Archive for February, 2008
Creating a .tar.gz Backup on Linux
Very useful commmand to make a .tar.gz compressed backup of important directories.
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Upgrade PHP5 & MySQL 5 to latest on Debian
Sometimes the packages on your desired apt-get mirror aren’t kept up to date.
A friend recently showed me how to upgrade to the latest and securist version using a special apt-get mirror service that specializes in LAMP installations.
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Installing and Configuring Samba on Debian 4
In this guide you will learn how to install Samba on Linux (Debian 4 / etch).
Installing Samba allows you to share files over the network for Mac, Windows and other Linux computers.
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Javascript Function: strip_tags()
A useful function to mimic to PHP function strip_tags() to strip all HTML tags and markup from a string.
Useful when parsing client input on the fly. Extra checks should be added though.
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Javascript Function: htmlentities()
Convert html tags and code to readable HTML entities. Mimics the PHP functions htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities().
Prevents from HTML script injection.
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Installing Apache2, Mysql5 and PHP5 on Debian Linux
Today i decided to setup my own personal server to work from, as I’m tired of waiting the few seconds it takes to upload, reload and then almost instantly make changes to a file i’m working on. This guide will cover installing and updating Apache 2, MySQL 5 and PHP 5 on Debian Linux (5.0/etch).
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