Adventures in IT

It took a whole day in front of an ssh screen onto my server to get Kannel up and running, but I finally managed to get a box ready to be tested. A very useful resource is the SMSC emulator from Selenium Software . They're kind enough to give it away, and it is definitely the pick of the litter compared to the other free options. I needed this because for some reason Kannel wasn't liking the fake SMSC setting. I had noticed that the binary file they refer to in their documentation was missing from my install (a Debian apt-get install kannel default). So I thought I would rather emulate an SMSC than fiddle with trying to get the fake one running. I had a few errors that were baffling due to the lack of thorough documentation, but the users@kannel.org list (subscription needed to send to it) was awesomely helpful. Within an hour of posting my config files and outlining what I had tried I had a solution thanks to a tip from them. The mailing list is searchable so it can take...

I'm playing around with installing Magento in XAMPP at the moment and discovered that the XAMPP package does not ship with cURL enabled by default. Getting cURL to work in XAMPP was very simple: 1) Find the php.ini file (in \xampp\php ) 2) Open it in your favourite text editor and search for "curl" 3) You should see a line like this --> ;extension=php_curl.dll 4) Remove the semi-colon to uncomment the line and enable cURL 5) Restart the Apache server Of course this was also easy on my Kubuntu Linux box: sudo apt-get install php5-curl sudo apache2ctl restart