Not all folders and files in your webfolder should be accessible to anyone.
Configuration or debug informations should be kept secret. Also it can be
pretty annoying if crawlers keep ignoring the rules from your robots.txt and
just index and list all files they find. In this article I will explain to you
how you can restrict access to files and folders.
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Google PageSpeed - Installation on Ubuntu
Since 2011 Google provides an Apache module called Google PageSpeed. This
module has some nice features, which can reduce the load time of your website
significantly. In this article I want to show you how to install PageSpeed on
Ubuntu, give you an example of a configuration and some tips, which may help
you get going.
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Drupal: Maintenance Node
Drupal has somewhat limited options, when it comes to displaying information
during site maintenance. By default admins may enter a simple maintenance
message. Most of the times this is just enough, but sometimes you want to
be able to make the maintenance page look more appealing. For this reason I
developed a Maintenance Node module.
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RPG Creator Battles Revisited
I can't help it. Every once in a while the RPG Creator pops up in my head and I
need to work on it a little. Sooner or later I get distracted by something else,
but most of the times I actually make a few steps towards completion. This time
I revisited the battle script and turned it into a class.
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Capslock Detection via JavaScript
DO YOU KNOW THAT FEELING? YOU JUST TYPED IN YOUR USER CREDENTIALS AND INSTEAD
OF LOGGING IN, YOU JUST GET AN ERROR MESSAGE. YOU WONDER IF YOU HAD A TYPO AND
THAN YOU REALIZE THAT THIS RELICT OF ANCIENT TIMES SCREWED YOU OVER AGAIN...
CAPS LOCK. To prevent this from happening to your users you can provide a
little hint to your login forms. This article tells you how to do this in
JavaScript, with and without jQuery.
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