Server code
I want to store this one for later so I’m posting it here. If you find it useful feel free to link to it. I wanted to version some files I’m working on but didn’t want to use a git Continue reading How to Create and Push to a Local Git Repository
If you’re running Apache web server and you have your site protected with HTTP authentication but still want to allow Let’s Encrypt/Certbot to be able to issue a certificate you will have to allow access to the .well-known folder on Continue reading Allow Access to .well-known Folder For Let’s Encrypt/Certbot When Site Is Protected By HTTP Authentication
First provision your server at your desired web host. I recommend using an 8GB Linode VPS. I could not get the server to start on a 4GB but maybe some day they will optimize it enough for that if you Continue reading Install new ARK server on Ubuntu 16.04
Recently I noticed a few sites had a page download instead of displaying when they were working perfectly fine before. I’m not 100% sure why but in my case the fix was to go into Virtualmin and toggle the PHP Continue reading Website downloads instead of displaying
Here’s a BASH script I wrote which downloads and installs the Java JDK RPM. Tested on CentOS 6.x. If you are looking to install on Ubuntu (or Mint) go here. It also downloads the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Continue reading Bash Script for Installing / Updating Java JDK RPM
Have you ever wanted to do a grep search on all files for a variable such as $_REQUEST, $_GET or $_POST but couldn’t figure it out? I have tried to do this a few times but end up just giving Continue reading How to grep a $_REQUEST, $_GET or $_POST variable in all files recursively
I had a website that was moved to a new domain name but I wanted to make all the old URLs redirect to the new domain. However, redirecting using a typical .htaccess redirect as shown below wouldn’t work because it Continue reading Redirect Apache ServerAlias to ServerName
I recently had to update PHP on a server and the php.ini settings but then the date.timezone wasn’t set in a bunch of servers. So I decided just to search and replace them instead of doing them all individually. find Continue reading Recursively find and replace php.ini date.timezone
I keep forgetting how to setup the mod_webpresence for ejabberd whenever I happen to reinstall everything so I am typing it out here for future reference and maybe it’ll even be useful for others. The instructions aren’t 100% clear for Continue reading Building mod_webpresence for ejabberd on CentOS
So many websites out there. They number in the billions. So many people trying to make their mark in the world wide web. Why start another website? Well I’m hoping to write about things I find useful, especially if I Continue reading Servers, Code, Websites, the Whole Internet