WordPress Permalinks on Nginx
May 28, 2009 by Mark
Filed under Open Source Software, Tips & Tricks
First open your nginx configuration file.
nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
But if you set up a virtual host, you should open the virtual host configuration for the host where you install wordpress. If you are using Debian, the configuration files is located at /etc/nginx/sites-available/. The following command should do that.
nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com
Nginx : Rewrite Rule for Wallpaper Site Creator
May 27, 2009 by Mark
Filed under Open Source Software
Nginx is a lightweight web server and mail proxy server. It was written by Igor Sysoev. Compare to Apache web server, nginx uses less resources. Beside that nginx configuration is pretty simple and easy to understand. If you using Apache and want to switch to nginx. The only thing that you should take care is your rewrite rule. As you know nginx doesn’t support .htaccess, you have to completely rewrite all of yours rewrite rule. But today I will share my rewrite rule for Wallpaper Site Creator script.
Configuring WordPress to send email using Gmail on Debian
May 26, 2009 by Mark
Filed under Linux, Tips & Tricks
1. Install ssmtp using the following command.
apt-get install ssmtp
2. Edit ssmtp.conf
nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
Now update or add the following configuration to the ssmtp.conf
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587 AuthUser=user@gmail.com AuthPass=YourGmailPassword FromLineOverride=YES UseSTARTTLS=YES
You should replace user@gmail.com with your gmail email address.
Open Source Wallpaper Script
If you are planning to create a wallpaper website but yet to find a good wallpaper script that suits your need. I recommended OSWallpaper. This script is an open source and you can acquired it for free. Its has all the feature to create an attractive wallpaper site. Currently the script is sill in beta version but the author of the script continually improve the script. The script can be downloaded at wallpaperscript.org and you can view the demo at http://www.wallpaperscript.org/demo/
To install the script you need the following software installed on your server :
PHP
MySql
GD Library
ImageMagick
Apache 2 or above with mod_rewrite enable
Check Torrent Details with TorrentSpy
TorrentSpy is a small program that provides torrent user with information about the torrent they about to download. Normally you have to download the torrent to get real time information about the torrent like how many seeders, leechers or to check if the tracker is online or offline. Some torrent search website provide this kind of information but it’s not updated in real time.
The program can be downloaded at http://torrentspy.sourceforge.net/. The size of the zip archive is 376.0 KB and will take only a few second to download. You only need to extract the archives and double click the file “TorrentSpy-0.2.4.26.exe” to run the program, no installation required.