Author Archives: Derek Carr (zaphinath)
Browse To Your New Hosting Platform Without Changing Nameservers
Description Sometimes people will sign up with a new web hosting service and want to be able to work on the page at their new host while leaving their website active at the old host. Most web hosting companies will provide a temporary URL that will allow you to see your site, however due to […]
How To Update a Joomla Password Through MySQL
Description Joomla is a very popular CMS that most webhosts will provide for their customers. This tutorial is designed to be a nice, simple, easy to use visual aid to help reset Joomla passwords through the Cpanel via phpMyAdmin. Since most webhost companies do not support the changing of third party software data, this howto […]
How To Update a WordPress Password Through MySQL
Description There are plenty of tutorials on how to update a password (password required when you to to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin) for a WordPress installation through phpMyAdmin, but there are not many that will do it for those who want to be a little bit more robust and try it through a command line. This tutorial is […]
How to Repair a Hacked Website and Cpanel
Description This is a howto or a step-by-step post on successfully repairing a hacked site. This guide is meant to walk you through repairing your current problem and preventing it from happening again in the future. Just simply restoring the files is not enough to fix the site. We need to implement stronger security measures […]
.htaccess pdf file redirect
Description I recently added my resume to my site and needed to make the permalink wordpress makes get redirected to my resume ‘resume.pdf’ Solution Open the .htaccess file in your web folder and add the following code. [bash] RewriteEngine On Redirect /about/resume-pdf/ /resume.pdf [/bash] That’s all, and now you can redirect wordpress permalinks to the […]
Setting Up Gentoo Apache for CGI and Perl
Description There are a few things that need to be done to set up apache2 to run a CGI bin directory so you can run perl scripts. The first is to set apache modules and then then configure the apache vhost conf file. Setting Up Modules I edit my /etc/make.conf file to keep all my […]
Backing Up Data With Cron Jobs
Description There are various ways and programs of backing up your systems, but I prefer to control all aspects of my backups and therefore will use cron jobs to do my backups. There are several different types of crons, but they all function the same way. First you need to open your crontab for editing […]
Iptables, Firewalls, Linux
Description When using iptables I like to keep a text file of my firewall so I can see everything when I need to edit it, open ports, etc. . . There is no requirement where this file is stored, however, I store the file in /system/configuration/firewall.txt. firewall.txt [bash] # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.2 on Fri […]
WordPress With Multiple Subdomains
Description I recently edited my WordPress to give me subdomains so that I can keep various different blogs. Example my main site is www.zaphinath.com and I want to add a another blog called einblick.zaphinath.com. This is easy enough to do and I will show you how, the thing that got me however was how do […]
Change Default SSH Port in Gentoo Linux
Description If you have a need, for whatever reason, to change the port you use for ssh into your Linux system it’s really easy to do. This small tutorial will show how to do it specifically for a Gentoo Linux OS, but it should be similar for all Linux OS’s. **Note: You don’t have to […]