You can obtain the latest Drupal release archive from here. The files are in .tar.gz format and can be extracted using most compression tools. On a typical Unix command line, use:

    # wget http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-x.x.tar.gz

    # tar -zxvf drupal-x.x.tar.gz

This will create a new directory drupal-x.x/ containing all Drupal files and directories. Move the contents of that directory into a directory within your web server's document root or your public HTML directory:

    # mv drupal-x.x/* drupal-x.x/.htaccess /srv/www/htdocs/drupal

Next step is to create a database using PHPMyAdmin or mysql command line. If you chose to use command line, additional information about privileges, and instructions to create a database using the command line are available in INSTALL.mysql.txt (for MySQL) or INSTALL.pgsql.txt (for PostgreSQL).

To run the install script point your browser to the your website (i.e. http://www.domain.com/drupal). You will be presented with the "Database Configuration" page, where you have to fill the information from the previous step (database name, database user, password)

If you receive in apache log file, next message:

    [Sun Jul 29 11:49:32 2007] [alert] [client 127.0.0.2] /srv/www/htdocs/drupal/.htaccess: order not allowed here

then you have to include next lines in your apache.conf:

    <Directory /srv/www/htdocs/drupal/>
    Options +Includes +FollowSymlinks -Indexes
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    <Files ~ "^\.ht">
    Deny from all
    </Files>
    </Directory>

now, point your browser to: http:/domain.com/drupal/ and fill the information regarding database. Create you initial accout, which is admin user, and configure your website.

To reset a root password that you forgot (using paths on our system):

    [root@host root]#killall mysqld
    [root@host root]#/usr/libexec/mysqld -Sg --user=root &

You may have better luck with:

    mysqld --skip-grant-tables --user=root

Go back into MySQL with the client:

    [root@host root]# mysql
    Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or g.
    Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 3.23.41
    Type 'help;' or 'h' for help. Type 'c' to clear the buffer.

    mysql> USE mysql
    Reading table information for completion of table and column names
    You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
    Database changed

    mysql> UPDATE user
    -> SET password=password("newpassword")
    -> WHERE user="root";
    Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.04 sec)
    Rows matched: 2  Changed: 2  Warnings: 0

    mysql> flush privileges;
    Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

    mysql> exit;

    [root@host root]#killall mysqld

Start MySQL the normal way for your system, and all is good. For Red Hat this is:

    /etc/init.d/mysqld start

Bye!

Maybe you need to do some specific configurations for a domain or subdomain and you tried to do directly in httpd.include file. You saw that it works for the momment but plesk will delete again your specific configurations from this file. So, in this case the answer is vhost.conf file. This file will be placed inside your domain’s conf directory, usually found at /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf. Create a file called vhost.conf in whatever editor you prefer. I use vim.

You can now put in any Apache configuration options like you would into httpd.include. In my case I wanted to do only one thing, to have subversion repository accesible over web, without any kind of access restriction.
Here is my vhost.conf file:

    DAV svn
    SVNPath /home/svn

Now, you need to tell Plesk to update it’s information.
You have to run:

    # /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u --vhost-name=domain.com

this will configure plesk only for one single domain, in this case domain.com
If you want to configure it for all sites run:

    # /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/websrvmng -a

After this command if you look to httpd.include file, will see that your httpd.include will have an include line for your vhost.conf, something like this:

    Include /srv/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf/vhost.conf

There is also a vhost.conf file for subdomain in their DocumentRoot directory, if you want to do some specific things for subdomain.

That's all, bye!

Create a backup of the repository using the following command:

    svnadmin dump /path/to/repository | gzip > repository-backup.gz

Run the svnadmin recover command on the repository:

    svnadmin recover /path/to/repository

Delete any unused log files in the repository:

    svnadmin list-unused-dblogs /path/to/repository | xargs rm -vf

Delete any remaining shared-memory files in the repository:

    rm -f /path/to/repository/db/__db.0*

Data repository dump:

Dump first entry to current:

    svnadmin dump /home/svn/repos --revision 0:HEAD > repos.dump 

Dump revision 150 to current:

    svnadmin dump /home/svn/repos --revision 150:HEAD --incremental > repos-150.dump 

Data repository load:

First load:

    svnadmin load /home/svn/repos < repos.dump 

Incremental load:

    svnadmin load /home/svn/repos < repos-150.dump

Installing Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the web on any rpm based linux box with TrueType support is now easy:

I will show you a few solutions with the same final result :)
1. download the .spec file:

    wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

* build the binary rpm with:

    rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

* install the package:

    rpm -ivh /usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

* reload xfs server

    /sbin/service xfs reload

2. a)
Get the install script:

    wget http://penguinfonts.com/packages/fetchmsttfonts.sh

* And run it as root:

    sh ./fetchmsttfonts.sh

b)
Or you can build an rpm package, get the spec file:

    wget http://penguinfonts.com/packages/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

* Then build it:

    rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

* Then install the resulting rpm file:

    rpm -i /usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

* reload xfs server

    /sbin/service xfs reload

3. just download and install this package:

MicrosoftFonts-1-jen14.noarch.rpm

The fonts are: Andale Mono, Arial, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings. Andale, Courier New and Lucida Console are monospaced fonts that are suited for terminal apps.

To create the iso file do:

    mkisofs -o /storage/myfiles.iso -J -R -r -V -v /dir/path/

Replace /dir/path/ with the full path to whatever directory contains the files you wish burned to CD.

Here are some tips & tricks for Opera browser:

News feed reader

* to mark all messages inside a feed as read: CTRL + SHIFT + a

* show the news only for current week and the new posts at the top. For this you have to edit .opera/mail/index.ini, is necessary to do this modifications for every feed :

Model Age=1
Sort Type=4
Sort Ascending=0

* the update frequency at every 30 minutes:

Update Frequency=1800