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CakePHP Login and Authenticaton Tutorial

http://miftyisbored.com/a-complete-login-and-authentication-application-tutorial-for-cakephp-2-3/ This site is by a multi-talented developer that sometimes Blogs about CakePHP. The good thing about it is he includes listings for the structure of the database tables...

CakePHP 2.4.6 Transitioning to Encrypted DB Columns

Note: The encryption created with Cakephp 2.4.6 Security::rijndael can't be read (by default) using the MySQL AES_DECRYPT() function so once you have it encrypted you can only read and write using the CakePHP application. I believe CakePHP 2.5.x has another couple of...

X2GO Fedora 20 – Actually works really well

How I got it working Prerequisites: you need a working ssh server on your Fedora 20 box and port 22 forwarded from your internet router to the Fedora 20 PC. yum install x2goserver Gnome 3 doesn't seem to work I tried gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback to no avail....

NGinx Logrotate

When you start creating virtual hosts under NGinx and give them separate access and error logs don't forget to update the logrotate configuration otherwise your logs just keep growing. I have named my logs with .access and .error extensions instead of the default .log...

Postfix / Mailgun Setup

For each website domain name I want to send email and make sure that it reliably delivered through a trusted relayhost. Mailgun allows you to set TXT records for each of your domains to add the mailgun smtp relay servers as trusted hosts for relaying your email from...