies elsewhere) with this little shell-script, or rather make a _bak of the original and save [...]

Sync Your Stuff to S3

June 24, 2010 by marco · Comments Off
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This is a receipe how I save stuff to S3 from my Mac: 1.) Signup with S3: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ (check pricing!). This will give you access to the AWS Management Console. 2.) Create a Bucket: This can be done via the AWS Management console. If you are not familiar with the concept of ‘buckets’ check-out the [...]

Consistent Development Environments using VirtualMachines

July 30, 2009 by marco · 2 Comments
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As a development team we always run into situations where we have trouble setting up a proper development environment for each of the team members to get going or add new staff on the go. It annoyed me every time since it causes a lot of unnecessary communication and friction. I often heard of virtualization [...]

Redirect all URLs to a Maintenance Page

April 17, 2009 by marco · 1 Comment
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Once in a while every bigger website is relaunched. In order to deploy bigger changes without bothering your visitors with strange behaviour during a data migration, updates and the like, you should use Apache2′s mod_rewrite. Just put the following lines in a .htaccess file in your webroot directory and all traffic (also deep links to [...]