Here’s a more thorough write up and Magento’s official announcement. I was really impressed to see that the word “Magento” is now searched more than “eCommerce” which is a little mind-blowing by itself and interesting to compare the search trail for the old dog oscommerce. Hmm – maybe that includes a lot of people searching for magento the color?

The date filters are great. They look like they’ll be a big help when searching for tech solutions especially when you want to only see fixes and how-tos for the most current versions of wordpress / drupal etc. They are available already but it takes a few clicks to get to it so this makes it a whole lot easier. It’ll be nice to see this go live for real sometime soon.

At first I got bogged down trying to get it to work with some url rewrites in the .htaccess file. It seemed logical but it didn’t work because passenger does it’s thing before .htaccess even kicks in. Besides, the best approach is to bypass passenger completely for that directory – better for optimizing and is really more true to what we were trying to setup.

After digging I discovered the ‘PassengerEnabled’ directive! I know RTFM. Just set PassengerEnabled off for that directory and we’re golden.

Now how to fit it into cpanel but just for this domain? Not as simple as it sounds. Editing the httpd.conf is of course NOT the right solution. Cpanel does expose some parts of the apache configuration in the admin but it’s not vhost specific so again it would affect all sites when I just wanted to change one. RTFM again and you’ll see there are some manual ways to insert things directly into the vhost. You have to manually create a series of directories (the userdata one at the top of the chain is not there by default) and put an override file named anything.conf in the right place.

In my setup i created the file override.conf here:

/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/<vhost account number>/<cpanel user name>/<domain name>/override.conf

And put this in it (/drupal is the folder i want to run php in).

<Location /blog>
PassengerEnabled off
</Location>

And now one more hitch…

Running /scripts/verify_vhost_includes like it says to in the cpanel docs said that my vhost file had an error!!! It said PassengerEnabled was not a valid directive. I ended up just giving it a shot anyways and was pleased to find that it worked just fine! I suspect that cpanel just doesn’t know this directive becuase it is specific to passenger. So you run:

/scripts/ensure_vhost_includes --user=<cpanel user name>


to rebuild the vhosts file for this user and restarts apache and voila!

Whew

Here’s the writeups on all my apps and ninite

Here’s some more details… http://buytaert.net/whitehouse-gov-using-drupal

Here is the video…  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHoDsZDMH_Y&feature=player_embedded

So today they both took a nap – in fact they’re right over there on the couch – and while they’re snoozing I thought I’d give this a shot. I went to the soas homepage ( http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick ) and followed the instructions there and am just waiting while the live usb creator does it’s thing ( https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ ). That live usb creator looks like a great little thing by the way. can make your usb stick a live bootable linux os. I’m trying it on our 2GB usb stick from the office. if it works I guess I’ll have to get another one for work.

Ok great – looks like it’s complete – i’ll post later with an update!

UPDATE

Ok it’s a compaq presario 1694 and it’s running win 98 but it looks like it is booting up into windows after all! it’s not recognizing the usb drive though – looks like it wants a driver. need to add the usb to the boot options…

UPDATE 2

Things have stalled out mostly becuase the dang laptop is so old. it won’t run the stick because it wants drivers – win98 didn’t automatically handle drivers like things do now remember . there’s no ethernet jack – only a phone jack – so it’s proving difficult to get online and transfer files to it. Tried running a live ubuntu cd and that didn’t work – i think because it only has 64MB of RAM and the ubuntu live cd needs more than that. I mean this thing is so old it has a floppy disk drive in it. Not giving up though – i’m still hoping to get some newer version of linux installed on it to handle the usb drivers and then i should be in business. more to come!

Also, after digging into it more I think that the memory requirements for running

First – try to update the module and copy your error message as this has the paths you need already nicely figured out. You just need the top command part. Mine was:

In I:\projects\foobar\sourcecode\CoursePlatform: “C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe” -q -x update -d -P
CVSROOT=:sspi:jdost@foobar.org:/CVS

Next – in notepad or a text editor replace ‘update’ with ‘logout’

Then in a cmd prompt navigate to your module directory – “I:\projects\foobar\sourcecode\CoursePlatform” in the example.

Then paste and run the command minus that “In I:\projects\foobar\sourcecode\CoursePlatform:” part.

It didn’t return any messages but may be a switch for that or something. Anyways – next time you try cvs update it should prompt you to enter your password!

That’s it

This seems to be the homepage for it.

Read a good writeup of that plus alternatives here.

And you can download it here.

First note – I had vista ultimate but still had to install PowerShell which you can download from here. Grab the x86 version unless you have a 64 bit system.

And one other note – there were a ton of different installers but make sure you get the one on this page because the ‘with Tools’ part means that it includes the Management tool.