Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Registered enterprise by myself - only RM70

Few years ago, I assigned an agent to register the JAsDecor for me and I remembered that price is expensive between RM300-400. I collected info from the lowyat forum and understand that I can register by myself in "The Mall". This morning, I decided to do it myself and arrived in the Mall shopping center around 9am. The main escalator to the shopping hall was still closed but there is a side lift. I checked on the directory and noticed that SSM is at 16th floor. I took the lift and come out from 16th Floor. Surprisingly, there was no crowd and I can go straight to the collect the queue no. the guard was telling us to photostat the IC, so I went down to 4th flr, paid 40 sen for the photocopy of IC and went up to 16th Floor again.

My no is 2009 and wait for 10 minutes, my no was called. I filled in all the necessary data into the application form and paid only RM70 for the processing fee. My first choice for the company name was TuitionAds but it's not valid since it carried the word "Tuition". the officer told me that she chosen the 2nd option - Vision Cloud
I wanted to revise the name but it seems like she was not very friendly and didn't give me a chance to make any last minute change. Upon signed off, I was asked to wait for 30-60 minutes to collect the company cert at another counter.

Finally, within one hour I managed to get the company registered and I went to 4th Floor to print name card which cost me RM25 only for one box. Overall, it was a good experience and save me a lot by doing it myself. I spent less than RM100 for registration and card printing. Now, I am the proud owner of this start up company and full of ambitious to expand and make it a success !!

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Step to check Apache port 80 status

Please find the following command to check on the 80 status in Windows 7
netstat -o -n -a | findstr 0.0:80
You should able to see the port 80 being listened by the Apache server.

upon installed the PHP, there are two things that need to be inserted into the httpd.conf


LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_2.dll" under the module section

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php5 under the section

Insert the "index.php" into the DirectoryIndex section.

Monday, June 6, 2011

One of the busiest day in my life

yesterday was one of the busiest day in my life. The moment I walked in the office, there are tons of to do list printed on my mind. walking around and getting the status update, discuss and move on. a lot of emails for me to follow up. I pushed myself to cope with the high amount of works and juggle around it.

Some Tips on the Apache server setup, it shown as "Forbidden - permisson denied" upon changing the Root Directory from c:\apache\htdocs to c:\apache. Upon browsing the internet and found out that this can be due to that the setup in the httpd.conf for the DirectoryIndex set to index.php since the PHP/wordpress is using this index file.

you also need to change this part to c:\apache as below

#
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.
#

#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#


Restart Apache using administrator user id and now, when you type http://localhost
you will see the text of the index.php instead of the page
Next step, is to configure the PHP to be workable with apache.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Re-install Apache and re-configure it to use the existing wordpress

I had uninstalled the previous Apache when playing with the BigBlueButton on my PC. However, as I try to upgrade and enhance my wordpress, I noticed that I need a test web server for me to trial and error any new wordpress plugin. With this, I decided to re-install the Apache Server and notice that there is another a newer version for Windows 7. I tried several attempt due to that the 80 was used by another Apache Server by default. Login to Administrator with you need its permission to stop the 80 service and restart the Apache server. I also chosen the custom install of the apache so that I can change the default apache director to c:\apache. there is a command which allow you to identify which process is holding up the port but later I also found that I can also check this through the task manager.

Upon several attempts, I managed to install and configure the apache. It shown as "It works!" by http:/localhost. the next step is to make the apache server to start up the wordpress page.