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WordPress Redirect Login Issue in Firefox

Pom Design — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:14:06 +0000

If you're getting stuck in an endless loop when trying to login to your WordPress control panel using Firefox, and you're sure you're entering the right credentials, the issue is most likely a bug in the coding related to cookies. I've lost hours and probably a lot of hair trying to overcome this, but thanks to a post by richtelford buried deep in the WordPress forums (http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/11865?replies=2) there is a fix. A painfully simple one…

FTP to your server / WordPress installation folder and open the file wp-config.php in the root.

At the very top of the file (after the opening PHP declarations) paste the following code:

@define('ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH', '/');

Save the file, re-upload if necessary and the problem should now be fixed.

Find Server Absolute Path with PHP

Pom Design — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:59:30 +0000

Shifting websites between servers and installing applications such as WordPress is a common task for web designers, and sooner or later you'll need to set or reconfigure the absolute path for the server. PHP offers a nifty function to display this for you with a small line of code.

Open your chosen editor (dreamweaver / notepad) and paste into it the following code:

< ?php
$p = getcwd();
echo $p;
? >

(remove the character space after the opening "<" and before the closing ">")

Save the file as as a PHP document (for example "abpath.php") and upload it to your server somewhere you can access it through your browser. For example www.yourwebsiteaddress.com/abspath.php

Hey presto, you'll be presented with the absolute path to the directory you uploaded the php file to.

Note: You'll need to have a PHP enabled server for this to work.

Setting FLV / F4V Mime Types IIS

Pom Design — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:11:40 +0000

A common point overlooked when setting a website live with FLV or F4V videos embedded is setting the MIME types in IIS. Without doing this you'll be left with a big empty space of nothingness where your video should play.

Without further ado, I present to you a guide to overcome this….

Setting FLV/ F4V MIME type:

Connect via RDP to your server
Open IIS (start > run > inetmgr OR start > programs > administrative tools > internet information services (IIS) manager)
Expand your computer node
Expand Web Sites node
Right click on the website you want to set the MIME type for and select Properties
Select the HTTP Headers tab
Click on the "Mime Types" button
Click "New"
Set the extension to: .flv
Set the MIMEType to: video/x-flv
Click OK all the way back to your main IIS screen
Restart IIS (right click on your computer node and select "All Tasks" > "Restart IIS" or go to start > run > and type "IISReset"

To set the F4V MIME type, which was introduced as the successor to FLV by Adobe in the most recent versions of Flash, in step 9 and 10 above set the paramters to ".f4v" and "video/mp4" (without the speech marks) consecutively.