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Apache Not Reloading Configuration File / Rewrites Not Updating

Posted by: scoopseven in Apache Linux 14 years, 9 months ago

This week I experienced a problem where my apache rewrite rules wouldn’t update or reload.  I would change a 301 redirect or an alias, restart Apache and the changes wouldn’t process. Humph. I got to the point where I started to believe, like DNS, that these redirects where propagated somewhere out on the Internet and they were just happening. Of course, this doesn’t happen.

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Django / PythonPath

Posted by: scoopseven in Apache Django 14 years, 9 months ago

The post below was taken directly from www.ventanazul.com. I republished only because this solved a problem that was a real PITA for me and wasn't spelled out too clearly in the Django documentation. If you're having a problem with Django / Apache / mod_python / PythonPath / sys.path / Could not import module things, give it a try.

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Date Parsing with ColdFusion / Twitter

Posted by: scoopseven in ColdFusion 14 years, 10 months ago

The Twitter API is great. Except for the dates it returns, especially if you're a ColdFusion progammer. I ended up using some code posted by Peter Freitag  to write a UDF to convert the Twitter date/time to a ColdFusion friendly date/time.  

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Get the First x Words from a String / Word Count in ColdFusion

Posted by: scoopseven in ColdFusion 14 years, 12 months ago

Get the first X words in a string:

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JDBC Connection Strings for Coldfusion 6.1 / CFMX

Posted by: scoopseven in ColdFusion Database MySQL 15 years ago

If you're trying to setup ColdFusion MX 6 with MySQL here's how you setup the MySQL datasources.  In CF Administrator go to Datasources and Add a New datasource of type "Other".  Enter your datasource name, username and password and the following fields like this:

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