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How to install latest Nginx on Ubuntu

Marko Tomic — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:10:53 +0000

Install latest Nginx on Ubuntu Ubuntu doesn’t always keep up with the latest stable releases of Nginx. To install latest Nginx on Ubuntu I normally follow these steps: Step 1 Add latest stable release distro to Ubuntu sources file in /etc/apt/sources.list. Replace ‘precise’ with your Ubuntu version: echo 'deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ precise nginx' >> /etc/apt/sources.list Step [...]

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Nginx htpasswd – how to generate one

Marko Tomic — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:26:08 +0000

Nginx htpasswd Every time I want to generate Nginx htpasswd I forget how to do it. This is just for my reference so I don’t have to search for a solution on the Internet. Apache comes with htpasswd utility, but I strictly run Nginx these days and don’t really need Apache or any Apache related [...]

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Mysql-bin files too large – solved

Marko Tomic — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 08:07:11 +0000

Newrelic is an application monitoring tool that truly is developer’s best friend. It’s such a true statement. I’ve used Newrelic to pinpoint and successfully troubleshoot numerous applications. I’ve recently switched all database tables from MyISAM to InnoDB for a couple of reasons that are outside the scope of this post. What came to my intention is [...]

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WordPress Nginx and APC Configuration

Marko Tomic — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:32:37 +0000

I’ve been working with Nginx web server for a while now. I have to say it’s an impressive web server that performs really well on high traffic websites. I’m in the process of migrating all my sites from Apache to Nginx. I am about 80% there after migrating WordPress and Joomla sites to Nginx without [...]

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Delete Revisions in WordPress – HOWTO

Marko Tomic — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:26:22 +0000

Delete Revisions in WordPress When you write articles in WordPress, your revisions will periodically get saved in the database. This is a useful feature, however, each revision that is saved by WordPress results in a new record in your MySQL database. I don’t have a problem with having revisions stored in the database for my [...]

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Remove Files From Git History

Marko Tomic — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:03:25 +0000

Remove Files From Git History Occasionally a developer might commit some sensitive information, such as passwords, in a Git repository. Although you can easily remove the file in question from the repo, Git will retain the commit history for that particular file. Fortunately, in Git there is an easy way to remove files from Git [...]

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Install WordPress in less then a minute

Marko Tomic — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:31:08 +0000

Why Install WordPress locally? If you have a WordPress website that is live and don’t have it set up locally on your computer or laptop, you’re doing it wrong. To install WordPress on your local machine is a breeze. Why should you install WordPress on your local machine before running it on production? If you [...]

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Web Proposal Software by Bidsketch

Marko Tomic — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:43:55 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of freelance work lately and one thing I really wanted to improve on was how to write a good Web Development Proposal without spending hours and hours on it. There’s nothing worse than spending hours and sometimes days on writing a proposal, only to see it get rejected. Well my [...]

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WordPress Login / Logout menu link

Marko Tomic — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:35:47 +0000

Almost every site I build requires WordPress login / logout functionality and I haven’t been able to find a standard way of adding a login/logout link to the primary menu of my theme. I wrote this little filter that works like a charm and what I really really like about it is that when user [...]

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How to set up a Website maintenance page

Marko Tomic — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:00:29 +0000

Occasionally I need to take my sites down for a regular maintenance and I’ve come up with a pretty neat way of setting up a website maintenance page using Apache mod rewrites. Once the rewrites are in place, you don’t need to restart your Apache webserver for any subsequent maintenance periods. The idea is to simply drop [...]

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