Resources

Movable Type User Manual — The nuts and bolts guide for installing and getting started with Movable Type blogging software.

Comprehensive guide to htaccess — A short and sweet reference for password protecting your directories.

HTACCESS: Creation and Permissions — A short and sweet reference for password protecting your directories.

Search Engine Optimization Tools — A fabulous resource for meta tag analysis, search saturation and link popularity. Also provides htaccess and rewrite module resources and scripts.

Spam Countermeasures — Countermeasures to fight spam from both classic and zombie sources.

Malicious Robots List — A short list of bad spiders and nasty bots seen on kloth.net and kloth.org. Most of them have been found ignoring the www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html robots.txt standard and running straight into a bot trap, others have been found harvesting mail addresses for sending spam.

Installing Apache, PHP and MySQL on Mac OS X — Since MacOS X is based on FreeBSD, you can use the familiar trio - Apache, PHP and MySQL - to set up a development environment on your Macintosh. This is a guide for Apple users who want to get started.

Unix and Open Source Software (OS X) — Apple's guide to open source software for OS X includes links to MySQL, Apache, PHP, PHP/Perl bundles, and much more.

MySQL Database Server for OS X — Excellent and up-to-date MySQL installation and update instructions for OS X. Also includes outstanding resources, examples, FAQs, build instructions and additional information.

CMS Info — An Internet community of users and developers of content management systems dedicated to providing news and information of the open source niche.

Open Source CMS — This site was created with one goal in mind: to give you the opportunity to try out some of the best PHP- and MySQL-based free and open source software systems in the world.

Web Page File Permissions — Your Web pages aren't any good if anyone can come along and change what you've written. There are a few ways to restrict access to who can see and modify your Web pages.

Search Engine Watch — Provides tips and information about searching the Web, analysis of the search engine industry and help for site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines.

HTML Authoring Tools — Offers lynx viewer, search engine simulator, Web page purifier, Web page backward compatibility view, HTTP header viewer, HTTP request viewer, and much more.

Cron Basics — General information on how to use cron as well as tips on avoiding problems.

Perl Cookbook — A comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. You'll find hundreds of rigorously reviewed Perl "recipes" for manipulating strings, numbers, dates, arrays, and hashes; pattern matching and text substitutions; references, data structures, objects, and classes; signals and exceptions; and much more.

Dynamic Pulldown Option List — This JavaScript library allows you to create dynamic pulldown menu list contents, when the options in a list depend on which item is selected in another list. It correctly supports multiple selection lists, including maintaining the selected state of dynamic options.

MySQL and DBI: How to install DBI — DBI is a database independent interface for Perl, implemented as a Perl module that allows you to access your database from a Perl script. DBI does this by interfacing with database drivers that are specific to each database server. These are known as DBD modules. This tutorial will discuss what you'll need to have installed on your system in order to use DBI and MySQL from Perl scripts.

Wizcrafts Computer Services — Troubleshooting, online security and Webmaster services.

eMail Injection Attacks — There are a lot of ways to send anonymous emails, some use it to mass mail, some use it to spoof identity, and some (a few) use it to send email anonymously. Usually a web mailform using the mail() function generates emails containing headers with the originating IP of the server it's running on. Therefore the mailform acts as a SMTP proxy. The input fields of the form may vary, but it is common to specify a mailform that gives you control over the subject, the message, and the sender's email address.

Prevent eMail Injection Attacks — Thankfully, protecting yourself is quite easy. Probably the easiest way is for you to check the vulnerable fields for illegal content on receipt by your processing script.