WordPress and Protecting Directories with .htaccess

You’ll find sometime that when you deploy WordPress in order for permalinks to work correctly you need a proper .htaccess file. This .htaccess also affects anything else you place within your web root when WordPress lives. For instance if you need to password protect a directory within the your webroot where WordPress lives. You’ll find … Read more

Ubuntu Squid 3 SSL Support PPA

If you’re looking for squid3 with SSL support in Ubuntu, you’re in luck! There’s a PPA that is providing squid3 with SSL support compiled in. Simple run the following command to add the mojocode PPA. add-apt-repository ppa:mojocode/ppa More information on the mojocode PPA. https://launchpad.net/~mojocode/+archive/ppa

Fix Ubuntu Apt error “public key is not available” GPG Keys

If you’ve ever used the a package or repository from the Ubuntu Personal Pakacge Archive, you may have receive an error when each time you use apt-get. The error looks something like this. W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY D8D75E403EBCE749   … Read more

Ubuntu apt-key not working? Behind a Firewall? Open port port 11371 or use http://:80

I was trying to get some Ubuntu PGP Key’s for some ppa.launchpad.net sources, and apt-key kept erroring out. All I had to do was open up 11371 on my firewall or just use http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 which would force the HTTP protocal instead of HKP. It’s that simple actually. http://superuser.com/questions/64922/how-to-work-around-blocked-outbound-hkp-port-for-apt-keys

Car Paint Damage (Chips, and Pits)

I’m working on my car to try and get some of the paint chips and pits out of the paint. Here are some pictures of the problem area’s. I’ve been looking online at a couple of solutions. http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/repair/how-to-repair-chipped-car-paint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVkJT_hL6Zs&feature=related

Why DomainPeople’s New Domain Manager Sucks

DomainPeople upgraded their Domain Name Manager, which now doesn’t allow the creation of Name Servers based on your domain name. So you’re required to submit a ticket to create/update your Name Servers based on your Domain Name. I’m so glad I moved to Hexonet, because I have direct access to this. UPDATE: If you read … Read more

Configuring MySQL for Low Memory VPS

I’ve found the following configuration helps when you’re trying to squeeze out as much memory from a VPS as possible.   [mysqld] port = 3306 socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock skip-locking key_buffer = 16K max_allowed_packet = 1M table_cache = 4 sort_buffer_size = 64K read_buffer_size = 256K read_rnd_buffer_size = 256K net_buffer_length = 2K thread_stack = 64K # For … Read more

Pasword Protected Sub Directories Missing on Index Listing with Apache2

If you’ve setup a folder that allows listing of the directory index, you will be presented with that directories contents. Folders and files will be show and you can navigate through each folder. However, if you’ve password protected a sub directory, it will not show up in the listing. This is because its considered to … Read more