Warning: Skipping the data of table mysql.event

The events table was introduced to MySQL in 5.1.6 and when upgrading you will start to see the warning "Warning: Skipping the data of table mysql.event" when using mysqldump. This is not an error as such, but more to make it clear to you that something has changed.

Show the headers only for a request with cURL

cURL is an extremely useful command line tool for making HTTP requests and can be used for diagnosing errors, downloading content and so. But what if you just want to see the response headers to see, for example, if a page is doing the right sort of redirect?

Fix “access denied” error when parsing HTML as PHP with Nginx

If you are attempting to get files with a .html extension parsed as PHP with Nginx + php-fpm, you might get an "access denied" error in your browser, and the error message "Access to the script ‘…’ has been denied (see security.limit_extensions)" in your Nginx error log. This post shows how to allow html files to be parsed successfully as PHP with Nginx + php-fpm.