Nerdaphernalia » ‘Nuff said http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia "It's All Geek To Me" Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:51:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 How to Close a WordPress Site http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2011/05/how-to-close-a-wordpress-site/ http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2011/05/how-to-close-a-wordpress-site/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 20:10:54 +0000 Stephen R http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/?p=272 I recently was asked to close down a site I had put up using WordPress. I didn’t want to just delete the whole thing, as I figured somebody might want it put back up in the future. There are several easy ways to do this, but I think I’ve found the best.

My first impulse was to add an exit; line to index.php. The problem there is that it doesn’t close off the wp-admin section. I could comment out the database password in config, but that leaves a “Could not connect to database” message. I wanted every aspect of the site gone. Then it struck me: One file that absolutely every single call to WordPress must pass through is wp-config.php.

So if you want to “disappear” a WordPress site quickly and easily, just open up wp-config.php and add the following right after the opening PHP tag:

exit;

If you want to put up some kind of “goodbye” message in HTML, you can do something like this at the top of that file:

<?php
?><!DOCTYPE html>
<html><body><p>This site is closed.</p></body></html>
<?php
exit;

...

Even more briefly, of course, you could stick a short message inside a die() statement. The HTML gives you a bit more flexibility though.

Hope somebody finds this useful. ;-)

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I hunted over the web looking for a way to search an entire MySQL database — all tables, all fields — for text. For the most part I find forums with answers such as “Well, you set up your database wrong”. These kinds of responses remind me of the sequence in the movie “Funny Farm” where the truck driver is trying to find the town of Redbud. In short:

“Hey Mac, how do you get to Redbud?”

“If I wanted to go to Redbud, I wouldn’t start from here.”

Nonsensical and useless. If you’re here now, then this is where you’re starting from; telling me to start from somewhere else is simply a non-answer. Funny in a movie, but frustrating in real life.

Today I came across a most excellent script, the MySQL Database Search & Replace Tool. It’s a PHP page that you can drop into a web site and call from your browser. It will search the entire database for a string of text — exactly what I needed.

In a quick test run it threw out a couple errors but then gave me useful results; so it’s not entirely polished, but quite functional and useful. Kudos to Mark Jackson and Eric Amundson for releasing this great tool!

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]]> http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2010/05/search-everywhere-in-mysql/feed/ 0 Hackbook finale http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2009/10/hackbook-finale/ http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2009/10/hackbook-finale/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:54:24 +0000 Stephen R http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2009/10/hackbook-finale/ In between trick-or-treaters I spent today finishing up the repairs to my new/old laptop. The first optical drive I ordered was DOA, so I had to order a new one. Did the swap today. Took a little testing and such, but I now have a fully operational system, (which is nice).

In the end, a little work and willingness to crack the sucker open got me a $1,100 laptop for about $500. Sometimes its nice to be a geek. ;-)

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[2011-12-21 edit: updated broken link]

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