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If you use WAMP to get local PHP server, you might run into issues to set up the HTTPS. The following step-by-step tutorial indeed helped me, and I think it would be useful to re-post it. Recently I had to run a website with several https links under local server for testing and I had to configure the Open SSL server that comes with WAMP server. I'm sure it would be helpful for you as well. First thing first, we need to create that self-signed SSL certificate, so go to DOS command prompt (Start menu -> Run -> cmd). ext, we need to navigate to the directory that contains the openssl executive file which is located in folder C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.11\bin by default. In order to go there, we need to type the command as follows. Code: Select all cd\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.11\bin After press Enter, your prompt should change as follows Code: Select all c:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.11\bin> From there, we begin to create the self-signed SSL certificate and...

I am one of those people who don't like to turn off their PCs. Yea, really nice waste of energy, I know... Usually work PC is the place when always something is running overnight, either some sort of calculations, parsing, simulations or any other nerdy stuff are performed. The most annoying part, when you work on windows, are the automatic updates. It can restart your PC by itself just to apply just installed updates. "§$%&%$ windows! The disable such a stupid option, Go to Start, Run "gpedit.msc" to bring up the group policy editor. Then navigate to the folder Local Computer Policy ->Computer Configuration ->Administrative Templates ->Windows Components ->Windows Update There are two settings and both will work, so it's your choice. Either enable No auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations or set Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations to a long time interval, like 1440 minutes. I prefer the first on...

I am one of those people who don't like to turn off their PCs. Yea, really nice waste of energy, I know... Usually work PC is the place when always something is running overnight, either some sort of calculations, parsing, simulations or any other nerdy stuff. The most annoying part, when you work on windows, are the automatic updates. It can restart your PC by itself just to apply just installed updates. "§$%&%$ windows! In order to disable such a stupid option, Go to Start, Run "gpedit.msc" to bring up the group policy editor. Then navigate to the folder Local Computer Policy ->Computer Configuration ->Administrative Templates ->Windows Components ->Windows Update There are two settings and both will work, so it's your choice. Either enable No auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations or set Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations to a long time interval, like 1440 minutes. I prefer the first one ...

If you want to run a process on a server you are remotely connected to, without getting it disturbed if you close your SSH/telnet connection to a server, you should use command nohup example: nohup your_command & & puts it into backgroung process, and nohup is a POSIX command to ignore the HUP (hangup) signal, enabling the command to keep running after the user who issues the command has logged out.

Several times I badly needed the connection between to PCs and I never actually managed to make it working :( One thing I always forget to set is that both PCs have the same Workgroup, besides the part where you set your folder to be shared among PCs in the network.