Hi all,

In this post we'll see how to hook up PureFTPd to MySQL so we don't have to use the PureDB database that comes with PureFTPd.

Prerequisites:

• The previous post onPureFTPd.
• MySQL needs to be setup before proceeding

This post has been partly based on this one, this …

Hi everyone,

So in my last post, I showed how we can install and use Percona Xtrabackup on FreeBSD 8.2 to take and restore database backups.

But what if you want files to be saved directly to a compressed tarball ?

Read On..

Prerequisites:

• MySQL 5.5 must be installed …

This is how I got Percona to work on FreeBSD 8.2 - kinda bumpy but looks like it works!

Prerequisites:

• MySQL 5.5 must be installed
• Also, the MySQL configuration file must be in place under /usr/local/etc/my.cnf as in the instructions above as Xtrabackup expectes to …

So on a previous post, we saw how to setup nginx with SQLite and setup Fat Free CRM as a Ruby on Rails test application.

This post picks up from where the last one ended, since most of the things here are the same.

Prerequisites:

• RVM,REE,Fat Free CRM …

So I've been wanting to do a series of posts on MySQL for a while now. In this one we'll just start with the basics, on next ones we'll look into taking backups and replication. Good times ahead.

Install MySQL server (the client will also be installed as a dependency …

In a previous post, I showed how to install RVM and Ruby Enterprise Edition on FreeBSD 8.2.

But this isn't enough, we want to be able to deploy rails applications. The best way to do that is by using nginx and passenger.

nginx is a light web-server but very …