Tag Archives: apache

Subscribe To Comments & Protected Wp-admin Folder

| Created: June 30th, 2009
WordPress Hacks 1 Comment

Earlier today I received an email from an irate commentator, accusing me of spamming him and threatening to report me. He was receiving emails from my blog, via the Subscribe To Comments plugin, but he thought couldn’t unsubscribe. The cause: my wp-admin folder is password protected.

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XAMMPLite Virtual Directory And WordPress Permalinks

| Created: February 22nd, 2009
WordPress Development 16 Comments

When I’m working on WordPress related development (ie themes and plugins), I like to run WordPress locally. This is great for trying things out before it goes live and also lets me squeeze in some development time in on the train!

My web server package of choice is XAMMP Lite, the Apache distribution that contains PHP and MySQL. Works great in general, but I had some problems with WordPress permalinks and XAMMP Lite. Here’s the solution.

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