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When setting up new servers, one of the first things to do is to make sure other machines can connect to. The easiest way to do that has typically been to use the ping command, which sends an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) or Echo message to the remote machine. Due to security concerns, however, [...]
I’ve been implementing a new website using the WP.osC framework (based on osCommerce) and ran into a problem of not being able to login to the admin panel. It would simply redirect back to the admin login page. This typically occurred when I would change the URL to the store website.
Quite a few people had [...]
I’ve been developing PHP websites against mysql on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and finally decided I needed to start doing my testing and debugging on a client machine instead. My development machine runs Windows 7 so it is running the same version of IIS as my Windows Server 2008 R2 machine.
As [...]
I just released my first WordPress plugin – the WP Gallery Image Shortcode plugin. This plugin lets you add an image to a post or page from the WordPress gallery on your site using a shortcode. Normally when you add an image, it embeds an image tag and sometimes an anchor tag that each includes [...]
I stumbled upon a service that allows you to know what’s being copied from your site. The service can add attribution to the copied text which can drive more traffic to your site. The service is called Tynt Insight and the basic functionality is all free, but they offer additional features in a Pro package [...]
My colleagues and I ran into a bit of a problem trying to find all the files that matched a pattern at or below the current folder. The problem is that the PowerShell Get-ChildItem cmdlet has a bizarre notion of file and path matching. Consider this cmd.exe command:
dir /s Microsoft*
This will return all the [...]
I’m coming up to speed on IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 R2. There is a lot to like, but there is also a lot to learn. One of the things that’s interesting about R2 is that there is no 32-bit version, so I’m finally running 64-bit Windows. This doesn’t come without its problems.
One of the [...]
I’m in the process of moving my WordPress sites to a new server and a new version of WordPress, and as part of that I’m also reevaluating how my uploads are organized. I discovered that some of my images didn’t have thumbnails generated in the right sizes.
Fortunately, I’m not the only person who has [...]
I’ve just recently added a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to my network with a domain controller running Windows Server 2003 SBS. Everything seemed to be working fine for a couple days (not sure why it lasted that long) when I started getting an error message like this:
The system detected a possible attempt to compromise [...]
Periodically I need to copy the contents of a log to another domain for testing purposes. WordPress doesn’t make this particularly easy as it embeds the complete URL of the site in many places, including the options table, in the posts table for each post, and even in posts, such as when media is added.
There [...]
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