While setting up JBoss (with its bundled Tomcat) on a freshly installed Red Hat–based system, everything appeared to be running correctly. The service started cleanly, and the default web interface was bound to port 8080 as expected. However, when attempting to access the application from a remote machine, the connection failed. After a bit of troubleshooting, the issue turned out…
Read More »WordPress is quite versatile. The ability to customize, tweak, manipulate code, and or change plugins and themes are among the top reasons that it is so popular today. However, there are those who maliciously and intentionally add code that generally cannot be changed. This code is often encrypted or obfuscated so that it may be masked as legitimate code. Often…
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To install another application, I needed to install the JDK (Java Development Kit) on a RedHat Linux System. I found a good set of instructions and worked through the steps for a successful installation. The Redhat installation used is Red Hat 5 Enterprise Edition with the GUI. Using the GUI makes it possible for a newbie to maneuver through these…
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A recent task was to setup a JBoss Application Server on a Linux box. I had selected Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS Server Edition for this task. I created an Ubuntu virtual machine on a VMware Workstation. This was a fresh install and the only optional installation package added during the installation was LAMP, which should have nothing to do with the…
Read More »Another WordPress update has been made available for download. It seems that every time I get my sites in order, there is another update. Whether it is a plugin or WordPress release. This makes it particularly difficult when trying to maintain a perfect copy of a site for development and testing of plugins, themes, and WordPress updates. It also seems,…
Read More »Google purchased a web analytics software package, called Urchin. Urchin 6 has evolved into a powerful web analytic for a reasonable fraction of the cost price of applications like WebTrends. Urchin 6 is only available through a selection of Google authorized sellers for $2995. That purchase price includes everything that there is to offer, unlike Urchin 5, where additional modules…
Read More »Google Chrome is an internet browser that is one of the newest internet browsers to hit the market. Google Chrome offers address bar suggestions for both search and web pages, thumbnails of top sites, and shortcuts to applications. I downloaded it the other day to see how my website and others looked. To check if anything appears broken or incorrectly…
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