Internet Troubleshooting 

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General Website Maintenance

The Browser Safe Palette Site: Includes color selection tool and complete explanation of color palates for websites.

Build Your Own Website: The title says it all.

Introduction to Security: Websites must be secure. This is a good starting point.

Steve's Shellscript Subset: If you're REALLY into UNIX or Linux the time may come when you write CGI or other scripts as shellscripts. This site gives you the 10% you'll need to do 90% of your work.

The Lazy Man's Way to Linux Screenshots: When you need to put screenshots on your website, here's how to do it.

Gimp for the Artistically Challenged: Here's how to use the Gimp image software to quickly make and modify quality images.

Network and Server Configuration

Predefined diagnostic for network problems: Use this to quickly narrow the root cause scope of a network problem.

Samba configuration: This is a tiny subset of what you'll find in my Samba Unleashed book.

DNS: Although written for Bind 8, this is still a good, easy to read resource.

DHCP: Ultra simple configuration instructions. After mastering this, you can go on to more complex material.

Web Programming

Troubleshooting CGI: This is how to troubleshoot your site's CGI scripts -- even if your web host has refused to give you shell access.

Linux issue of Troubleshooting Professional Magazine: An aging but still useful walkthrough of installing and using Linux, including DNS, httpd.conf configuration, CGI, and creating a Perl/CGI::DBI::DBD::PostgreSQL web app.

PHP/PostgreSQL Tutorial: You can find plenty of PHP tutorials, but this is one of the few that works with the industrial strength free-software DBMS, PostgreSQL.

XML: A very complete XML tutorial. If you are contemplating using XML on the web, this is a must read.

Socket Programming Tutorial: Name says it all.

Steve Litt's PERLs of Wisdom: Perl info, the 10% you need to do 90% of your job.

Python Patrol Tutorial: Python is considered a more structured and readable alternative to Perl, and gains more users daily. If you want to do CGI but don't like Perl, check out Python.

SQL Troubleshooting Page: When you're getting SQL errors, here are some troubleshooting hints.
 
 


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