This entry documents how to install and configure the WSO2 API Manager, on Debian Linux 7. WSO2 API Manager is a tool for publishing APIs, with features such as: API Store Publishing and Governing API API Traffic routing Developer Community Govern Complete API Lifecycle Performance monitoring Further details available on the vendor’s website, http://wso2.com/products/api-manager/.  A good […]

Short note on how to install PHP Ncurses on Debian. This post assumes root level access. Install pear and the and ncurses development packages: apt-get update apt-get install -y php-pear apt-get install -y php5-dev apt-get install -y ncurses-dev apt-get install -y libncursesw5-dev Install PHP ncurses (hit return on any prompts): sudo pecl install ncurses Edit […]

This is a quick step by step guide on how to install RabbitMQ and the PHP-amqplib client on a Debian server. Install server: sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server Check the server status: sudo rabbitmqctl status Restart the server: sudo service rabbitmq-server start Install PHP5 client (amqp): Follow instructions from here: https://github.com/videlalvaro/php-amqplib Enable the web administration tool: sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management […]

Here is a step by step tutorial on how to manage VirtualBox using the phpVirtualBox web interface on Debian 7. Add VirtualBox package repository to apt source list: sudo echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib” >> /etc/apt/sources.list Add the public key for this new repository: wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | apt-key add – Update the source […]

This post describes how to download and convert Youtube videos to mp3, in Ubuntu Linux. Please note that this is not an encouragement to copyright infringement, I use these tools for downloading and listening to videos on my long commute with the London Underground, where no GSM or Wifi signal are available. Requirements: youtube-dl  – […]