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Stuck trying to find text within files on Linux?

cd /directory_tree_you_want_to_search
find . -type f -exec grep -l "string to find" {} \; -print

Easy!

Imagine you have a selection of domain names that point to the same site, are some of those domains specific to certain areas of your site?

Here’s how I redirect a domain name to a specific area on a site

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?cubecartexperts\.co.uk
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.i9000networks.com/landing-page/cubecart-experts/ [L]

You’ll also need the domain set in your virtualhost config like this

ServerName www.i9000networks.com
ServerAlias www.cubecartexperts.co.uk
ServerAlias cubecartexperts.co.uk

It is a much more helpful way of helping your users navigate your site.

There is a little known feature in Wordpress 2.5 called “Secret Key“. If you’re upgrading from a previous version you probably won’t even know this feature exists as it only appears in clean installs where you have a brand new wp-config.php. (more…)

I really like Patrick Altoft’s Crawl Rate Tracker Plugin for Wordpress. I rolled it out on many of my sites and more of my client’s sites. I even used it on this site.

But my love for it was prematurely cut short. (more…)

Installing VMware on Ubuntu 7.10 isn’t as easy as Ubuntu usually makes things out to be. None the less, my handy how to will sort you out. (more…)

Following my 100% CubeCart orientated posts, here’s another late night hack.

It integrates a Wordpress blog into your store’s homepage.
You need a working Wordpress installation to start with, I installed mine in the standard /wordpress/ folder, none of your customers will see it anyway. (more…)

I’ve just stumbled over a PDF scanning engine for SpamAssassin. In light of the recent PDF spam making it’s way round the internet I figured I’d give it a try.

This plug in scans the PDF pdf body and embedded images. Great, huh?

Here’s how I did it. (more…)

FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin that analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mail and spam.

I’ve been running it on some mail servers for a few months now and I’m very happy with the results. (more…)

This article will guide you through installing pure-ftpd configured for virtual hosts using mysql as the authentication mechanism. It assumes you have a functioning Linux server running mysql already. (more…)

This is a mini howto on installing eAccelerator.

eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

Summary: Makes your PHP faster.

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