Apache HTTPD: How To Turn Off Index Listing in Directory & Sub-Directories; Protect WordPress wp-content

March 16th, 2008 Apache HTTPD servers are configured by default to display directory listing, when index files like index.htm or index.html of index.php etc. are not present in the directory.

September 18th, 2005 Wp-Cache2 is a WordPress Plugin to cache WordPress generated pages. However it doesn't work with in-built gzip compression.

July 28th, 2006 This technique will only work if your Apache server has PHP enabled (how to test php support in apache http server) and .htaccess enabled. In the root directory of your html files create a file named .htaccess.

May 12th, 2007 Mantis is popular php based defect tracking application which works on top of RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Recently I ported our Windows based Mantis installation to Linux.

October 23rd, 2006 .htaccess is a web server directive file populalrly used in Apache Web Server in Linux / Unix environment. In windows environment there is a simple way to enable and use .htaccess.

May 4th, 2005 The simplest configuration is described. It assumes you already have Tomcat 5.5 and Apache 2.0 (instructions for Apache 1.3 is also provided) installed and running.

December 12th, 2006 When you have sites in multiple languages you may notice, depending on your server configuration, that particular languages may not be displayed properly in browsers. And yet when you save the file and view it they display fine.

February 6th, 2008 I accidentally discovered a super-cool re-direction feature embedded in WordPress 2.3.x. Any blog may have multiple url pointing to the same blog.

June 28th, 2008 For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end.

June 28th, 2008 Any PHP based software like WordPress, Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, MODx etc. will serve pages both from http://your-site.com as well as http://your-site.com/index.php.

July 10th, 2006 After moving over my test blog to the new server, I noticed that the Admin Dashboard (with tons of unnecessary feeds) wasn't displaying. It shows just a blank page.

July 12th, 2008 Nginx is a high performance web server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev and a good replacement for Apache HTTPD, the market leader. Nginx is rapidly increasing its market share with major websites joining it like wordpress.com.

September 25th, 2006 I am assuming that you have downloaded and installed Apache 2.x on your windows machine. Use the latest version 2.2, if you do not have plans to run Subversion on it.

December 27th, 2005 WordPress developers are adding their preferred feeds to WordPress Admin Dashboard (from WordPress 1.5 onwards), which significantly slows up loading the Admin Dashboard. Additionally few essential information has been removed frfom the official version of admin dashboard and also some information moved to hard-to-get locations in order to accomodate their copious feed data.

January 24th, 2008 You have two options. Either you tear your (remaining) hair looking for solution on the web and trying different changes to Apache Web Server or Explorer even try magic incantations (alohamora?).