How to Display YouTube Videos on a Secure SSL Page...

EDIT 08/03/2010: A reader just pointed out that the method outlined in this post will present a warning in in the status bar when using the latest version of FireFox. No popups or dialog messages though – that’s good. And it still works flawlessly in IE and Chrome. Thanks to Jayapal for pointing the warning in FF. Here is a cool trick to get rid of ssl security warning errors when embedding youtube videos...

Editing DNS Records for Google Apps...

Get the domain verification CNAME from inside Google Apps. Add the verification CNAME to DNS records.

Is your WordPress .htaccess file causing problems ...

That’s the issue I ran into. I was building a WordPress site, and put a billing/invoicing app in a subdirectory of the site. Well, the default rewrite lines (that WordPress added to the site’s htaccess file) were causing major issues for the billing script (AWBS). It was also causing problems with Apache password protecting of a directory. The WordPress rewrite would take over before Apache would invoke the...

Setup an IDN in WHM/CPanel...

I recently ran across a question where the user wanted to setup an IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) in WHM/Cpanel. For those wondering, an IDN is a domain name that uses non-ASCII characters, such as ñ, ü, ý, etc. I learned that the process to setup such a domain in WHM/Cpanel is quite simple. To setup the domain in WHM, you first need to convert the IDN domain name to Punycode. For example the non-ASCII domain...