Drubuntu setup

Starting to work with Ubuntu in developing Drupal sites I needed a little help getting started. I was able to get a great deal of information in setting up a LAMP server for developing multiple Drupal sites from this page.

This page gives even more information on setting up a Drubuntu (Drupal + Ubuntu) development environment. However, I had already been told of Wubi and I'm going to use Komodo Edit instead of Eclipse.

So far my Drupal stack is looking like this:

• Ubuntu through Wubi
• Drupal
• Apache2
• MySQL
• PHP
• PHPMyAdmin
• Komodo Edit
• Mercurial
• Filezilla

So far so good!

Email Testing - Viewing HTML emails

I wanted to write a follow up to my post on email testing. I could now easily capture an email, using DevNull SMTP, but I also wanted to view the email as if I had just received it.

To do this all I needed to do was copy the plain text of the email message to a .eml file and then open the .eml file in a email client. In my case I copied the email from the DevNull SMTP email server applet and into a test.eml file. I then opened up Outlook Express and dragged the test.eml file into the client. Outlook Express was able to render plain text or HTML emails just fine, which is exactly what I was looking for.

Subversion service (cont.)

As I was helping a friend setup a Subversion service I realized my last blog was missing some important information.

First of all, the service is NOT installed in the Subversion install by default. To get the service exe, which is a wrapper for svnservice, click here. I couldn't remember where I had gotten the svnservice wrapper so I had to search Google again, and this time came across a very helpful blog. This blog has all the information needed to setup a Subversion server/service from scratch.

Subversion Service

Installing a subversion service on Windows is pretty straight forward, but I got tripped up on a couple of things installing it a second time.

1. First, get Subversion and install using the MSI. The version I installed was 1.42.
2. Install the windows service. I can't remember if the installer does this automaticly or not. To do it manually just run the following command: svnservice -install -d -r C:\YourRepositoryRoot. This will configure the Subversion service to run as a service and it will look in the C:\YourRepositoryRoot directory for Subversion repositories.
3. To change the repository root later just run the with the setup argument: svnservice -setup -d -r C:\YourRepositoryRoot.

That should be all that is needed to get the Subversion service up and running. You will of course need to create subversion repositories in the root directory, but I'll leave that to another blog.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!