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Setting up a web development environment

At any given time, there are about a dozen or so websites that I help develop in some form or another. The easiest way to work on a site is to maintain a copy of it on my local machine… nothing special there. However, what if you want to view the development version of the site? […]

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Fix old broken URLs with mod_rewrite

“Despite the tons of examples and docs, mod_rewrite is voodoo. Damned cool voodoo, but still voodoo.” — Brian Moore

I’ve been using mod_rewrite for some time now for various things, but just recently I’ve really started diving into it in order to make cool URIs for skillet.com. The document root is presently a mess, […]

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