Installing Sphinx Search Engine on Mac OS X… or ld: library not found for -lmysqlclient

If you are trying to install Sphinx on Mac OS X, it will most likely fail. The current version of MySQL bundled with Mac OS X is not supported and therefore, it will spit out the error message because it can’t find the correct libraries.

 ld: library not found for -lmysqlclient

There is a quick solution to the problem -upgrade mysql! You’ll need Mac Ports installed, available at

http://macports.org/

Run the command

sudo port install mysql5

This will not destroy any existing data from your previous MySQL installation. The mac port installation will take a while, and it will appear as if it is just hanging. It’s not. It just takes a while. I clocked it at 15 minutes on a relatively fast network connection. Drink a cappuccino!

After you have the upgrade you’ll need to download Sphinx available at:
http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads.html (latest stable) and build the Sphinx engine from source like so:

wget http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
cd  sphinx-0.9.8.1/
./configure --with-mysql-libs=/opt/local/lib/mysql5/mysql/
--with-mysql-includes=/opt/local/include/mysql5/mysql/
make
sudo make install

Much thanks to this post b/c I spent forever trying to get the bundled version of MySQL linked properly:

http://www.fozworks.com/2008/9/5/rake-installation-of-sphinx-in-mac-osx

Recursively Zip a Directory and Files on Linux

Short and sweet! Just remember that the finished zip filename is the first argument and the directory you wish to recursively zip comes after.

zip -r name_of_your_directory.zip name_of_your_directory

Add User Directories to Apache2 Web Server

You can either link up the modules yourself like this:

ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf
ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.load

Or you can use the Apache utility

a2enmod userdir

Just remember to restart the server with

/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

Also, keep in mind that by default, the home directory for your user will need to require a public_html directory.

/home/username/public_html

Protect a Directory with Apache, .htaccess and httpasswd

Apache comes with a command line utility called “htpasswd”. This utility will generate a username and password that you can use to authenticate against using a .htaccess file. Just run the utility like so:

  htpasswd -c /path/to/your/password/directory/and-your-password-filename jane_doe_username

This will prompt you for a password/confirm password.

Keep in mind that this will not create a user on the system. It will just create a password and associate it with a string, that is the username you’ll use to authenticate in your request.

Then you’ll need to add a .htaccess file in the directory that you want to protect, and in that file place the following code.

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Directory"
AuthUserFile /path/to/your/password/directory/and-your-password-filename
Require user jane_doe_username

Remember that the /path/to/your/password/directory will need to be owned by Apache. on Ubuntu, it’s by default the www-data user. Change ownership like so:

 chown -R www-data:www-data directory

Postfix, ActionMailer and OpenSSL Fix on Ubuntu

If you run into problems using ActionMailer > 2.2, Postfix and OpenSSL while sending mail from your application, try changing the following:

  vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

Change

 smtpd_use_tls=yes

to

smtpd_use_tls=no

OpenSSL support with Postfix does not work out of the box. You can either generate valid certificates or tell Postfix not to use the certificates. More information is available in this discussion forum.

http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=2656

Install Rmagick on Ubuntu with MagickWand

  apt-get install librmagick-ruby1.8
  apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

  gem install rmagick

The last command will spit out a bunch of “No definition” comments. There are no rdocs available and this is why.

a nice cup of coffee

salmon salad at home

eagle in the sky at loon lodge 2008

summer 2008 picnic at tidal falls