Stop cron emails at Dreamhost
I have some site on the Dreamhost. To monitor the traffic and performance, I have Awstats on site and runing many cron jobs every day. I have the experience of how to install AwStats on the Ubuntu server. The cron...
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Repaire corrupted MyISAM tables
To repare the corrupted MyISAM tables, just cd to the directory that holds the MyISAM datafiles, then run this: $ myisamchk -r -q table_name If it doesn’t work, try this command, $ myisamchk –safe-recover table_name The above two commands can...
MySQL Backup and Recovery Methodologies
MySQL is very popular. Many open source or free software use MySQL as their main database engine. To make our data safe, please remember to backup your data regularly. There are two methodologies you can use to back up MySQL...
Solve the Trouble with a cURL request in PHP
I have a HTTP status check online tool here. It is made by PHP with cURL extension. The trouble is some responses are good. Someone tell me that the url should be 302 redir or 200 Ok, but the tool...
What is MM_CASETEST4291
I am noticed that one strange folder name on my hosting. MM_CASETEST4291 It is an empty folder. After some search, I found it is a temporary folder which is used to test server connection and writing permission. MM_CASETEST4291 is created...
Regular Expression Library
When I am doing some programing, I may need the Regular Expression rule to validate the data user submit. It is used to protect the program and save the resource of server. To write a perfect Regular Expression Rule is...
IP Ports and Protocols
The following IP Ports and Protocols are excerpted from Networking Fundamentals. Port number – Protocols name 20 – File Transfer Protocol (FTP) data 21 – File Transfer Protocol (FTP) control 23 – Telnet 25 – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)...
Top 10 Ubuntu Blogs
I have a Ubuntu installation on one of my desktop. I am not a expert of Linux, but I like the spirit of Linux. Free and Open. I alway get the tips, referrence, howtos from these top 10 Ubuntu Blogs....
Upgrade phpBB 2 to phpBB3 (part 2)
Now I have the brand new installed phpBB 3 forum. In the final step of installation, I click “proceed on to convertor” to start converting the phpBB 2 to phpBB 3.
Upgrade phpBB 2 to phpBB3 (part 1)
Now I will go through all steps to upgrade phpBB 2.0.22 to phpBB 3. I use Dreamhost to host my phpBB forum. The forum I upgrade in this sample is http://forum.g2soft.net To upgarde a phpBB 2 forum to phpBB3, I...
Sun Will Buy MySQL for $1 Billion
CNET reports that Sun Microsystems is about to buy MySQL AB, developer of open source database management system MySQL, for 1 billion dollars: $800 million in cash for MySQL’s privately held stock and another $200 million in options. Mashable also...
PHP connect DBF file
DBF is very old format databse type. About 10 years ago, I use dBase which use DBF format. Now I will show you how to connect the DBF file from PHP script. 1) Add a system DSN in ODBC Data...
Conver text to date in PHP
I have the text string as below: 04/02/08 It is text. Format is mm/dd/yy But it is still can be recognized as yy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yy. How to convert to the ISO date format? I use PHP to do it.
Make a customized 404 error page
The 404 error or Not Found error message is an HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server but either the server could not find what was requested, or it was configured not...
HTTP Status code
I would like to make a small tool, which can detect the HTTP status of webpage. The status code will be used are listed as below: Successful Client Requests 200 OK 201 Created 202 Accepted 203 Non-Authorative Information 204 No...