Archive for the 'Ubuntu' Category

Access Windows File Sharing from Ubuntu

Some GUI tools that can be used to access windows shares (SMB) are :
1. xSMBrowser2. Smb4K3. TkSmb
Get them all from Synaptic. They are basically gui frontend for the smbclient command.Nautilus and Konqueror have the View Network options too and if they dont work the above 3 utilities may.

Top Web Development – authoring tools for Linux

Here are some Web development – Web Authoring tools for Linux :
1. Quanta Plus – http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/- Simple and powerful

Enable mod_rewrite in Ubuntu 8.04

Mod_rewrite is an apache module which enables rewriting of urls requested by client before the pages are fetched by apache. For example www.site.com/products.php?code=459 can be written as www.site.com/products/459 or www.site.com/products/459.html . The second url is re-written into the first one by mod_rewrite using rewrite rules specified in the .htaccess file.

Apache for Multiple Users Linux – Ubuntu

When Apache is installed all web files go in he directory /var/www.
If there are multiple users on a system then every user can have his own web directory to store web files.
On Linux the following commands does that :