Monthly Archives: September 2014

sync Apple Products (ipod, ipad, iphone) without iTune: use iTools

Apple Products require the iTune for all upkeeping, but if you want to avoid using itunes, then download the iTools http://www.itools.cn/multi_lang_pc_download.htm unzip or http://www.itools.cn/itoolsyingwenbanxiazai and copy the folder to your desktop. the program will update itself at run time..

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WordPress in subdirectory htaccess

wordpress in subdirectory htaccess

If the WordPress is installed in /wordpress subfolder then the blog can be accessed http://www.example.com/wordpress but if you want the blog to be default page servered by the web-server.. there are many ways to do this.. but involves modification to many files and coping index.php, wp-config.php etc.

A simple solution is to edit “.htaccess” in the root folder (if it does not exist use text editor to  create the file ) note the ‘.’ in file name

RewriteEngine On
# Not a necessity .. but a learn on .htaccess so that
# even Intranet access is available from Root..# OR is use
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?192.168.1.40$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ wordpress [L]
# Use the below if you want the user Browser to remember this redirect
# RewriteRule ^(/)?$ wordpress [L,R=301]

Edit 27 Sep 2014: “Pretty permalinks not working for sub-directory WordPress” with the above .htaccess

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