Answer by Daniel Magliola for HTTP POST request over SSL between 2 websites...
In the end, I ended up rewriting the script to use cURL instead. I don't know what happened, but cURL works. This is one of the weirdest things I've found...
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NOTE: Although there's some PHP code below, I really believe this belongs to ServerFault more than StackOverflow, esentially, because this worked and it stopped working after we changed servers.I have...
View ArticleHow can I remove HTTP headers with .htaccess in Apache?
I have a website that is sending out "cache-control" and "pragma" HTTP headers for PHP requests.I'm not doing that in the code, so I'm assuming it's some kind of Apache configuration, as suggested by...
View ArticleSynchronizing files between Linux servers, through FTP
I have the following configuration of servers: 1 central linux server, a VPS 8 satellite linux servers, "crappy shared hostings"I have a bunch of files that I need to have in all servers. Right now i'm...
View ArticleCan I change a MySQL table back and forth between InnoDB and MyISAM without...
I have a site with a decently big database, 3Gb in size, a couple of tables with a dozen million records.It's currently 100% on MyISAM, and I have the feeling that the server is going slower than it...
View ArticlePartial-stroking / Short-stroking / Half-stroking Hard Drives?
Could anyone here explain to me what is implied by this term? (I've seen the same thing mentioned with the 3 terms).At first when I read about it, for some reason I understood that it was some way of...
View ArticleAnswer by Daniel Magliola for How can I have SQL Server Management Studio...
OK, so this is what I did (I'd like to edit the accepted answer because I based this on his idea, but I don't have enough points...)I set SSMS to start with "an empty environment", so it doesn't prompt...
View ArticleLinux Cron: Can I displace the runtime by "x" minutes?
NOTE: I'm a big newbie when it comes to *nix.I have a cron configuration that runs several programs. Most of them run once a day, and they're set at different times (2AM, 3AM, 4AM, etc) so they don't...
View ArticleHow to configure Amazon S3 permissions to host files for my mobile app
I have a mobile app that uploads files to a server and needs to be able to download them. I'm using S3 to hold the files, and have a RoR backend to manage all this.Is it possible to have the following...
View ArticleHow can i easily password protect a site in Apache/Windows?
I have a website i'm hosting in Apache (on Windows), and i'd like to protect it so that anyone going in needs to enter a password. This is not meant to be a fortress of security, I know this sucks, but...
View ArticleHow can I have SQL Server Management Studio 2008 connect to my instances...
I'm running a server with 3 database instances.Right now, when I open Management Studio, it opens the "Connect" prompt that lets me choose which instance I want (or connect to anything else).Would it...
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Error importing large MySQL dump file which includes binary BLOBs in Windows
I'm trying to import a MySQL dump file, which I got from my hosting company, into my Windows dev machine, and i'm running into problems.I'm importing this from the command line, and i'm getting a very...
View ArticleFinding day of week in batch file? (Windows Server 2008)
I have a process I run from a batch file, and i only want to run it on a certain day of the week.Is it possible to get the day of week?All the example I found, somehow rely on "date /t" to return...
View ArticleMySQL dying on startup
I have just restarted my dev machine, and now MySQL refuses to start up. When I start the service, it instantly throws an exception and dies...I can't think of anything I could've changed before...
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How can you know what is w3wp.exe doing? (or how to diagnose a performance...
I'm having a performance problem in a site we've made, and I'm not exactly sure how to start diagnosing it.The short description is: We have a very small site (http://hearablog.com) with very little...
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