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 7 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.
Configuring SNI with NginX
December 28th, 2009 2 comments »Traditionally for every SSL certificate issued, you needed a separate and unique IP address. However if you compile OpenSSL and NginX with TLS SNI (Server Name Identification) support you can install multiple SSL certificates without having to bind a domain name to a specific IP address or require each certificate to have its own unique IP.
Path_Info & PHP_SELF woes [NginX]
December 12th, 2009 5 comments »Over the last couple of years I’ve been constantly researching for a way to get the PHP environment variables to show up correctly. My latest pains were with PATH_INFO and PHP_SELF, which are now finally solved.
Cloaking and Faking the Referrer
November 23rd, 2009 2 comments »Sometimes you simply have to hide, or in some case fake the referrer from your destination. This article shows you how to fake the referrer using PHP + cURL, as well as how to cloak your referrers from your advertisers.
WordPress Automatic Update with SSH
November 22nd, 2009 4 comments »If you’re like me, you don’t even want the insecure FTP protocol running on your server, but by default wordpress doesn’t even give you the option of using SSH to automatically upgrade your plugins, or wordpress itself. This article shows how you can add a few extra lines to wp-config.php to enable automatic updates with wordpress.