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 […]
Log Monitor
This is a pretty cool app for monitoring log files. I am kind of surprised that someone hasn’t thought of this sooner, and maybe they have but this one looks pretty cool. Link to Log Monitor – The Code Project – Files and Folders
Using Open Source to Create Commercial Products
This is a good webinar provided by Techonline that deals with Using Open Source software like PHP, MySQL, (LAMP)… to develop commercially rebrandable software solutions. There is alot of buzz right now about Microsoft suing FOSS over patent infringements, etc. (i kind of doubt it will float but w/ microsoft’s attorney’s who knows…) Here’s some info about the Webinar: […]