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Drupal: mq4 File Attachments Open As Plain Text

A quick fix this morning for a client with a Drupal issue, links to mq4 files were opening as plain text in the browser window instead of presenting a download file prompt.

This is due to the server configuration, apache mime-types. It is usually easily fixed in an .htaccess file.
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Filed under: Development

How to Empty Tables in PhpMyAdmin (MySQL)

Recently I needed to empty the Drupal sessions and cache tables which had grown to some million+ rows and were causing weekly database errors on a busy health community website. In PhpMyAdmin, permissions to empty tables weren’t available.
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Filed under: Website Management

Facebook, For Business and Pleasure

Media has been buzzing with the success of social networks Facebook and Twitter. Information is being exchanged at a viral rate and is influencing the success of businesses and organisations. If you aren’t on Facebook, you might be wondering what’s the point. Myspace, Bebo, blogging, is it all the same? Not quite.

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Filed under: Social Networks

A Quick Note on Just Host

This week I migrated a site for a client, from Heart Internet over to Just Host. In the process I found a few tidbits missing from the Just Host knowledge base, about server FTP and SSL details.

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Filed under: Development, Website Management