Removing the “Welcome to the Frontpage” text On Joomla’s Home page

While Joomla is an incredibly useful tool to manage website content, it does have its quirks.  If you are a newbie, you will surely run into some problems.  One of the most common questions asked about first installing Joomla 1.5 is, “How can I remove the text on the home page that reads, ‘Welcome to the [...]

Right Click and Open a Command Prompt

In one of our current projects, we are building .Net Class Libraries that will be integrated into an ASP.Net web site.
The most laborious task occurs after every major change to a Class Library — we need to run a command line script that registers that DLL with the OS.  Unfortunately, the folder that the DLL [...]

How to remove GRUB from the Master Boot Record and restore the Windows bootloader

Often we find ourselves having to rebuild a development server.  Sometimes, converting a server from the Windows operating system to the Linux operating system can be a bit tricky, especially if the GRUB bootloader is installed. 
Here’s how to get rid of it.
Boot your server/computer with your bootable Windows CD.  Get through all the messages until you get to the [...]

Using the DirectoryIndex property in .htaccess to improve search engine optimization and web site manageability

How it’s used:
Enter a line in your .htaccess file similar to the following:
DirectoryIndex  example.php
Special Notes:  This works with the Apache Web Server and does not work with IIS.  When editing the .htaccess file in a text editor, make sure “text wrapping” or “wrap text” is turned off.  Using “text wrapping” or “wrap text” will cause [...]

URL Rewriting with IIS (Internet Information Services)

In one of our recent posts, we wrote about the importance of using URL rewriting. In the post we demonstrated URL rewriting using Apache, Linux, and htaccess. While Apache is a very popular and stable web server, it is important to consider using Microsoft’s web server — IIS (Internet Information Services).
To accomplish URL rewriting in [...]

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