22nd Aug 2009

Mobile web-site resuce – SSH from iPhone

Posted in Server stuff and installs, Web Development at 11:01 pm by admin

This weekend I got a chance, or rather was forced, to try out the SSH client I’ve had sat on my iPhone for the last few months.
I got an email from my boss who had just been tipped off about problem with our <a href=”http://www.sphinxsearch.com”>Sphinx</a> configuration. The usually very helpful stemming that Sphinx performs on search queries was causing “Live music” and “DJ music” events to come up when a user searched for “musicals”.
At this point I was in a cafe on Broadway Market with a coffee eyeing up the ample selection of vegan cakes. Getting to the point I whipped out my iPhone and logged into our webserver using <a href=”http://jbrink.net/touchterm/”>Touchterm</a>. I was relatively easily able to edit the Sphinx config file with vim (the command line editor that’s better than emacs), restart the server and reindex all our events, I later realised that changing the stemming config only requires a restart of searchd to take effect.
Thanks to the convenient shortcut overlays I could access the crtl, esc and arrow keys and also perform key shortcuts like ctrl+a to get to the start of the command because I forgot to type sudo.
Now I’m totally told I’m going to shell out a &pound;2.99 quid for the pro version.

This weekend I got a chance, or rather was forced, to try out the SSH client I’ve had sat on my iPhone for the last few months.

I got an email from my boss who had just been tipped off about problem with our Sphinx configuration. The usually very helpful stemming that Sphinx performs on search queries was causing “Live music” and “DJ music” events to come up when a user searched for “musicals”.

At this point I was in a cafe on Broadway Market with a coffee eyeing up the ample selection of vegan cakes. Getting to the point I whipped out my iPhone and logged into our webserver using Touchterm. I was relatively easily able to edit the Sphinx config file with vim (the command line editor that’s better than emacs), restart the server and reindex all our events, I later realised that changing the stemming config only requires a restart of searchd to take effect.

Thanks to the convenient shortcut overlays I could access the crtl, esc and arrow keys and also perform key shortcuts like ctrl+a to get to the start of the command because I forgot to type sudo.

Now I’m totally sold I’m going to shell out a £2.99 quid for the pro version.