Monthly Archives: August 2008

Web Site Status, integrated with blogs, forums, any database

Some of you may have noticed the stats on my home page. The stats show how many blog posts, forum posts, and forum users there are. I will show you how to use my code to do the same on your web site. Putting stats on your web page will allow your uses see how [...]

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How To FTP Server, for those who hate IIS and Windows

This is a tutorial will show you how to set up your own FTP server in Ubuntu Linux. FTP has a multitude of uses. You can set up your own file storage website, just your own file storage computer, or do other things. Steps Install a program called vsftpd. In order to do this, open [...]

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Robots.txt and What It Is

Introduction: When search engines crawl through the Internet, they check for the existence of the ‘robots.txt’ file. This file tells the search engine what URLs it should not crawl to, and has a simple file format. User-Agent: The ‘user-agent’ field tells which robot the following lines correspond to. ‘User-agent’ may correspond to all robots by [...]

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What is Code Injection and How to Prevent It

There has been a sudden increase of attacks on sites that have Code Injection vulnerabilities. Code Injection is a term used when code is injected straight into a program/script from an outside source for execution at some point in time. These type of vulnerabilities may be many times worse than any other vulnerability, since the [...]

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Remove Filename and Directories that have no name

Operating an open ftp server can be a risky ordeal, expecially if anonymous users may upload files to it. There are people out there that scan blocks of ips for such open servers and may use it to store illegal software, some of who may use tricky folder names such as ‘ ‘ (space). This [...]

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