If you’re running a WordPress blog, I think you would like to spread the word about it in the fastest way possible. You know – there are some ping services, that receive your blog updates and list them/ How to integrate them into WordPress? We need to be logged in as admin to go to the settings panel.… Read More »
I’ve noticed a strange thing at one of my DirectAdmin servers. I usually perform my backups once a week. After I start the backup process, I got a message that I will be notified when my backups are ready. One of my servers stopped to send me these notifications and I had to find out why . First… Read More »
PHP offers a large variety of arguments that can be passed to the date() function. You are able to almost everything you want having just the current time stamp. I’ve selected the most useful readable formats – I think you might need it for any purpose. I used it to randomize a site’s content to vary posting dates.… Read More »
Today I went back from my short trip to the country. First of all I decided to check my mail, and when I did it, I got the following error in my E-mail client: !25.07.2008, 19:20:39: FETCH -ERR [IN-USE] Mailbox in use. That’s not the first time when such an error happens and I already know the solution… Read More »
Do you know Snap.com? If you don’t I’d encourage you to visit it as their tools make web much better. Even if I don’t like Ajax and Javascript tools, that often overload sites, I consider having site screenshots is a very good idea. But… where to take these shots and how to do them? If you try to… Read More »
Today I have updated my Directadmin installation and found that version 1.322 has appeared a few days ago. One of most intersting features I found was awstats support. I’ve been using awstats plugin for a while and now it is integrated in DirectAdmin. In order to add awstats support to your Directadmin installation you have to perform some… Read More »
When you need to deal with big amounts of data, MySQL is not a good solution. db4 is much faster and easier – you don’t need any SQL queries to extract the necessary values and use them. The process of db4 file creation is quite easy; you need to have your PHP compiled with dba support. If you… Read More »
I hope you know what is Google sitemap and what it is used for. If not, you might want to read about it at Google site. There are a plenty of services and scripts that allow to create a sitemap for your site and it is not so hard to create your own script for this (maybe I… Read More »
Sometimes you should prevent outgoing connections from your server. The best way to do it is to use Linux system options, especially ipchains and iptables. I will show you how to do it using iptables, as this is the shortest way I know. In order to block outgoing connections from your server to one IP issue the following… Read More »
If you manage any script that creates files on the server, you might meet the prob;em that you cannot edit files created by this script. This is especially related to PHP scripts, that, for example, create some text files in a folder. When you try to open these files via your FTP client, you will most probably receive… Read More »