- Published:
- September 27, 2008 – 1:19 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Adding a module position in a Joomla 1.5 template is not as easy as it was in the 1.0 templates. It is a two step process: 1. Add code to template PHP file. For example, this would go in the index.php file in the template folder – or if you are adding it in an include file. 12345<?php if ($this->countModules(‘user6′)) : ?> <div> <jdoc:include type="modules" name="user6" style="xhtml" /> </div> <?php endif; ?> 2. Add module name to templateDetails.xml You then need to tell Joomla which module positions are available in this template. If you don’t do this step, then Joomla will not present the module position when giving you the option of where to place a module. templateDetails.xml is in XML format. Within the 1<install> namespace, add this: 123<positions> <position>user6</position> </positions> If you already have positions listed, just add….
Categories: Code Samples,Configurations,Joomla,PHP
Tagged: design, HTML, Joomla, templates, XML
- Published:
- September 2, 2008 – 9:04 am
- Author:
- By Dave
For many people using hosted Exchange services, password saving problems could plague you. That is mainly because Outlook doesn’t like it if the Exchange server’s domain doesn’t match your domain. Fortunately there is a way around this, because by the default way it is set up, you would have to enter your password every time you open up Outlook. First step is to change the registry key: 1HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa Change lmcompatibilitylevel to “2″ Here is the meanings of these numbers (source): 0 – Clients use LM and NTLM authentication, but they never use NTLMv2 session security. Domain controllers accept LM, NTLM, and NTLMv2 authentication. 1 – Clients use LM and NTLM authentication, and they use NTLMv2 session security if the server supports it. Domain controllers accept LM, NTLM, and NTLMv2 authentication. 2 – Clients use only NTLM authentication, and they use NTLMv2 session security if the server supports it. Domain controller….
Categories: Code Samples,Configurations,Email,Other Code,Software
Tagged: exchange, hosted exchange, outlook, passwords, Windows
- Published:
- August 26, 2008 – 1:32 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Drupal’s administration login area is not secure by default. Usually there is an option in the configuration area of content management systems to set a secure area for logins, otherwise your username and password are sent in plain text over the internet. Luckily, there is a module which enforces secure login on a Drupal install. Drupal Module: Securepages Although it is still in development, the 6.x-1.x-dev version worked great with my Drupal 6.4 installation.
Categories: Configurations,Drupal,PHP,Security
Tagged: Drupal, modules, secure
- Published:
- May 29, 2008 – 9:46 am
- Author:
- By Dave
The AskApache blog has a great comprehensive guide to .htaccess. A must read for anyone who does a lot of work with Apache. http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-htaccess.html
Categories: Code Samples,Configurations,Linux,System Administration
Tagged: apache, htaccess, web server
- Published:
- May 8, 2008 – 9:09 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
For some reason, Firefox started to display a blinking cursor, like web pages I have been viewing were editable. Thinking that some errant plugin was causing this behavior, I manically disabled a few I had recently installed. However that didn’t fix the problem. Good ole Google to the rescue. Firefox has a ‘feature’ that lets you select text with more visual feedback. I guess the little one must have been hitting keys and turned this on. Turning it off is easy! Press F7 to turn off caret browsing. Alternatively, type “about:config” in the URL area, then filter for “caret“. Change accessibility.browsewithcaret to “false”.
Categories: Configurations,Programs
Tagged: caret, configuration, firefox, tips
- Published:
- March 15, 2008 – 8:45 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
In case you were wondering, I just invented the phrase PVPN – Personal Virtual Private Network. I use Hamachi to connect my work, home and laptop PCs and I’ve found it invaluable over the past few years for a number of reasons. Music over VPN, Remote Desktop/VNC over VPN, and more. So now, I’d like to join my N800 to this growing network to make easy and secure access and file transfer wherever I am connected. Fortunately the folks at Logmein have compiled a client for the N770, and this also works on OS2008 on the N800 (Let me know on the N810). This is an alternate take on the wiki article at Logmeinwiki. Note: For the commands below I will have assumed that you have already installed the openssh server so you can access the N800 via an SSH client with root access. You can also use the built….
Categories: Configurations,Linux,N800,Shell
Tagged: hamachi, hamachi go-online, internet tablet, Linux, little device, N800, openssh server, tablet, VPN
- Published:
- March 6, 2008 – 12:31 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
If you upload those new fancy-shmancy file formats to your web server – namely .docx, .pptx and .xlsx – and you are running Apache; chances are that your web server doesn’t know how to serve those files because they are unknown file formats. Your browser may try to download them as a .zip file (IE) or just display the binary format (Firefox) which ends up looking like jibberish with some XML data. It’s relatively easy to fix this problem, you just need to tell apache how to handle those files. Find the file mime.types, this may be in /etc/ or in /etc/httpd/conf/. Add the following line to this file: 1application/vnd.openxmlformats docx pptx xlsx In one line: 1echo "application/vnd.openxmlformats docx pptx xlsx" >> /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types Restart both Apache and your web browser. Clearing the cache doesn’t work (I learned the hard way :)) Your file should….
Categories: Configurations,Linux
Tagged: apache, Apache server, content types, microsoft, mime, mime.types, office, web browser, web server, XML
