Where do you keep your hypertext transfer protocol notes?
//fix the database, ez wants utf8, mediatemple help docs leave out the text after COLLATE causing SQL error
ALTER DATABASE `dbhere` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
//create .htaccess with the below values, AcceptPathInfo may be redundant with url_fopen enabled
AddHandler php5-script .php
php_value allow_url_fopen 1
php_value date.timezone America/Chicago
AcceptPathInfo On
Howto - mediatemple - Set up a subdomain blog using Wordpress and one click installer after logging in to the mediatemple account center.
1. Choose the one click installer.
2. Put the name of the subdomain blog.<subdomain>.com in the website path field.
3. OK to use the existing database, just be sure to use a unique table prefix per the instructions. I wp_<subdomain> just to be sure do not accidently duplicate. May need to include the TLD if blogging on two domains with the same name, one .com, one .net.
4. This brings up a “Status - pending installation” stop sign, that typically clears in less than a minute, changing to a “finish” arrow.
5. Fill out the blog title and the email address as directed by the installer. When satisfied, click the “Install” button.
6. Username and password are returned at this point. I make a jpeg image file of this page, and store it in a database for a reasonably secure record of the information. Then I delete the incoming email that displays the plaintext password as quickly as possible and empty the email trash.
7. Click the login button to test and make initial changes to the blog.
8. It probably will take less time to do it, than it took to read this!
Create a landing page for domains added onto mediatemple GS services.
1. Create the new domain record in mediatemple using the “Add domain” facilities.
2. If domain is not registered using mediatemple, point the domain name registrar’s nameservers to ns1 and ns2.mediatemple.net. http://www.internic.net/whois.html for ready access to registrar and nameserver information.
3. Wait -possibly up to 48 hours but probably a whole lot less, maybe an hour or two, for the name to resolve. Notification that name is resolving using mediatemple nameservers is a “403 Forbidden - not allowed to access / on this server” error.
4. Using mediatemple file upload facility, upload an index.html file into the root of the domain. A copy and paste of the original mediatemple index.html with a few changes to reflect the new domain name should work. Note that it may take longer for the new site name to show up in the mediatemple file manager than it does for the domain name to start resolving.
5. Verify the appearance of the landing page in your favorite browser. May have to hit the refresh a couple of times.
Tags: mediatemple, new domains
Wacom bamboo notes for Leopard.
1. Preferences->Ink->Show Ink in Menu bar.
2. Start Ink.
3. Tap the pad looking icon in the top bar to view a writing pad, then the star looking icon at the bottom to switch from writing to drawing, then the arrow at the top to change from pointer to pen mode.
4. Start textedit.app.
5. Verify textedit is set to rich text formatting.
6. Grab the stylus and draw something on the Ink.app screen.
7. Tap “Send” button at lower right of Ink.app screen to send the drawing to textedit. That is if textedit was the last program used before switching to Ink.app. If Preview.app was the last used before switching to Ink.app, the graphic gets pasted into whatever is on the preview screen, at least if you are working on a jpeg image file. Not sure about other image formats or pdf files. The point is that the last app used before switching to Ink.app is likely to be the target of the “Send”.
8. Try working with a graphics file. Open a jpg file in Preview.app.
9. Be sure the “Write anywhere” function is turned off, use the menu item.
10. In Preview, make an annotation selection, like Line for instance.
11. Use the pen to draw lines. Nothing you cannot already do with the existing mouse.
12. Seems like “Write anywhere” function in Ink.app decides for itself when to activate-deactivate.
13. Not sure what the floating yellow write anywhere pad is all about. I think it wants me to write something, then tries to do handwriting recognition and save it somewhere. But would not swear to that. Overall, Wacom Bamboo can make a hand drawing that I can save and annotate in textedit, or “Send” into graphic images. That is all I expected and needed.
A guess is that it is up to each application developer to decide how they will incorporate pen/ink inputs into their apps, and that unlike mouse pointer inputs, there is no clear gui standard in place.
Paintbrush.app 1.1 support is spotty, does not seem to do anything not more easily done with a mouse.
Tags: bamboo, digitizer, wacom
Moving the gallery2 from another host, if you want to do it, move the files first before installing the gallery2 software.
Since gallery2 had already been installed, and there were so few pictures to move, it was easier just to re-upload from local copies.
After uploading about 30+ pics into what was thought to be the modelthomes album, view of the site discovered that all the pics were in the root of the gallery, nothing in the album.
Rather than re-upload of all, figured out that ChildEntity table holds the relationships between the album and the pictures. Put a couple of pictures in the modelthomes album so could establish a parentid value in the table for that album.
Then changed all the existing entries, in increments of two, to that parentid.
That created duplicates of the first few pictures in the album. Used the gallery2 admin features to delete out the duplicates and all is working well.
Tags: database modifications, gallery2
Haven’t determined how to unpack an archive on the site yet, so unpack locally and ftp all the files into the doc root. Creates the folder /gallery2/.
Then access the builtin installer at <website>/gallery2/install.
From there it is relatively painless just follow along with the installer and know the internal db host name, login details.
I tried to upload some jpg images of the procedure, but so far wp is not being very helpful.
Turns out, that first images are uploaded into a media library, then they become accessible from that library. So far as I know, there is no way to just upload an image straight into a post.
Many years worth of http notes that are scattered hither, thither, and yon! Get them in here, time permitting.