If you know what this is, I've given you the password. Otherwise, I don't think you're going to download something that you don't know what it is when it has a password that you don't know, right?

So here: http://www.mediafire.com/?wz84ed4i51hxe11

So, lately I've been trying this OMV (online manga viewer) script, it's a nice manga reader written in PHP that you can upload to your host, and blah blah blah. I won't explain all it can do, you can google that ^^

However, it has a problem: it can't be run on hosts that don't support .htaccess. An .htaccess file changes the server settings on a per-directory basis. This is useful for web hosting, since you can let each user change the settings for their webpages, but not for other users'. However, in some hostings the server just doesn't allow these .htaccess files, and that would make OMV unusable, since it'd link to a non-existing page (the typical "404 - Not Found" which gets me like "GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!").

So, the other day I was asking Kajii (one of Imangascans's admins) about that reader, and he told me that he couldn't make it work for some groups that had asked him for it (Simple Scans and others). He had no clue why it was, and well, it didn't took me too long to figure out that .htaccess was disabled. So I thought about it, and finally came up with a way to fix it.

How does it work? (non-computer crowd: read at your own risk XD)

The mod_rewrite functionality in .htaccess allows you to display a page that exists in a location that may not exist in the server. With OMV, this works like this: "http://myreader.com/Nurarihyon_no_Mago/100/7" (base url / manga / chapter / page). In the base url there isn't any folder with the name "Nurarihyon_no_Mago"; there is one in the "mangas" folder though. So the .htaccess would map that address internally to "http://myreader.com/index.php?manga=Nurarihyon_no_Mago&chapter=100&page=7". As you see, it's calling the "index.php" file, with a query string of the arguments that we passed before with folders.

However, without .htaccess, the server would try to fetch a folder called "Nurarihyon_no_Mago" in the main folder for the reader, and since it doesn't exist (because that folder is inside the "mangas" folder and it's searching for it in the main directory), it would return a 404 page.

What I did is making sure that the server called the index.php file. How? Putting the url like this: "http://myreader.com/index.php/Nurarihyon_no_Mago/100/7". As you see, there's a new "index.php" part there. The server will render that as a call to index.php, ignoring the rest of the url. Then, within the script, we parse the rest of the url, assigning it as GET arguments, which will make it work like a charm.

How to fix it?

Well, this is easy. First, remove the ".htaccess" file. That way, if .htaccess is ever enabled, we make sure it won't affect this fix. Next, download this file and replace the index.php with it. Once you have replaced it, change the advertisement code if you need to, and that's all. (Note: this only works with OMV version 1.4. If you have a previous version, isn't it about time you update, since it was released on 2008...?)

And the code in pastebin, with the changed lines highlighted, in case you modified the script: http://pastebin.com/rUKNQqp1

I know it's one day early, since it's not even night of day 14th at Singapore, but I'm not sure I can get hold of the computer tomorrow, and even if I can, I'll most likely forget, so:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RENA CHAN (eternal_rena)!!

(Even if you forgot my birthday back then, but oh well, anyone can have a slip)

Some of you may already know about Raruto, a Spanish fan-manga, parody of Naruto ("raro" means "weird", here more like "weirdo", "oddball"), created by Jesús García Ferrer "Jesulink", that's being translated by leecherboy at the Amateur Manga section at Mangahelpers. It's a pretty funny parody, that I loved, and when I read it I just couldn't stop laughing. The names are quite funny (they're left untranslated in the English version, with a glossary of what they mean at the end of the chapter), but the story itself is even funnier, even if we already know it from Naruto.

But well, today I'm not here to talk about Raruto, but about another fan manga by the same author: 5 Elements. As you can already guess from the title, it's about elemental powers (you know, the typical fire/water/air/earth-controlling powers, but with loads of elements instead of just those). This is the story:

( Plot of 5 Elements )

This manga isn't as funny as Raruto, but just because Raruto had nonsense and funny stuff in almost every single panel, and 5E is more focused towards being a shounen-like comic, without leaving comedy aside. Anyway, as I said, Zap gives it the Raruto-like touch.

Well, you may wonder why I'm talking about this series if it hasn't been translated to English just yet and you can't read it. The truth is, I'm going to try translating it. But leecherboy, the translator for Raruto, also wanted to translate 5E to English, but it seems Jesulink (the author) told him to wait. I'll try to contact him to try and make this fan comic reach the whole world.

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