Category: Apache
Creating a self-signed cert
If you need to support or serve your website using SSL, but only for personal purposes, such as a webmail, you’ve probably come across the problem of creating your own server certificate. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging…
Password-Protecting your pages with .htaccess
If you develop websites or adminster them, you’ve probably been asked or required to password-protect parts of a website. So, to help you out, here’s a quick how-to in Apache using .htaccess: Open a terminal window and navigate to the folder or page(s) you’d like to add a password requirement. Once there, type the following:…
SideStep.com: What technology used?
My sister’s been shopping around for airline tickets to go to Asia without any luck. So, the geekness in me felt the need to help her out. Scanning through some blogs I read regularly, I came across SideStep.com. It is one of the “newer” travel websites that search a lot of other websites’ flight information, which got me…