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Archive for May, 2008

A strange occurrence happened yesterday. I’m still not sure what triggered it but will post about it if and when I find out.
As a regular visitor to some sites (myspace.com as an example) I found that my main development PC couldn’t access some sites using any browser. I tried Firefox, IE [...]

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Multiple Virtual Hosts on Windows XP

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

When testing websites I need to access more than just my standard Windows server at http://localhost.  It’s possible to run more than one server using the Apache Virtual Hosts feature.
Note: I have XAMPP setup on my Windows XP system, which is running Apache 2.2.
I’ll display below how I set up my additional “paytest” virtual [...]

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Best Free FTP Software

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

One of the best free FTP software has to be Filezilla.
Filezilla is an OpenSource project which means it’s freely available to use.
It comes as 2 downloads, a server and a client.
Download the Client software if you want to access other peoples FTP server. A typical example of this would be uploading / downloading your [...]

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Welcome to web-develop.co.uk

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

We’re just starting to build the new blog which will feature help for Web Developers everywhere.
We’ll have examples, links, tutorials and some ranting no doubt and would like you to join us and contribute too.
We’ll go live posting by the end of May 2008.
We’ll see you soon.

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