How to Remove a MySQL Table constraint

ALTER TABLE `attributes` DROP FOREIGN KEY `attributes_ibfk_1`;

MySQL ERROR 1005 (HY000): Can’t create table ‘Table.frm’ (errno: 150).  Here’s the solution.

Example:
ALTER TABLE `race` DROP FOREIGN KEY `race_ibfk_1`;

ALTER TABLE `race`
ADD CONSTRAINT `race_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`specieId`) REFERENCES `specie` (`specieId`) ON DELETE CASCADE;

How to mount an .iso image file?

$ sudo mount -o loop /path/to/feisty-desktop-i386.iso /tmp/ubuntu-livecd

How to Find and Replace a String on the command line?

This command will replace all instances of ‘replaceme’ with ‘newstring’ in files ‘*.php’ on /home/mysite/httpdocs.

find /home/mysite/httpdocs -name '*.php' | xargs replace 'replaceme' 'newstring' --

How to Refresh my DNS cached record?

  1. Use OpenDNS free services by adding 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 on your /etc/resolv.conf.
  2. Go to http://www.opendns.com/support/cache/ then enter the website address.

How to list all users on a Linux machine?

 cat /etc/passwd | cut -d":" -f1

Multiple SSL Certificate on Single IP

Follow the links:

Virtual host examples from Apache website.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/examples.html

Turns out that it is possible to have multiple VirtualHosts on port 80 (Default http), but because of a limitation of SSL, we can’t have multiple VirtualHosts on port 443 (Default https).
I solved the problem as follows. I created the two VirtualHosts on port 80, one on port 443 and one on port 444.

Shared IP, multiple vhosts and multiple SSL certificates on Apache

The process is only 2 steps and involves modifying your Apache configuration.
1.  Create virtual hosts “map file”.
2.  Modify existing SSL vhost.

Caveat: The SSL certificate used will be common to all SSL vhosts.

Hosting multiple SSL vhosts on a single IP/Port/Certificate with Apache2

The following article discusses the following:
Basics Of Virtual Hosts, Name-Based Virtual Hosts, IP-Based Virtual Hosts, Configuring IP Aliasing, Virtual Hosts with IPs, Multiple Instances of Apache, Example for name based virtual hosts, Example for IP based virtual hosts.

Creating Name Based and IP Based Virtual hosts in Apache

How to Unzip a .gz File

$ gzip -d compressed_file.gz

A Simple Menu With CSS Beautification

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-size: 12px;
font-family: arial;
}
a {
margin-top: 1px;
display:block;
line-height: 25px;
border-left: solid 10px #DDDDDD;
text-decoration: none;
padding-left: 11px;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
}
a:link {}
a:visited {}
a:hover {
padding-left: 12px;
border-left: solid 10px green;
border-bottom: 1px #333333;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
color: blue;
}
a:active {}

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div style="margin: 50px 0 0 10px; width: 220px;">
<div><a href="../saps.php">visitors, click here</a></div>
<div><a href="cms/">admin, proceed to saps</a></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Free Secondary DNS and Online DNS Tools

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How to Create Database and Add User To It

Here are the SQL commands:

create database newdb;

grant CREATE,INSERT,DELETE,UPDATE,SELECT on newdb.* to newuser@localhost;

SET PASSWORD FOR 'newuser'@'localhost' = password(’newuserpass’);
– or –
SET PASSWORD FOR 'newuser'@'localhost' = old_password(’newuserpass’);

flush privileges;