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Backing Up and Restoring Your MySQL Database

By On June 10, 2004 · Leave a Comment

Do you need to change your web host or switch your database server? This is probably the only time when you really think of backing up your MySQL data. If you’ve got a website with a database or your custom database running for your applications, it is imperative that you make regular backups of the [...]

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Configuring Apache to use a .htaccess file

By On October 10, 2003 · Leave a Comment

Just a good step by step on how to configure Apache to use a .htaccess file. I rarely ever use this method except in testing so I always forget.

First, get your web administrator to enable your use of .htaccess files. This requires a stanza in ServerRoot/conf/access.conf like this:

AllowOverride AuthConfig

where /home/webber is replaced [...]

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