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Recovering from a Broken Partition Table
So you lost your partition table and need to get to find the filesystem it used to contain. Now what?
RewriteRule in htaccess vs httpd.conf
Typically Apache’s RewriteRule sets from mod_rewrite go in .htaccess files, but sometimes you have a good reason to put them in your general server config instead: your httpd.conf or apache2.conf file (or a file you Include from one of those). If you’ve done this before, you’ve probably been surprised that it didn’t work quite the […]