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You heard it right, you can now run PHP 5.3 applications on HostMonster. I’ve only testing this on HostMonster, but I would assume the same applies to BlueHost.

Simply add this line to the beginning of your website’s root .htaccess file:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php53 .php

After making this change you can test it using phpinfo() and it will show you the version at the top, and as of the time of this post Hostmonster is keeping right up to date, running version 5.3.9.

This is exciting news for Zend programmers and other PHP developers ready for the upgrade. Enjoy!

Recently Facebook underwent some design changes, now whenever you login to Facebook you are dropped on the Welcome page. Also if you are already logged in and go to http://www.facebook.com it also drops you on the Welcome page.

But when you click on the link for News Feed the URL registers as http://www.facebook.com. But for those of us who prefer the News Feed when going to the normal Facebook URL this is annoying, and I’ve found no help or settings that allows me to choose the default section that Facebook will initially load.

So after some messing around i found that the URL for the actual Facebook News Feed:

http://www.facebook.com/?sk=nf

Just click that link once you’re logged in to Facebook, bookmark the page, and you’ll be able to go directly to your News Feed using that bookmark; that is unless Facebook makes changes rendering this method useless.

It works for me, hope that information helps someone else.

In Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 your computer may automatically install Window’s Updates and then restart.  Follow one of the methods below to disable this behavior.  These instructions are for computer experts only.

Method 1

1. Run gpedit.msc
2. Go to Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update
3. Double-click on “No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Update installation”
4. Enable it, click OK and close the Group Policy Editor
5. Reboot

Method 2

If you don’t have gpedit.msc, use the following instructions.

1. Run regedit.exe
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
   Note: You will need to create the WindowsUpdate and AU keys if they are missing.
3. Create a new 32-bit DWORD value inside of WindowsUpdate\AU and name it NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers
4. Double-click on your newly created value and give it a value data of 1 (hexadecimal)
5. Click OK and close Registry Editor

I found out just recently that in some cases when you perform a blank search on a WordPress site you are redirected to the front page with an error message. If you encounter this issue simply apply the fix below, which modifies the blank search into a search for one space. This is enough to resolve the error page and land you on the search page.

Add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file to fix this annoying behavior:

if(!is_admin()){
	add_action('init', 'search_query_fix');
	function search_query_fix(){
		if(isset($_GET['s']) && $_GET['s']==''){
			$_GET['s']=' ';
		}
	}
}