Do you ever wish you could inch away from IIS and migrate towards Apache on Linux or some other UNIX operating system? Well, in this article we will install Apache on our NT server. Another advantage to using Apache is it is a cool way to get a full fledged web server on your workstation. […]

First, get the current Apache distribution from Apache.org, and extract it: [root@srv-3 src]# ls apache_1.3.19.tar.gz bind-9.1.2 bind-9.1.2.tar.gz webmin-0.85.tar.gz [root@srv-3 src]# tar -xzf ap*.gz [root@srv-3 src]# [root@srv-3 src]# ls apache_1.3.19 bind-9.1.2 webmin-0.85.tar.gz apache_1.3.19.tar.gz bind-9.1.2.tar.gz [root@srv-3 src]# cd ap* [root@srv-3 apache_1.3.19]# ls ABOUT_APACHE config.layout INSTALL Makefile.tmpl src Announcement configure KEYS README WARNING-WIN.TXT cgi-bin htdocs LICENSE README.configure conf […]

If a particular user is abusing your Apache web server, it is quite easy to deny access to your site. We found (with our ISP) that the easiest is to put an entry in the .htaccess file in the root of the directory you want to protect: deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the offending […]

NetAdminTools used to use PHP-Nuke. For those of you who don’t know, PHP-Nuke is a fabulous Open Source project that gives you everything you need to bring up your own website with a database backend and other features. Now, one annoying thing with PHP-Nuke, and most web based interfaces is that it is quite difficult […]

In this series of articles, we will explore the fundamentals of PHP programming with MySQL. For a good reference, try this book. It helped us. In this installment of Programming With PHP, we will set up the Red Hat RPMs, configure our directories, and code a simple “Hello World” app. We are running Red Hat […]

In Part 1 of this series, we set up a basic PHP server with Apache on a Red Hat system, and wrote a simple “Hello World” script. In this article, we will vary content based on browser type. We will use the HTTP_SERVER_VARS server variable. The specific variable we want is HTTP_SERVER_VARS[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]. To use this, […]

One cool tool for tidying up your HTML, as well as notifying you of coding errors is TIDY. For an overview of what TIDY can do for you see this overview. Installation is quite easy: root@srv-1 src # tar -xzf tidy*.tgz root@srv-1 src # cd tidy root@srv-1 tidy # ls Makefile Makefile.bcc32 Makefile.nmake Makefile.vc6 console […]

In this article we will pass a parameter to a PHP script via a URL, and we will get a little more sophisticated in our conditionals and regular expressions. One problem with accepting parameters is that there are often security issues. It is very important to ensure that the parameters passed by the user conform […]

We aren’t quite happy with the web stats software we use. The information is not brief enough. Mostly, we want to see the last couple months, with the weekends visible, and the unique hosts and pages viewed. Also, we have a lot of content that gets snagged that isn’t really what we consider a valid […]

Like the needy stranger who tells us his or her entire life story on the occassion of our first meeting, Apache spews out way too much information in every HTTP header. And like the unscrupulous sharpies who take advantage of lonely folks they meet on buses, there are those who would use this information to […]

One thing that is quite prevalent in forums is sharing images as postings or as avatars. We saw that our RoboCoop was getting some hits, and wondered what was up. Well, there is a forum that has a daily discussion in Texas here that had put up a link to the image of our chicken […]

We often need to convert source code into html format. We use the pre tag; however, the default tab values are to wide. For instance: this is one tab this is another If we were to put some of our funner source code up, it would push the right margin over too far. Well, we […]

Grab the sdk from java.com. For us, we are going to install this on Lobstora, which is a GNU/Linux box. Just make the binary executable and run it: [root@srv-1 opt]# chmod 700 j2*.bin [root@srv-1 opt]# ./j2sdk-1_4_2_03-linux-i586.bin We like putting this in /opt with a symlink to j2sdk. [root@srv-1 opt]# ln -s j2sdk1.4.2_03 j2sdk [root@srv-1 opt]# […]

Tomcat is part of the Apache Project. Tomcat, which is free and open-source, can serve up JavaServer Pages (JSP). For more info on this, see J2EE JavaServer Pages Technology. The JavaServer Pages FAQ is here. We were a bit lazy, and grabbed a binary from here. Make sure you have Java installed. We installed Java […]

In Internet Options, select Content: Click on Certificates: Click Import: Next to proceed. Find your certificate. In this case it is a WebID file: Enter a password for the key if there is one (don’t worry, you only have to enter this when you import the key the first time): Choose a personal store: Choose […]