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IP-changed notifier without crontab

rockia — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:56:31 +0000

I wrote about how to notify myself upon IP changes via email for Home Servers quite a while ago. The theory was simple; just one PHP script to detect the current IP address and compare it with the one stored in a text file. If the IP was changed, then update the text file and [...]

How to minimize website downtime while domain is being transferred

rockia — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:29:22 +0000

First off, most of us hate downtime, especially on our own websites (duh!). From time to time we might need to transfer the domain names from one registrar to another, however, we might experience some difficulties to keep the website online. The tricky part is that most domain registrar will either keep your original nameserver [...]

Notify myself upon IP Changes via email for Home Servers

rockia — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:15:05 +0000

I have set up a server at home and I do most of the PHP testing upon that server. Other than HTTP server, it also serves as a FTP server and a remote desktop (I am a Mac user, and I can connect back home whenever I need Windows). As I noted before, most the [...]

Upgrade from LNMP to LNMPA

rockia — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:43:17 +0000

I have been using LNMP (Linux Nginx MySQL and PHP) for a year and the way I set up using LNMP automatic shell compiler really allow me to spend more time on the actual blogging and not fighting with the server configuration. If you happened to follow my blogging, you might have noticed that I [...]

How to Reset Mysql Root Password for LNMP

rockia — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:17:27 +0000

I set up my server with the LNMP shell, and I happened to forget one of my local server’s MySQL root password. (I don’t know how this could happen, but it just did. ) It seems that I couldn’t use the the normal method to reset the password, weird. If you reach this post by [...]

Concurrent User Session with Windows 7 SP1

rockia — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:21:42 +0000

OK, I just updated my only Windows 7 desktop at home to SP1. This computer is mainly serving as a remote desktop just in case I need to grab something from home or I have a program that I must need to run on Windows. I set up the computer with concurrent user session enable [...]

How to install Froxlor on CentOS 5.5 with Nginx server

rockia — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:01:21 +0000

For Apache server, there are more than enough control panels for you to choose from such as cPanel, Direct Admin, Plesk and so on. However, there are not that many choices for Nginx. If you have already installed your Nginx sever with the LNMP package I introduced, you might find this post helpful. Froxlor is [...]

LNMP 0.6 is out, but…

rockia — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:04:59 +0000

LNMP 0.6 is out, however, the software version didn’t got upgraded. One of the essential update of this compiler is the optimization of installation process. This update mainly increase the successful rate of installation and specially add a installation helper for Ubuntu. So my suggestion is that, if you have LNMP 0.5, just stick with [...]

PHP str_replace(): How to replace only one ordered occurrence for arrays

rockia — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:12:43 +0000

I am currently writing a script that requires the string to be replaced, the str_replace() function in PHP can take arrays as the parameters according to the PHP Manual: mixed str_replace ( mixed $search , mixed $replace , mixed $subject [, int &$count ] ) This function returns a string or an array with all [...]

How to change Nginx file upload size limit

rockia — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:30:30 +0000

By default, the upload size limit of LNMP is 50MB, if you didn’t change the “client_max_body_size” while you set up the sever, you might encounter “IO error” if you want to upload file that’s over the upload limit. So, how do we make the change to increase or decrease the file upload limit? We have [...]