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Yet another Coppermine MySQL injection flaw has been discovered

August 6th, 2008 by ljmacphee

Coppermine 1.4.19 has been released to fix a MySQL injection flaw, again. This is how TimesToCome was hacked last April and why you now have all these shiny new security tools and information on this website.
I went to the Coppermine site only because there was a huge increase in cross site scripting attempts last [...]

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How to move Coppermine to a new server

April 14th, 2008 by ljmacphee

I’ve known for a few months I needed to move to another hosting company but I kept putting it off because the thought of redoing all the Coppermine stuff horrified me.
It turned out to be pretty easy. OK after 4 hours of going in circles I now know how to do it and it [...]

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Fix permalink on local Wordpress install backups

June 4th, 2007 by ljmacphee

One problem that shows up when you back up ( mirror ) your Wordpress to your local copy of Wordpress is that Wordpress uses absolute urls rather than relative. So the Wordpress install on your local machine may point to entries and stuff at the live site. To fix this you need to [...]

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10 Step Install for Wordpress on OSX

March 22nd, 2007 by ljmacphee

Instructions for Leopard, OSX 10.5 are here
Setting up Wordpress on my home computer was supposed to be painless but did not turn out that way at all.
If you are installing Wordpress on OSX and everything is set up and working but Wordpress will not talk to the server skip right to step 10 on the [...]

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