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Flash Resources
When consulting with clients or conducting training sessions pertaining to Flash, I regularly refer back to the following websites as excellent resources. I highly recommend these to anyone interested in flash no matter what their experience level: www.gotoandlearn.com - Video tutorials of advanced Flash and related technologies by Lee Brimelow. www.flashkit.com - A open source flash community [...]
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Joomla 1.0.x Writeable Directories
18. April 2008
The following is a list of the directories that must be ‘writeable’ for Joomla 1.0.x to work properly. I’m including it here as a reference. In most cases individuals that install Joomla will simply chmod the permissions for these directories to 707 or 777. I have found through personal experience that this is not very [...]
Continue reading...Perfect Permissions for Joomla and Plesk
18. April 2008
This post is a continuation (actually a better solution) from my previous post on Joomla Session Save Path The solution is a slightly modified version from the original post found at rackerhacker.com Change the umask in ‘/etc/proftpd.conf’ from ‘022′ to ‘002′. Then, update the directory permissions by running the following at the command line: cd /var/www/vhosts/[domain.com] chown -R [username]:psacln httpdocs chmod [...]
Continue reading...Joomla Session Save Path
8. April 2008
If you are looking at this post you have probably seen the following error when trying to install Joomla 1.0.x: Warning: is_writable() [function.is-writable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/lib/php/session) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/installation/index.php on line 154 The solution to this is two-fold:
Continue reading...The Evolution of Web Design
9. February 2008
The Internet and discipline of Web Design has come a long way in a very short time. Just 17 years ago the Internet was just a simple text based communication method mostly between intellectuals and technology geeks. Today it houses incomprehensible amounts of information and is an integral part of nearly all business. But whats [...]
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13. September 2008
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