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05.11.08VMWare Open BlueDragon image made availableWe are happy to announce that we have made our Open BlueDragon VMWare image available. The image contains; CentOS 5.1 (with all available upgrades as of 05/11/2008) Tomcat 5.5 MySQL 5.0.22 Apache 2.x and of course Open BlueDragon (build of 05/11/2008) The image can be run with VMWare Workstation for Windows, VMWare Fusion (for MacOS X), VMWare Server and VMWare ESX. For those that don't have any VMWare products installed, there is the VMWare Player available that let's you run the Open BlueDragon image on its own and completely for free. Update on 05/15/2008: We just updated the Open BlueDragon image to hold the latest changes. These are: CVS access: As ...
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02.12.08Installing the latest JRE 6 on CentOS 5Update: We've written a new guide for installing JRE 6. Please visit "Update on installing JRE 6 on CentOS"! On our task to install the latest Java on our CentOS 5 machine we encountered that simply running the RPM from Sun's Website is not enough. Here are the steps that we did to get Java installed properly. Get the latest JRE from SUN and download the RPM. Once done issue "chmod a+x" on the RPM. Then simply use "./jrexxxx" (the filename of the RPM) and let it run. This will install the JRE in /usr/java/jre1.6.0_04/bin/java. You now expect that the latest JRE is installed, right? ...
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02.11.08Installing Oracle database 11g should not be a nightmare, right?Ok, first of I want to say that I have installed quite a couple of Oracle database releases and that I am not a newbie to this, but today I feel like one. Why? Well, simply put, I don't understand how Oracle can release a product that is full of bugs and misplaced links. Anyhow, let's get started: Yesterday we thought of installing the latest and greatest Oracle database 11gR1 release on our brand new shiny Linux box. As always we are using the brilliant CentOS 5. We then went ahead and did step by step according to the installation ...
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02.09.08Moving Wordpress installation from Windows Server 2003 to LinuxWe just finished moving our blog (the one you are reading now) from Windows Server 2003 to CentOS 5. The switch included a couple of steps, but was rather easy: Install CentOS with Apache, PHP and MySQL. CentOS does install Apache 2.2.3, PHP 5.1.6 and MySQL 5.0.22 by default. Make sure to "yum update" to get the latest stable packages. Make a backup of all your Wordpress database on the original server. To do this we used the excellent "wp-db-backup". Just backup all of your tables and download it to your machine. You will then have a backup.sql file. Create a database ...
