Web Development, WordPress, Apache, .htaccess, tutorials, mod_rewrite, phpmailer, programming articles
Adding Akismet Anti-Spam Protection Anywhere
Wouldn’t you love to have Akismet Anti-spam protection for non-wordpress forms and pages?
Zenutech Web Hosting?
What matters to me is that they run linux, have SSH access, love open-source, and remember the little guy.
Please help me win the DreamHost Contest
DreamHost has a contest every month nicknamed “DHSOTM” or DreamHost Site Of The Month, that lets the customers rank websites hosted on DreamHost. By winning the contest you get to put a graphic designed in the 90’s on your site. I want it so bad!
WordPress Plugin for Apache .htaccess Security
- gzip’s previous .htaccess file and sends it as an attachment to the logged in users email account along with password user setup.
- Now also works for sites running on SSL (PHP version >4.3.0)
- Rewrote the security module code in the form of snort, nessus, and mod_security rules and signatures
- Added a *real* check to see if mod_rewrite is installed
- Added Modules that remove directoryindexes
- Much more on the way..
SEO Secrets of AskApache.com
Learn how in a year, with no previous blogging experience this blog was able to rank so high in search engines and achieve 15,000 unique visitors every day. Uses combination of tricks and tips from throughout AskApache.com for Search Engine Optimization.
Mod_Security .htaccess tricks
Mod_Security rivals Mod_Rewrite in the amount of features it provides. I decided to go ahead and post what I learned about it today, even though its tough to give away such awesome htaccess and apache tricks.. Learn how to control spam once and for all, conditionally log/deny/allow/redirect requests based on IP, username, etc.. Mod_Security is so fine!
Undetectable Sniffing On Ethernet
I have been in some tight spots where I had to sniff a password or two off the wire, or sniff some packets off the wire and based on the packets content perform some action… Accidentally, I stumbled on a method to sniff data while remaining undetected and invisible.
Blocking Bad Bots and Scrapers with .htaccess
Want to block a bad robot or web scraper using .htaccess files? Here are 2 methods that illustrate blocking 436 various user-agents.
Crazy Cache WordPress Plugin Released
A WordPress plugin that caches your entire blog for WP-Cache, I love this plugin and finally released it to the public!
Hacking VLAN switched networks
There isn’t much vlan info on the net in terms of specifics and I had to learn all about it because I needed to log in to a switch that was on a different vlan. With the help of the Ettercap developers NaGA and ALoR I figured it out.
Hacking WP Super Cache for Speed
A plugin built to generate static files from php+mysql for Apache to serve the way its supposed to be.. My dream. Conclusion: Needs some improvement, pretty sweet though.
Search Engine Verify Plugin Updated
This plugin has been updated for WordPress 2.5 and includes more options to get your site indexed by Google and Yahoo.
Fresh .htaccess Examples: Cookies, Variables, Custom Headers
Fresh .htaccess code for you! Check out the Cookie Manipulation and environment variable usage with mod_rewrite! I also included a couple Mod_Security .htaccess examples. Enjoy!
AskApache Password Protection, For WordPress
AskApache Password Protect adds some serious password protection to your WordPress Blog. Not only does it protect your wp-admin directory, but also your wp-includes, wp-content, plugins, etc. plugins as well. Imagine a HUGE brick wall protecting your frail .php scripts from the endless attacks of automated web robots and password-guessing exploit-serving scripts.
PHP Sessions/Cookies On The Fly
This article shows how to save and modify php session data, cookies, do anything really… without using ajax or iframes or forcing the user make a request.
Auto-Login to Google Analytics to impress Clients
Google Analytics for your clients sites is a no-brainer, it ROCKS! I have 100+ client sites running Analytics and all of them have trouble-free (no password or username to remember) access to their site reports. Thanks to the method in this post, my clients couldn’t be happier..
Surf the net anonymously with Tor
Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that give you a very good level of anonymity, using Tor with privoxy and FoxTor for firefox gives you privacy at the touch of a button.
Advanced HTTP Redirection
Learn about the 7 different HTTP response codes specifically reserved for redirection. 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, and 307.
Penny Stocks
AskApache caters to the web/system elite, who’s skillsets are also good for online stock trading. Heres a look at a penny stock investment.
Updated robots.txt for WordPress
Implementing an effective SEO robots.txt file for WordPress will help your blog to rank higher in Search Engines, receive higher paying relevant Ads, and increase your blog traffic. Get a search robots point of view… Sweet!
Hack WP-Cache for Maximum Speed
If you desire SPEED from your WordPress blog, the #1 speed improvement comes from using the WP-Cache Plugin. If you still desire SPEED after installing the Plugin, you can modify the WP-Cache Plugin code to make your blog even faster!
Speed Tips: Add Cache-Control Headers
Using Cache-Control headers you can specify which types of proxies can cache certain content, and how long files should be cached.
Faster Form Submission and Processing with fsockopen
Part II: Example illustrating how to speed up GET/POST form submissions. Uses fsockopen to initiate a server-side background request to process the submitted data, so that the result page of the form is displayed to the client lightningly quick.
Faster POST and GET Form Submissions
Just a very brief look at speeding up form submission by delegating the processing and bandwidth to your server, not your client.
Skeleton .htaccess file for Powweb Hosting
If you have a Powweb Webhosting account, you will appreciate this simple skeleton .htaccess file for use on their systems.
Update: AskApache Password Protect Plugin
WordPress plugin gives you control over HTTP Basic Authentication for your WordPress blog which among other things, stops most automated hacking attempts and exploits being attempted, cutting down on the number of requests, connections, and mysql queries for all WordPress blogs on the Internet.
Preloading .flv and .mp3 files with Flash
If you want to pre-load .flv / .mp3 files into a visitors browser cache using flash, here’s the actionscript I use to do it, and some ideas behind a good javascript implementation using swfobject or ufo.
Speed Up Google Analytics, use local ga.js
Host Google Analytics ga.js file locally for increased speed! Makes web pages load faster.
Log all .htaccess/.htpasswd logins
Learn how to log and debug usernames and passwords used to login to a htaccess basic authorization protected website using php. This article is BOSS and will show you how to fully take control of this aspect of security using php and .htaccess, I don’t believe you will find instructions to do this anywhere else on the net.
Advanced WordPress 404.php
For the AskApache Google 404 WordPress Plugin update I added a new 404.php that is more advanced than anything previously seen for a 404.php
