Apache Modules: An independent part of the Apache HTTPD program. Much of Apache's functionality is contained in modules that you can choose to include or exclude.
Awk: Unix utility for pattern scanning and processing language
Mod_Security .htaccess tricks: Mod_Security .htaccess guide provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring and real-time analysis with little or no changes to existing infrastructure
AskApache Password Protection, For WordPress: AskApache Password Protect adds some serious password protection to your WordPress Blog\'s admin directory. Imagine a HUGE brick wall protecting your frail .php scripts from the endless attacks of automated web robots and password-guessing exploit-serving virii.
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
Penny Stocks: AskApache caters to the web and system elite, who's skillsets are also good for online stock trading. Heres a look at a penny stock investment.
Hack WP-Cache for Maximum Speed: Modify the WP-Cache Plugin on your WordPress blog to make it even better and your blog much faster!
Speed Tips: Add Cache-Control Headers: Adding Cache-Control headers to your site\'s files gives you control over what is cached, and how long it is cached. Even if the cache should check for an updated version of the caches file or not.
SEO Boost from Google 404 Plugin: WordPress Plugin that adds a customized SEO 404 Error Page designed to increase traffic to your site and pages, while being very helpful to your visitors.
Hackers Declare Total War against Scientology: Anonymous has flooded Scientology servers with a distributed denial of service attack, is choking the Church's phone lines with prank calls and sending looped faxes of solid black pages
Is Your Password Crackable?: Search rainbow tables for a match to a md5 or sha1 password hash to locate weak web app passwords to improve security.
Firefox Adsense WordPress Plugin: WordPress plugin that displays a Firefox Google Referrals AdSense Ad on your blog only if the client is not running Firefox and on Windows.
IP Abuse Detection for DreamHost: Scan your Apache logs on DreamHost to locate Abuse by IP addresses. Generates .htaccess file to block them.
mod_rewrite Fix for Caching Updated Files: Web Developers sometimes use file.ext?v=004 as a version control system to force visitors to use updated files. This is terrible. Instead link to apache-003.css and set it to be cached forever. When you change the file you just change the links to apache-004.css. That eliminates millions of bandwidth and resource robbing If-Modified-Since requests.
Robots.txt Secrets From Matt Cutts: Matt Cutts Interviewed about robots.txt files, noindex, nofollow, and noarchive meta tags by Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting.
WordPress What Is This Plugin: Displayes a semi-transparent box on the document you are viewing that tells you if its a page, single, feed, category, etc..
CSS Cross-Browser Compatibility Tip: Online Tool creates screenshot images of your web page for different browsers to check that the CSS renders correctly
Prevent WP-Cache from Caching index: Disable caching on WordPress index pages when using WP-Cache with this neat mod to the famously speedy cache plugin.
301 Redirect Cheatsheet: Ultimate Redirect Cheatsheet for multiple programming languages. Redirecting Users with Javascript redirect, meta refresh redirect, and php redirect, also htaccess methods, python, coldfusion, asp, perl, etc.
Simple PHP Anti-Spam Captcha Script: PHP Anti-Spam Captcha Tutorial to stop automated web robots and spammers from taking advantage of your site.
Best CSS .Classes for CSS Toolbox: CSS Toolbox of CSS classes for XHTML, Web Standards, Best-Practices web developers. Check out 10 of my favorite CSS classes.
Review: Posh CSS: Posh CSS is Cascading Style Sheet Articles, Tutorials, Tips and Code for the modern day web designer
Referer Spoofing Using JavaScript: Using a race condition in Mozilla Firefox to exploit a CSRF Attack to spoof HTTP Referer Headers.
A better way to use PDF files online: .htaccess and php example serves .pdf files to give visitors the choice to open in an external program or save to disk without having to open it in the browser
Updated: AskApache Search Engine Verify: Updated WordPress SEO Plugin won't slow down your blog unless you count the additional crawling of your site by Slurp and Googlebot.
HTTP Status Codes and ErrorDocuments: View the headers and returned content for all 57 Apache Response codes and ErrorDocuments. This is one of the absolute coolest Apache htaccess tricks I've ever seen!
SEO with Robots.txt: Very nice tutorial dealing with the robots.txt file. Shows examples for google and other search engines. Wordpress robots.txt and phpBB robots.txt sample files.
Website SEO Score Tool: Website grader is a Free SEO Report tool that grades your website on marketing and search engine optimization. Get your web site grade from Website Grader
CSS Background Image Sprites: CSS Image Sprites are single image files with multiple images, using the background-position in CSS you position the background-image to create a sprite
Getting flash to show up in front of content: I wanted a particular flash movie to show up when a user clicked on one of six buttons. I got the flash element to disappear or appear behind or in front by using the zIndex css attribute with javascript, and the wmode attribute.
If you can crash your daemon, you likely have a security problem: This discusses a very interesting concept for hackers or security folk.. Using netcat as a wrapper! This is very useful for doing stuff like redirecting traffic through your firewall out to other places like web servers and mail hubs, while posing no risk to the firewall machine itself. Put netcat behind inetd and tcp_wrappers
Speed Tips: Use Multiple SubDomains: Subdomains can dramatically and drastically speed up your website by allowing multiple persistant connections and dns caching.
Speed Tips: Turn Off ETags: By removing the ETag header you disable caches and browsers from being able to validate files, forcing them to rely on your Cache-Control and Expires headers. Eliminates If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match requests and their 304 Responses.
Troubleshooting Apache .htaccess Authentication: Apache Web Server users have problems getting Apache Authentication/password-protection in htaccess working, this is a troubleshooting guide to get Password Protection working!
Speedier Sites use CSS Sprites: Example use of an image sprite with css to speed up your websites drastically. An image sprite is 1 image composed of multiple images, using CSS you can display just one part of the image using background-position.
Rigging the DreamHost Site of the Month Contest: Since AskApache.com was disqualified and accused of cheating, which is absolutely false, I decided to go ahead and do the crime I have been punished for. That's right, I'm going to show YOU how I COULD have rigged the DHSOTM contest to hopefully make the statement that I absolutely did not cheat.
Allow AdSense Crawler Access: Google AdSense uses the robots.txt file to optimize Ads displayed on your site for the Mediapartners-Google robot
Install multiple OS Without Cds: I managed to install various operating systems on my computer (1 hard drive) without having to burn to a CD the ISO and then boot from that
Changing Any Password On XP: This quick tutorial will show you the steps to change and reset any user password on a windows computer, and also show you how to protect your computer from people doing this to you!
Top methods for Faster, Speedier web sites: High Performance Web Site list of the best and newest methods to make web pages super fast using caching, compression, cache-control, etc.
DreamHost Site of The Month Contest: Every month a contest called DHSOTM is held for the highest rated website on DreamHost. By winning the contest your site gets SEO and traffic benefits, which I hope to measure soon.
WordPress robots.txt SEO: WordPress robots.txt file can make a huge impact on your WordPress blogs traffic and search engine rank. This is an SEO optimized robots.txt file.
Apache Variable Fun in htaccess: They only become actual operating system environment variables when they are provided to CGI scripts and Server Side Include scripts. If you wish to manipulate the operating system environment under which the server itself runs, you must use the standard environment manipulation mechanisms provided by your operating system shell.
htaccess HTTPS / SSL Tips, Tricks, and Hacks: SSL and HTTPS on Apache HTTP Server has great httpd.conf examples and useful htaccess guides to stay secure and working. You may want to redirect to HTTPS or force HTTPS
Apache Authentication in htaccess: Password protect, Allow or Deny a visitor based on a condition. If you are having trouble getting htaccess-based password protection to work see:
PHP htaccess tips and tricks: Apache htaccess tricks and tips for implementing, using, and optimising php and custom php.ini
Manipulating HTTP Headers with htaccess: How would you like to be able to send P3P privacy headers, Content-Type: UTF-8, Content-Language: en-US, etc.. using just htaccess? Now you CAN!
htaccess Tricks for Webmasters: These cut-and-paste ready htaccess code snippets are very useful for website and server administrators
.htaccess Tutorials, Sample .htaccess files: 10 Chapters of .htaccess examples for Password Protection with Authentication, rewrite URLs with mod_rewrite module, configure PHP in htaccess, use SSL Encryption, protect files, block spam and hotlinking. Learn how to use this per-directory Apache config file like a Server Administrator.
Mixed SSL Content Warning Secure Fixed: I used to run into the problem of having warning messages pop up when I accessed a page with secure and non-secure information and finally I found something that let me post non-ssl encrypted content on an ssl encrypted page and no warning messages will pop up!
Serve Alternate Content based on Time: Apache mod_rewrite code to serve alternate versions of a file depending on the server time - week, month, hour, year, second
Custom PHP.ini tips and tricks: Details how to use a custom php.ini file, for php running as a cgi and php as apache module
Police find Ransom Video for Chicago Bears: What started as a joke between co-workers at the Hancock County Sheriff's Department is making its way around the internet and not everyone is laughing. The so-called joke involves a mock hostage situation with Colts fans holding Bears memorabilia for ransom.
Watch Peyton Manning 8th grade Tango (funny): Peyton Manning 8th grade Tango- They assign you a role. The play was called The Boyfriend. They gave me the role of Miguel. One of the scenes was you had to do a tango with Lola.
Port Redirector: can you please suggest me any tiny and good port redirector
for linux and unix like oses ?
so that when I connect to the box to a given port it redirects my connection
to another box and port that I can chose ?
thanx a lot
Racing the Windows XP ACL demon: Both of these pcs were behind a hardware/software firewall, and so each had their own host names, we'll say PEPSI and COKE, and they were both on a private network on the same subnet, so each belonged to a domain called MARKETING.
Top 5 Vulnerability Port Scanners: Asked some hackers and Computer Security gurus to list their 5 favorite Vulnerability/Port Scanners. Here are the results.
SEO in Wordpress: Search Engine Optimization with a Blog. SEO best-practices for WordPress.
Shell Scripts for Dreamhost: Example shell scripts (bash or sh) that automate and easyate tasks from within the dreamhost ssh env
Debug apache log files from php: Secure phpinfo.php with .htaccess, Now instead of getting a 404 error you will see debug information which will help you find out what the problem is.
Speed Up Sites with htaccess Caching: 2 awesome ways to implement caching on your website using Apache .htaccess or httpd.conf. Both methods are extremely simple to set up and will dramatically speed up your site!
Regular Expressions in Dreamweaver: Using the "Find and Replace" tool in Adobe DreamWeaver is useful of course, but you aren't using a fraction of the power until you use REGEX
