Posts in: Server management
- Using Amazon S3 for hard drive backups
- After reading Baratunde’s heart-wrenching post about losing an entire terabyte of data, including recordings of his late mother, I decided it was time for me to investigate some backup solutions. I half-assedly make DVD backups of my blog data and important files. But that stuff changes so frequently that a DVD system is really inadequate. An [...] [17 Sep 2007]
- Creating a faux directory structure using mod_rewrite and switch()
- The below example is just one way to create a faux directory structure using the magic of Apache’s mod_rewrite and the PHP switch statement. Sample re-write rules using mod_rewrite. These would be included in your .htaccess file for the directory whose URLs you wish to rewrite. More exacting patterns / rewrite rules are possible. RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule [...] [15 Sep 2005]
- Unix/Linux tip: Listing files with a wild card
- Say you want to view all files in a directory that start with foo. Simple, just type > ls foo* That will return all files that begin with foo, including foo.php, foo_bar.php and foot.php. Want to check the permissions on those files too? Type: > ls -l foo* [8 Sep 2005]
- Never, EVER, neverever in life …
- … should you include put a file with your database passwords in your web document root and give it an .inc extenstion. I ran across an example of this today and it’s just a really bad practice. These files are web-readable, and by saving it as an .inc file, you are exposing your data to whoever [...] [17 Aug 2005]
- Now with (validated!) RSS!
- I’ve been meaning to create an RSS feed for my site for quite some time now. Today, I jumped in and did it. I confess I cheated a bit by hijacking the basic code from a Search Engine Watch article on creating RSS feeds. But I still had to figure out how to automate the updating of [...] [27 May 2004]
- X H T M L and MIME types
- For the nerd in you, here’s an article on which MIME type you should use when serving XHTML pages. MIME types are an interesting thing. They determine what types of content a server or mail application can handle. The problem with using an XHTML MIME type is that most browsers do not support the type. Not surprising [...] [14 Sep 2003]
- How to stop (most) search engine crawlers
- Most search engines adhere to the Robots Exclusion Standards when crawling a site. If you want to stop it,you’ll need to write a proper robots.txt file. How to write one, you ask? Check out the Web Robots pages. [23 Aug 2003]
