There have always been many different ways of setting up Apache and php. Whether it is with SuPHP, a multi-process-module, or simply using the Apache module, each way has pros and cons. Up until a few days ago I usually stuck with SuPHP – as it was the easiest to setup. However, I got adventurous...

One of the biggest issues I have with Mac OS X is the lack of built-in FUSE filesystem support. FUSE lets you easily add extra filesystems such as SSHFS, which is a great way to securely connect to remote servers. Unfortunately a once great project, MacFuse, is now dead, and only supported by nasty patches...

As you probably already know, web application security has been an increasingly hot topic over the past decade. From simple SQL injections to full-on website defacings, many websites, big or small, have been affected by lackluster security. If you use a prebuilt system such as WordPress the biggest thing you can do is update the...

Linux OSes make it insanely easy to bind multiple IP addresses to a single network interface. This is mainly useful for servers, where you often have one ethernet NIC with several several static IPs. In Debian-based OSes such as Ubuntu, all it takes is a changing one file and running one command to add a...

In an effort to make things easier to manage I’ll be switching over a whole bunch of server stuff. I still do a little bit of freelancing on the side and I host a few of my clients’ apps on my server (well VPS), and it is slowly becoming a nightmare to manage it all....