Hosting domains/subdomains across multiple servers
Just a quick, but important note about local and remote domains on Unix-type systems when you have a domain that has some functions on one machine and other functions on another machine… don’t forget to set localdomains and remotedomains appropriately. For example, say you have www.domain.com on Machine A, and dev.domain.com on Machine B. Machine […]
Upgrading MacBook Pro 17″ (Late 2006)
Not sure if I’m brave enough for this, but my MacBook Pro is full, and I’m out of things I’m willing to offload to external drives. Not sure I’m brave enough for this, though. Might give it a shot.
Correctly redirecting secondary domains to a primary domain
Ok, so say you want everyone who goes to domain.com to be magically redirected (in a search engine-friendly manner) to www.domain.com. Lots of reasons you might want to do this, but most relate to analytics. Google has a handy guide just for you. In short, though, you’re setting your web server to 301 (permanent redirect) […]
Tracking Downloads in Google Analytics
The next time someone tells you that you can’t track downloads in Google Analytics (like links to PDFs, movies, or other assets that don’t reside on an actual page) tell them they’re full of crap. =) Provided you’re using the newer ga.js method you are golden. Check it out here. The one gotcha is that […]
Upgrading memory on a Mac Mini G4
Well, the day finally came to upgrade the memory on my father-in-law’s Mac Mini. He was running with 512MB and it just wasn’t cutting it any longer, plus I wanted to upgrade him to Leopard so more memory seemed like a good idea. Getting the extra RAM was the easy (cheap!) part, but once confronted […]
Resolution for trouble installing FCK Editor for Joomla 1.5
After installing FCK Editor 2.639b for Joomla 1.5, I was getting this error when attempting to edit an article: “[path]/plugins/editors/fckstyles_template.xml was not found on this server.” Naturally, it was a permissions issue related to the hosting environment. Full description of the known issue is here: http://www.joomlafckeditor.com/forum?func=view&id=1544&catid=8#1544 (registration required) Crunchy bits follow… Re:server didn’t send back […]
Joomla Install Afterthoughts
After installing Joomla, remember to: Set the RSS feed cache directory (/cache) to writable (I used 777, not sure if that’s required, but 666/664 didn’t seem to work), or the RSS feed module will throw up an error in its output. If adjusting template configuration, make sure and make the template’s params.ini file to writable […]
Installation of DOCman AutoThumb
Another DOCman issue, this time with a plugin I hadn’t tried before called AutoThumb 1.41. Installing through the normal ZIP upload method returned the following error: JFTP::mkdir: Bad response JFTP::chmod: Bad response JInstaller::install: Failed to create directory. “/[path]/plugins/docman/autothumb/libraries/phpthumb/cache/source” Install mambot Error Looks like a permissions issue, and it is. It turns out that initially installing […]
Installation of the DOCman Joomla Plugin
Ok, there are a couple of gotchas when installing DOCman 1.4x with Joomla 1.5x. The readme.txt file is less than helpful, but the short version is this: Temporarily allow 777 permissions on the following three directories (this can be found in the DOCman support forum): / /administrator/modules/ /plugins/ Install plugin as normal (I uploaded the […]
ASP.NET CS0433 compilation error resolution
To resolve ASP.NET CS0433 compile errors resulting from a changed code-behind, simply do the following: rename the Bin directory (may need to wait for the processes inside to finish talking to it) visit page in question (will result in an error, just ignore) rename Bin directory back to Bin visit page in question again Ta […]
