My collection of web 2.0 icons/favicons in gif and png format. This collection contains icons/favicons of social websites where I am member and web applications what I use it. I use this icons/favicons collection to create the “Find me online” block ( it is visible on right side of this site) and the Find me [...]
After my VPS provider had been hacked, and I got a new VPS from them, I also got a new problem.
Since my new VPS has not HyperVM control panel (why?), I stay without an easy managed backup solution. / HyperVM has a built-in backup feature. /
So I had to find a new solution for my [...]
Digest authentication is more secure than Basic authentication, because using digest authentication, your password is never sent across the network in the clear, but is always transmitted as an MD5 digest of the user’s password. In this way, the password cannot be determined by sniffing network traffic.
Resources:
Debian 5 Lenny
Apache 2.2.9
Enable mod_auth_digest and disable mod_auth_basic
Apache module [...]
Each blogs on Blogger/Blogspot comes with the same exact default favicon. Let’s change it to an own, unique favicon.
Create or download an icon
If you have some design skill, you can create a favicon with these softwares.
Free/Open Source:
Inkscape (no ico format, need to convert it)
Paint.net (ico plugin)
Gimp (save it simple to .ico format)
Paid:
Photoshop (ico plugin)
Illustrator (save [...]
After my VPS provider hacking misery I got a new VPS and I rebuild all my websites, but I met a new problem here, on laszlomolnar.name. Default text align in my Joomla WYSIWYG editor, JCE was center. Center, but I wanted left text align. I tried to set up JCE, but I did not find [...]
Joomla generated HTML pages contain the following meta tag:
<meta name=”generator” content=”Joomla! 1.5 – Open Source Content Management” />
Note: 1.5 is the Joomla! version.
First of all, I love Joomla. I use it since 2005 when a group of Mambo developers (the core team) left Mambo and started Joomla . So I am a big Joomla fan. But [...]
Never use your MySQL root account to running databases. The root account is a privileged account which should only be used for admin procedures. And also unadvisable to add global MySQL server privileges to those database users who connect to a MySQL database from an application/script (Joomla, Drupal, etc). Better if you setup these users separated. [...]
Water & Stone, a web development company specializing in Open Source technologies, released a popularity survey of open source content management systems. In the analysis of 19 of the most prominent open source content management systems, Water and Stone evaluated CMS’s on the basis of Rate of Adoption and Brand Strength, as well as a [...]
If your hosting provider doesn’t give you any directory password protection tool, but you want to protect your Joomla! admininistrator directory with an encrypted password, do the following.
1, Create an empty file .htaccess in your Joomla! administrator directory. Put the following lines in it:
AuthType Basic
AuthName “Joomla Administrator”
AuthUserFile /full/path/to/joomla/administrator/.htpasswd
<Limit GET>
require valid-user
</Limit>
Modify the /full/path/to/joomla to your Joomla [...]
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