Server

Web

• http://httpstatus.es/

Nginx

• Resources
• FullExample
• VirtualHostExample
• HttpRewriteModule - rewriting urls
• HttpAuthBasicModule - for directory passwords

Enable logging in vhost conf;

error_log /var/log/nginx-vhostnamehere.log error;

.htaccess

• Stupid htaccess Tricks

MediaWiki

• Manual:Short URL/wiki/Page title -- nginx rewrite--root access
• Manual:Short URL/Page title - nginx, Root Access, PHP as a CGI module

MediaWiki:Sidebar

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table

WordPress

• Docs
  • Theme Development
  • Stepping Into Templates
  • Template Hierarchy
  • Template Tags
  • The Loop
  • Site Design and Layout

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar#New_way_of_adding_sidebars
  • http://stackoverflow.com/a/1398524

Plugins

• Plugins
• Plugin API

Widget

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featured-page-widget/ [1] - breaks external link output (even with a tag allowed). no support or development.
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-on-widget/ - passes through images, ignores read more cut
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/2046s-widget-loops/ - no excerpt length option
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-in-widget/ - passes full page, 'show more link' no works.
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-custom/ - adds an extra sidebar, not widget?!?
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spectacula-page-widget - cannot alter excerpt length
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-page - cannot choose which tags to pass
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-excerpts/ - doesn't actually give excerpt field or related widget..
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-page-widget/ - really basic, only option is page id
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-and-page-excerpt-widgets/ - no length option, etc, broken plugin links

oh FFS wordpress plugin ecosystem....

Template

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/improved-include-page/

Theming

• http://pippinspages.com/wordpress/wordpress-font-uploader-plugin/

not tried

and some i'm not going to bother trying...

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/ - excerpt without html stripped.
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-content-blocks/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-widget-area/ - no idea how this goes beyond adding a new sidebar the regular manner
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/site-layout-customizer/ - alternate layouts. using a SHORTCODE?!

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wysiwyg-widgets
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-sidebars/ - page specific sidebars

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-countdown-widget/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress/

Flickr

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/awesome-flickr-gallery-plugin/
• http://www.slickrflickr.com/

Other CMSs

• http://oscommerce.com/
  • https://github.com/osCommerce/oscommerce2
  • demo

SSH

• SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
• Tips for Remote Unix Work (SSH, screen, and VNC) [2]
• http://www.semicomplete.com/articles/ssh-security/

• http://blog.hypergeometric.com/2012/02/22/ssh-dos-and-donts/

Handy

tmux

SSH keys

in ~/.ssh

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@youremail.com"
cat id_rsa.pub

SCP

• man scp

scp -P 8023 file.txt milk@thingsandstuff.org:~/file.txt

SSHFS

• Notes on SSHFS

Rsync

• Rsync over alt SSH port: --rsh='ssh -p8023'

Systems

Backup

• rsync - [Wikipedia:rsync]
  • rdiff-backup

• http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/

Provision

• Puppet Labs
  • Puppet Master - Central management daemon.
  • Puppet Agent - Runs on each managed node.
  • Puppet Apply - For local use.
  • http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/tools.html etc.
  • Puppet Wiki: Core Types Cheat Sheet
  • Puppet Wiki: Simple Text edits
  • Ubuntu puppet info
  • AUR: puppet
  • AUR: puppet dashboard

• Chef visual [3]

• Fabric - Python SSH library

Virtualisation

• VirtualBox manual
  • Guest Additions
  • Virtual networking
  • VBoxManage
• Arch Wiki: VirtualBox
• VirtualBox Headless VM

VirtualBox config;

• Enable host Linux modules: vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp
• Enable host-only adapter 'virtualbox0' in VB Preferences > Network if not previously enabled, then select in guest preferences
• https://github.com/milkmiruku/boxbootstrap
• Keep VM names lowercase and no spaces for easier command-line stuff

Provisioning VirtualBoxes for local dev work;

• Vagrant - VirtualBox provisioning with Puppet, etc.
  • Commands
  • Boxes
  • Vagrantfile: config.puppet
  • http://vagrantup.com/docs/provisioners/puppet_server.html
  • http://vagrantup.com/docs/provisioners/puppet.html

vagrant package --vagrantfile Vagrantfile.pkg --include README.txt
  stored in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes
vagrant box add lucid32 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box
vagrant box remove lucid32
vagrant box list

Filesystem

• http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2012/02/RAID-sucks/

DB

• http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/02/nosql-non-relational-database.html - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3610844

IaaS

• http://nova.openstack.org/

Knowledge management

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management
• http://www.cmdbuild.org/en/progetto/descrizione

Services

Video streaming

• Live WebM video streaming with Flumotion

E-mail

• Ask HN: How do you do your email delivery?
• http://wiki.debian.org/Postfix
• http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/index.html

Anti-spam;

• dspam [4] [5]
• http://www.postfix.org/addon.html

• http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/07/1533224/Ask-Slashdot-Self-Hosted-Gmail-Alternatives
• http://iafonov.github.com/blog/hardcore-email-infrastructure-setup.html

Google Apps

• Google Apps Email Walkthrough

Hosting

• http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/01/the_five_stages_of_hosting/
• http://blog.maclawran.ca/96882258