I used this shell script to search through some web directories for references to particular strings - just for future reference.The find command only greps in html, php and pdf files: the -o switch is an OR.... » More
This shell script is for future reference. Used to copy zip apache log files into a temporary directory by day/month. Log files are unzipped and then searched for the strings we are looking for. It could be tidied... » More
Not all crawlers obey all of these rules but as a reference point. The crawl delay is the number of seconds between requests and the newer request-rate is set here to not more than 1 every 5 seconds. The crawlers are also asked to visit during the... » More
I was testing authentication against Active Directory (LDAP) using Apache 2. The following worked for me in a .htaccess file but only after adding:LDAPVerifyServerCert Offin the main httpd.conf file. I presume this is related to the server name in the... » More
Having a look at Windows 7 and coming from using Ubuntu solidly for the last 4 years I find it just as irritating as Vista - but I need to give it a bit more time to form an unbiased opinion.From a personal perspective there are some things I prefer for... » More
I had need to use the UploadProgress and SMTP Mail PECL PHP extensions so a brief overview:Check pear is installed and working:# which pearTo get a list of help/commands:# pear helpRun the updates: # pear channel-update pear.php.netShow the installed... » More
Moving from MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 caused a few issues on Joomla websites. The problems stem from MySQL 4 using latin1 swedish as default but some applications like Joomla want utf8 so:1. Re-export the database (it is Ok to do this from the existing MySQL 5... » More
I was playing with a shell script to rename a bunch of image files to lowercase then resize them but I had a typo in one of my variables resulting in accidentally renaming all the folders in my home directory with lowercase names. After next log in I now... » More
A few minor notes on changing some of the text in Joomla 1.5:Welcome to the FrontageIn the Admin Control Panel go to Menus > Main Menu > Home > Parameters - System > Page Title.Footer TextIn the Admin Control Panel go to Extensions >... » More
