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This post is part of the “.htaccess redirection fun with mod_rewrite” series. The most useful feature of .htaccess and mod_rewrite, in the opinion of this author, is redirection. Redirection is identified to a browser by response code 308. By redirection we mean mapping any URI into any other URI. Response code 308 is the redirection… Continue reading 308 response code – redirection and messing with daemons…
The large language models (LLM), GPT-4 and Gemini, are great for research and training. I’ve been using them for legal research, examining ideas in physics and testing it’s capabilities with circuit generation. They are also excellent at generation of code in pretty much any programming language. So having read about that scientific paper that made… Continue reading LLM Dall-E Fun while researching
One of the pains of being a website administrator is securing the login to the administrative portion of your website. Ideally, the website tells someone other than the true administrator to bugger off in a nice way. What better way for that to happen than for the website to tell the visitor: “That login? It’s… Continue reading response code 410 – It’s gone, son…
For the holidays, I decided to gift readers with a series of some useful but fun posts titled “.htaccess redirection fun with mod_rewrite“. The series is dedicated to the fun you can have with Apache redirection while keeping tight security of your website. Though not for the faint of heart, one can have fun toying… Continue reading .htaccess redirection fun with mod_rewrite
Do you walk around often with your fly open? In a word, NO! So why is your IT stuff open to the world? Think about it… After years of experiencing consistent and repetitive attacks on the secure shell and WordPress login, I started to wonder why that was occurring. What is the reason that there… Continue reading Why is your fly open to the world?
In recent weeks both OS’ show a long delay in login to seeing the session desktop. The delay increased by 300-600%, up to 140+ seconds. The machine in question is an older HP workstation, which normally took less than 20 seconds. The problem is present regardless of whether the machine is rebooted or started from… Continue reading Long Delay in Login to Desktop on Kali 6.4.0 and Ubuntu 22.04
1: Introduction2: Requirements3: Script4: The Devil 1: Introduction Bash script WordPress Restore is the conjugate tool for restoring from a backup created by the WordPress Backup script. WordPress restore is one of the most important tasks for a WordPress site administrator for obvious reasons. The script presented in this post guarantees a way to “reproducibly restore” a WordPress… Continue reading Bash scripts: WordPress Restore
1: Introduction 2: Requirements 3: The Script 4: Caveats Introduction WordPress backup is one of the most important tasks for a WordPress site administrator for obvious reasons. After many years of struggling with a good concise backup method that was guaranteed to work every time, I decided to design my own method using a Bash script. The script… Continue reading Bash scripts: WordPress Backup
This is a continuing series of posts dedicated to Bash shell scripts. Over the years I’ve developed useful scripts that make life simple and allow for time to sit back. Watch well oiled gears spin and sip a local craft beer while bash holds down the fort for you… 🤣 Bash, the Bourne Again Shell,… Continue reading Bash scripts for fun and leisure