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Help! I've installed Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.2 and all my PHP is printed plain text!

Isn't this right?

# Use for PHP 5.x:
LoadModule php5_module        modules/libphp5.so
AddHandler php5-script php

PHP and Apache are both running, appear to know about each other, but cannot get PHP files to be interpreted? This is an emergency help situation.

I'd say it happens to the best of us, but modesty precludes.

I threw into httpd.conf:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Agaric Design Collective is installing CiviCRM's CiviMail for a client, which requires AMaViS, which optionally asks for ClamAV. We will be taking optional at its word right now, since it has dependencies for OpenSSL tools that are more recent than what the rest of this CentOS installation use.

Brainstorm

Come up with ideas.

Paper sketches

Sketches are quick, dirty, and cheap and that's exactly how you want to start out. Draw stuff. Scrawl stuff. Boxes, circles, lines. Get your ideas out of your head and onto paper. The goal at this point should be to convert concepts into rough interface designs. This step is all about experimentation. There are no wrong answers.

(I've never understood how, let alone why, to make brainstorming and sketches separate steps.)

Mail doesn't work? Not receiving e-mails? Any of those problems, don't do what I did: start with some basic mail troubleshooting:

You may want to check your /etc/syslog.conf file (vi /etc/syslog.conf) to make sure it's doing this:

# (- Log all the mail messages to one place.)
mail.* -/var/log/maillog

If so, then check out that log!

You can go directly to the end of it:

sudo tail /var/log/maillog

Continued from More notes on Getting Real.

Human Solutions

Build software for general concepts and encourage people to create their own solutions

Don't force conventions on people. Instead make your software general so everyone can find their own solution. Give people just enough to solve their own problems their own way. And then get out of the way.

From "Human Solutions"

Continued from First Notes on Getting Real, a book by web app company 37 Signals.

Differentiate yourself from bigger companies by being personal and friendly

Hell, we're all over that one.

From "Be Yourself"

What's the Big Idea

Before you start designing or coding anything you need to know the purpose of your product — the vision. Think big. Why does it exist? What makes it different than other similar products?

On a Dedicated or Virtual Private Server:

You can use the locate command to discover where your newlist file lives:

locate newlist | grep -v template

And so then:

# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist your-list-name@example.com
prompt > Enter the email of the person running the list:
prompt > Initial mailman-test password:

[It's easier to create mailman lists through the command line.]

Creating a list at:
example.com/mailman/create

Gives the error:
You are not authorized to create new mailing lists

Which isn't a very nice thing to say.

(where does the user log in, what kind of user rights must have)

From a forum post asking the same question:

[To put this in something more resembling English, we're talking about creating multiple URLs, more than one web address, to one page or piece of content on a Drupal site.]

It's actually very easy. Go to admin/path/add and add another alias for the node which you want multiply aliased.

(Look up the node/## first by going to the node, and checking the node/##/edit path– you'll have to be logged in to see the edit link.)

So if it's that simple, why would this need an explanatory page on Agaric Design?

NameError: name 'subdomain' is not defined<code> 

In mm_cfg.py the lines need quotes ('), for instance:

<code>DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'subdomain.example.com'