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Simply run the following command in the command line to enable mod_rewrite. sudo a2enmod rewrite The command simply adds the rewrite module to the apache configuration file as mod_rewrite is a part of apache. Now we need to restart apache to make the command take effect. sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart The command automatically adds file rewrite.load to the folder /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/

To enable curl in PHP in ubuntu we simply need to install it. The following command can be used to install curl in ubuntu. sudo apt-get install php5-curl Now the next step would be restart apache using the following command sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Enjoy!

This is a post to find the latitude, longitude, timezone, country, city and so on using the web services/api by ipinfodb. The ipinfodb provides api in both xml and json format. We can use either of them. I will show you how to use it for both formats. Using XML format: You can either register for api key from ipinfodb. I am using mine in this example.

SimpleXML is a very simple function introduced in PHP5 to parse a XML file. It is very simple to use and implement as compared to other bulky codes to parse a XML file. The steps are pretty simple. Let us use a simple XML file as below naming it as xmltest.xml.

Changing file permissions in Ubuntu is a very essential thing. If proper file permissions are not set to folders or files, it is not possible to execute any PHP or HTML files from the browser using localhost. The following command can be used to set file permission for any file or folder. sudo chmod 755 /var/www/myfolder In the above example

Sometimes after installing LAMP, when you try to open the phpmyadmin in your browser you might get the error like this: "Not Found The requested URL /phpMyAdmin was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80" This is likely to be caused by not checking apache2 during installation. To reinstall you can use the following command:

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python. Installing and configuring LAMP is not a very complicated thing in Ubuntu, its just a matter of few lines of commands via the command line. This post will show you how to install PHP5, Apache2, MySQL and phpMyAdmin in Ubuntu. Installing Apache 1. Open the terminal and type the following command.