Monthly Archives: July 2012
ok, here we go – LAMP https setup
Older server with this setup is turned off. So I’m going to document it. Where was that place that offered free certificates? startssl.com. The process: sign up email verify create a key install key – mostly click “ok” a few … Continue reading
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iGoogle is going away?
not sure what prompted yet another closure of a useful google service. Most likely money. According to the closure notice chrome apps are the suggested replacement for iGoogle. That’s not as portable. I’ve become extremely used to having useful gadgets … Continue reading
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php serverside post without curl
I use this often. I am tired of looking it up on google. Welcome to your new home: Actually I was having an issue getting this [cited] version to work with https. Not exactly sure why. Working in a rarely … Continue reading
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changing sendmail’s host name and via[mailed-by] hostname
so far only have a link to a good looking resource. It actually talks more about hostname in general linux sense. Need to test it out, see what I can get accomplished. Then will try to find more fine grain … Continue reading
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commandline sendmail test
title says it all… sendmail -s “Hello world” email@domain.tld believe you need root privileges. search helping: send mail, send-mail, command line. *For some reason this command is not working on some ubuntu server. getting: sendmail: invalid option — ‘s’. tried … Continue reading
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Linux version and distributioin information
I always by default remember ‘uname -a’, which is mostly related to kernel information. I also pretty frequently need to know which version of ubuntu or centos I am using. ‘lsb_release -a’ worked ubuntu[a server verions]. There is some mention to … Continue reading
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email server setup – bulkmail management
Today I did quite a bit of research related to the title. Some facts, or rules-of-thumb I found that are probably useful and possibly true. 2 of 1000 emails marked as spam is acceptable not to have you mail server … Continue reading
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php simple xml namespaces
Wanted a custom rss reader for craigslist postings. Since crazedlist.org has been disabled I have not been able to find a comparable aggregated craigslist search tool. The closest one I found was searchtempest, but felt it had a few too … Continue reading
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php simple XML children with unfriendly names
I was recently dealing with an xml source that had a child named something like city_-_zip. I could not access the child with the direct pointer syntax because it would give an error. Because of php’s extremely dynamic variable resolution, … Continue reading
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Cross-Origin Resource Sharing – CORS – PHP example
Just a couple of days ago I posted about JSONP as a method for cross-domain access within current browser constraints. I kept thinking about the restrictive access method{GET}. Which limits the size of the request. I had started reading tangent … Continue reading
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