Archive for May, 2010
WordPress URL Rewrite for Nginx
Some people say WordPress works the best on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) but I chose LNMP as my server structure. If you have Nginx as your web server, you might be able to see tongs of “404 error” due to the incorrect URL rewrite rules. To fix this problem, it’s just two simple [...]
Is Domain Extension .CO Bad for SEO?
The date for general registration open to public, July 20th 2010, is approaching closer and closer. Even though lots and lots of the .CO domains have already been pre-registered through domain registrars like GoDaddy, there are still tons of gems out there that are available for us to pick up. At this moment, I start [...]
Apple MobileMe Mail Update Coming Soon
MobileMe Mail finally has an update since its “.Mac –> MobileMe” rename. Here is the official announcement on www.me.com: Today we’re introducing the beta of an all new MobileMe Mail web application, and we’re asking you to try it and let us know what you think. You can sign up at me.com by just logging [...]
How to Fix WordPress Email Sending Problem
After the plug-in update/install problem was solved, seems like I have another problem of my WordPress. For my Contact Page , I am using a plug-in called “Fast and Secure Contact Form” to handle the message left on my blog; the plug-in will use PHP’s mail function and redirect the message to the email address [...]
Easter Eggs on WordPress
A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine called me up and told me he worried about his WordPress was hacked because for somehow he saw messages like “Wake up, webmasters.”. I checked through his log files and there was no sign of his blog being hacked so I comfort him that nothing was wrong, [...]
How to: Fix WordPress FTP Info Required for Plugin Update/Installation
I wrote a post yesterday to explain the easiest way to set up a Linux server within 20 minutes. A reader contacted me regarding a problem he has with the server. Basically he did pretty much the same thing as I wrote, and he imported the MySQL database to VPS server with phpmyadmin and use [...]
How to Set Up LNMP on Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS
As I announced that Rockia.com has been moved to Linode VPS, I received numerous emails asking how they can do that. My answer is that if you are professional in Linux, you can just follow the tutorials in Linode Library; I strongly believe that there are more tutorials than you actually need to set up [...]