#content {
        background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.3);
}

Then, you’ll of course need to make an exception for stinkin IE:

<!--[if IE]>
   <style type="text/css">
    #content {
        background:transparent;
        filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#44FFFFFF,endColorstr=#44FFFFFF);
        zoom: 1;
    }
   </style>
<![endif]-->

In the case above, I’m using Microsoft’s gradient, but just going to and from the same color. I’ve wrapped the rule in an if statement and this goes somewhere in after the rest of your CSS has loaded.

I’ll need to do more testing on versions this works with, but for most non-ancient browsers, this works. Looks easy now, but taking so long to get this far, I’m writing this down before it goes down the memory hole and I’m stuck having to figure it all out again.

Special thanks to the following posts, and especially the first on this list:

• CSS Background Transparency Without Affecting Child Elements, Through RGBa And Filters
• Playing Around With CSS3 Colors
• Cross Browser Opacity
• RGBA Colors – CSS3

That’s it for now. This is how I’m getting cross browser css transparency on elements without the transparency being applied to the content.

Edit: Now that I have of course written blog post about this I’m coming across a ton of similar work. Below is a Smipple from joost.kiens which is much simpler that my solution (all styling is handled in a single element without the need for isolating IE):

.rgba {
  background-color: transparent;
  background-color: rgba(200,200,200,0.8);
 filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#99dddddd,endColorstr=#99dddddd);
  -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#99dddddd,endColorstr=#99dddddd)";
}

The code snippet above is from Smipple and is titled Crossbrowser background transparency.

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Well, I eventually found out how to make the phone number a required field in PayPal Express Checkout. These are the steps:

Login => goto My Account => select Profile =>
select ”See the classic Profile version” (the new stuff is garbage)

PayPal => My Account => Profile

Select “Website Payment Preferences” under Selling Preferences

Select Website Payment Preferences

Select radio button “On (Required Field)” under Contact Telephone Number

Select "On (Required Field)"

That’s it. That’s how you can either require or set optional a contact telephone number in your Paypal Express Checkout account.

As a reference, and after far too long searching, I found the documentation on a seemingly obscure developer document at: https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1367. You’ll find the instructions (the same as I gave) under the heading “Require a Contact Phone Number”.

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OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy connection)

You’re logs will looking something like this (in this case ipv6 enabled):

::1 – - [30/Jan/2011:09:29:17 -0800] “OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy connection)”
::1 – - [30/Jan/2011:09:29:40 -0800] “OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy connection)”
::1 – - [30/Jan/2011:09:29:41 -0800] “OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy connection)”
::1 – - [30/Jan/2011:09:29:42 -0800] “OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy connection)”
::1 – - [30/Jan/2011:09:29:46 -0800] “OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy connection)”
::1 – - [30/Jan/2011:09:32:27 -0800] “OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy connection)”

The definitive explanation for this issue can be found at the link below, however, it does not detail the method to follow for servers setup for ipv6 (which is what my post documents):

http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/InternalDummyConnection

What you can do is simply ignore the errors by adding a few lines to your apache conf files:

# Custom Conditional Logs
# Reference: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html Conditional Logs
#
# Mark requests from the loop-back interface (internal dummy connection)
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr “::1″ dontlog
SetEnvIf User-Agent “.*internal dummy connection.*” dontlog

You’ll then add dontlog to the end of logfile directive (which may look something like this):

#
# For a single logfile with access, agent, and referer information
# (Combined Logfile Format), use the following directive:
#
CustomLog logs/access_log combined env=!dontlog

Basically, you’ll just need to ignore these internal requests by blocking the local Remote Address. You can reference Conditional Logs at:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html

That should help.

This will also help:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_setenvif.html

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Top 10 List of Top 10 WordPress Plugins Lists

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6. Top 10 WordPress Plugins for SEO
7. Top 10 Must Have WordPress Plugins
8. Top 10 WordPress Plugins which I use on DailyBlogging
9. My top 10 favorite WordPress plugins
10. Top 10 WordPress Plugins to Turbocharge Your Internet Marketing Efforts

After doing just a few minutes research on this post of List of WordPress Plugins Lists I’ve quickly come to the conclusion that these lists (of WordPress Plugins) most likely are the most popular lists (of any topic) out there on the internet.

Happy listing and remember, there is no such things as List Overload.

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httpd not running, trying to start
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

In my particular case, this stinker of an issue arises due to my SSL Certificate requiring a pass phrase. Since during reboot that pass phrase was not provided, Apache could not start.

So, after seeing the error above you’ll need to check what is currently listening to port 80:

netstat -lnp | grep :80

If you see a process running, kill it using:

kill -9 pid (where pid is the numeric process returned above)

You can now try and start/restart; I use:

/usr/sbin/apachectl graceful

Then, you’ll see that Apache is now trying to successfully start. You’ll see something like this:

httpd not running, trying to start
Apache/2.2.3 mod_ssl/2.2.3 (Pass Phrase Dialog)
Some of your private key files are encrypted for security reasons.
In order to read them you have to provide the pass phrases.

Here is where you provide the prass phrase.

I think the next thing to do is to remove the pass phrase from my SSL Cert (there’s a good writeup for that which I need to dig up for this post), but in the meantime, this is how it’s handled.

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• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_action
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_filter
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

However, what I’m really looking to do is basically swap in one of my own functions for a WordPress Core Function. It seems that WordPress’ Pluggable Functions allows me to do that:

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Pluggable_Functions

The explain it a bit here:

Pluggable functions were introduced in WordPress 1.5.1 These functions let you override certain core functions via plugins. The most up-to-date list of core functions that WordPress allows plugins to override is available at wp-includes/pluggable.php. WordPress loads the built-in functions only if they are undefined after all plugins have been loaded.

Now, this only allows you to replace a limited number of WordPress functions, but it does, what it says it does, and that is to allow you to replace a core WordPress function by using WordPress’ Pluggable Functions.

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What I did was to add the extension and mime type to the following functions in the WordPress functions.php file:

• function wp_ext2type
• function get_allowed_mime_types

The proper method for adding this Mime type would be to add via a Plugin so that any upgrades do not wipe out your changes. However, I was willing to deal with this, but reportedly the following plugin will help:

• PJW Mime Config

So, basically that’s it. That is how I added the mime type and extension information to allow the WordPress file/video uploader to successfully upload the Flash video type with extension f4v.

The following pages were helpful with this issue:

• WordPress: File type does not meet security guidelines.
• WordPress Accepted Filetypes
• New File Extensions and MIME Types
• Mime type for flv

I’ve got an update to this post. I’m now adding this Flash f4v mime type to WordPress via my theme’s function.php file. It follows and adds to some of the links above explaining how to add a mime type to WordPress.  Most tutorials explaining how to add a mimi type to wordpress stop at the adding it to the function get_allowed_mime_types, this snippet adds the mime type to the wp_ext2type function as well:

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/*
* Adds the f4v mime type
*/
// Add mimi types to function get_allowed_mime_types
function add_allowed_mime_types($mimes) {
    $my_new_mimes = array (
        'f4v' => 'video/mp4'
    );
    return array_merge($mimes,$my_new_mimes);
}
add_filter('upload_mimes','add_allowed_mime_types');
 
// Add an extension to (2) function wp_ext2type
function add_ext2_ext2type($ext) {
    $my_new_extensions = array (
        'video' => array( 'f4v' )
    );
    return array_merge($ext,$my_new_extensions);
}
add_filter('upload_mimes','add_ext2_ext2type');

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UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid,"dev.site.com","www.site.com");
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content,"dev.site.com","www.site.com");
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = REPLACE(option_value,"dev.site.com","www.site.com");
UPDATE wp_links SET link_url = REPLACE(link_url,"dev.site.com","www.site.com");
UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = REPLACE(meta_value,"dev.site.com","www.site.com");

That’s it. You can update your WordPress post and page url values with just a little html.

Here’s a resource from WordPress to help with a WordPress move:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

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The first place to start is MySQL’s examle config files. You can find this in mysql’s doc share, ie:

/usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.*.*/

There are 5 example MySQL configuration files provided with most systems:

1. my-small.cnf
2. my-medium.cnf
3. my-large.cnf
4. my-huge.cnf
5. my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf

You can take a look at the example MySQL config files above to get an idea of how these settings can be handled.

Here are a couple links to pages with MySQL config file examples:

• http://www.felipecruz.com/mysql-server-production-my-cnf-file.php
• http://forge.mysql.com/tools/tool.php?id=138
• http://www.astahost.com/info.php/Sample-Mycnf-Mysql-Configuration-File_t2727.html
• http://www.notesbit.com/index.php/web-mysql/mysql/mysql-tuning-optimizing-my-cnf-file/
• http://www.joehruska.com/?p=7

Here’s a link worth reading:

• http://www.brennan.id.au/17-MySQL_Server.html

That’s it for now. This is a resource page/blog post pointing to example MySQL configuration files.

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