Ajax and Ajax Frameworks

I have been a developer for nearly 20 years and a web developer for about 10 years. Over the years, I have considered creating a blog to share the things I have learned (and am learning) about web design and development, but I never seemed to have the time. When I began learning about web development using Ajax and Ajax Frameworks, I decided to take the time to create this blog.

My intention for this blog is to focus primarily on Ajax Frameworks, but since web development requires knowledge of many technologies, I will occasionally write about things such as CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Flash, etc.

Lately, I have been using JQuery as my primary Ajax tool. Although I have used other Ajax Frameworks in the past (Dojo Toolkit, Yahoo! User Interface Library, Scriptaculous/Prototype), JQuery has thus far been the easiest to learn. In my first few posts I will discuss some of the JQuery Plugins that I have created. Some of these include: a plugin for Google Maps (jquery.imGoogleMaps), Form validation and submission (jquery.imValidateForm), Page Populater (jquery.imPagePopulate), and a plugin to create lists (jquery.imList).

While I am still learning about some of the other Ajax Frameworks, I hope that what I have learned will be helpful to others. Just remember, “When you can pull the pebbles from my hand…”

CakePHP: Setting up mod_rewrite on Ubuntu

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

After installing CakePHP on my Ubuntu box, I viewed the default home page in my browser and noticed that the page was not styled. Cake did not know the path to the CSS file because I had not enabled mod_rewrite. Although I could opt to setup CakePHP to work without mod_rewrite, I decided to enable it.

First I had to make sure that mod_rewrite is enabled on Apache.

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sudo a2enmod rewrite

I then had to tell Apache where Cake’s webroot directory is located. I do this in the file ‘/etc/apache2/sites-available/default’, so I opened the file.

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sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Note: I use the Pico editor on my Mac, so I tend to use it on Ubuntu as well. You can use whatever editor you are most comfortable using (Nano, gedit, vi, etc).

I added a new rule after the first directory rule:

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<Directory /var/www/app/webroot>
       AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Save this file and then restart Apache:

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sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

That’s it. Now when I viewed CakePHP in my browser, the default styling displays correctly.

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One Response to “CakePHP: Setting up mod_rewrite on Ubuntu”

Dan Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 8:19 am

Thanks for your post, fixed it for me(using code igniter).
The “AllowOverride All” for my app folder did the trick.

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