This simple unix shell script automatically creates backups of a specific folder at regular hourly, nightly, weekly, and monthly intervals. Instead of the usual method for copying directory trees using tar with fifo, pipes, rsync, or NFS methods this script uses cpio which is much much faster and has cool options like saving m/a/c times, symlinks, relative paths, and weird file names.
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Automated Folder Backup Shell-Script
AskApache.com May 2008 DreamHost Site of The Month
With a rating of 8.58, this marks the highest rated DreamHost Site Of The Month Winner in the History of the Contest!
Upgrading to DreamHost Private Servers
DreamHost PS gives you your own “virtual machine”, protecting your CPU and RAM on your physical machine for faster websites. Here’s what I like and dislike about DreamHostPS, and some of the issues and solutions for migrating.
Smart HTTP and HTTPS RewriteRule Redirects
This is freaking sweet if you use SSL I promise you! Basically instead of having to check for HTTPS using a RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on for every redirect that can be either HTTP or HTTPS, I set an environment variable once with the value “http” or “https” if HTTP or HTTPS is being used for that request, and use that env variable in the RewriteRule.
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!
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!
IP Abuse Detection for DreamHost
Scan Apache logs for IP address that are probably evil, then generates an .htaccess file to DENY them all.
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.
SetEnvIf and SetEnvIfNoCase Examples
SetEnvIf and SetEnvIfNoCase directives conditionally set environment variables accessible by scripts and apache based on HTTP Headers, Variables, and Request information.
Continue ReadingApache Environment Variables CGI Script
My improved version of the common printenv / test-cgi scripts for debugging Apache environment variables set in .htaccess files
