Nginx as a Proxy to your Blog

July 23rd, 2010 No comments »

If you’re big into autoblogs and cross-linking you’ll likely like this. Have you ever had most of your blogs on a single server (probably behind cpanel or directadmin), but wanted some of your domains to appear to be on a different IP, or even in a different country? Well this article shows you how to setup an nginx server as a proxy so that visitors see a different IP than where the site is hosted.

SSL: Untrusted Connection in Firefox

June 8th, 2010 No comments »

For those of you who have PositiveSSL certificates installed (especially on Nginx webservers) and have experienced an ‘Untrusted Connection’ issue with Firefox, namely due to an Unknown issuer, within is a possible fix.

Apache to Nginx Migration Tips

April 11th, 2010 4 comments »

Nginx currently holds shy of 6.5% of the known webserver market, which is just roughly shy of 13 million servers. This little lightweight webserver created by a sole Russian developer has been gaining a great deal of popularity over the last few years and is used by sites such as Wordpress, Texts from Last Night and Hulu.

This guide will provide you with common migration tips to move from an Apache server to an Nginx configuration.

How to Steal an Android Market App

April 10th, 2010 1 comment »

One of the biggest fear plaguing any freelance application developer is piracy. All their hours and hours of work to bring you the next useful little app that they hope you’ll enjoy. So why shouldn’t they be compensated for their hard work. Sometimes however this fear can hurt a new platform more than it can help. That is why in this article I will show you how easy it is to steal even a protected android market app.

A Working Exit Popup

April 3rd, 2010 4 comments »

While I personally hate exit popups they can be an invaluable tool to getting those last minute conversions. However you will find a lot of old methods for creating exit popups no longer work due to new browser restrictions. This article shows you how to correctly create an exit popup using a little bit of JQuery.

Migrating Cpanel to DirectAdmin

March 28th, 2010 No comments »

One of the most frustrating thing someone can do involving their websites is moving them from one hosting provider to another. It’s increasingly more difficult if your hosting was based on a control panel such as Cpanel, and try to migrate to a different kind of control panel or none at all. This article will show you how to migrate the two most important parts (files and database) from Cpanel to another control panel such as DirectAdmin.

My Nginx Configuration

March 14th, 2010 No comments »

I’m creating this page on popular request, as I’ve had to paste my configuration for people a number of times especially on IRC. Below is an example configuration of how kbeezie.com is setup with some comments.

PayPal IPN Revised for Python

January 24th, 2010 3 comments »

This article adds onto the previous entry Paypal IPN with PHP, by showing you how to process an Instant Payment Notification from Paypal with Python

OS X Quick Tips: Windows 7 x64 on a Macbook

January 13th, 2010 3 comments »

I have been a mac user off and on since 2002; It wasn’t until early 2008 that I moved strictly to using a mac for my everyday affairs. I thought it would be a nice gesture to once in a while throw up quick Macintosh related tips, especially as it pertains to my early 2008 13.3″ Macbook. For my first tip, how to get Bootcamp working on Windows 7×64.

Releasing IP Addresses in WHM/Cpanel

December 28th, 2009 No comments »

If you are hosted with a WHM/Cpanel based server or VPS, you may have had some difficulties trying to get an alternate webserver such as Nginx or Lighttpd installed especially if you wanted to use the default port 80. This article shows you how you can release extra IP addresses to be used by those services without conflicting with Apache.