- Secure Your WordPress Installation
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Wednesday, 11th August 2010
Security is often an overlooked aspect of blogging, but a few minutes making sure things are secure can save you hours and hours of ‘fixing’ if someone decides to mess with your site.
Tags: MySQL, password, PHP, secret key, security, SSL, wordpress
- Installing MySQL on Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
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Wednesday, 31st March 2010
If you’re comfortable with installing applications on your Mac and are reasonably familiar with MySQL, installing MySQL on Snow Leopard should be relatively simple. Here are the simple steps you need to do to get MySQL up and running on your local machine.
Tags: Apple, Leopard, Mac OSX, MySQL, PHP, Snow Leopard
- PHP.ini Permission Problems on Windows Vista
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Sunday, 17th February 2008
Installing PHP is a relatively simple task one would think. Indeed it is simple, but configuring the php.ini isn’t; at least not so on Windows Vista! It is infuriating when such a relatively simple task is made inordinately complicated because of the nuances of Vista permissions. What started out as a 5 minute task took a significant number of hours searching for a suitable answer on Google, and not only by myself.
Tags: administrator, Apache, configuration, configuring, difficulties, Google, installation, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, MySQL, paths, permissions, PHP, problems, Rob Douglas, solution, solutions, solving, Vista, Windows Vista