Releasing IP Addresses in WHM/Cpanel
If you are hosted with a WHM/Cpanel based server or VPS, you may have had some difficulties trying to get an alternate webserver such as Nginx or Lighttpd installed especially if you wanted to use the...
View ArticleMigrating Cpanel to DirectAdmin
One of the most frustrating thing someone can do involving their websites is moving them from one hosting provider to another. It's increasingly more difficult if your hosting was based on a control...
View ArticleHow to Steal an Android Market App
One of the biggest fear plaguing any freelance application developer is piracy. All their hours and hours of work to bring you the next useful little app that they hope you'll enjoy. So why shouldn't...
View ArticleApache to Nginx Migration Tips
Nginx currently holds shy of 6.5% of the known webserver market, which is just roughly shy of 13 million servers. This little lightweight webserver created by a sole Russian developer has been gaining...
View ArticleDebian/Ubuntu Nginx init Script (opt)
Normally if you install Nginx from a repository this init script would already be included. However if you installed from source, or did not use the standard paths, you may need this.
View ArticleFreeBSD Update Annoyances [pkg-config-0.25_1]
So today I got around to running portmaster again to update to the latest packages, and came across an all too familiar package upgrade error with pkg-config-0.25_1. You may have seen the above before...
View ArticleFreeBSD Jail with Single IP
You have a FreeBSD VPS with only a single IP, but you wish to utilize the security/isolation of jails such as thru ezjail-admin, what do you do? Utilizing OpenBSD's PF can allow you to run a FreeBSD...
View ArticleSelective Elevation of PHP in Nginx+WordPress
Generally speaking You do not want to give Nginx and/or PHP-FPM too much access to your files, but you might not want to make everything writable to the general www group. However at the same time you...
View ArticleAdding Google Sitemap CPanel Firewall Exception
If you've had any experience with installing Google Sitemap Generator on a Cpanel/WHM based server then you may have run into an issue where port 8181 is not accessible. This is how to get it to work...
View ArticleHandling wildcard subdomains with PHP
Subdomains can be a very handy way to make your urls more friendly looking. They can also be incredibly useful for membership driven websites to allow members to have their own custom subdomain. But...
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