Disable Query String in Apache

If you need to make a static backup of a dynamic site you are going to find that you can't access the pages because apache is trying to parse the URL string.

You will have something that looks like "index.php?module=". and it needs to look like "index.php%3fmodule="

perl -pi -e 's/index.php\?/index.php\%3f/g' ./*

Will change all of your links so you can access the backup.

Setting up Google+ for Google Apps

If you are like me and millions of other Google Users today you tried to check out Goolge+ (plus) from your mobile device and were hit with a warning that advised you to "contact your domain administrator to see if Google+ can be enabled for your account."

I am one of those domain administrators so I spent the better part of an hour getting to the bottom of this message so I could solve this problem and enable another great Google feature. This sounds like it is very awesome concept and something that can be used in the business world unlike Facebook.

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Joomla 1.6 SEF Urls working on Godaddy

If you have multiple domains hosted with Go Daddy and or any other hosting company for that matter you might be having a problem getting the Joomla SEF Url's working.

The Problem

When you have only one domain hosted with Go Daddy it is hosted in a directory that looks something similar to /var/www/html/(Joomla Install) it is known to apache as your document root but when you have multiple domains in a single hosted account they end up in sub folders of the document root so it looks something like this

 

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jQuery Ajax or is it Jquery JSON

I really had no idea that Ajax could be so easy. I have been hearing about jQuery for ever now and always thought that it was probably just like JavaScript so why learn it. The truth is I am still trying to figure out the languages I already know so why would I add another one.

The answer is simple, jQuery makes me a JavaScript God! I don’t know why anyone wouldn’t want to learn it. After all, don’t you want to become one of my subjects?

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