How-To Tutorials.

[EricJ]

Bluehost has a lot of good tutorials here (http://tutorials.bluehost.com/) and here (http://www.bluehost.com/cgi/help) but they generally don't cover advanced stuff. Is there anything that you all would like to learn how to do on Bluehost? I'll be taking requests for tutorials, which I'll post on my blog. I'll take the top few requests and write up some tutorials for them.

I'll be able to write a tutorial for just about anything, I just need to know what people are interested in. Here are a couple of ideas, just to get the ball rolling:
How to install XCache (A php accelerator)
How to get a Ruby on Rails app up.
Maybe revamping the Wordpress w/ Security tutorial and adding some more to it.
How to edit Wordpress themes.
How to customize your SSH environment.
How to get started using SSH efficiently.

Those are my ideas, but I would rather do something that the community is really interested in, so let me know. I just finished a tutorial on how to install ffmpeg (http://www.techosaur.us/2011/how-to-install-ffmpeg-on-bluehost/), but that one really shouldn't be used since ffmpeg isn't allowed on Bluehost.

[emmecubo]

I'll be able to write a tutorial for just about anything, I just need to know what people are interested in. Here are a couple of ideas, just to get the ball rolling:
How to get a Ruby on Rails app up.

Hi Eric!
Your idea is great. I'm interested in a tutorial about setting up a Rails app.
The current tutorial https://www.bluehost.com/cgi/help/rails is not working any more since BlueHost upgraded Rails and Gems.
On the Rails welcome page if you click on:
"About your application’s environment"
you get: "Application error Application failed to start properly".
instead of the usual description of the environment.

Thanks for attention
m.

[corydeppen]

I think I would hold off on the Rails tutorials until you guys support Rails 3. Once Rails 3 is supported, I think a tutorial explaining how to get an app up and running when you don't have a dedicated IP address would be useful, since that is the current problem I appear to be facing. I'd also be interested to see info around SSH customization and how to use it efficiently.

[EricJ]

Rails it is, followed by SSH customization and utilization. I'll post links to the tutorials once they are up.


I think I would hold off on the Rails tutorials until you guys support Rails 3.

Rails3 is still a long ways off. The main problem with Rails3 is that there is no support for fcgi or cgi execution. It has to be done through mod_rails/passenger. The problem with mod_rails is that it opens up security holes in the shared environment. I guess we'll have to see how bluehost handles this mod_rails problem.

[emmecubo]

Rails it is, followed by SSH customization and utilization. I'll post links to the tutorials once they are up.
Thanks Eric!