As a little memo to myself and for anyone else who is having trouble getting the WordPress automatic upgrade feature working, particularly if your on a Linux (CentOS 5) VPS with 1and1. I have great admiration for the WordPress auto-upgrade feature particularly as it saves you loads of time especially if you administer a number [...]
Tag Archives: linux
Connect remotely to MSSQL with PHP on CentOS 5
January 6, 2010 – 6:07 pm
For some time now I’ve been looking for a solution for projects that are using PHP but are connecting to a remote Microsoft SQL Server database. As many already know, the webmasters ideal (or at least mine) is a LAMP stack which, for those that are not sure, is Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Why [...]
Moving WordPress Installations
December 7, 2009 – 1:00 pm
If you are managing lots of WordPress installations for different clients, or any other content management system for that matter (eg. Joomla!, Drupal etc.), you need a way to deploy changes quickly and easily.
Cron job for phpList on 1and1
April 9, 2009 – 2:10 pm
I have seen quite a few posts about this topic floating around the internet during my search for a solution, many of them did not apply to my situation or failed to be clear and concise so I thought I would have a bash at documenting the necessary steps in setting up a cron job [...]
Switching to PHP5 on 1and1 Linux Hosting
February 8, 2009 – 1:55 am
I recently upgraded a client to a 1and1 Linux Business Pro hosting package and so far I have found no major obstacles. The previous environment was a dedicated Windows 2003 server in which there was free reign to modify any of the core files, including the PHP installation and any other similar files.