$ montage *.png -geometry 150x150\>+2+2 montage.png

mogrify -path resized -resize 500x500\> -background 'rgb(217,215,202)' -extent 500x500 -gravity center *.jpg

mogrify -path resized -resize 500>x500\> *.jpg

Yes, you have to use mogrify and not convert because only mogrify excepts the -path command. And I’m pretty sure it’s important to escape the greater than symbols in the -path argument like I did.

1. Upload the .sql file to your server somewhere, preferably with lftp
2. ssh to your server: $ ssh username@username.hostname.com
3. Start mysql: $ mysql -u username -p password
4. Find the correct table: $ show databases;
5. Access the database you want to import to: $ use databasename;
6. And finally the source command: $ source path/to/filename.sql

I used several sources for this, but John Andrews was the angriest.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

In the teminal:

• $ sudo tasksel install lamp-server
• $ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
• $ sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
  • Add the following to the end of this file:  “Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf”
• Edit the /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini file and increase the memory_limit value. I used 64M, but that may be overkill.

First open ~/.barshrc in a text editor and uncomment lines 73 through 75 so they look like this:

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi

Then create a file called .bash_aliases in your home directory (if it doesn’t already exist). Edit that file like so:

alias themename="cd ~/public_html/websitename/wp-content/themes/themename/"


Restart terminal (or source .bashrc with $ source ~/.bashrc, or even terser $. .bashrc), type in themename and press enter. Voila! Your are cd’ed all the way into that deeply nested file without having to type the whole thing. This works great for lots of other common commands that are a little too verbose:

alias ins="sudo apt-get install"


Once those lines are added to your .bash_aliases file and you restart terminal, you will be able to install new packages like so:

ins packagename

Handy eh? (That last suggestion is courtesy of the always useful Lifehacker)

Update, 3/29/10

I just had to do this from scratch after a computer disaster, and I found an omission. Before you get started on this business you need to do what this post says:

http://www.likesalmondesign.com/use-your-users-public_html-directory-to-serve-webpages/

And we’re off

Now on to virtual hosts. The first thing you need to do is edit /etc/hosts so your computer knows where to look for your website:

1. In the terminal, enter: $ sudo gedit /etc/hosts
2. In gedit, add the following line to the hosts file: 127.0.0.1 mysite.dev
   • Note: you can use whatever name you want for your virtual hosted site. I like to use the suffix .dev because it won’t conflict with sites on the actual internet.
   • Note: 127.0.0.1 is the same ip address that is assigned to localhost in that file. If yours is different, use that one.

Next add your site to /etc/apache2/sites-available/ and then link to that file in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/:

1. In the terminal, cd to /etc/apache2/sites-available/
2. Create a new file with: $ sudo touch mysite.dev
3. Open that file in gedit: $ sudo gedit mysite.dev
4. Add following to that file:
   <VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName mysite.dev
   ServerAlias mysite.dev
   ServerAdmin myaddress@email.com
   DocumentRoot /home/yourusername/public_html/mysite/
   </VirtualHost>

Add a pseudo link to that file in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/:

1. cd over to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
2. In the terminal, enter: $ sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mysite.dev mysite.dev
   • Note: $ ln -s target linkname

Finally, restart Apache:

1. $ sudo service apache2 restart
2. You’re done!

See! Not so bad…


<?php
function add_js() {
$stylesheet_dir = get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');
$myscript = $stylesheet_dir . '/js/myscript.js';
$mootools = $stylesheet_dir . '/js/mootools.js';
wp_enqueue_script('mootools', $mootools, '', '1.2.4', false);
wp_enqueue_script('myscript', $myscript, array('mootools'), '1.0', false);
}
add_js();
?>


Notice how every parameter is used in the < ?php wp_enqueue_script( $handle, $src, $deps, $ver, $in_footer ); ?> function even though all but the first one is supposed to be optional. Maybe its a PHP thing. Whatever.

• $ sudo apt-get install apache2
• $ sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql
• $ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
• $ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

Just agree when it asks you stuff.


$ sudo service apache2 start
$ sudo service apache2 stop
$ sudo service apache2 restart