base64 encoding is often used to protect PHP code. There is an online tool that allows you to encode and decode the code. Here is the link: Base64 Encoding/Decoding Tool by Thomas Horsten. It really works with the code you have. It’s a common kind of PHP protection and this tool reveals the opinion that base64 encoding is… Read More »
g++ is often necessary for building various packages. But It’s quite hard to install it in CentOS if you don’t know a simple thing: yum install g++ will not work here. yum install compat-g++and yum install gcc-g++ won’t give any result too. The only command for yum to install g++ on CentOS is the following: yum install gcc-c++… Read More »
Yesterday I’ve purchased my first communicator. Certainly, I need it to have SSH access to my servers. As my passwords are not so simple, I’ve decided to read about key authentification in order to prevent entering long user passwords without the loss of security. I’ve found two good articles and I won’t copy their content to my site:… Read More »
We’re often dealing with file uploads. Sometimes we need to compress the data that is uploaded to the server. Today I will tell you about simple methods that allow to extract the uploaded ZIP file with a PHP script. let’s say we need to install WordPress. In order to save our time (as you know, it is faster… Read More »
If you’re familiar with Directadmin panel, you should know that there is no way to add multiple domain names to an account at once. So, if a customer has 100 domains, he needs to add them one by one. That takes lots of time and is quite a stupid job. I would like to tell you about several… Read More »
Most of PHP programmers need to work with files. Simple file operations are used day by day and often files contain necessary data we need to deal with. Anything that could be stored in a list where values are delimited with new lines is what we often use. Let’s take a simple example. We have a file that… Read More »
How to fix the issue related to Exim incomplete transaction: you have to tune up timeouts in your e-mail client.
Today I’ve noticed a strange thing after Directadmin software update. Exim stopped processing e-mails, the thing that is really necessary for any server. I’ve started to look through log files to identify the problem. Here is what I have at the moment. My mainlog (/var/log/exim/mainlog) is full of messages like this: 2008-10-30 19:27:02 exim 4.67 daemon started: pid=16453,… Read More »
Sometimes you need to truncate a file to zero bytes. For example you have a big file that contains various logs and its size is too big to open it easily. Of course, you can revome this file and touch it again. But this way you’ll have to deal with permissions and file ownership. There is a simple… Read More »
Today I come with a short and simple command that will be useful for Linux newbies. What to do if you need to find out whether the package you need is already installed or not? There is a short command that will allow you to do this. rpm -qa | grep <package> What does this do? This command… Read More »