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HTML blockquote
Today I was forced to lookup how to treat <blockquote> and <p> elements. It turns out you wrap paragraphs with blockquote, i.e.:
<blockquote><p>...</p></blockquote>
Character encodings in HTML
Today I had to look up all the various ways HTML might nominate a content-type and I found Character encodings in HTML over on Wikipedia which had all the answers…
Set the target frame of a form
Today I had to lookup how to set the target frame of a form.
Basically you set the ‘target’ attribute on the form to the name of the frame you want to target.
MediaWiki: $wgRawHtml
Today I discovered the $wgRawHtml setting which allows for the inclusion of HTML in MediaWiki pages. Wicked! :)
No One Applauds This Woman Because They’re Too Creeped Out At Themselves To Put Their Hands Together
New Apache SSL configuration
Today Apache complained about SSLCertificateChainFile being deprecated and it told me to use SSLCertificateFile instead.
SSLCertificateFile was already in use with the .crt file. I had to create a new ‘SSLCertificateFile’ by concatenating the .crt file with the ca-bundle, and that fixed the problem:
# cat trust.jj5.net.crt trust.jj5.net.ca-bundle.pem > trust.jj5.net.pem
Install PHP 5.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I followed these instructions to install PHP 5.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Basically:
$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Apache2 REQUEST_FILENAME requires DOCUMENT_ROOT
I had a problem with my rewrite rules, that looked like this:
DocumentRoot /var/www/trust.jj5.net
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) http://trust.jj5.net/sorry.html [L,R]
I was trying to redirect any request which didn’t match a file or directory. The !-f and !-d requirements were failing because the path to the REQUEST_FILENAME wasn’t fully qualified. I fixed the problem by including the DOCUMENT_ROOT:
DocumentRoot /var/www/trust.jj5.net
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) http://trust.jj5.net/sorry.html [L,R]
Happy days! :)