The Site With The LAMP

I’ve blogged too often in recent weeks about issues with WordPress. Many of those issues were related to WordPress and SSL. I blogged a couple of times that I had solved them but apparently I hadn’t.   The solution that I had used, which involved a plugin named WordPress HTTPS, lead to mix of  encrypted [...]

One of the residuals of the server outage is that the feedback form on this site stopped working even after restoration. That was caused by the ditching of the old CentOS (5.4) Amazon Machine Image in favour of a CentOS  (5.6) AMI when the PHP mail funciton is invoked it results in the following error [...]

Once upon a long ago it didn’t matter whether your site was www.raditha.com or just plain old raditha.com then along came Google Pagerank. Your website being accessible with or without the www could mean that your Pagerank is divided amongst two sites. Even though Google itself advised that website owners shouldn’t worry too much about Pagerank, people [...]

My Macbook never get’s shut down or restarted, it keeps running for months on end without any hiccups, but the other day it died. It started with the battery getting drained. I just closed the cover, turned it over and put in the spare battery.  When you do that the Macbook automatically hibernates, you need [...]

A couple of days back, we did an update to Deadlinedue, the Harvard reference generator, the moment the database was updated and the new code was put in place, PHP started segfaulting. It was time to decide whether to roll back or press forward. I chose the latter and it resulted in the site been [...]

You can speed up your website, by making your web server perform on the fly gzip compression. Any old web server including the lame IIS can do that. Similarly any old web browser including the badly designed, badly written Internet Explorer can transparently decompress this gzipped content. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about some [...]

On saturday, I noticed that I could no longer check mail on my account. My mail server also has a couple of websites and a mysql database running on it. Those servers apeared to work fine. I opened a remote shell and trying looking through the qmail logs and the syslogs for errors by couldn’t [...]

It’s been a long long time since I used anything other than analog to process my web server log files. My own analyzer – Log Mine is still half baked (heck it’s hardly even ready for the oven after all these years). Analog itself is showing signs of age and hasn’t been updated in a [...]