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Change XAMPP default user

Chin Chee Kin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:51:24 +0000

For Mac version of XAMPP, the default user is “nobody”

To change the default user to the mac user you are logging in, you need to use “sudo” command to edit XAMPP configuration file.

If you are using normal text editor to edit the configuration file, you will get permission denied error.

Follow commands below:

In Terminal, type in command below to start edit the file.

sudo nano -w +114 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf

Look for “User nobody”.

Change “nobody” to your user id.

Example: “User loginuser”.

Save it by key in ^O.

That all and you will have mac user running your XAMPP.

With this default user matched to your Mac user, you also solve the permission problem occurred when upgrade Wordpress.

From Palm to Apple iPhone

Chin Chee Kin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:19:09 +0000

Being a Palm Pilot fan for more than 10 years, start with Palm Pilot Professional, Palm III, Palm V, T3 and TX to the last Palm based Smartphone Palm Centro; finally, I drop Palm to move to Apple iPhone 3Gs.

With the discontinuation of Palm OS, it will become obsolete in the near future and replace with new Web OS, I did consider a Web OS based Smartphone Palm Pre, but finally I choose iPhone.

Why?

First, current Web OS not support Chinese, that the nightmare for me. How can a Smartphone product in current world situation do not plan to support Chinese? Even for the last 10 years in Palm OS, Palm is not officially support Chinese but just using a third party software CJKOS.

Compare to Apple iPhone, it officially support all international languages with UTF-8 Codec; even better, I would say perfect, a powerful Chinese Character Stroke Recognition in OS 3.0 with a reasonably good phrase recommendation.

Second, iPhone display address and telephone based on regional format. Palm display address only in US format which is not considering Palm will be selling worldwide.

Third, Palm Pre is not selling in Malaysia.

Fourth, Apple Store has tons of third party applications which are priced reasonable.

Delete Wordpress Old Folder in Dreamhost

Chin Chee Kin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:04:45 +0000

If you are using Dreamhost to host your wordpress site.

When wordpress is upgraded by using one-click install, a copy of the wordpress folder will be store as xxx.com.old.

We would like to delete it to free some space, but is can’t be deleted completely. That is because there are file (advanced-cache.php -> plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php) been locked and FTP user do not have permission to delete it. You have to be Shell User.

Change your permission using Manage User Function in Dreamhost Control Panel. Then using SSH clients such as Putty to telnet in your dreamhost FTP Server.

cd xxx.com.old
cd wp-content
rm advanced-cache.php