I’ve just installed Sphider, a free PHP search engine, on this very website. I thought that Wordpress’ search function lacked a lot of features like indexing content outside the blog itself, advanced search capabilities, etc.
I used to use phpDig a lot but it’s been a long time since an update has been made available. While [...]

I have just got off HostGator’s live chat support. I gotta say I was quite surprised by the fact that they provide such a quick and efficient service. I spoke with Matthew S. from HostGator’s technical support team, he was very kind and professional.
I asked him about having PHP5 enabled on my account instead of PHP4. [...]

Following my previous series of posts on how to install IIS7, PHP and MySQL on Windows Server 2008, Bill Staples from IIS.Net left a comment on my blog suggesting that I checkout FastCGI.
According to IIS.net…
…the FastCGI component enables popular application frameworks like PHP be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable [...]

Now that we have installed PHP 5 on IIS 7 successfully, we’re going to install MySQL Server 5.1.

First of all, get yourself a copy of the MySQL Server 5.1 ZIP Setup from http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.22-rc-win32.zip/from/pick#mirrors
Extract all the files from the archive and launch Setup.exe
I’ve chosen to use the Typical Setup but feel free to customize the installation [...]

Following up on my last post, I’ve now got a working IIS 7 web server running on Windows 2008. We’re now going to install PHP5 and MySQL 5.1.
Installing PHP5 on IIS 7
First of all, grab yourself a copy of PHP over at http://www.php.net/downloads.php. I always use the zip package, I never use the installer. The [...]

I’ve just got myself an evaluation copy of Windows 2008 Server out of curiosity. I’ve installed it on VMware Workstation 6 running on a Windows Vista computer. While a virtualized Windows 2008 Server is a sucker on resource, it’s performance is still acceptable for those who just want to try it out like me.
Let’s see how to install PHP5 [...]

I’d like to add a little something about the CentOS 5.0 Perfect Setup. After following carefully each instruction step-by-step, I noticed that at least two PHP extensions were missing: php-mcrypt and php-mbstring.

Sometimes you need to redirect visitors to a different URL than the one they came to. This could be for various reasons: a moved file, protecting your links, setting up friendly URLs, etc.
There are many ways to achieve that, some at the server level and some at the browser level. Let’s see a few ways [...]

Web hosting is a service provided by a web host that allows individuals or organizations to publish their website on the World Wide Web.
In order to make a website available on the World Wide Web, its documents must reside on a computer called a webserver. This webserver is connected to the Internet 24 hours a [...]