Archive for August, 2008

Today when I logged into one of my ervers I was unable to create a file as I was told that No space was left on device. I checked my discs for free space and found that free space exists on all of my partitions, that’s why I got stuck. I was able to modify [...]

Now my blog has one hundred posts. I think my knowledge is worth some money that’s why I decided to add some Ads. All I know is shared absolutely for free and I don’t like any donations. I think Adsense is good enough to monetize my blog. My earnings will be announced; I don’t know [...]

We do often meet password protected directories on the Web. This is usually used to hide some information that should not be visible to all site users. Most common is .htaccess protection, that allows you to restrict users at Apache level and is also knows as http authentification. Today I will tell you how to [...]

Using zip files is a common practice for web. Zip archives are very useful as they are supported by all major operating systems and don’t require any special software. XP and Vista have the embedded support of this file format, you won’t also have problems opening these files in Linux. You can also work with [...]

If you are often working with PHP upgrades, you should do this automatically - you already know all the issues you might face. But if it’s done for the first time, it is quite hard to find your problem. I will tell you about the most common issue and about the applicable actions to fix [...]

Today I’ll tell you about an excellent software that allows to create any kind of info backups. That’s greatly important as you will be able to restore anything you like in just minutes. For example, if you have installed a fresh copy of Microsoft Windows, you know how much time it takes among with software [...]

If you own a Direactadmin server, most probably you would like to add something to default virtualhost settings, when a new user is created. You might need any specific php settings, or anything related to Apache - this doesn’t really matter. Let’s see where we can modify these settings; you will need SSH access to [...]

Just went back from my trip to Turkey. I like that my blog visitors come day by day to read my posts even if I don’t write anything day by day. Today I’ll tell you about an official Wordpress plugin named Wordpress Stats.
Wordpress stats is a good solution for newbies who want to track where [...]

If you’re working with text information, you often need to extract some parts of text from articles, web pages and so on. You can use regular expressions for this, but if you’re not familiar with them, you’ve got to use string functions of PHP.
When I didn’t know what regular expressions are, I’ve written a function [...]

A system administrator often needs to deal with file ownership change. This is often related to the ownership of the files created by daemons. Often users don’t have access to the file created by apache. What to do if you need to change ownership of a group of files?
You must be root to perform this [...]