These days you don’t need a Mac. Not even in the old days. Some hardcore DTP professionals are probably the only ones that had any kind of argument, but those days are long over (the days of Corel on Mac – awful ).

Mac products are restrictive, cost way too much, have little or none upgrade capability, have a stable but closed OS, limited active community in development of software.

If you need something nice in your house and you like light curves buy a VASE.
If you need some self esteem in front of your friends, grow a PAIR.
If you need a good stable friendly interface for browsing install LINUX UBUNTU.

For everything else you can buy a cheaper, stronger computer, do your stuff and get out of the herd of marketing Apple slaves.

This is not a suggestion anymore. Stop buying Apple.

If you get this error while trying to start the development server like !is fully explained here or in the documentation

dev_appserver.py [options]


and you get an error message like


-su: dev_appserver.py: command not found


don’t despair.
Here is the solution

root@valugi-laptop:/home/path/to/google_appengine# python dev_appserver.py /home/path/to/google_appengine/myApp/


Where myApp is your test application and /path/to/etc the path to your engine and test application.

In short:


$ python dev_appserver.py [options]


In Linux you have to tell to Python to execute a python file. I wish somebody told me before :)

At least we have a community who helps the apprentices. Help can be found here.

Find your site virtual host file or edit the 000-default in the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

Add this lines:

<Directory /var/www/mysite/>

AllowOverride all

</Directory>

after this block:

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

Reload the server with sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload.
This should be done after each modification.

If you get a 500 type of error trying to view your site don’t panic!

This happens because the rewrite module doesn’t come enabled by default for security reasons.

Create a new file called rewrite.conf in _/etc/apache2/mods-enabled_
in the file put this line “LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so”

Reload one more time the server.
This worked for me and hopefully for you, but I don’t advice this for production servers. This is information for regular Ubuntu users not for a live server where admins should know better.