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How to create a symlink when y...

How to create a symlink when you don’t have shell access (WP-Cache issue)
Posted by Forbairt on Dec 9th, 2008
Earlier today I needed to create a symlink in order to get WP-Cache working. Unfortunately a simple ln -s target link wasn’t an option as I didn’t have shell access. So in usual fashion I have to use a php script and chmod the directory...

upgrading from 1.2.4 to 1.4.1 ...

upgrading from 1.2.4 to 1.4.1 in CMSMS ( CMS Made Simple ) causes the templates to die
Posted by Forbairt on Dec 1st, 2008
Well in case this has happened to you the solution is handy enough. Though why the problem I’m not entirely sure. For some reason a column “assoc_order” is missing in the “css_assoc” table. To fix this (probably handies...

Free CSS book...

Posted by Forbairt on Nov 18th, 2008
Site point is having a give away at the moment You can get the Art & Science of CSS for free (PDF download) from their site. The link is http://twitaway.aws.sitepoint.com/ There seems to be some issues with the following and getting a link to...

The absolute path / relative p...

Posted by Forbairt on Nov 12th, 2008
This has just eaten the better part of an hour for me I’ve running a lot of installs of CMS Made Simple ( CMSMS ) and any of the images I was adding were appearing fine on my admin section when I was adding them to the page in edit mode. Of...
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Well there I was tonight I’d wiped out the entries of various tables only to realise the auto index was stuck at 99 for the next extra. The solution to resetting it back to one using phpmyadmin (short of entering in an sql statment) when viewing the list of the tables tick the table (that of course...
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Yesterday I updated the IP on one of my domains on a VPS and I was wondering if the changes on the VPS were being picked up by the associated Nameservers. A quick check of the man pages for dig and I found its dig @namerserver mydomain Of course it still took about 30 minutes for the name servers to...
recent from *nix How to create a symlink when you don’t have shell access (WP-Cache issue) How to create a symlink when you don’t have shell access (WP-Cache issue)
Earlier today I needed to create a symlink in order to get WP-Cache working. Unfortunately a simple ln -s target link wasn’t an option as I didn’t have shell access. So in usual fashion I have to use a php script and chmod the directory permissions to 777 in this case <?php $target...
recent from Webdevelopment How to create a symlink when you don’t have shell access (WP-Cache issue) How to create a symlink when you don’t have shell access (WP-Cache issue)
Earlier today I needed to create a symlink in order to get WP-Cache working. Unfortunately a simple ln -s target link wasn’t an option as I didn’t have shell access. So in usual fashion I have to use a php script and chmod the directory permissions to 777 in this case <?php $target...