# check for form/thanks with or without trailing slash,
# and rewrite to /form?m=thanks
RewriteRule ^form/thanks(/$|$) /form?m=thanks

bash

1

.htaccess rewrite url

# check for form/thanks with or without trailing slash,
# and rewrite to /form?m=thanks
RewriteRule ^form/thanks(/$|$) /form?m=thanks

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• .htaccess, 
• apache, 
• linux, 
• rewrite

<FilesMatch "^(db|secure).*$">
deny from all
</FilesMatch>

bash

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.htaccess file to lock down files with db or secure in the prefix

<FilesMatch "^(db|secure).*$">
deny from all
</FilesMatch>

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• .htaccess, 
• apache, 
• linux

# Navigate to a relatively unimportant directory. I chose /home/
cd /home/

# Download PHP (http://www.php.net/releases/)
wget http://museum.php.net/php5/php-5.2.6.tar.gz

# Unpack the PHP file
tar -zxf php-5.2.6.tar.gz

# Configure the new PHP to enable SOAP (will take a few minutes) (before enable is two dashes)
cd php-5.2.6
./configure --enable-soap=shared

# Rebuild PHP (this will also take a while)
make

# Copy just the SOAP module into your existing installation of PHP
cp modules/soap.so /usr/lib/php/modules/

# Add the new SOAP configuration to your existing configuration
echo "extension=soap.so" > /etc/php.d/soap.ini

# Restart Apache
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

# Optional: You can now delete /home/php-5.2.6/ if you’d like, as you won’t need it any longer.
rm -rf /home/php-5.2.6/

# Check phpinfo() to confirm that SOAP is now enabled.

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Enable SOAP on Media Temple DV server

# Navigate to a relatively unimportant directory. I chose /home/
cd /home/

# Download PHP (http://www.php.net/releases/)
wget http://museum.php.net/php5/php-5.2.6.tar.gz

# Unpack the PHP file
tar -zxf php-5.2.6.tar.gz

# Configure the new PHP to enable SOAP (will take a few minutes) (before enable is two dashes)
cd php-5.2.6
./configure --enable-soap=shared

# Rebuild PHP (this will also take a while)
make

# Copy just the SOAP module into your existing installation of PHP
cp modules/soap.so /usr/lib/php/modules/

# Add the new SOAP configuration to your existing configuration
echo "extension=soap.so" > /etc/php.d/soap.ini

# Restart Apache
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

# Optional: You can now delete /home/php-5.2.6/ if you’d like, as you won’t need it any longer.
rm -rf /home/php-5.2.6/

# Check phpinfo() to confirm that SOAP is now enabled.

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• linux, 
• make, 
• php, 
• soap

# This will kick off a cron job at 2:07am.

which $EDITOR
EDITOR=vi
export EDITOR

crontab -e

MAILTO="bbb@bbb.com"
7 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/php -f /home/bbb/cron.php


crontab -l

bash

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Cron job example

# This will kick off a cron job at 2:07am.

which $EDITOR
EDITOR=vi
export EDITOR

crontab -e

MAILTO="bbb@bbb.com"
7 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/php -f /home/bbb/cron.php


crontab -l

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• cron, 
• linux, 
• shell

RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes

# redirect all .cfm files to files without .cfm
RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)\index.cfm$ $1
RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)\.cfm$ $1

bash

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Rewrite .cfm files to files with .cfm

RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes

# redirect all .cfm files to files without .cfm
RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)\index.cfm$ $1
RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)\.cfm$ $1

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• .htaccess, 
• apache, 
• linux, 
• rewrite

# add a .forward file to your home directory
touch .forward

# add your email address
vi .forward
<user>@<mail>.com

# change permission else it won't work
chmod 600 .forward

# test mail send, replace 'user' with your login
mailx -s 'test from cluster' user < /dev/null

bash

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Set up mail forwarding on linux

# add a .forward file to your home directory
touch .forward

# add your email address
vi .forward
<user>@<mail>.com

# change permission else it won't work
chmod 600 .forward

# test mail send, replace 'user' with your login
mailx -s 'test from cluster' user < /dev/null

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• forwarding, 
• linux, 
• mail, 
• server, 
• shell

RewriteEngine On
#comment out the options followsymlinks when in prod
#Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /rbanh/blah/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L,QSA]

# prevent directory browsing
Options -Indexes

<FilesMatch "\.(htaccess|svn|xml|inc|.*sql|cache_|.*~)$">
    deny from all
</FilesMatch>

bash

1

My Custom .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
#comment out the options followsymlinks when in prod
#Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /rbanh/blah/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L,QSA]

# prevent directory browsing
Options -Indexes

<FilesMatch "\.(htaccess|svn|xml|inc|.*sql|cache_|.*~)$">
    deny from all
</FilesMatch>

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• .htaccess, 
• apache, 
• linux

:%s/^v<Carriage Return>//g

*hit the ctrl key + v then hit the carriage return.

bash

1

remove newline chars in vi

:%s/^v<Carriage Return>//g

*hit the ctrl key + v then hit the carriage return.

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• linux, 
• newline, 
• vi

// linux at command

> at 03:30 -v
> nohup php -f /x/x/x.php > /x/x/logs
> nohup php -f /rg/repos/trunk/import/importxx-2009.php > ~rbanh/importlogs2009
> (Ctrl+D)
> atq    // to view queue
> atrm 1 // cancel job 1
> at 1am tomorrow -v // tomorrow 1am

bash

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linux AT command

// linux at command

> at 03:30 -v
> nohup php -f /x/x/x.php > /x/x/logs
> nohup php -f /rg/repos/trunk/import/importxx-2009.php > ~rbanh/importlogs2009
> (Ctrl+D)
> atq    // to view queue
> atrm 1 // cancel job 1
> at 1am tomorrow -v // tomorrow 1am

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• at, 
• cmd, 
• cron, 
• linux

// linux: recursive command to perform sudo actions

find . -print  | sed -e 's/^/\"/' -e 's/$/\"/' | xargs sudo ...

bash

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recursive command to perform sudo actions

// linux: recursive command to perform sudo actions

find . -print  | sed -e 's/^/\"/' -e 's/$/\"/' | xargs sudo ...

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• cmd, 
• find, 
• linux, 
• sudo