Published on
12th April 2007 in
Blog.
As of this moment I’ve decided that I will use this website to tell you about any project that I’ve been working on no matter how small it is. This way you get to find out more about me and what I can do. It also makes this website a big more interesting and helpful.
On Tuesday I decided that I will put a hit counter back on my personal website, www.cosmo1847.co.uk. I have done a hit counter before with PHP but the way they worked was to count everytime the script was loaded, meaning that when someone clicked refresh it would count them again. The way I got around this was by only loading the script when the first some one the website.
This was not what I wanted, I have progressed since then and I wanted a unique visitor counter so I would know how many people used my website. After looking about I found this guide which shows you how to make a unique hit counter using some files to store the information. Using this as a template I set about making a unique hit counter using MySQL and PHP. I used MySQL because it is more secure and as this will have to store IP addresses I don’t really want to leave them lying about in a readable format. The hit counter is now working on my personal website but it does not display the amount of visitors as I do not want them to know so I currently access via MySQL Query Browser, one of the tools I use for MySQL work.
Published on
22nd December 2006 in
Blog.
I have got a working FTP server installed on the server but there is a problem, A very big problem. It accepts my user fine but not the new one that I made for Keaton. Using my ftp client, CyberDuck, I can’t log in using FTP but I can using SSH as I have made Keaton a user on the computer. The problem with SSH is the securety risk is poses to the server as they can get into all sorts out places inclusing the root, web and my person files that are stored on the server. For this reason I shell not allow using SSH access until I have sorted out a way to limit their access to directories. I will be working on FTP in the hoildays to hopefully fix this problem. Until then no one can upload stuff to the server.
Published on
23rd November 2006 in
Blog.
I host a few wordpress web logs for my friends on my server to give it move or a point than only having my two sites on it. Keaton is one of them and he’s starting to personalize his wordpress web blog by adding a theme he found to it. I have this theme on that I am going to make small changes to here and there. The main thing I’m thinking about is the login button, I just can’t find it. Well I’m going to change some settings on my wordpress to see how things work so I can help Keaton.
Published on
20th November 2006 in
Blog.
This wordpress system has been online for just over a week now and I am starting to make it home. I’m sorting out pages and the content to go in them one by one. I’ll just keep reworking the text until I’m happy with it. Instead of having a just a site for news letting you know how the server is going and about down time, that since the Cron stuff the server has been online nearly all the time. The pages are about hosting as that is one of my goals yet to be achieved and my portfolio. The other goals where central file sortage and printing hub that I have manged to achieve this week. I have changed the look of the site to the K2 theme with it’s clean ans shape lines similar to my own personal site. One way you can tell if I am making a system for the masses more “homely” is when I go and edit the code. It’s a small change and I think many wouldn’t notice the difference but I have added a favicon to the site. This is the little “JB” in a blue square next to the URL or title if you are using tabs. I may make more changes to the server as I go along or find modifications that I like, we shell see.
Published on
19th November 2006 in
Blog.
When I installed debain, a print server was one of the options I selected along with the other stuff like file and web (which I ended up installing some parts manually). After following some guides and mucking around with my laptop, desktop and server I have managed to get the print server working with my HP Photosmart P1000 with my desktop and laptop. Panther on the otherhand didn’t want to play ball so it’s not using the print server but because it’s so close to the printer I could just get a USB cable for it. Tomorrow when I return from school I will set up the other two XP machines to be able to print to it. I might even sort out my laptop so I can print from out and about but I doupt I will.
Published on
2nd November 2006 in
Blog.
I have put my web server online so you don’t have to use a subdomain to get there. I am testing out the word press system as I may be intrested in incoperating it into my current website. This would make it easy to edit and post. I wouldn’t have to be on my network to blog since I would be able to do it over the internet but I am like graham and some of my other friends in the fact that I like to build the system myself instead of relaying on someone else because I feel like I need to prove to myself that I can do it. My web browser supports bloging systems like word press. I don’t know if I will copy this into my normaly blog or end up with two running together or as seperate identitys.