Forbidden 403 error in Leopard Mac OS 10.5 with Web Sharing On

Web Dev 10 August 2008 ~ 10 Comments

The Upgrade to Leopard was flawless! I took backup of everything on the HD if I had to revert to plan B, which is clean install! Ok! Lets start the game and start playing with the Web powerhouse under this OS. I switched on Web Sharing, typed in: http://localhost/~username And I got the following error: [...]

Running MySql on Mac OS X Leopard

Web Dev 10 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

We have previously activated Apache Web Server and the native PHP packed with Mac OS X. We have managed to host static pages and also dynamic functionality using PHP. Now, its time to get ourselves the Database tier, the ever famous MySql Server. More info on MySql here. Hence, we will be completing the OS [...]

Serving PHP with Mac OS X

Web Dev 10 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

In my last Post, we fired up the Apache server, respectively v 1.3 in Tiger & v 2.2 in Leopard. By now putting up Hello World! static page is just blink of an eye effort. And we can also start and stop our server via Terminal. Nice! From here we take on to start the [...]

MSN Messenger Sign-in problem on Mac OS X – Solved

Software 23 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Yesterday! was one of the most frustrating day with the MSN Messenger product on my Mac OS. I had experienced this last year on PC also, then it was the case with the service. But this time it was more frustrating to see all my colleagues working as usual on MSN on their windows clients. [...]

Switching to Apple Mail 3.0 from MS Entourage 2008

Software 20 July 2008 ~ 1 Comment

You have switched to Mac and everything Apple, congrates on that! Whats holding you back from using the native email client? Lets be honest, we have been using outlook for song long that it has just become first choice to opt Entourage and MS products. I was exposed to Entourage problems and perils while upgrading [...]