How many times have you installed a LAMP server only to find Apache doesn’t seem to want to run right? Or you install a new module only to see Apache try to download pages as file, instead of displaying them on screen?
There are a hundred and one thousand things that can go wrong with any [...]

Tags: apache, apache log, apache2, apache2ctl, log files, php
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development

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 [...]

Tags: apache, apache server, apache web server, mysql, php, wampserver, webmaster, xampp
Categories: Open Source, Windows, software

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, [...]

Tags: apache, LAMP, lamp server, mysql, php, tasksel
Categories: Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software

There are two difficulties or problems that Internet users encounter when they want to paste code into forms to display these on the Internet. The first problem that can be encountered is that the website will interpret part or all of the code instead of displaying it. A basic example would be to display the [...]

Tags: code, html, html entities, html entities converter, markup code, php, valid code, w3c
Categories: Web Development

You might remember the announcement of our new web project Appnews which basically displays software updates in a friendly easily accessible way. What I wanted to do now is to display the five newest items of the RSS feed in the sidebar of this blog to both promote the appnews service but also provide a [...]

Tags: php, rss feed, simplepie, web dev, web development, websites
Categories: Web Development

Wordpress is a great piece of software, and allows more than you’d think to be done with simple coding. I bet that a lot of people out there would look for a plugin to do this, but your top five categories can very easily be shown using a Wordpress template tag, just a half a [...]

Tags: blog, categories, php, web development, wordpress
Categories: Web Development

If you run a Wordpress blog, you will eventually want to make some modifications to your theme. Perhaps you want to show your tags, not just categories, perhaps you want the date in a different format, you might want to add the URL of the author to each post, there are a lot of things [...]

Tags: php, template tags, wordpress
Categories: Web Development