Chris Gilligan Information Architect, Web Server Administrator, Media Producer web • video • print chris [at] chrisgilligan [dot] net chrisgilligan.com I design and produce information and communication media for corporate, small business, manufacturing and non-profit clients: web sites Information architecture and design for open source content management systems Linux Apache MySQL PHP web server administration Postfix Dovecot Sendmail mail … 11, 0, 0, 0 and 26.74
Punk Rock Music Community
Punktastic.com is a community powered site that covers punk music in Britain, but is poised to go worldwide. They cover punk and hardcore shows and festivals, and provide album reviews, video interviews and more. With a growing audience and user base, Punktastic needed a more reliable and robust web server, so they made the move to a dedicated CentOS 5 series web server with 3GB RAM. While this is a relatively low-end box, it has plenty of horse… 3, 1, 0, 0 and 14.07
How to Configure APC Cache on Virtual Servers with PHP running under FCGId
APC INFO Monitor My Virtualmin CentOS 5.6 Virtual Private Server runs several virtual domains with PHP under FCGId using APC for opcode caching: Joomla, PHPbb, WordPress, etc . APC is somewhat challenging to configure properly with fcgid-enabled virtual domains, but it is quite helpful to optimize system resources and prevent traffic surges on one site from affecting overall server performance. Joomla and PHPbb have code that is pre-optimized wi… 3, 0, 0, 0 and 8.62
Joomla Content Management
…ord processor, you will feel right at home Topic sections can be added to by contributing authors Fully customisable layouts including left, center, top and bottom boxes Browser upload of images and files (flash, JPEGs, PDFs, video, etc.) to your own library for use anywhere in the site Joomla: Powerful, World Class CMS Change order of objects including news, FAQs, articles etc. Random Newsflash generator Remote author submission module for New… 2, 0, 0, 0 and 4.54
Remote publishing to WordPress from Facebook via RSS
e updated with blog posts, or share links and information, but don’t necessarily want to spend the time to post with WordPress. Let’s face it, Facebook is convenient to use to share a link, upload small photos and video, or write a brief update. Your Blog is Hungry FeedWordPress is a plugin that pulls content from an RSS feed and publishes articles as WordPress posts. It is somewhat complex to set up properly, so I won’t go into… 2, 0, 0, 0 and 4.36
Load Balancing Virtualmin WordPress Hosting Server with Varnish on AWS
…ebmin instances. Creating a Storage Area Network for these volumes will provide shared /home and /var for the primary and slave instances. Slave Server pairs for Virtualmin/Apache and Webmin/MySQL can be created to respond in round-robin fashion to the Varnish requests. With AWS Auto-scaling, more instances can be created on-demand if load on the backend servers is too great. EBS snapshots of primary database server and web server will provide sp… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 2.87
Farmers Market Website
home page presents tons of information in a compact javascript slider Fresh content includes recipes and a list of what’s available each week Facebook fan page gets automatically updated with new content New photos and videos are easily uploaded via SlideShowPro and YouTuber for a fun, engaging user experience Lightweight CSS3 design and an alternative layout for mobile browsers present the site quickly and efficiently … 1, 0, 0, 0 and 2.36
Cpanel Mailman mailing lists: cannot manage lists after migrating to new host
…ere currently are no publicly-advertised Mailman mailing lists on cpanel1.hosting.com.To visit the administrators configuration page for an unadvertised list, open a URL similar to this one, but with a ‘/’ and the right list name appended. If you have the proper authority, you can also create a new mailing list. This turned out to be a permissions issue: root@cpanel1 [/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin]# ./check_perms –snip– dir… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 2.36
WordPress Content Management
If you don’t need the power of a full-blown Content Management System, and want a site that’s easier to manage, WordPress is a great choice. It’s just right for small businesses , churches and non-profit or service organizations. WordPress can also be combined with an existing website to add news, weblink and weblog functions. WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and us… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 2.36
Public Art Non-Profit Website
hensive to take on this project… but I soon found some new PHP and JavaScript code to make WordPress behave as desired. Search Engine Optimization Fancybox JavaScript modal windows for YouTube, image slideshows, audio, video and PDF Google Web Fonts for a handcrafted look Advanced Custom Fields for intuitive addition of media player icons and project metadata … 1, 0, 0, 0 and 2.18
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