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Lower-case all URLs with Apache mod_rewrite

February 5th, 2010

Search engines, like Google, will index URLs on your site in a case-sensitive fashion, so www.yoursite.com/iamtest shows up as a different page than www.yoursite.com/iAmTest. This has negative consequences for your search rankings as these different URLs will be interpreted as duplicate content. Read more…

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How to install PHP 5.2 on CentOS 5

October 22nd, 2009

I recently needed to install PHP 5.2 on CentOS 5.3. This version of CentOS comes with PHP 5.1 but, in order to run phpMyAdmin, I needed 5.2. The CentOS software repositories are, unfortunately, still stuck with 5.1 and the only way to get a newer version of PHP installed via the package manager (yum) is to add another repository that has a newer version. Read more…

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