OpenID and single sign-on

article by Anthony Coundouris

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to API, the social media and OpenID, consumers have a genuine single “sign-on” additional services. rather than expecting users to save and remember multiple passwords, registration may be established to exploit their relationship with social media sites they know and trust.Like API used by Twitter, which allows users to directly import contacts from other social media sites APIs can authenticate users in a few seconds to let the user log for your favorite social media behalf. Registration is painful Registration is long an obstacle to occasional visitors. When you try to download a PDF file, to buy a product or a comment, you are faced with an unpleasant pop-up requires register.For temporary visitors, this is a huge investment of time and may be reluctant to Part of the e-mail address if you do not trust the privacy policy page. This amounts to less products sold less comments on blogs, and fewer discussions forums.With single sign-on, users can comment on blogs market through e-commerce and chat in the forum without having to remember the password or give-away e-mail address. OpenID and API OpenID is an open standard that has been adopted for to bring us all closer to the vision of the single sign-on.Be know that there are many consumers have an account OpenID. Despite the fact that a large part of the open source community has built plugins for WordPress, Drupal, LiveJournal, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, which is compatible OpenID, users just starting to embrace it.This problem can be overcome by creating individual APIs to authenticate the user directly to a social instrument. Privacy and Security This is a clever solution to an old problem. Despite the fact that it is as safe as it has a Gmail username, the financial industry not be so quick to take technology.Legal compliance problems may prohibit the use OpenID or similar methods authentification.Organisations as American Express, you may consider move all the passwords for their clients in a centrally managed installation as Activ Identity . Here, a card member can use the same login information for the management of monthly payments and can connect to the sites offer.

How do I successfully restore a database WordPress

align = “justify”> by Borgy

All blog owners know the importance of backups, but it can happen to forget to make regular copies.

Often we understand the importance of backup when it’s too late when they would be very useful to have data to retrieve.

There are plenty of plugins available to copy to your blog. Install your favorite plugins back to you as quickly as possible. You will lose ten minutes to set up and configure, but it will save you time and stress at the right time.

The steps I took to restore a backup WordPress.

I’m talking about a WordPress 3.2.1 running on a platform cPanel hosting.

I accidentally deleted the entire database WordPress. I get this error:. “Error establishing a database connection” Although it may seem like the worst possible condition, it may be harder to retrieve only parts of the database

Duplicate backup file .. Currently the backup file is needed.

Get some basic information from the file wp-config.php. Open the file with a text editor and take these 3 settings:

a) DB_NAMEb) DB_USERc) DB_PASSWORD

Using cPanel management tool database:

Creating a database named as the db_name.

Create a user named as DB_USER, with the password in DB_PASSWORD

Vice

now the new user to the new db and give it all right.

Now that we have an empty database with the correct settings, can repopulate the data using the backup file

> Using phpMyAdmin tool:. Put yourself in the database recently created by selecting the left column. The program will warn you that there are no tables in the database.

Click on “import” feature top right. This will open a page where you can upload files backup our in either SQL or a compressed format.Usually other values ​​can be allowed to set default values. Confirm the action by clicking the Insert button at the bottom of the page.

At this point phpMyAdmin you should read the tables rebuilt in the left column

You can close the phpMyAdmin, cPanel and try to get to your blog. You lose your changes since the last backup, but the blog is now up and running again.

This was only one possible scenario, perhaps the simplest, and certainly there are other ways to recover lost data. I think anyway this simple article can be useful simply as a list of steps to be done to adapt then to your situation.

Host Web Host Color Textpattern Hosting Offers

align = “justify”> by Danail Stoychev, Host Color LLC

Host Color ( http://www.hostcolor.com ), a web hosting provider announced today that it has added new program for web hosting plans. Site owners looking for an easy and flexible way to manage a website now can use Textpattern Content Management System with four joint projects in the company.

Textpattern is a web application designed to help website owners and web enterpreneurs to publishing online content and to simplify the production of well structured site. Textpattern CMS allows beginners and experts to produce online content in a similar environment, and process text and images on a PC without requiring any programming skills or proficiancy in graphic design. When you publish, Textpattern automatically converts the content into valid XHTML and provides easy and quick to review and update.

The latest version of Textpatern CMS is now available for Host Color customers using Midi, Max, Mega Domain and many shared hosting plans. The new application is added to Tools hosting package which allows customers to install various programs with a single click on their account control panel.

“The great advantage of Textpattern is its flexibility. Installing and managing plugins that extend Textpattern abilities is straightforward and provides almost endless possibilities,” says Alexander Avramov, Marketing Director of Host Color. “The need for such a tool is obvious, since it would reduce the time to manage a website content and help Web site owners to focus on quality and reliability of their business,” he added.

Host Color recently added and Pligg CMS Drupal and wiki software for shared web hosting plans. More information can be found at http : / / www.hostcolor.com ) is an American web hosting company incorporated in Delaware accommodate their clients web sites to data centers in South Bend, Indiana and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Company offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations. It provides shared hosting services in Europe through Host Color Europe ( ), Web servers and managed servers via a new website that hosts the color ( / www.hostcolorservers. com ).