Script to backup WordPress from remote PC

Another auto-backup script 🙂 This time, I wanted to have a quick and easy way to login to my server from my windows laptop, compress and backup the wordpress blog content, as well as the wordpress mysql database, then copy everything back to my laptop. A one-click backup basically. Here's what I did. First up, … Continue reading Script to backup WordPress from remote PC

Using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect URLs

When installing, wordpress by default deflates the blog contents into the "/blog" subdirectory of the webserver root. For example, if your website root is /var/www then wordpress will generate all its content into /var/ww/blog. Now, lets say you have a DNS account, such as my ddilittleitaly.dyndns.org, then in order to reach the subdirectory, visitors to … Continue reading Using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect URLs