Archive for the 'Technology' Category

DokuWiki, IIS, and mod_rewrite

January 20th, 2006

I finally got DokuWiki working on an IIS installation with friendly URL’s. Apache’s mod_rewrite doesn’t exist for IIS, but a similar module called URL Rewrite for IIS works nearly as well. It took a fair amount of trial and error (and the useful regex tester from the makers of ISAPI rewrite). Here are the steps I [...]

runPHP Plugin for WordPress

January 9th, 2006

Update: 2.3.1 - Important security fix, should work on PHP4 again. Thanks for all the quick information regarding the break! runPHP is a WordPress plug-in that enables users to embed PHP code directly into their posts. runPHP 2.3.1 is now available! It does work with WordPress 2.2.x; it fixes some important SQL-injection vulnerabilities and should work [...]

Stupid Database Crash

January 8th, 2006

So I had a long write-up describing my latest work on the runPHP plugin for WordPress. And then my host’s database crashed and took my latest changes with it including my original runPHP page (because I had updated it, too.). Damn. It’s difficult when you assume “my data is safe” when it really isn’t.