Windows firewall can be configured from command line using netsh command. 2 simple steps are required to setup Windows Firewall to allow non-secure FTP traffic
1) Open port 21 on the firewall
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”FTP (no SSL)” action=allow protocol=TCP dir=in localport=21
2) Activate firewall application filter for FTP (aka Stateful FTP) that will dynamically [...]
By default, PostgreSQL database server remote access disabled for security reasons. However, some time you need to provide the remote access to database server from home computer or from web server.
Step # 1: Login over ssh if server is outside your IDC
Login over ssh to remote PostgreSQL database server:
$ ssh user@remote.pgsql.server.com
Step # 2: Enable [...]
1: Create a new Rails app – we’ll call is ‘deploytest’
$ rails deploytest
$ cd deploytest
2: Create a local Git repository for it
$ git init
$ git add *
$ git commit -a -m ‘initial commit’
$ git status
3: Create a couple of Capistrano files
$ capify .
4: Edit config/deploy.rb
# The name of your app
set :application, “deploytest”
# The directory on [...]
Hi all as I worked on setting up 4 to 5 servers, I thought its better to document the stuff so that I/developers can refer it, So I am documenting the step-by-step process for setting up the slicehost server for rails application work with nginx as a web server and mongrel as a rails application [...]
For many users, running FTP Sever in Amazon EC2 instance is headache at the first time. You need to experiment before being able to transfer data. The main problems are Ingress firewall in Amazon environment and NAT traversal.
Here I’m using vsftp (vsfptd) Server, which is one of the most popular and easy to configure. The [...]
For the impatient
Set up the new bare repo on the server:
$ ssh myserver.com
Welcome to myserver.com!
$ mkdir /var/git/myapp.git && cd /var/git/myapp.git
$ git –bare init
Initialized empty Git repository in /var/git/myapp.git
$ exit
Bye!
Add the remote repository and push:
$ cd ~/Sites/myapp
$ git remote add origin ssh://myserver.com/var/git/myapp.git
$ git push origin master
Set the local master branch to track the remote branch.
Read further [...]
Progress on god is moving along as quick as ever. Most interestingly you’ll find several useful new command line functions:
god status prints out the status of each Watch
god log shows realtime logs for a specific Watch (even if you don’t have god logging to file)
god load loads or reloads a config file into a running [...]
More lovely alias commands… this time to kill/restart Rail’s script/server from any Terminal session or login on your box… (as long as your the same user).
alias dierails=’ps -a|grep “/usr/local/bin/ruby script/server”|grep -v “grep /usr”|cut -d ” ” -f1|xargs -n 1 kill -KILL $1′
alias resetrails=’ps -a|grep “/usr/local/bin/ruby script/server”|grep -v “grep /usr”|cut -d ” ” -f1|xargs -n 1 [...]
