Deploying Ruby on Rails

This article is an introduction to the installation and deployment of Ruby on Rails. What is Ruby on Rails? Ruby is a programming language just like Perl, Python or PHP. Rails is an open source Ruby framework for developing database-backed web applications. You could...

Enabling WebDAV for Apache

Recently I had the opportunity to enable WebDav for an account in a Plesk 5.5 server that my team maintained. The machine was a RedHat 7.3 server on which ran Apache 1.3.27. The following article is a documentation of the questions I asked myself regarding WebDav. I...

Understanding htaccess

.htaccess (Hypertext Access) is the default name of Apache’s directory-level configuration file. It allows webmasters to customize configuration directives, normally available in the main httpd.conf. htaccess allows webmasters to do a range of customization to a...