Animator vs Animation

For the Flash animators out there…

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Originally found here by Alan Becker.

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Joomla 1.0.x Writeable Directories

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 [...]

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Perfect Permissions for Joomla and Plesk

Note: This solution is for Joomla 1.0.x
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 [...]

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Joomla Session Save Path

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:

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The Evolution of Web Design

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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