Running a local Apache web server is essential for many webmasters. It is always a good idea to test code locally before publishing it on the Internet. Professional webmasters usually test their code in a local web server before it gets published. Mainly to avoid possible downtimes in the live environment but also to avoid [...]
Database Monitoring Software Db2rss
Database monitoring is not only important for businesses who want to monitor their online and offline services and applications but also for individuals. Webmasters who make use of databases like MySQL need to make sure that the databases are up and running and the best way to ensure that is to monitor them 24/7. Quite [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jul 23rd, 2009
- Comments: 6
How to: Install a LAMP server
If you’ve read enough of my Ghacks tutorials you have most likely come across mention of a LAMP server. If you are not sure what a LAMP server is:
Linux
Apache
MySQL
P (can mean PHP or PERL – depends upon your needs)
LAMP servers are very popular, cheap, effective, flexible, and reliable servers. But how are they installed? Actually, [...]
Automatically Send MySQL Database Backup To Gmail
Webmasters have to make sure that their websites and files are getting backed up regularly to be prepared when something unforeseen happens. This unforeseen event can be a hacker attack, a database crash, a fire in the data center of the hoster or human error. Whatever the cause is it can have a severe impact [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Apr 9th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Set up MySQL database replication
If you use databases then you know how important it is to back them up. But backing up a database and being able to use that backup depends upon the back up being always up to date. There is a method that ensures you will always have an up to date backup. That method is [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 16th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Web development roundup
Last week was a bit less active in web development terms, but here’s a roundup of what you can find on Scriptastique if you haven’t been taking a look recently.
We had a look at how a mysql query basically works, which will come in handy if you’re just learning about MySQL and PHP. The [...]
PHP – what it does and what it doesn’t
PHP is a Server side scripting language. Its primary competitors are ASP (Microsoft), JSP (Sun), CFM (Adobe), and Perl (often called cgi by hosting companies, although it is not the only cgi language).
PHP was originally created in 1995, so as a technology it is fairly mature. Version 5.x is the latest stable version and 6 [...]
