Waffles

Ingredients:

  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup flour
  • ¼ cup melted butter or vegetable oil
  • ¾ c + 2 tbsp milk
  • 1½ tsp sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt

Directions:

  1. Heat waffle iron
  2. Beat eggs with hand beater until fluffy
  3. Beat in remaining ingredients just until smooth
  4. Pour batter (½ cup) onto center of waffle iron
  5. Bake until steaming stops, about 5 minutes
  6. Remove waffle carefully

Blueberry waffles: Sprinkle 2 to 4 tbsp fresh (or thawed) blueberries over batter immediately after pouring onto iron.

Pumpkin Pie Filling

Ingredients:

  • 2 eggs
  • 1½ cup solid pack pumpkin
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ginger
  • ¾ tsp cloves
  • 1¼ cup evaporated milk

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 425°F
  2. Beat eggs in large bowl
  3. Stir in remaining ingredients in order given
  4. Pour into unbaked pie crust
  5. Bake for 15 minutes at 425°F
  6. Reduce to 350°F and bake for ad addition 40-50 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean
  7. Cool on wire rack

Cake Mix Cookies

These are incredibly simple and amazingly delicious.

Mix the following ingredients in a bowl:

  • 1 18¼ oz. box cake mix
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup of vegetable oil

Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes.

Got it Back

I finally got my blog back online again, after a three-day struggle with a virus that keeps coming back. I feel like GoDaddy had to be at fault the last time, I had nothing but a fully-secured WordPress 3.5 on the server. To my knowledge, recent releases of WordPress are incredibly secure…

Connecting a Domain to a Subdirectory

Update: nginx is better. Shared hosting is terrible. Use DigitalOcean. :)

If you want to host multiple websites on one hosting server, especially if it’s a cheap shared server, knowing some basic URL rewriting is essential. This is how I’m running mine, on both my Apache and Microsoft IIS 7 servers.

The examples below direct (www.)domain2.com to /domain2/.

Apache

Within the file .htaccess in your server’s root directory, include the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain2.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/domain2/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ domain2/$1 [L]

Microsoft IIS 7

Within the file web.config in your server’s root directory, include the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="prosecure.tk" enabled="true">
                    <match url=".*" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www.)?domain2.com" />
                        <add input="{PATH_INFO}" pattern="^/domain2/" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="domain2{R:0}" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
        <security>
            <requestFiltering allowDoubleEscaping="true" />
        </security>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>