Cain Manor

When I first set up CainManor on slicehost, e-mail wasn’t working. The solution, based on this thread, was to install postfix.

apt-get install postfix  -Install postfix

edit /etc/postfix/main.cf

mydomain = cainmanor.com
myorigin = cainmanor.com
mynetworks_style = host

service postfix start -start the service to see if it works as expected.

chkconfig –list postfix - make sure it will start on boot.  The default install takes care of this

Now that we have the OS ready for the wordpress install, let’s finish up…

Continue reading ‘Wordpress 2.5 on a fresh CentOS 5.0 install - Part 2’ »

I’m doing this on my new host - Slicehost (more about that later.) It’s VPS, which gives you a clean install of your choice of Linux Operating Systems (they have seven or eight choices.) In this case, I’m using CentOS, since it’s close to what we use at work.

Continue reading ‘Wordpress 2.5 on a fresh CentOS 5.0 install - part 1’ »

Let’s you use correct syntax on your code snippets, or rather - keeps WordPress from fucking up your code.

Download from here. To use, wrap your code with

<pre lang="LANGUAGE" line=”1″> and </pre>

line=”1″ is optional. This is based on syntax highlighting from GeSHI. You can visit their page for a full list of supported languages. The ones I care about are - or rather, may care about in the future:

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UPDATE - 3/5/8..  PHP speedy is now a plugin.  Gotta say, it mucked up things for me.  I don’t feel like doing anymore troubleshooting, but I would NOT recommend it.  I may try eAccelerator.

PHP Speedy is a pretty cool PHP optimizer/compressor. It compresses your data before sending it over the interweb. You need to download the files from the link at the start of this article, put those files in your web root, run a quick setup and then….

Add this to the very top of your index.php (your path will vary:)

Add this to the very bottom

finish(); ?>

I added it to my main theme, and it’s very snappy. When I added it to my iPhone optimized page, it made a HUGE difference.

Go to about:config in your browser
Search for browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash
Set to false