I’ve just had to evade a Russian block of one of my employer’s sites, let’s call it CasinoX. Presumably they had blocked both www.casinox.com and www.casinox.com’s IP address (which is a Cloud Flare IP btw).... Read More

Below is an example of how to http authenticate a whole project but leave two subdirectories and all their contents open.... Read More

I’ve started proxying certain services through Apache to be able to have them on different machines than the main site/service.... Read More

I’ve just had to cache all images on a site in RAM in order to limit the amount of disc scratching going on.... Read More

1.) Create your csr file and hand it over to Verisign, don’t make it password protected, leave the password empty.... Read More

Last week our host had a power outage and the backup power didn’t kick in or something. In any case, the end result was a reboot of all our servers, which went surprisingly well, except for one.... Read More

This is the long walkthrough on how to fix this problem which is due to the fact that a too low memory limit is set in the PHP ini file.... Read More

Damn this is strange, Apache suddenly just died on me after Vista installed some updates, the gauge in both wamp and xampp shows it as running but accessing localhost results in a no no. No matter how I tried to make things work, deactivating the firewall, UAC and a slew of other actions I was about to give up when I tried 127.0.0.1 without expecting it to work at all, but it did.... Read More

Yesterday I discovered that the flash banner wouldn’t load on www.asiandivingvacation.com, I suppose the crossdomain xml didn’t work like I expected it to.... Read More

What a nightmare it was yesterday and for the better part of today. The new project just failed to run with mod_rewrite on the staging server and we couldn’t understand why.... Read More