Inside a .htaccess file residing in the directory you want to force SSL on add this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
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Out of the box, Linux Mint 7 is pretty attractive visually. There were however a few things I wanted to tweak but due to some underlying changes made from stock Ubuntu I had to do some sniffing around to find them.
If you’ve added a 3rd party repository and are receiving an error on apt-get update then this is what you need to do:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ GPGCODEHERE
GPGCODEHERE = The code it is complaining about. For example:
gpg --no-default-keyring --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --recv 359AAB34
Yup, you guessed it!
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 359AAB34
Then you should be able to apt-get update && apt-get install whatever it was you just added. 
While recently tasked with moderating a rather large spam collection from a friends blog (>~127K) it dawned on me that manually doing so would be a weeks worth of clicking.
Thankfully there were only a few legit comments right at the back and so after approving them it was a simple MySQL query that saved the day.
delete from wp_comments where comment_approved=0;
Bye bye spam!
I now have akismet running on the site and strict moderation rules so this shouldn’t happen again.
Enable those plugins people!
