Web Development Blog http://www.1-script.com Working the Web, one page at a time! Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:02:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) sends no User Agent http://www.1-script.com/2013/paypal-instant-payment-notification-ipn-sends-no-user-agent/ http://www.1-script.com/2013/paypal-instant-payment-notification-ipn-sends-no-user-agent/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:17:56 +0000 scriptster http://www.1-script.com/?p=297

PayPal IPN sends requests with no User Agent string set in the HTTP header

Came across this issue today while troubleshooting problems with PayPal payments on a site. PayPal kept sending the “PayPal Instant Payment Notification Warning” messages and eventually sent a “PayPal Instant Payment Notification Disabled” one and obviosuly no transactions could be automatically

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Disable Federated Media spambot using CSF or other firewall software

Well, what do you know: the big guys in the blogging business are not averse to stooping this low! I’m checking referrer logs on all my sites from time to time for any signs of irregularities – break in attempts and the like. Lo and

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Facebook hid the logout button (again!)

Have to leave this computer but cannot log out of Facebook because the logout option is gone? You are not alone! The option is still there, Facebook has just hid it from view, here’s how to find it (2012 edition )

Facebook in their infinite wisdom keep messing

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Sitemap Mod for SMF 2.0.2

I’ve been supporting a few forum sites based on SimpleMachines.org SMF 2.0.2 software and it’s kind of hard to miss that an off-the-shelf SMF install is missing an essential feature – a sitemap script.

There are surprisingly few modifications (mods) adding sitemaps to SMF installs (in contrast with WordPress) and

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cPanel log rotator fills up the server HDD with useless junk files

One of cPanel-based servers (cPanel/WHM 11.30.5.2) I administer has thrown a tantrum tonight. A cPanel log rotator has stuck (in fact, multiple instances were running at the same time) and the end result was very not pretty. The server was extremely sluggish

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]]> http://www.1-script.com/2011/parse-apache-logs-for-traces-of-server-abuse/feed/ 0 #1034 – Incorrect key file for table ‘mytable’; try to repair it http://www.1-script.com/2011/1034-incorrect-key-file-for-table-mytable-try-to-repair-it/ http://www.1-script.com/2011/1034-incorrect-key-file-for-table-mytable-try-to-repair-it/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:39:08 +0000 scriptster http://www.1-script.com/?p=201 Yup, it’s one of those days today. A db_mysql.inc.php – based script spitted out this error:

Incorrect key file for table 'mytable'; try to repair it

Note to self: db_mysql.inc.php library has this parameter:

var $Halt_On_Error = "no"; ## "yes" (halt with message), "no" (ignore errors quietly), "report" (ignore errror, but spit a warning)

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cPanel / WHM comes with a sleek (in a geeky way) Web interface. Which you don't have to use.

cPanel is a ubiquitous Web site control panel, one of the most commonly offered by Web hosting companies. If you have a VPS (Virtual Private Server) or a dedicated server account and you’ve ordered cPanel

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There have been various values for the number of affected searches floating around. Matt Cutts has mentioned “single digits” for example. I though it would be useful

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]]> http://www.1-script.com/2011/how-much-the-lack-of-google-referral-data-affects-you/feed/ 0 Google stops sending referral data – the end of keyword research? http://www.1-script.com/2011/google-stops-sending-referral-data-the-end-of-keyword-research/ http://www.1-script.com/2011/google-stops-sending-referral-data-the-end-of-keyword-research/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:57:34 +0000 scriptster http://192.168.0.219/?p=137 Back in mid October 2011 Google announced that they will stop sending referral data for searches originating from their secure SSL domain – https://www.google.com. Here is their original announcement @ googleblog.blogspot.com . Since then most webmasters that care to look at their referral data noticed that great many Google referrals now look as if they

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1-Script.com is 10 years old!

Time flies… A cliché that it may be, it’s still amazing to me that the little site I started back in February 2001 is already 10 years old! A lot has happened since February 2001 and I would have to admit that back then I had no idea about where

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