I’ve recently been building a site for Photosomething, and came across the problem of cross browser testing. How to have a copy of every version of every browser, or at least such that is reasonable and you are willing to support. At first I thought I was going to have to install a virtual machine… Then google came up with the goods!
This is about Ununtu, but first an admission. I run Vista, ok I admit it. It’s slick and smooth, but it doesn’t tolerate badly written software and/or drivers. My install was stable for a while, but slowly went down hill.. After a fresh install all is ok and slick again :-).
I have changed permalinks in wordpress to be pretty. What immediately resulted was a 403: Forbidden.
Well, what really happens when you change permalinks is that wordpress creates a .htaccess file to do some URL re-writing. But often apache security does not allow re-writes, due to FollowSymLinks not being enabled… Don’t ask.. The magic incantation is to add “Options +FollowSymLinks” to that wordpress generated .htaccess file, at the start preferebly.
Roundcube has a beautiful simplicity about its interface. It depends heavily on modern browsers, so I worry a little about its performance on smaller devices. But still, it really is a refreshing change from large clunky interfaces.
The problem with PHP webmail (or with my mail server, depending on your point of view) is that is uses the login name as the sender email address, usually. My logins are mailbox names, not email addresses. Lots of email addresses resolve down to a single mailbox…. At first I saw this as a fault with the web mail software, but came to realize that it was more a limitation of the mail server, as I had configured it. A mailbox id currently is maildir@account, which does look like an email, i’ll give you that… So, I am going to change it firstly so that the mailbox format is maildir%account, but also so that people CAN authenticate with any valid email address that maps to that mailbox.
