How to Disable AWStats on Plesk

WStats is a traffic-statistics program that runs on the Parallels Plesk web-server management server. AWStats works by analyzing the web server’s log files and other information collected by the server to give you a real-time view of the visitors and trends on your website. Disabling AWStats is a simple task that takes only a few moments.

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Installing Memcache On Windows For PHP

Installing memcache on Windows XP / Vista is kind of like voodoo for those of us who are not disciplined with compiling code from source. I initially attempted to install memcache a few months ago after reading a few articles about how much performance it can pump into your web application. The problem is that memcache was written with Linux in mind, not windows. So you can’t download any installers or exe files from memcache’s site for windows … which leaves people like me, who use WAMP stacks to develop applications, out in the cold.

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file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: Unable to find the wrapper "https"

I’m working on setting up credit card processing and needed to use a workaround for CURL, and the following code worked fine when I was using the test server (which wasn’t calling an SSL URL), but now when I am testing it on the working server with https, it doesn’t work ("failed to open stream").

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