Cip’s Thoughts & Co

Tibiabot goes byebye

I always suspected this day would come. I mean, there’s only so many customers that will purchase your free-upgrades-for-a-lifetime product before it stops being profitable.

For the uninitiated reader; Tibiabot.com has for the past few years been selling bots for Tibia for a one-time fee of $10, but recently they decided to simply terminate all communication with the world, leaving a lot of customers pissed.

PHP on IIS 7.0

IIS 7 looks nothing like IIS 6. But fear not, just because it’s sexier than ever it doesn’t mean that you cant set up PHP in less than a minute!

Ladies and gentlemen, start your stopwatches (and webengines?)!

1. Go to PHP.net and download the latest ZIP package for Windows.
   
    
2. Extract into a folder that doesn’t make the path have spaces in it.
   Wrong:
   C:\Program Files\PHP
   Correct:
   C:\ProgramFiles\PHP      

   Obviously doesn’t need to be in ProgramFiles, it’s just an example.

3. Launch IIS
4. Select your server and click Handler Mappings
   
    
5. Add Script Map
   
    
6. Set Request Path to *.php and Executable to be php5isapi.dll in your PHP folder
   
    
7. Press OK and allow it permissions to do its thing (press Yes in the inevitable permissions popup).
   
    
8. Done!

Now, normally you would want to add index.php to your Default Documents list, but I assume you know how/will Google it. Enjoy your new PHP server! :-)

Otfans downtime

I see GrizZm0 finally decided to be true to his word when he said that a webserver shouldn’t use any processing power.

Cip: Users to spread content

CNN reports that Rupert Murdoch sees no future for free news on the internet, obviously he has no clue how the internet works. I mean, we all know how people love to share anything that can fit in a .rar file and on top of that there’s no way in hell they can outlaw free speech, so there’s no way for them to stop the spreading of news.

Okay, fine. We all know they will do just that.