Sending email from localhost using MSMTP with gmail

If you are using Ubuntu and having a problem or setting up sending email from localhost, you can use Msmtp. In this article I go through how to install msmtp and create some hml and php files to test it. Furthermore I will explain how to set up email config for BackendPro which is a control panel for CodeIgniter.
You will see how easy to set it up.

 

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Windows in VM Virtualbox on Ubuntu, localhost and base url of CodeIgniter

Following up from the previous Aha moment post, this is Aha moment 2 and I am accessing localhost on Ubuntu from Windows 7 in VM Virtualbox. I have VM Virtualbox on Ubuntu 10.10 and I installed Windows 7 in this virtualbox. If I tried to access localhost on Ubuntu from a browser in [...]

Xdebug resources for your web development

You can google how to set up Xdebug on your development environment.

Since I am using Ubuntu, this post was short and easy.

Xdebug docementation is filled with sample codes.

Zend Developer Zone has a series of articles about xdebug.

In order to see beatified code, you must turn on the html_errors [...]

Tips for Ubuntu 10.04

I found the followings useful for me.

1. If you want to change the booting order.

sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

And change the line 12

set default=”0″

The first one is 0, second is 1 etc.

2. Changing max upload file for phpMyAdmin

sudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Then change upload_max_filesize and post_max_size. I changed to [...]

How to install Save-for-Web in Gimp

This is how to install Save-for-web in Gimp.

There is a how to install in one of comments. But I needed to install in intltool as well.

If you don’t see hidden files such as .gimp-2.6, then this post will tell you how.

So here is my version of how to.

Unzip the [...]

Installing LAMP and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu

This is a quick note about how to install LAMP and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 10.04.

In terminal,

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Then follow the installation. It will ask you to enter mysql password.

Then install phpmyadmin

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

It will also ask you passwords.

Then open apache2.conf to edit.

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