iKode

using a host file to test a virtual host apache site configuration

iKode — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:42:53 +0000

When developing on a server , you will want to test the site you are working on to make sure everything is working correctly. Sometimes you may not have a domain name pointing to your test server. This may present a problem because there may be domain specific configurations within your site that depends on [...]

Monitor your server using your iPhone and iStat Server

iKode — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:37:57 +0000

Ever wanted to monitor your servers remotely using your iPhone? iStat for the iPhone is a great monitoring tool for your servers or Macs. In order to use iStat you will need to install iStat server on the machines you would like to monitor. This article will walk you through the fairly painless install process. [...]

Finding and Editing Mac OSX Host File

iKode — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:49:19 +0000

Mac Host File The most popular reason to edit a host file is to test virtual host configurations. In order to edit and modify the mac host file you must edit it using terminal. This is where the file is located. /private/etc/hosts In order to edit it open up terminal and enter the following command: [...]

Using PHP Short Tags

iKode — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:23:32 +0000

When coding in PHP you must specify where the PHP code begins and ends by using tags. PHP tags come in two flavors, full and short tags. Below is a sample of using full tags. Full Tags <?php echo "This is PHP"; ?> Below is a sample of PHP using short tags. Short Tags <? [...]

How to create a “Secure” Password

shdowhawk — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:52:00 +0000

There are many contradicting theories on password creation and strength. Security experts will tell you to create a strong password, and change it often, yet this causes confusion for many people since they suddenly have to keep track of many many passwords between their social networking sites, email sites, work computers, home computers, and shopping sites. Even worse, most people create ONE password that they use for ALL of their websites, which is one of the worst possible security faux-pas that a person can do.

.htaccess apache rewrite rules

iKode — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:58:56 +0000

Apache web server is a very popular and capable server used for serving up webpages like the one you are viewing. Apache uses what’s called .htaccess files in order to make configuration changes per directory. For example , you have a directory you want to keep all images hidden from public view you would do [...]

How to SSH without typing in a Password

shdowhawk — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:59:54 +0000

Ever wanted to run a script where you use SSH? Maybe you were SSH/SCP/SFTP'ing to multiple different servers and did not want to type in a password over and over again? Maybe you wanted to run a script that was set up on a Cron, and could not make it run because it was asking for a password at 3:00am in the morning when no one was around...

Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

iKode — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:50:19 +0000

If you have Apache2 installed on a virtual server , you may have come across this. You change your config and go to restart apache… # sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Restarting web server apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName … waiting apache2: Could not reliably [...]

Twitter plugins for WordPress

iKode — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:41:44 +0000

Here are my 3 WordPress-Twitter plugins that I like the best. I have included a breif summary and some screen shots. I find it odd that you wont find screen shots for these plugins on the WordPress plugin site. No matter , I have taken the time to get some screen shots so you can [...]

Create your Facebook fan page

iKode — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:31:05 +0000

Im not sure why Facebook makes it difficult to find the link to create a fan page, but here you are. CREATE FACEBOOK FAN PAGE Now I can’t guarantee this link will still work a few months from now since they love to change things up over there at Facebook. Pages are a great way [...]