20100731 Euskal 18 :after

Euskal 18, the eldest of the Spanish parties, was held past week in Bilbao. For the first time since I first attended (in Euskal 10, back in 2002) I was invited to organise the scene area, since the person who did it in previous years (Bloodrinker/RGBA) couldn’t do it this year. Now I’ll let you [...]

20080925 mod_rewrite, mod_negotiation and empty $_GET’s

I had just added this simple rewrite rule into the .htaccess file RewriteRule ^section/(\d+)/$ /section.php?id=$1 [L] and went to section.php expecting to find the id value inside $_GET['id']. Big surprise when it was actually empty. I suspected this could be something to do with that Apache module which tries to guess which file were you [...]

20071211 UTF-8 checklist

Following the discussion in the previous post (Reasons for using UTF-8) I thought it could be interesting to gather a series of steps needed to get a UTF-8 friendly environment. I’m going to focus on php and mysql, because using mysql and ruby/rails and utf8 tends to be kind of easier (specially since newer Rails [...]

20061215 How to set up the web server for working in a team

There are lots of urban legends around the intrincate complexities of setting up a web server in order to allow more than just one person to work with it. In fact, there are lots of bad habits, unfortunately very well established, like the “make your files writable == chmod 777 rule” which are just plainly [...]

20051202 somebody is trying to hack your site while you’re sleeping

I have been finding LOTS of hacking attempts on several sites I manage. Each time I look at the server error log I can find entries like these ones: [Tue Nov 29 00:47:32 2005] [error] [client 209.128.104.183] File does not exist: C:/Webroot/xmlrpc[Tue Nov 29 00:47:37 2005] [error] [client 209.128.104.183] File does not exist: C:/Webroot/xmlsrv[Tue Nov [...]