nginx + drupal + phpmyadmin

While setting up the new evolving-design.com server, I decided to go to a pure nginx setup.

However, I still need all my backend tools to run, so that meant getting things like phpMyAdmin to play nice with nginx.

I used the wonderful drupal-with-nginx configuration by perusio, but when I set up my virtual host for phpMyAdmin, I got the login page just fine, but every time I tried to login, the page just reloaded back to the login page.  No errors appeared in any logs, either.

Windows Dev Images with VirtualBox and Fedora 16

There are a number of posts on the issue, but they were either outdated or wrong when I checked them out with the latest images (27 Mar 2012) downloaded from Microsoft and the most recent OSE version of Virtual Box on a Fedora 16 host.

So here's how I got the Windows 7 running (haven't done Vista, yet, and not sure that I care much about sites working on IE 7 in all honesty).

First, I downloaded the Windows image files.

You can upack these files with unrar, so:

A new series for sys admin geeks

From my personal blog

While upgrading megagames.com from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, I'll be looking at how other sites like online poker sites and the Drupal powered examiner.com keep pages flowing quickly.

I'll be posting the lessons I learn here, starting this week as I set up Nginx to manage static assets, and start benchmarking and profiling our now (nearly!) complete Drupal installation.

For benchmarking, I'll be using Siege and Xdebug's Profiler