Ubuntu 13.04 Apache2 setup public_html

Date: June 4, 2013 Author: Joao Comments: 28 Replies

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Tutorial, Ubuntu 13.04 Apache2 setup public_html (local sites). This tutorial was done using a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04.

So what is this good for? Well my use case is that I have been doing more and more web development using Drupal and wanted to be able to create multiple development sites on my laptop. For instance, let say you have a couple of websites, site1.com and site2.net and you want to create a development environment locally on your laptop but under your user account.  If your user name is John, you want to be able to put your sites inside your home folder like ~/john/public_html/site1 but then be able to just type the address “site1.local” on your browser to access the site. This makes developing with Drupal and Drush, much easier than trying to access the /var/www directory as a standard user.

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Robots.txt Validator Tool

Date: March 1, 2013 Author: Joao Comments: Leave a reply

Robots.txt file have you confused? here is a great tool to validate it’s format!

http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml

I found this tool for validating the Robots.txt  while trying to figure out why my sites were getting crawled like crazy! I run three sites on one shared host account and it turns out that the robots.txt file has to be in the root directory of the host. For example, let’s say you have a default site called domain.bla which points to your default root directory of / (public_html/). But if you also have other sites in that root directory like public_html/domain2.bla/ the robots.txt file in the domain2.bla site is ignored because it is not in the root directory. So you have to customize the robots.txt in the root directory to cover all sites under the root directory.

This has greatly diminished the crawling of my sites.

May God bless!

Joao

UPDATE!!! The author of the robots.txt validator has created a new tool, see here: http://www.toolsiseek.com/robots-txt-generator-validator/

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The loss of the Christian Holy Day (Holiday)

Date: November 19, 2012 Author: Joao Comments: 1 Reply

The loss of the Christian Holy Day (Holiday)

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Have you ever asked yourself “why is there an easter bunny?”, well, neither have I! Because I have always known that Easter is the celebration of Jesus, the Son of God rising from the dead, I always looked at the easter bunny as just a gimmick to sell stuff. But what I did not realize is how many truly do not know that Jesus is the reason for the season. Sadly, the number of people in the US that claim to be atheists has now climbed to 20% of the population. That means that fewer and fewer people know anything about Christianity let alone Christian Holy Days.

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Why are we called Catholics?

Date: October 6, 2012 Author: Joao Comments: 2 Replies
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JesusWhy are we called Catholics?

The word catholic comes from the Greek word “(katholikos from katholou — throughout the whole, i.e., universal)“, you can read the entire article here: NewAdvent.org

You must remember that at that time shortly after the Apostles died,  there were “new churches” popping up everywhere and many taught heretical doctrines. What is old is new again I suppose.

But the best short version of how Christians came to be called Catholic is a quote from St. Pacian from the 4th Century.

“Christian is my name, and Catholic my surname. The one designates me, while the other makes me specific. Thus am I attested and set apart…When we are called Catholics it is by this appellation that our people are kept apart from any heretical name.”