Written on an Airbed

I wish I could keep to my self-imposed schedule.

But sometimes crap gets in the way, unfortunately.

This is a filler post, I'm afraid. I've just spent a couple of hours getting .htaccess to work, and I'm about to re-do the navbar and set up mod_rewrite, which will be endless amounts of fun(!)

Let me explain what .htaccess is, for those of you don't know. .htaccess, among other things, allows a webmaster such as myself to password-protect various areas of a site.

For instance, ever since this website has been on the internet, anyone on the planet could have typed "index.php?p=post" into the URL bar and been able to enter a new post as me. That's obviously a bad thing.

With .htaccess, that is now no longer possible. To write an entry here(other than a comment) you have to know my user-name and password, which you don't. So ha-ha!

The reason it took me so long to get working is because... I am an idiot, and I forgot to specify exactly where the file containing the password was, so the server got all confused. Oops. It always takes me forever to spot these mistakes.

08 March, 2007 - 21:51

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