Good file permissions tutorial -
http://www.interspire.com/content/articles/12/1/FTP-and-Understanding-File-Permissions
FTP overwrite problems using Virtualmin setup –
http://www.virtualmin.com/node/9885

Linux to the rescue. This sure beats using Export from PhpMyAdmin, it can be slow and may time out with large databases.
mysqldump -a -u USER -p DBNAME > /path/to/backupname.sql
http://www.metatitan.com/mysql/6/how-to-backup-and-restore-large-databases-in-mysql.html

Check your SSL certificate – http://www.digicert.com/help/
Setting up SSL on apache:
http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/03/04/step-by-step-configuring-ssl-under-apache.html

If you need a slideshow for your Drupal website, I recommend using JCarousel Lite – http://gmarwaha.com/jquery/jcarousellite/
It has lots of parameters to tweak depending on how you want to set it up. It’s easy to get working.
One slight issue (well major issue really until I fixed it), that I had using this with Drupal was that [...]

FILES=”test.xml”
# for loop read each file
for f in $FILES
do
INF=”$f”
OUTF=”$f.out.tmp”
# replace javascript
sed ‘//d;//d’ $INF > $OUTF
/bin/cp $OUTF $INF
/bin/rm -f $OUTF
done
http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-1451-sed-delete-one-or-more-lines-from-a-file
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/dulaney_sed.html

In my quest to convert a CSV file to XML I’ve found the best advice seems to be to use Perl.
Do I have Perl installed on my linux server?
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-find-out-what-perl-modules-already-installed-on-my-system/
Enter the following command in shell -
$ instmodsh
To find the version of perl -
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-can-i-find-out-perl-version/
$ perl -v
Here’s my findings:
I’ve been following a tutorial in a book called XML [...]

Recently, I’ve changed the way I’ve been creating websites in Drupal. Instead of trying to make everything as easily as possible for clients to add content to their websites I’m actually more inclined to think that this can make creating sites more complicated. I know there are a plethora of Drupal modules available for almost [...]

Hoults Yard is not the only supplier of such space…there are more
suppliers of deskspace including http://space.carrotmedialtd.com.
hedgehoglab.com offering desk space

Find the size of a directory
du -sh /dir
How to remove files older than 60 days
find * -mtime +60 -exec rm -R {} \;

Check if your server has GD support
http://www.tutorialadvisor.com/tutorials_view/Test_GD_support_on_your_server-1209.html
This script told me that I didn’t have GD support.
The following command worked for me.
apt-get install php5-gd
Installing Inocube
http://www.debiantutorials.net/installing-ioncube/
http://www.crucialp.com/resources/tutorials/server-administration/how-to-howto-ioncube-loader.php
Install Curl
apt-get install php5-curl
Install Zend Optimizer
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_apache2_ssl_php5_zendoptimizer_ioncubeloader
Mod_rewrite
This was not enabled. I couldn’t find anything useful online about installing this but thankfully there was an option in Webmin to enable the module.
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Testing using the [...]