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Htaccess Rewrites for Moving Urls

Post by AskApache Oct 29, 20111 comment

Category: Htaccess
Tags: 301 Redirects, Htaccess

HOWTO: Uninstall CPANEL over SSH

Post by AskApache Jul 04, 20113 comments

The following is just a quick reference of some of the commands I used to successfully uninstall cpanel. This is for advanced users of the shell. If you aren't that advanced and you run a single one of these commands without fully understanding it, you will probably kill your server, probably lose everything on it permanently, probably not have a website or email for weeks.. So backup all your data FIRST. Also, if you aren't 100% sure you won't run into problems, you should contact your hosts technical support - but be prepared for some MAJOR negativity.. cpanel makes things very easy for hosts, you are just a drop in their bucket.

Wow!

You sure gotta bigger set that *I* do. . . . - for real! I've been known to do some abysmally stupid things in my day - and actually had them work the way I wanted them to! - but this takes the titanium, gadolinium, rhodium alloy cake!

Me, I'd try something like that and find out later that the fire-trucks showed up right after I hit the "Enter" key. It's a REALLY interesting post, and a real eye-opener - especially for someone who is relatively new to the whole web-hosting-service paradigm. I know, no guts, no glory - but THIS is WAY over the top! I'm reading this and thinking "Why not just put a couple of sticks of dynamite under the thing?"

Seriously now, this was an excellent read - and for someone who is just now looking into the whole web-hosting paradigm, it's a real eye-opener. Though I think I'll just tiptoe past this REAL QUIETLY for now. . . . (laughing!)

Jim

Category: Hacking

Terminal Escape Code Zen

Post by AskApache Apr 13, 2011comment

An image and technicacl achievement so profound, it will touch yoour heart.. So 3D... it'll hurt you eyes! LOL.. lol.. Man I am cracking up here. haha Ha definately the best intro ever, those really do look 3D for terminal though huh.. Sweet. Here is the little function I wrote to output that grey marble.

Category: Linux

Creating an Offline Version of Page

Post by AskApache Oct 22, 2010comment

So, here's what I hacked together last night, that is being used today. It's essentially 2 files.

1. A php file that scrapes uses curl to scrape all the urls for the page (favicon, css, images, pdfs, etc..)
2. A simple bash shell script acting as a cgi that creates a zip file of all the urls, and a self-extracting exe file for those without a winzip tool

Category: PHP

Magic in the Terminal: Screen, Bash, and SSH

Post by AskApache Sep 07, 20102 comments

Oh ya lets get it on! short but sweet

Category: Hacking

Questions I Ask Web Hosting Companies, Before Buying

Post by AskApache Apr 25, 20109 comments

The following is a transcript of a chat I had with a company called tektonic, and at that time I was looking for a cheap linux host to use for some redundancy/failover operations. I generally contact a new hosting company like this every few months.. I like to have options available in case of some kind of failure or network attack, so it's always a good idea to have a few ace linux servers in your back pocket.

If you've read any other articles on AskApache, you can see a certain obsession towards optimization, speed, and security -- so that is the purpose of the following questions.

Category: Hosting

30x Faster Cache and Site Speed with TMPFS

Post by AskApache Mar 18, 20107 comments

NOT a typo.. 30x is measurable, well-documented, and easily tested. This is what open-source is about. I haven’t had time to post much the past year, I'm always working! So I wanted to make up for that by publishing an article on a topic that would blow your mind and be something that you could actually start using and really get some benefit out of it. This is one of those articles that the majority of web hosting companies would love to see in paperback, so they could burn it.

Category: Optimization
Tags: tmpfs

Adding Print Capability to your Site with CSS

Post by AskApache Jul 01, 20093 comments

Its really nice to be able to print out a webpage you are reading using your browsers built-in print feature. Using CSS you can easily transform your site into a print-friendly site.

Today I received an email from a visitor to my site requesting that I add a way to print site articles on AskApache

Category: CSS

Upgrading to DreamHost Private Servers

Post by AskApache May 31, 200814 comments

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.

Category: Hosting

Undetectable Sniffing On Ethernet

Post by AskApache Apr 14, 2008comment

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.

Category: Hacking

Blocking Bad Bots and Scrapers with .htaccess

Post by AskApache Apr 08, 200824 comments

Want to block a bad robot or web scraper using .htaccess files? Here are 2 methods that illustrate blocking 436 various user-agents.

Category: Htaccess

What I think about DreamHost Web Hosting

Post by AskApache Nov 11, 20072 comments

NOTE: This is a very old post, I do NOT recommend DreamHost for anyone other than spammers. They are not a long-term solution.

Category: Hosting

SEO with Robots.txt

Post by AskApache Oct 20, 200722 comments

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.

Category: SEO

SEO Redirects without mod_rewrite

Post by AskApache Apr 10, 200719 comments

Web Professionals use mod_rewrite to issue 301 and 302 Redirects for Search Engines. Sometimes you may not have mod_rewrite.c or you want an alternative redirect method. Using mod_alias RedirectMatch you can use REGEX in Redirect commands!

Category: Htaccess

htaccess Tricks for Webmasters

Post by AskApache Apr 10, 200711 comments

Some of my favorite htaccess examples from some of my favorite .htaccess tutorials. These cut-and-paste ready htaccess code snippets are very useful for website and server administrators.

Category: Htaccess

Playing the Market

Post by AskApache Mar 22, 20071 comment

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.

Category: Hacking

Custom PHP.ini with FastCGI on DreamHost

Post by AskApache Feb 22, 2007comment

I'm really sorry but I had to disable the sites you had running under user $USER because that was the only way I could keep the associated processes from restarting themselves and making the server unstable. Please do not run these sites with a persistent php.cgi process with a php.ini file as an argument.

Category: Shell Scripting

Fight Blog Spam with Apache

Post by AskApache Jan 31, 20071 comment

Fighting Blog Spam with Apache htaccess and other methods.

Category: Htaccess