Monthly Archives: May 2010

WPML, what is the current language?

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

While building a wordpress theme that has multilingual support, I needed to know what the current language was for fixing some static parts of my template. After searching a bit on the WPML site, I found a code example where …

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Using link_to in rails with :confirm and :method

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

Every time i’m going to use the link_to method in rails, I always seem to get a lot of errors. The documentation states: link_to(name, options = {}, html_options = nil) link_to(options = {}, html_options = nil) do # name end …

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Fixing symlinks in Mac OS 10 + built in Apache

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

The other night I was fiddling about with my macbook, trying to setup a “MySQL-Apache-PHP” server on my system. Digging a bit about the system and googling a bit, it seems that the system comes with a built in apache server and php installation.

I thought to myself, why not use the built in server instead of installing a MAMP package?

Anyways, seconds went by and I found the option in the system preferences, turned on “web sharing” and excitedly headed on to localhost. It worked perfectly, now I just needed to set it up as it was on my linux desktop.

The apache’s httpd.conf file is located in the folder: /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
(I used textmate to edit the file.)

What I wanted to do was, since I’m the only user on this laptop, I wanted my Sites folder to have a www “folder”, which was a symlink to a folder in my Documents folder. The symlink would then point to the webapp I was currently coding.

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