On a recent project we needed to provide a client our contribution to the site code base as static .html files. To make the development process easier though a number of the developers wanted to include some of the global page assets such as the header and footer using PHP…
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Good security practices dictate PHP should be configured to never display error messages and notices to screen in a production environment due to its potential to reveal information about your server and application setup. One solution is to enable error logging on the server by setting the log_errors attribute to…
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Sometimes trying to figure out why the hell scripts arent working after trying to get search engine friendly URL’s working with Apache’s rewrite module can be a huge pain in the arse.
One way you can get a bit more insight into what may be broken is by adding the Apache Rewritelog & Rewriteloglevel directives to your apache configuration file.
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A painfree tutorial on installing the XAMPP bundle to ease the development and testing of your web applications.
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