Author: hhtest
WordPress stores domain name, here's how to change it
I had multiple domain names pointing to the same place (www.lernerconsult.com and www.lernerc.com were identical). Then the DNS for lernerc.com got altered. WordPress was translating calls from www.lernerconsult.com/blog/ into www.lernerc.com/blog/ and that didn’t work… Here’s how to adjust it: You will need to access the MySQL database (I use phpMyAdmin) for the WordPress database (mine…
Xampp directory mismatch
If you unzip the Xampp files (e.g. into c:\xampp) the installer doesn’t know where the installed files went. You will see in the Xampp Control Panel Application (xampp-control.exe) a message “directory mismatch”. This doesn’t matter for normal operation of Xampp, but if you try using the installer for Xampp add-ons (for example, Perl), you can’t…
Xampp with Skype
If XAMPP doesn’t work with Skype installed, make this one simple configuration change
BeInSync lets you keep files the same on all your computers
from the BeInSync Technical Overview, http://www.beinsync.com/info/technical_overview.php BeInSync create an on-the-fly private peer-to-peer network that spans your colleagues, friends, computers and online storage. Once established, BeInSync makes sure your photos, videos, music and documents are always available and up-to-date wherever you need them: * Files and folders are efficiently synchronized so that they are available and…
PHP Development on your laptop
Setting up a PHP development environment Setting up my laptop to be a PHP/MySQL server was easier than I would have predicted. Download the XAMPP package from Apache Friends at http://www.apachefriends.org and unzip it to c:\xampp (keeping the folder hierarchy intact). There are Windows and Linux versions, with Mac OS X version being developed. I’m…
2-Column HTML using DIVs (no print problems)
If you code your multi-column web page wrong, IE and Firefox won’t be able to page break properly for printing. Seems that if you use <p id=”asdf”> the pages won’t print right, if instead you use <p class=”asdf”> they will. Here is what I used for a two-column layout (specifically, in PHPList put this in…
Picked Lunar Pages for new web host
Lunar Pages, http://www.lunarpages.com/id/glerner had the best match of features for my needs. For $7.95/month paid annually, I get 350GB storage, 3500 GB/Month transfers, PHP 4 and 5, and developer tools such as Ruby. I have full control over scripts to run, there is a good selection of scripts available to install with minimal configuration (questions…