Category: System enginering & Web administration

Programming in PHP can be really depressing. Most trouble is due to version conflicts You just set up a new web-application for a client and everything is running just dandy. Suddenly the PHP version is being updated by the provider. You experience that your application crashes. This is the moment that you realize that PHP…

How to setup a PHP environment on my laptop? Download and install XAMPP. Download and install Visual Studio Code. Install the following extensions in Visual Studio Code: PHP server PHP debug What is an extension in PHP? Extensions are libraries like DLL files. They contain specific functions. How to load extensions in PHP? Extensions are…

What do you do when you get an apache 503 error? Well, a 503 error sometimes does not tell you that apache is doing something wrong. Maybe you are doing something wrong. A 503 error tells you that the service is unavailable. Maybe apache has been set up with a different port. So first, check…

Creating a double OPT system and the possibility to unsubscribe in PHP. Subscribing, activation and unsubscribing are processes that are quite important in the world of web.  As part of creating this form we want to collect user information up front and then sending the user an email to have them activate their account. This…

How do I configure PuTTY? Overview PuTTY is a free terminal emulator which supports various network protocols such as SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and SCP. It was originally available only for Windows, but is now also available on various UNIX platforms, with work-in-progress ports to Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X. At Good2manage, you are able to…

How do I set up passwordless login in PuTTY?OverviewThis article explains how to set up passwordless login with PuTTY. Make sure you have first configured PuTTY before proceeding with this article. There is one important base rule that you have to understand when we talk about public and private keys. The public key resides on a…