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Looking to serve up images outside your document root? This article will discuss how to do this with Apache and PHP.

Over the past few years I've played around with Ubuntu having installed it on several machines. One of the things that I always run into is getting the wireless card to work. So many people get frustrated with Ubuntu because of this and end up missing out on having fun using this wonderful operating system. This article will discuss my recommendations on the best, less painful way to get wireless Internet up and running.

If you are having problems with Apache not accessing .htaccess its likely because the AllowOverride directive setting is "None".

By default, httpd.conf looks like this:

Here's a quick way to backup your Mysql database on your host and deliver it onto your local development environment. This is very useful for websites that use content management systems (CMS) where the data is generated on the hosting site and not locally.

This evening while I was reestablishing Kobashi Computing after a hacker attack rendered it useless, I went about configuring all my modules and settings. After doing a quick look at the site pages, I noticed some errors in rendering code fragments in my pages.

This afternoon I was taking a look at one of my Mysql databases doing record counts and noticed a problem. What I was seeing as the actual record count using MySQL Query Browser didn't match with the auto incremented identifier column.