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Blocking Baidu

Posted on July 29th, 2011 by Ryan

Went through this a year or so ago. The Baidu spider was hammering a forum and I blocked it because after hundreds of thousands of hits they sent me a grand total of 1 visitor. Let it sit for a … Continue reading →

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How to change the MySQL password in MAMP

Posted on October 2nd, 2010 by Ryan

Reinstalled MAMP last week because the version I was using didn’t have PHP 5.3 which I needed for a project I’m working on. Had to do some Googling to find the default password for MySQL and how to change. First, … Continue reading →

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Missing httpd.conf in WHM / cPanel

Posted on July 24th, 2010 by Ryan

Came across an error after mistakenly clicking a link in my hosting control panel. At the time, WHM was working but none of the sites on the server would load. Trying to restart httpd manually from PuTTY resulted in an … Continue reading →

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Should I block Baidu?

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by Ryan

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 … Continue reading →

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Enable mod_rewrite on Ubuntu

Posted on July 11th, 2009 by Ryan

Looks like Apache2 is installed in Ubuntu with mod_rewrite, but it’s disabled by default.  Fortunately a quick drop to the terminal followed by restarting Apache2 and it’s fixed.

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