08/10/09 Some notes on setting the time. Setting from the command line The date command: date MMDDhhmm.ss (Seconds are optional; omit .ss if just setting to nearest minute.) To set the year too: date MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss (Once again, seconds are optional.) To discover what time and date the server thinks it is, use the date command without arguments. Good to know, but it shouldn't be necessary to set the time from the command line. The ntp daemon The...

22/10/09 PHP Tags tags enclose PHP code when mixed with HTML. Abbreviated tag not good. Don't use ?> in PHP only file - not required and can cause problems with trailing whitespace. Comments As for C++. Comment conventions for Drupal: /** * Open comment as above. * Succeeding lines, asterisk with single space indent. * Final line: indented one space, as below. */ Variables First character always $, second always a letter or underscore,...

13/11/09 Copied ABCtalesradio files to ABC server. To test, put them in the directory previously occupied by booktribes.com. Tried to access via www.booktribes.com . Apache returns 403, access denied. tail /var/log/httpd/error_log shows: (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied The (13) indicates that the problem is with file permissions, not the Apache config. Checked that all directories and scripts 755, all files 644. setenforce 0...