Today I continued my intensive work on PHP web development. I spent about 3 hours studying PHP’s many methods of encrypting data. There are a variety of encryption algorithms that you can use including MD5, SHA-1, DES etc so it took me awhile to explore them all.<\/p>\n
This evening I spent way too much time struggling to get CakePHP<\/a> working on my iBook. I suppose it was worthwhile because it forced me to spend much more time exploring the system. I now know where the php.ini<\/strong> file is and found the apache error log file as well. <\/p>\n The first struggle was to get a database connection. The mysql.lock<\/strong> is not where CakePHP expects it to be so I had to edit my php.ini file to specify its location for my MAMP<\/a> MySQL Server. I would probably have less problems if I was not trying to use it for everything but I don’t want to manage two database servers on one laptop. <\/p>\n I had to change permissions on many files. I’ve begun to use Komodo Edit<\/a> rather than emacs to edit my configuration files. It is a lot easier to use although I wish it would show line numbers by default.<\/p>\n So after I get the database connection working I still had to fix mod_rewrite<\/strong>. The key to getting this to work was to edit the special user version of the httpd.conf file which was located in \/etc\/httpd\/users\/admin.conf for the admin user. Then I got a Forbidden error “You don’t have permission to access \/posts\/index on this server.”<\/em> which required another edit of \/etc\/httpd\/users\/admin.conf to add FollowSymLinks to the Options.<\/p>\n After all that I found my posts table did not have any records so I had to go back and run the INSERT SQL statements again. I was up until 2:00 AM in the morning working through all those problems! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I continued my intensive work on PHP web development. I spent about 3 hours studying PHP’s many methods of encrypting data. There are a variety of encryption algorithms that you can use including MD5, SHA-1, DES etc so it … Continue reading 1:<\/span> <<\/span>Directory<\/span> \"\/Users\/admin\/Sites\/\"<\/span>><\/span><\/pre>\n 2:<\/span> Options All FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews<\/pre>\n 3:<\/span> AllowOverride All<\/pre>\n 4:<\/span> Order allow,deny<\/pre>\n 5:<\/span> Allow from all<\/pre>\n 6:<\/span> <\/<\/span>Directory<\/span>><\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n