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In his last class, he taught you the basics of vi, the powerful *NIX text editor. Now Elias Flootburger returns in this hilarious sequel to theoriginal "Vi 101" tutorial. This time, the good professor has his handsfull with abbreviations, key mappings, autocommands and vi's powerfulvisual mode...not to mention his own out-of-control ego!Note: Most of the material in this article covers vim, the enhanced version of vi that is preinstalled on most modern *NIXes.

This second part of our two-part series on webserver security explores the problem of keeping private data in publicly accessible areas of you server and keeping data from untrustworthy sources from entering your system.

This first article in a two-part series deals with tools to find security holes in webservers and workstations. Some of the topics covered are: port scanning, finding NFS security holes, and using lsof.

Regular expressions are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of any *NIX programmer. This article offers insights into what they are, how to go about constructing them, and how to add them to your Perl, PHP and JavaScript programs.

If you're like me, you love Linux but the learning curve is a real killer. I remember it seemed to take forever to setup Apache the way I wanted, and I don't even want to mention how long it took me to figure out MySQL and Samba. To make a long story short, if you want to use all the features you can but don't have time or don't like the command line method (you still should learn it though!), Webmin is the way to go.

Vi is probably the most powerful text editor for *NIX, but if you have ever tried to use it, you probably walked away frustrated. This article walks through all the capabilities and features of Vi - from the basics, such as saving and quitting, to the more advanced topics of searching for strings.

This tutorial is an introductory guide to get you started in the world of server-side-scripting and web databases. It covers installation and configuration of MySQL, Apache, and PHP. An example script is also included as a guide for making your own server-side-scripts.

For some reason, it's extremely hard to find all the documentation you need to easily set up wuftpd to allow FTP to semi-secure areas of a Unix filesystem. It's relatively simple to setup anonymous FTP, where the user has little or no access. But there are many occasions where you might want to allow users to have access to, for instance, Web site directories without allowing them to get into higher levels.