Applications - Utilities & Guides

Occasionally, we create tools that are useful more for webmasters than for bioinformaticists. When those times arise, (well, every once in a while anyway) we'll post them and any associated guides here as a courtesy for beleaguered information technologists. We hope you'll like them and put them to good use.

To get you started, here's a multi-domain customized error page handler for those using Apache web servers (or similarly operational xHTML content platforms), .htaccess configuration files, Perl, and CSS.

Utilities - Multidomain Server Status Code Template

Note that this is a beta release and will likely undergo modifications, so install and use at your own risk. We will do our best to post modifications as we deem appropriate and allow you to scrutinize the source code at your leisure.

STEP 1 of 4 - prepare the utility script

STEP 2 of 4 - configure the server

STEP 3 of 4 - create and modify xHTML template

STEP 4 of 4 - create and modify CSS

Download the collection: HistoSoft_statuscode_0.01.tar.gz
MD5 signature of *.gz file: [MD5 tg]
SHA1 signature of *.gz file: [SHA1 tg]

Download the collection: HistoSoft_statuscode_0.01.zip
MD5 signature of *.zip file: [MD5 zip]
SHA1 signature of *.zip file: [SHA1 zip]

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Want to know more?

Visit RFC 1321 - Message-Digest Algorithm (MD5) and RFC 3174 - US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1) to review technical specifications of these cryptographic and validation protocols.