PHPBB3 does not have a built-in moderation queue notification capability. So, if a new user posts in a forum that requires approval, then the post will sit there in the modification queue until a moderator either sees the icon on … Read more »
Fixing Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory If you get this error in /var/log/secure when trying to setup public key authentication (auto-login), the problem is related to permissions on your home directory or your ~/.ssh directory. The user … Read more »
Here’s a quickie for printing the full relative path for all files in the current directory find . -type f -exec ls {} \; | cut -d’/’ -f2- Here’s an example of the output that you can expect:
Some webcrawlers (i.e., Bots) are important to the well-being of your website. Some of these include GoogleBot, msnbot, Yahoo! Slurp, etc. There are also a lot of bots out there that do nothing to help you, and actually can harm … Read more »
Are you tired of spambots submitting your “Contact Us” forms? Tired of spambots using your forms to “Tell a friend” with a spam link? Use Google’s reCAPTCHA service! It’s really easy to implement. Visit the google reCAPTCHA website to sign … Read more »
Do you own a website with a copyright tag that you’re tired of remembering to update every year? Here’s a very simple method of ensuring that your copyright is up-to-date, and you won’t have to worry about it ever again. … Read more »
MySQL has been eating my server alive for the past several months, and I never could determine the exact cause. I’m running MySQL in a VPS environment with 1GB of RAM with two dedicated AMD (Opteron) CPU cores. From a … Read more »
I like to use while loops to perform a command or group of commands indefinitely until I type ctrl-c to stop the loop. The while loop is useful when monitoring the output of the netstat command Alternatively, the above one-liner … Read more »
Over the years, I have found that most spam traffic comes from outside the United States. My websites are meant for English-speaking, Western Hemisphere type people, so why leave my server open to the rest of the world? Since I … Read more »
Posting this here because I like it. I use it to generate by firewall rules to block as much international traffic from my server as possible since it’s pretty clear that some Class A IP blocks don’t need to be … Read more »