Archive for July, 2011

Hi everyone,

This is a bit of an overdue blog post — I have written a lot of drafts and a recent spell of travel has meant I haven’t been able to polish and publish much.. Sorry!

I do have one big piece of news to announce, the gang over at Mura CMS (Blue River Interactive) have asked me to speak at MuraCon 2011 in Sacramento, California on August 25-26th!

Instead of having a link that says http://www.yoursite.com/siteid/index.cfm/about-us, I want it to be:

http://www.yoursite.com/about-us

Recently I decided to move a Mura CMS site to linux. Off I went to pickup a VPS and transfer my installation.

After installing CentOS with the Apache/MySQL/Railo trimmings, I downloaded Mura directly to my server and started installing and learnt a few steps that may or may not be documented somewhere.

It seems that if your CFML engine of choice is running as nobody in Linux (I know ACF does install as nobody as default), You will have to go to your root htdocs/html directory and run the following:


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