Robert Owen — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap
Setting up an FTP server on Windows 2003 Server is a pretty simple process. Why would you need an FTP server? Well, if you are hosting websites you might want to allow designers and customers access to their webfolders (not me… no one accesses my server but me but you can.. 🙂 ) and an FTP server is a great … Read more
Did you know you can configure the Microsoft IIS 6 web server to automatically insert an HTML-formatted file to the bottom of every web page sent out by your Web Server? Well, you can. For example, you host several sites and want to add a link back to your company for advertisement. You could create a simple HTML file that … Read more
I’ve been playing around with my site again. Trying to work out the beauty of my urls. I thought they looked pretty good… Well, similar to what I’m used to from BlogCFC anyway. The urls were like this: www.owenwebs.com/index.php/xxxx/xxx/xxx etc.. Which is not too bad… Better than the default: owenwebs.com/?p=13 or something silly like that. But, I’ve seen them better … Read more
I was having some trouble today getting a flash file to work. I was trying to stream a FLV (Flash video) file and although it was working great on my local machine it would not stream when I loaded it up on my server. The SWF file would play, well.. the controls would come up but the file wouldn't stream.. … Read more