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{ Monthly Archives } January 2012

Writing CGI scripts

nearlyfreespeech runs with safe mode and safe_mode_gid on, so you can't run shell scripts or other cool things. Usually that's not an issue, but if you do, they let you run CGI scripts, in any of a number of languages. You just have to treat it as a shell script, with a shebang notation of [...]
2012 01 12 Danny Web Design Comments (0)

Things I Learned About .htaccess, part 2

I've learned some things about .htaccess, but mostly I've learned that programming it is deep black magic. The most important thing is "Don't use mod-rewrite unless you absolutely need to". All the fancy stuff is better off done by the PHP (or whatever language you're using) code. Don't do: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/$ [...]
2012 01 12 Danny Web Design Comments (0)

Moving the Blog Again

I'm working on moving bililite.com to nearlyfreespeech.net; it's cheaper, more reliable and more hacker-friendly than 1&1. I'll write a post with my experiences and reasons later. But for now just the blog has moved to bililite.nfshost.com/blog, with the plan to move the domain registration for bililite.com to nearlyfreespeech when everything is working and then return [...]
2012 01 08 Danny Uncategorized Comments (0)