Category Archives: Web Development & Administration

All categories relating to web development and the software that is used and hacked. Categories: eCommerce, FTP, MySQL, Linux, PHP, Plesk, Web Hosts / Hosting and Wordpress.

Password protecting nginx

Select box Plugin option is: four Create a Username/Password which will be stored in ‘useraccess’, a file I just made up. htpasswd -b -c useraccess username password -b: allows password in command line rather than prompt -c: creates new passwd file, or rewrites and appends if the file already exists. Now in the nginx config, [...]

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Select box Plugin option is: fourhttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=amazon+free+tier

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WordPress-Smart 404 Plugin

Select box Plugin option is: four A great tool for not showing 404 pages on your wordpress website.  I’ve used this for a couple years now.  I just recently discovered that if you type in a url with a keyword that cannot be found in your posts or pages, this plugin will show a 404 [...]

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Speeding up Windows Vista file transfers over the network.

Select box Plugin option is: fourVista performs very fast on advanced networking environment, but introduced too much overhead in normal home office environment, you just need to disable some settings to reduce the overhead, all is done in 2 simple steps. Unless you equipped with advanced PC and networking devices, your can expect performance dropped [...]

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Updating timezone information on my VPS

Select box Plugin option is: fourHaha because of having a VPS I cannot set the time on it, from what I can tell.  All though I cannot change the time, i can update the timezone.  This is a very easy to do command: export TZ=America/Chicago BAM! After running this command I run the command:  date [...]

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Enabling DOMDocument in php

Select box Plugin option is: fourHow to enable DOMDocument in php. Well you can take the time to recompile php, but that’s just a pain. Now if you have SSH Shell access to your linux server running php, this can be pretty easy. I’m running CentOS 5, let me know if this doesn’t work for [...]

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Using SSH without using or needing a password

Select box Plugin option is: fourI’ve tried many methods now of using SSH keys to login without a password.  Needless to say, I had to mix a couple methods to make this work.  This isn’t that hard. Step 1) You’re on a linux machine (or putty’d into a linux box) trying to SSH into a [...]

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WordPress Starter Plugin

Select box Plugin option is: fourEverything you need to write your own plugin. This is the starter solution. It shows how to plugin with your own class to wordpress, already set up custom functions. This is version 1 of this empty plugin. The admin menu (with a submenu), a settings page, another settings page. You [...]

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WordPress custom menu disappear on home page when using custom post types and/or taxonomies.

Select box Plugin option is: four As you’re developing a theme, you try one of WordPress’s newer options: Custom Post Types.  Searching the internet you stumble upon Justin Tadlock’s blog.  You try his way of showing custom post types on your home page of your wordpress blog.  Then boom. You’re custom menu is not showing [...]

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Microsoft SuperFetch

Select box Plugin option is: fourIntelligent Security? Or a Demon Service? Here’s an article i strongly agree with… http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3779788.php I suggest stopping superfetch from slowing network file copies down. Related Posts

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