Server Side Includes on Linux

Posted by on Apr 14, 2009 in Web Development | No Comments

I so rarely use server side includes (SSI) on Linux systems that today I ran into the same problem this guy had. I use them all the time in our Windows environments, but in our Linux-based PHP-world, I use the PHP-based versions (include or require). It’s basically just a matter where you can’t include something […]

WordPress Media Upload Issue

Posted by on Apr 13, 2009 in Web Development, WordPress | No Comments

More permissions issues. After installed WordPress 2.71, make sure /wp-content/ is writable by WordPress, or you will have to manually add the /wp-content/uploads/ directory and make it writable by WordPress. This could very likely take the form of 777 permissions (groan).

Hosting domains/subdomains across multiple servers

Posted by on Apr 7, 2009 in Web Development | No Comments

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 […]

Correctly redirecting secondary domains to a primary domain

Posted by on Mar 23, 2009 in Web Development | No Comments

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

Posted by on Mar 23, 2009 in Technology, Web Development | No Comments

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 […]

Resolution for trouble installing FCK Editor for Joomla 1.5

Posted by on Mar 20, 2009 in General, Web Development | No Comments

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

Posted by on Mar 13, 2009 in Joomla, Web Development | No Comments

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

Posted by on Mar 12, 2009 in Joomla, Web Development | No Comments

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

Posted by on Jan 12, 2009 in Joomla, Web Development | No Comments

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

Posted by on Nov 13, 2008 in General, Technology, Web Development | No Comments

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 […]