Interesting Bash Programming Tricks
These tricks were described in Google’s internal project “Testing on the Toilet” (handing out flyers in restrooms to remind developers about testing). This p...
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What grep Is and How to Use It
The other day, Habr user simpleadmin posted a pretty useful note about grep. From here on, it’s the author’s words:
Showing phpinfo output on a WordPress page without FTP access to the server
If you’ve run into the same problem I did, welcome. Someone reached out saying everything's gone. No server access, logins and passwords all changed. Need to...
Contact form for WordPress website without additional plugins
There are different plugins that enable contact form for WordPress websites. For some reason none of them worked correctly on my blog. Knowing some basic Wor...
Removing Extra Spaces from Strings in Microsoft Jscript
MS Jscript has a ton of functions and methods borrowed from VisualBasic and Microsoft C/C++. Among them is the trim function, which lets you strip extra spac...
Installing php-mcrypt on CentOS 6
To install php-mcrypt on CentOS Linux you need to enable a couple extra repos first:
How to find the WordPress version from the command line
You can find the installed WordPress version on the admin dashboard’s front page, but you might not have admin access. In that case run this command: grep wp...
Adding a button to the WordPress TinyMCE editor menu
Yesterday I added spoiler support to the blog, using this article
List of ColdFusion DataSources Usernames and Passwords
In ColdFusion settings, database connections can be configured in the admin panel under the DataSources section. But what do you do if the passwords for seve...
Counting DNS Zones in Windows Server 2008/2012 with Microsoft Jscript
Once I had to automate the process of getting info about the DNS zones sitting on some abstract Windows server. Again it cuts at my brain that I’m writing a ...
IP Address Pool Error in Plesk
Sometimes when working with Plesk version 10 you get an ip address pool error:
Passing Data from Windows CMD to Microsoft Jscript
Ran into another one: I need to get a set of data about the server using Microsoft Jscript. Tripping over Windows 2008 Server quirks again. It’s just really ...
How to Disable php safe_mode in Plesk
First log into Plesk. Go to the subscriptions page and pick the site you need. Then on the Websites&Domains tab expand Advanced Operations and pick Websi...
How to restrict allowed http methods in Apache
The following construction allows you to disable all http request methods in Apache, except for GET, POST and HEAD:
How to deny access to specific folders on a server in Apache
You can deny access to certain folders using the following construction. You can add it in the Apache virtual host settings, httpd.conf or create a separate ...