Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Missing httpd.conf in WHM / cPanel

Came across an error after mistakenly clicking a link in my hosting control panel.
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Unable to locate httpd.conf at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/ConfigFiles.pm line 27.

Cpanel::ConfigFiles::find_httpconf(undef) called at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/ApacheConf.pm line 206

Cpanel::ApacheConf::loadhttpdconf() called at whostmgr/bin/whostmgr4 line 197

main::listaccts() called at whostmgr/bin/whostmgr4 line 157

At the time, WHM was working but none of the sites on the server would load. Trying [...]

Facebook the most popular site last week

For the first time, Facebook was the most popular site for a full week last week.  Facebook had overtaken Google a few times before for a day or so, mostly around holidays.  But this was the first time Google fell to second place for a full week.
The last time Google was knocked from the top [...]

Should I block Baidu?

Well, I am for now.
I noticed Baidu pretty much on a forum of mine 24/7, but I didn't recall ever seeing them show up in the referrer logs.  Over the past year, across the sites on my server, they've made almost 35,000 requests for pages; chewed up 337 megs of bandwidth, admittedly not a big [...]

MapQuest adds gas price estimator

MapQuest has added a new feature that allows you to estimate how much it's going to cost to fill up your car for a trip. You enter the miles, how many miles per gallon your car gets, and the cost of gas and the site will show you an estimate of how much it'll [...]

I locked myself out of SSH

A few days ago I tried to change the SSH port of a server I'm working on from 22 to something different since that's supposed to help with security. But the port I changed to was blocked by the firewall which means that after a reboot I had effectively locked myself out.
The server had [...]

ForumsBlogsWikis.com

Yup, another blog.
If you read back through the archives here you'll see that I have a real problem with starting new projects. Not that I have a problem starting one. I have a problem starting too many. Right now I've got 2 forums, 1 eCommerce site, and 6 blogs (only 3 of [...]

Deligio – Search engine for software

Looking for a new program, maybe a free php editor. A new search engine called Deligio may help you out. Enter what you're looking for an it'll bring up every program in its database that matches.

5 things you may not know about PHP

PHP is one of the dominant web languages in use today. If you do any web design work you probably have at least a passing knowledge of PHP. Heck, even if you don't do any web design you've probably noticed web pages ending in .php.
But here are 5 things you may not have [...]

Goggles Flight Sim

In what may be the coolest, albeit not quite as useful as others, use of Google Maps data yet Mark Caswell-Daniels has created a flight simulator where you can fly around several cities using satellite imagery from Google. With a little work you can even fly around your own city.

Aliens prefer Firefox

Ok, not really. But members of the Oregon State University Linux Users Group made a 260 foot crop circle of the Firefox logo.