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Redmine Drafts Plugin
Monday, November 8, 2010 22:11 No CommentsJean Barth wrote a nice plugin for Redmine that saves drafts while you are writing issues. Many times people write some long text and then hit the wrong button, the browser crashes and they loose the data. The Drafts plugin saves the data periodically and it can be retrieved if the worst happens. Redmine Discussion [...]
How to install Redmine on Bluehost
Saturday, November 6, 2010 18:22 No CommentsHow to install Redmine on BlueHost under a subdomain. Redmine is a popular project management software based on RubyOnRails. BlueHost is a shared hosting provider but allows you to use SSH access to your account. To enable SSH open a support ticket and send them a scan of your ID. I will give you rough [...]
WordPress running on IIS and ugly permalinks starting with index.php
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 12:27 No CommentsYou may have experienced when running WordPress on IIS that the permalinks have that ugly index.php included. Pretty way: www.mysite.com/2010/11/mypost IIS way: www.mysite.com/index.php/2010/11/mypost By tweaking the .htaccess and using some rewrite rules this can be fixed. (ISAPI_Rewrite required)
Boiled brandy aka Kuvana rakija
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 12:27 No CommentsKuvana Rakija which exact translation would be ‘boiled brandy’. 1 spoon sugar 200ml brandy 100ml water – Dissolve sugar – Add brandy (sljiva) – Dilute with water – Wait until boils – Put on fire – Enjoy *add clove for aroma
Move WordPress to a new domain / location
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 0:25 No CommentsHow to move WordPress to a new location in few steps. – move files, addapt .htaccess, wp-config.php if needed - backup database – run the following queries (replace old_url.tld, new_url.tld with actual data) UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://www.old_url.tld’, ‘http://www.new_url.tld’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ‘siteurl’; UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, [...]
Qmail – Enable/Disable ClamAV
Monday, April 19, 2010 13:16 No CommentsThe ClamAV scanning feature can be disabled in the qmail’s simcontrol configuration file. This will not disable the clamav daemon but will disable active scanning. edit: /var/qmail/control/simcontrol there should be text like this: :clam=yes,spam=yes,spam_passthru=yes,attach=.vbs:.lnk:.scr:.wsh:.hta:.pif what we need to do is to replace clam=yes with clam=no. If you don’t have this text insert it. Next we [...]
qmail & vpopmail – how to add domains and users
Thursday, April 15, 2010 16:42 No CommentsUsing vpopmail you can easily add domains and users to your qmail configuration. To add a domain: $ vadddomain domainname.tld To remove a domain and all its mailboxes: $ vdeldomain domainname.tld To add a user mailbox on domainname.tld: $ vadduser username@domainname.tld userpassword To remove a mailbox on domainname.tld: $ vdeluser username@domainnaime.tld: You can find more [...]
MySQL – Get the Top N of a Group
Friday, March 26, 2010 11:43 No CommentsGetting Top N of a group would be very easy if there just wasn’t that ‘LIMIT & IN/ALL/ANY/SOME subquery’ restriction. But there’s always some way around. Thx to Jon Armstrong from A little Noise for the code hint. MYSQL table ‘measurements’ | Id | Freq | Level | DateM ## Gets the last 2 measurements [...]
Linux- Recursively change permissions on files or directories only
Thursday, March 25, 2010 22:33 No CommentsIf you wondered how to change permissions recursively on files or folders only, here is the how to using the find command. Change permissions recursively to directories only: find /path/to/folder -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \; Change permissions recursively to files only: find /path/to/folder -type f -exec chmod [...]
Apache .htaccess – Allow / Deny access from certain IPs
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 0:02 No CommentsIf your website is under contruction and you want to allow access just to certain IP numbers, placing the following code in the .htaccess file, in the website root directory, you can block access to everyone except the IP numbers you specify. order deny,allow deny from all allow from 76.33.193.98 allow from 84.23.122.204 allow from 93.34.133.203 [...]