Start / Stop Coldfusion Service in a Mac

There is an app for that! Use the spotlight tool to look for "ColdFusionLauncher". Then click the application to launch the jrun launcher console. You can use this console as a GUI to start & stop the CF service & admin. Retweet this button on every post blogger

It Works! No It Doesn't!

Not sure why this is but in Apache 2.2, I had "NameVirtualHost *:80" in the httpd-vhosts.conf file. This was seemingly randomly making the virtualhosts point through to the htdocs root. Updating this to "NameVirtualHost localhost:80" has fixed the issue.

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Email Marketing Safe List

Top tip is to send new subscribers an autoconfirmation with tips on how to add your domain to their white list.

Add "@YOURDOMAIN.com"as a safe sender in your e-mail client.

Here are the directions in Microsoft Outlook:
1) Start Outlook.
2) On the Tools menu, click Options.
3) On the Preferences tab, click Junk E-mail.
4) On the Safe Senders tab, click Add.
5) In the Add address or domain dialog box, type the e-mail address of the person who you want to trust, and then click OK. Retweet this button on every post blogger

Mac wireless airport problems

Not sure if it local to the following:

• Mac OS X 10.4.11
• Airport 2
  
• Belkin Routers
  

but there appears to be a drop in wireless connection intermittantly when WPA/WPA2 is used with the AES encryption technique. I suggest using TWIP/AES or probably best to upgrade the OS. Retweet this button on every post blogger

Restart Apache Server In Mac OSX

Depending on the location of the apachectl file the following syntax will restart Apache from within terminal:

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Getting Apache RewriteRule to work

No intro or background, to get the RewriteRule to work in htaccess you need to activate it. This is specifically for Apache and not ISAPI rewrite on IIS.

1. Open httpd.conf
2. Look for MULTIPLE occurances of AllowOverride None
3. Change to AllowOverride All
4. Un comment this line #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
5. Save & restart the apache server
   

Couple of note worthy points:

1. Apache recommend not using htaccess for peformance reasons. There are other methods for nice urls.
   
2. This is a Dev environment. I've not check out if the above has any security issues, for live servers.

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