02Jul

Getting Lighttpd, FastCGI and PHP working on CentOS 4

HowTo, Linux, PHP, Technology

Over the years I have been installing Lighttpd from the RPMforge repository on my CentOS 4 servers for high traffic sites. The one thing that bothers me time and again is that installing lighttpd, lighttpd-fastcgi and PHP; configuring lighttpd.conf to enable FastCGI and configuring FastCGI for PHP isn’t all that is required. Try [...]

18Jun

CheckGmail Problem With Google Hosted Domains

HowTo, Linux

For some time now I have been using CheckGmail to monitor both my gmail.com accounts and my sivel.net accounts. But several months ago Google changed the way that accounts are authenticated for hosted domains.
If you are experiencing this problem I suggest downloading the most recent version of CheckGmail from the CheckGmail subversion [...]

26Mar

AJAX-ify the FAQ-Tastic WordPress Plugin

HowTo, Plugins, Wordpress

If you came here looking for the plugin click here.
Update: This plugin has been tested with the new FAQ-Tastic Lite plugin and works as expected.
FAQ-Tastic is a wonderful WordPress plugin for maintaining a FAQ on your website. My company recently made a decision for one of its products to run both the blog and [...]

23Jan

Display Most Recent Wordpress Posts On Another Site

HowTo, PHP, Wordpress

I was recently had the job of displaying the most recent Wordpress posts on a sites main page. The easiest way I could think of doing this is to use the RSS feed.
I’ll give two sample php functions that will do this as one requires some pear packages and the other doesn’t.
Option 1
This option [...]

29Oct

Single Sign-On with Apache and Active Directory - Part 2

HowTo, Linux

Part 1 | Part 2
Back on May 23rd, 2007 I wrote an article titled Single Sign-On with Apache and Active Directory which I have now made Part 1 of this topic. In that article I wrote:
There are 3 major solutions for this which are mod_ntlm, mod_auth_kerb and Apache2:AuthenNTLM…I tried mod_ntlm which seemed to be [...]

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