Apache: how to use a local folder for your code on localhost

1. Create a folder for your html
   # mkdir ~/html_root
2. Create a symbolic link in /srv/html/
   # sudo ln -s /home/USER/html_root/ X
3. Write your code, and test it in a browser, as in:
   # http://localhost/X/

Write access to folders /var/www/html

If you want to edit files in a folder try:

# chmod -R username:www-data yourDirectory

WordPress on the lan - how to use the correct url

Phpmyadmin > wordpress > wp_options

Problem: localhost in stead of ip
In links and stylesheets WordPress used something like:

http://localhost/whatever ...

It should be something like:

http://192.168.0.22/whatever ...

Solution: 
Open the wp_options table, and rename the http address to the correct ip, e.g.

siteurl: http://192.168.0.12/wordpress
home: http://192.168.0.12/wordpress

Get read and write permissiongs to shared WordPress (or other) folders

It's so nice to be able to edit your themes in the File Manager

This works like a magick spell:

# sudo groupadd tomandruser

Now that the group exists, add the two users to it:

# sudo usermod -a -G tomandruser tomcat6
# sudo usermod -a -G tomandruser ruser

Now all that's left is to set the permissions on the directory:

# sudo chgrp -R tomandruser /path/to/the/directory
# sudo chmod -R 770 /path/to/the/directory

( See Andrew Lambert's proposal no. 71 in this thread )

On my localhost I decided to share the WordPress themes folder in this way. Here's what I did on my Debian-based system:

1. Created the goup called webeditor
2. Added my user to the group.

Added www-data to the same group.

1. Changed the themes/ folder to the webeditor group.
2. Changed the permissions of the themes folder to 777.

Now I only need to create a folder and ln -s to the themes folder. Then it's possible to edit themes at log in via the symbolic link:

# ln -s /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes/ ~/wpthemes

But when WordPress or the user create their own stuff, it looks like this:

$ ls -l
totalt 16
drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data  4096 sep 27 09:23 dusk-to-dawn
drwxrws--- 7 www-data webeditor 4096 sep 27 09:33 twentyfifteen
drwxrwx--- 9 www-data webeditor 4096 sep 26 19:30 twentyfourteen
drwxr-xr-x 2 per      per       4096 sep 27 09:52 x

So you can edit the files, but have to change the permissons to folders installed by WordPress.
 

xampp cannot use wordpress theme images

A localhost WordPress could not display images from the themes folder in Xampp on a Linux Mint system.

Solution: all folders must be owned by the Apache user and group (daemon:daemon), or:

# chown -R daemon:daemon [theWordPressThemenameFolder/]
# chmod -R 777 [theWordPressThemenameFolder/]

However this is only for development purposes. On a server work by these guidelines.

Hurtig opsætning af en billed og musik server

Symbolske links er en herlig ting. På apacheserveren i det lille hjem har jeg oprettet et symbolsk link til billed- og musikmapperne i /var/www - fx. /var/www/fotos. Og så er der ellers adgang til musik og billeder fra eksterne dimere, som iPads, netbook etc.