I am typically not one to recommend a social network to my clients w/ the exception, of course, of the already established networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, etc. My whole philosophy regarding social networking at this stage of the game is that if you want to build a community, build upon what’s already […]
System Administrator Appreciation Day
At Pleth, we will be celebrating System Administrator Appreciation Day! What an awesome idea. I know that this holiday is probably not on those calendars you get for Christmas from your family each year, but it’s a pretty cool thing to add to it. Friday, July 31, is system administrator day across the country, it’s […]
Critch on Drupal Security / PCI Compliance
Resident Server Administrator and all around Linux Guru, Matt Critcher, recently posted an entry on his blog about Drupal Security and PCI compliance. Matt has been running Drupal on his site for a while now and it seems to be working out well for him. I always look to Matt for security issues because he […]
Critch on VMware, Apache, PHP/MySQL
I am happy (bordering on giddy) that our server engineer / administrator Matt Critcher is now blogging, dude is probably one of the sharpest guys I have ever met and he is an all around cool guy to hang with too, but beware of the fancy cheese he brings to dinner parties because you could […]
Using ModRewrite
Let’s say you have just re-designed a website and during the process you were forced to change some filenames in the new site from what they were in the existing website. For example, about.htm is now called about.php in the new site structure. Normally you would be forced to endure having a dead link in […]
Apache 301 Redirect
I could have sworn I had posted some basic Apache Functions and Mod Rewrite’s on here a long time ago but today when I actually drew a blank and couldn’t remember how to do a 301 they were nowhere to be found so I am going to create a new category on here for Apache […]
Book Review: Run Your Own Webserver
My partner Stephen ordered us all a copy of this book shortly after we started Pleth. It took me a while to finally get into it because my first thought was that it was going to be a light read but it really wasn’t, parts of it were filled with some really good info. There […]
Book Review: Maximum Apache Security
About a year or so ago we were working pretty hard with our server admin to harden our servers against potential threats such as remote shell executions, bots, and xss vulnerabilities. It was a frustrating time for me because there were a lot of elements that I couldn’t get my mind around, fortunately our server […]
Example .htaccess Apache Redirect
From time to time we will install a website and want it to redirect to a directory or file inside of it’s root directory besides the default index.htm, index.html, or index.php file. Here’s an example of how this can be achieved using .htaccess with Apache. redirect /index.html http://www.yourwebsite.com/sitefile.html As you can see, when a browser […]
Using mod_rewrite in Apache
I created a Real Estate solution for a client a while back in php and it has worked well for them but once the site launched we noticed that it wasn’t getting crawled by the search engines as well as we would have liked for it to so I did a little research. I knew […]