Best way to let users choose country/language when submiting an URL to a directory

I want to offer the user the possibility to add the country/language for websites they would submit to a fairly simple website directory. I have a folder with flags from http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/ . The flag images are named according to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, meaning that I could make a PHP script that would be able to retrieve images and the name of the country retrieved from the image name (not the full name, but it wouldn't be necessary). Just to make things clearer, I couldn't find a proper combo-box jQuery plugin for my needs (that would act exactly like the native but with an icon before the text) and don't really have the time to develop one on my own. Considering the number of images, I also wouldn't just display them all with a radio box near them. Also, having a classic drop-down list would be a nightmare for me as I would have to assign the short country name manually to each entry, or do it once for every country. Offering the user a dropdown list with the short country names but no flag near them would also be unfriendly and confusing. The idea is that every website featured in the directory would have the country flag icon near it. I have the images named properly but I don't know how to let the user choose the right image for their website. Any idees? Thank you all in advance! **EDIT** Temporary solution is this file: http://www.andrewpatton.com/countrylist.csv It contains a list of countries including various other info, like the short country name, the same name that's used for the flag images. I can take that information and have a classic like this:               <select name="countries">          <option value="ro">Romania</option>          <option value="ie">Ireland</option>          <!-- and so on -->     </select>      Still, If anybody has a better idea...


What is the http://go2.wordpress.com/ redirect?

Hi I see a wordpress.com blog and on the latest post there is a redirect for the external links via "http://go2.wordpress.com/" redirect. This redirect is obfuscated - on hovering the link it displays a "http://google.com/url?..." redirect instead. What is this and why is it suddenly on this post and not others? Also, would it harm SEO for the affected outgoing links?


GoDaddy shared hosting with domain registed at a different registrar

I've got a shared hosting account on GoDaddy, however my domain name is registered at a seperate company. Assuming I already know how to point my domain name to whatever I want, how do I set up GoDaddy to accept the whatever domain name I want, and how do I find the proper address for my GoDaddy hosting so that I can point my domain name to?


Will changing site YouTube page affect SEO?

I have a site http://mytabletguru.com. Its current YouTube page is https://www.youtube.com/user/nishucse. Now I am planning to move it to https://www.youtube.com/user/MyTabletguru. As the second one URL is easy to understand. Please let me know if it's going to affect my site SEO on changing the Youtube page.


SSL versus EV SSL

As I understand it, SSL certificates verify the connection between the host and the browser, preventing MITM attacks. Is it true that EV SSL verifies the host itself, thus preventing (in theory) phishing attacks? Are there any other differences between EV SSL and regular SSL?


Why doesn't Google specify that a search result is a paywall site or least demote their search rank?

A rather suspect SEO paywall trick is to allow web spiders from search engines to see all content but lock the content behind a paywall for all other visitors. For example:   * What Google sees   * What you will see As this unfairly advantages dishonest websites over honest websites in search results, why doesn't Google either:   1. Mention that a website is behind a paywall; **or**   2. Demote the website's search ranking by some sizable margin? Given the skill of Google engineers, it would be trivial for Google to act as a normal visitor and check for selective paywalls.


Using Google Analytics tracking URLs in Facebook ads

I generated the following Google Analytics tracking URL to use in a Facebook ad: > > https://www.somewebsite.org/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=schools&utm_content=newsfeed&utm_campaign=facebookad3 I know the ad is being clicked (Facebook ad manager data) but the referred traffic is not appearing in my site's Google Analytics data. I think it's because Facebook is doing some weird redirect URL modifying. Any ideas?


Redirecting example.com to www.example.com in Go Daddy

If I go to `http://www.example.com/`, it's perfectly fine. If I go to `http://example.com/`, then it redirects me to Go Daddy's site. I'm using Google App Engine to host my site, as it's free and pretty cool, and I've not bought the hosting option from Go Daddy. How exactly do I change it to have both the **example.com** and **www.example.com** versions go where they're supposed to?


expired domains database

Does anyone know of a reliable expired domains database that I download and query against, without needing to connect through an API? Also, something that has older data would be nice. If such a database does not exist, what data sources do you recommend to setup my own.


Rich snippets for small sites

So far, I've seen rich snippets in Google search results only for large sites with a high number of elements (people, events, recipes, etc.). Does anyone know of an example where rich snippets are displayed for a small site with only a handful/a few dozen elements? Our own site has around 10 events (we are a specialized conference organizer) with rich snippet markup but so far they aren't displayed. To avoid misunderstandings: I'm interested in hearing about all types, not just events. To clarify: We are using Google's rich snippet testing tool. Everything fine there.


Why are passwords exportable as plain text in WordPress?

On my WordPress 3.9.2 installation can I extract the users plain text passwords by going to Users, select all users, and choosing Bulk Actions Export. When I look in the mySQL database with phpMyAdmin, the passwords are hashed. **Question** How come all user passwords can be exported in plain text, and how can I prevent this?


Major Google not follow increase since introducing 301 to site

Recently we implemented Varnish in front of our web nodes so that the backend would get some rest from time to time. Since varnish is case sensitive and our app was not we implemented a 301 in varnish to redirect to small case. Example: You search for `PlumBer StockHOLM` you will get a 301 redirect to `plumber stockholm` and then **plumber stockholm** will be cached. This worked as a charm, but when checking the Google webmaster tools we suddenly got a crazy amount of **Status - Not able to follow errors**. As you can see in the image below: ![not follow](http://i.stack.imgur.com/E7fK6.png) This of course stirred up some panic and I started to read up on the documentation once again. If I pressed on one of the links I got to the help section where i found this: ![docs](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VKbCt.png) Well this is strange, but as the day progressed more and more errors were thrown by Google. We took the decision to make varnish return 200 instead of the 301. Now when testing the links that appears in the **Not able to follow** section I get a 200 back. I have tested with Chrome, curl and lynx reader and everything looks ok but the amount of errors are still increasing. What is a little bit comforting is that the links that appears in the **Not able to follow** section are dated before the 200 change in varnish. Why do I get these errors and why do they keep increasing? Did google release something new on October 31? Maybe I do not understand the docs correctly?


Tomcat serving static content with directory listings

I have Tomcat 7 configured to serve static contents from a directory:               <Host appBase="webapps" name="localhost">         ...         <Context docBase="/var/projectA/static" path="/projectA/" />     </Host>      This is available at `localhost:8080/projectA/`. Is it possible to somehow enable directory listings for this context? I know it's possible to do this with Apache in front of Tomcat, but that's not what I'm looking for.


HTTPS on my ASP.NET 2.0 application

I have an application developed using asp.net 2.0 and the goal is to make the webpage secure by using the https protocol. I have searched all over the internet for some insight on how to accomplish this, and I have read about certificates, and so on, but couldn't quite figure this out yet. So my question is, how can I accomplish this? Explain this to me as if I didn't know anything about https. I am using IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET 2.0.


Adwords: is it possible to automatically copy changes in one campaign to other campaigns?

Is it possible to have identical campaigns except for one thing, and whenever changes are made to one campaign, the same changes are automatically made to others? I want to have identical campaigns running for different time zones, but for the campaigns only to run between particular hours of the day in each time zone. If I have a campaign for each time zone, when I make changes to one campaign, such as adding ad groups, or adding keywords, or changing bid amounts, etc, I want those changes to occur to the other campaigns also. Is this possible? Thanks,


Is liquid layout good or creating multiple css file for universal accessibility of web pages?

Is liquid layout (everything in % and font-size in 'em') good or creating multiple css file for different resolutions or browsers with help of Javascript good? I am a aspiring web designer, and want create a universal accessible web pages?


How can I simulate a slow connection for page load?

I have a fast server, and a reasonably fast home Internet connection. How can I simulate my page loading on a slow connection?


Any tools to limit my bandwidth to 56k to test how long it takes to load my website?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I simulate a slow connection for page load? Which software or method could I use to limit my connection speed to 56k or other amounts, and load up a webpage I am hosting to see how long it would take to access for users with a slow connection?


Can someone explain how FaceBook's cookie tracks you while logged out?

This article claims that Facebook tracks what you do, even when you're logged off of Facebook, via cookies. Now, a cookie is just a text file... that is read/written to while you're actually on that site, correct? If I'm on Google, how is Facebook writing to a cookie at that point? My site uses Fb login, so my users are asking me about how all these changes Fb has gone through recently affects their privacy, and they're linking me all these articles that sound false to me.


about Domain Age for main and sub-domains

We are doing some SEO projects and I was just wondering wether the domain age for the main domain would always the same with its sub-domains? I have seen both yes and no answers in other forums, just want to be sure.


My old domain is getting more PR while new is at PR 0, Please help me understand this

I am a web developer and I had a website for over 3 years, I mostly work local so no high traffic. Recently I started a blog on my website and around **2 months ago I got PageRank 1**. After that I bought a new .com domain and move site to new domain and forwarded all traffic to new domain via htaccess file. Fine. But **now my previous website had got PageRank of 2 but my new address still has PageRank of zero**. Help me to understand this.


Bingbot requests from Google IP address

We have some suspicious requests to our server,               74.125.186.46 - - [24/Aug/2014:23:24:11 -0500] "GET <url> HTTP/1.1" 200 16912 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)"     74.125.187.193 - - [24/Aug/2014:23:24:12 -0500] "GET <url> HTTP/1.1" 200 20119 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)"      As it shows, user-agent shows it is bingbot. But whois data of IP address(74.125.186.46 and 74.125.187.193) shows it is from google servers. So is it Google,Bing or any other content scrappers?


How to measure the conversion rate of your Amazon affiliate program?

I plan on selling products through the Amazon affiliate program. What I know I can track is:   -what products people view on my website (default `Google Analytics` pageview behaviour).   -what affiliate links people click on my website (with `GA` `_trackEvent`).  What am I missing is:   -what products people end up buying after clicking on the affiliate links. **Does the Amazon affiliate program offers you any mechanism for linking a purchase with some data from your website?** _I noticed that I was able to add custom parameters and values to my affiliate links and the link checker was still happy with them, if Amazon gave the links that initiated an order then I would be able to cross reference the orders using custom parameters..._


Google is not picking up meta description approximately 50 percent of the time on our website

We have a valid description meta tag on our website. We recently updated it. Temporarily we included a character (plus symbol) that may have been invalid. Since including this character, google would ignore the description meta tag and pick up some text from an overlay (semi transparent div with a message in the middle about data refresh) as the description. We then fixed the description by replacing the + with its html equivalent: `+` Since fixing this, google is showing the correct meta description, but only half of the time (approximately) We forced a re-index using google's webmaster tools for our site but the problem is still present 3 days later (google alternates randomly between showing the correct description, and the text in our overlay) Is there a way to force google not to use text from parts of a page if it can't use the meta description (or decides not to). Failing that, is google simply taking too long to fully recongise that we fixed the meta description?


How do I know whether a URL returns an HTTP 404 status code?

For any given URL, how can I (dis)confirm whether it returns an HTTP 404 status code? I found this tool but isn't there a cleaner, more natural way to find out, independently of other people's tools? For example, how do I know whether this broken link is a genuine 404 or not? I took a quick look at the source code but I saw nothing about a 404 status code. **Edit** I found what I was looking for in developer tools/Google Chrome Console. The broken links turns out to be a 404 indeed:![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0Ez7x.png) Thanks for pointing out!


is 'bookman old style' web safe

Is 'Bookman Old Style' web safe? If not, is there something that looks similar which is web safer?


410 Responses when your CMS host doesn't support them?

Sending a 410 responses for a page that no longer exist should make Google stop crawling for that page. The site I am working on has been recently migrated, and very little of the content was migrated. I've already turned the existing content into 301 redirects (the content that is on both the old and the new site), but now I would like to flush the old content from Google's memory by placing 410 responses in it's path when it returns to crawl for them and finds a 404 response. However, I asked our CMS host about it, and they said that our CMS does not support 410 responses. Is there some other way to post a 410 response, like making a dead link 301 redirect to a page that a 410 response in the form of a meta tag?


Where can I find a contact form for Twitter Bootstrap?

Where can I find a working contact form for Twitter Bootstrap? I'm using simple template with build in fields for Name, Email and Message. (I don't have any knowledge of PHP) Thank you. Nina


## Domain Registration and Hosting Transfer I am in a kind of situation here and I need your help. I have a domain (www.myowndomainname.com), which is registered and hosted by a reseller in UK. The company helped in designing the website and also registered and hosts the website. More so with the package, I can only administer the website by logging into a portal (CMS) to make required changes, meaning I do not have control access over the registration and hosting. Apart from that, it is very expensive to the extent that my company pays 144Pounds for registration + hosting yearly, 45Pounds for every 5 email addresses and 10Pounds for every 2G space for email. That is too much at this age and time guys. I now plan to move everything to hostgator.com and that is where I need help. What do you think should be done first? Moving the hosting or the domain name and how will I need to go about it? What checklist do I need to have? How do I move the emails and web files? I want to be able to do this hitch-free knowing that moving a domain name will take at least 7 days (Will the website will be down throughout that time?) All responses will be highly appreciated. Thank You


How to disable usage of Frontpage's _vti folders

Frontpage generates _vti_cnf and other folders which are no use to me - Frontpage is slow and my external publishing program can't distiguish regular files and _vti_cnf files. Is there a way to configure Frontpage not to generate these folders???


Turning my website into a non-profit

I was given an established website about a year ago. It makes some money on ads, but not much (less than 10k/year). I am no longer able to manage the site and am considering turning it over to another person. I don't want them to turn around and sell it. It was suggested that I establish a non-profit of sorts and transfer the assets to that entity. Does anybody have experience or advice on this subject?


Should I block bots from my site and why?

My logs are full of bot visitors, often from Eastern Europe and China. The bots are identified as Ahrefs, Seznam, LSSRocketCrawler, Yandex, Sogou and so on. Should I block these bots from my site and why? Which ones have a legitimate purpose in increasing traffic to my site? Many of them are SEO. I have to say I see _less_ traffic if anything since the bots have arrived in large numbers. It would not be too hard to block these since they all admit in their User Agent that they are bots.


Domain or Subdomain: does the choice affect traffic?

If I run a blog or something in my subdomain like `www.sub.name.net` is it going to have any decreasing affect like decrease traffic through search engines or low ranking through on engines?


Exclude a sub directory in a protected directory

I need to exclude protection on one of the folder inside a protected directory with .htaccess I put .htaccess in here:               /home/mysite/public_html/new/administrator/.htaccess      The directory need to be exclude from protection:               /home/mysite/public_html/new/administrator/components/com_phocagallery/      My .htaccess file :               AuthUserFile "/home/mysite/.htpasswds/public_html/new/administrator/passwd"     AuthType Basic     AuthName "admin"     require valid-user     SetEnvIf Request_URI "(/components/com_phocagallery/)$" allow     Order allow,deny     Allow from env=allow     Satisfy any      I tried but not working on my purpose. I suspect my path to the excluded directory may have some mistakes.


Issue in Google Analytics tracking code. [Status: Tracking Not Installed]

i am using Google Analytics tracking code for tracking site views but it shows               Status: Tracking Not Installed      here is my tracking code .               <script>       (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){       (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),       m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)       })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');            ga('create', 'UA-0000000-0', 'droidapp.me');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>      i put this code in header of my site. basically when any one browse this URL it redirects on the other one after delay of 10 seconds. plz tell me where is the error . thanks in advance.


Alternatives to using 3rd party Dynamic DNS

I am looking to set up dynamic DNS in order to make accessing a home server easier. Is there any way I can get around using 3rd party site (like `dyndns.org`). Is there a way to set up dynamic dns myself or are there really good reasons for using those sites? A major concern of mine is the fact that I want to use my own domain name and that usually costs on these sites.


Joomla one time self registration with unique code

I am trying to find out if there is an extension for Joomla where you can use a unique coupon code to access the self registration form. After the code has been used it should get invalid so that a user can't hand down the coupon code to other users. Does anybody know an extension which has such functionality?


How is time spent on page measured?

How do analytics applications (like StatCounter or GoogleAnalytics) measure time spent on page? Is that possible without JavaScript? I guess they reloading 1x1 web-bug or something after certain amount of time, am I right?


Use Outlook password for website verification

I am currently building an internal employee dashboard for our global company (it is hosted on an external website for logistical reasons) I'd like (need) to password protect the page as we will be displaying sensitive information, my question is, is it possible to integrate with Outlook passwords? We have over 350 staff all of whom use outlook on a daily basis, I'd love for the website to check whether the visitor is logged into Outlook and if they're not, prompt them to log in. Is it possible?? If it is I'll get is developed straight away.


How much significance does Google give to the presence of search terms in the domain name?

When setting up a new website, how important is it to include keywords and potential search terms in the actual domain name? How heavily is this weighted when it comes to ranking highly on google searches?


Opening up a static url when using Passenger WSGI with Django?

I'm currently developing a site hosted on dreamhost, using django, which is served up through passenge wsgi. Right now, all requests are being passed to the django app. I'd like to be able to serve static content directly through apache, rather than having it go through the app. Is there a way to get passenger to realise that urls with a certain prefix are special, and should just go through to apache?


Where may I receive some opinions about site designs?

I´m working on a new design for my website. It´s almost finished. I would like some other people to look at the new design comparing it to the old one and just tell me if they like it more or less, or what opinions do they have about it. Where could I do that? I have an account at dribbble for some time now, but I´ve just recently added me as a prospect there, so, until I get "selected" I can´t post anything. Is there any other places where you think I could receive some opinions from other fellows? After reading the FAQ, I understand that I can´t do that here. Thanks! Rosamunda


SEO and internal links

I'm fairly new to SEO and although I've read many articles on the topic I still don't have a clear idea of how to get my client's website get to the first page of Google Search. I run MOZ competitor analysis and see that a competitor that comes up at the top of Google Search has approximately same Domain Authority, Domain Moz Rank and Trust. They have 8 External Linking Root Domains while my client's site has five. Yet the competitor comes up as one of the top sites on the first page, and my client's side is on page #3. Then I noticed one drastic difference in competitor's ranking and that is Total Links. He has 1,388! I don't understand how this could be a positive factor in Search Engine ranking and how can they legitimately have 1,388 links (while only 14 of those are external). Another competitor who is #2 in search engine rankings has 773 links total with only 14 external links. It seems fishy, but yet there they are - at the top of the search engine results. Is that some current way to trick Search Engines? What to do if I'd like to get my client's website onto the first page by some legitimate means? Thanks.


how the search engines interpret the exclamation mark in the url

I wonder how the search engines - Yahoo, bing, google ... - interpret the exclamation mark (!) in the url:   * www.site.com/product!651031   * www.site.com/category!651031 I could not find documentation on this topic


How to leverage browser cache using .htaccess on nginx?

I'm trying to increase the pagespeed of our website ubercore.co. I'm using PageSpeed Insights for Chrome extension to analyze the pagespeed. It has suggested me to "Leverage browser cache". This is where I'm stuck. I've tried some modifications to .htaccess file like this:               ## EXPIRES CACHING ##     <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"     </IfModule>     ## EXPIRES CACHING ##      and get nothing. Later did some research and found that .htaccess is only for Apache server. Correct me if I'm wrong. But, when I see the header response of our webpage found that the server is nginx. Then why my host has the .htaccess file in web root? I'm confused. What I need in short: How to cache static contents for this site? Useful links: Nginx wiki **Update 1:** Here is a screenshot of what I have, server is nginx: ![Respnonse headers](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QXeNs.png) My question is simple, **I need to cache all static content given the environment.** **Update 2:** As suggested by dan found that the server is indeed Apache not nginx. I don't really understand it but let it be it's off topic. Now my problem: Server software : **Apache/2.4.7 (Unix)** Need : **.htaccess code to set browser cache expiry time.**


I want to transfer a domain to another registrar

I have a domain registered at hostgator.com which would expire in a day.Now i want to use godaddy for the domain, what would be the best practise for me: 1. Wait for the domain to expire and then register it to godaddy OR, 2. transfer the domain to godaddy before it's expiry Would the the domain be immediately available at godaddy after it's expiry at hostgator or will it take some time. Thanks in Advance


IIS and content caching

I'm a web developer and administer of a Windows 2008R2 Cloud Instance with IIS 7. I recently made an update to our website, but when I revisited the website, the website was being viewed with old stylings. I did a refresh (shift + reload button in Firefox) and of course the website displayed as it should. I didn't worry about it, until my client had the same issue in Safari. So, my question, in general, is, how do I prevent this from happening again, and yet still afford some caching of our site? I noticed we did not have content expiration set up on our webserver sites, so I've set that up, but did I really need to? I've also looked at Etags, and, honestly, it's hard for me to know whether or not I should use them or not. One comment I read somewhere there isn't really any issue with Etags scenarios in IIS (even in webfarms)... but, I dunno. Anybody have any suggestions, links, info? Thanks.


How do i analyse my website in terms of seo

what are the tools that can be used to analyse the SEO score and other seo facctors that helps in promoting websites in search engines


Can Adwords be cancelled by Google because of improper IE6 site rendering

A client just got a notice from Google saying that their Adwords campaign has been put on hold because the site is:   * Improperly rendering or   * Under construction or   * Needs a special program to run Now the site is improperly rendering on IE6. On everything else, including IE7+ it's fine. If this is the issue, would putting up a "Looks like you're using an older browser" message instead of the site for IE6 be a solution? Or must the site look good in IE6 for the Adwords campaign to continue?


How to obtain a page's GUID in Composite C1 CMS?

Question is pretty simple, I think. How can I find out what the page GUID for a certain page in my Composite C1 website is? I need it for RSS reading from a Blog within the CMS.


Can a sitemap index file point to sitemaps in another directory?

I am creating multiple sitemaps for a site, and for the sake of organization I would like to put these sitemaps into their own directory (of course the sitemap.xml file will be in the root site directory). Is this possible? I've looked through the protocol and it doesn't address this issue. * * * **UPDATE** I did not clearly state my issue, which is this. If I have a sitemap index, can the sitemaps listed in the index be located in a subdirectory, such as `http://www.example.com/sub1/sub2/sitemap2.xml`? Sitemap2.xml does not include paths that is only for /sub2/. Sitemap2.xml might contains links such as `http://www.example.com/FooBar`.


RewriteBase has to change when using UserDir

I have setup our Apache server to use UserDir This mean our urls are:               http://dev.server.com/~username/drupal/html/      Before our URLS were:               http://dev.server.com/drupal/html/      In the 2nd case I never have to set rewrite base. The default just worked Now I have to set rewrite base to for the 1st case: RewriteBase /~username/drupal/html/ Do you know why? Does the ~username cause a problem for drupal? .htaccess file that does NOT WORK (RewriteBase NOT set)                 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>       RewriteEngine on            # Block access to "hidden" directories whose names begin with a period. This       # includes directories used by version control systems such as Subversion or       # Git to store control files. Files whose names begin with a period, as well       # as the control files used by CVS, are protected by the FilesMatch directive       # above.       #       # NOTE: This only works when mod_rewrite is loaded. Without mod_rewrite, it is       # not possible to block access to entire directories from .htaccess, because       # <DirectoryMatch> is not allowed here.       #       # If you do not have mod_rewrite installed, you should remove these       # directories from your webroot or otherwise protect them from being       # downloaded.       RewriteRule "(^|/)\." - [F]            # If your site can be accessed both with and without the 'www.' prefix, you       # can use one of the following settings to redirect users to your preferred       # URL, either WITH or WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix. Choose ONLY one option:       #       # To redirect all users to access the site WITH the 'www.' prefix,       # (http://example.com/... will be redirected to http://www.example.com/...)       # uncomment the following:       # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]       # RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]       #       # To redirect all users to access the site WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix,       # (http://www.example.com/... will be redirected to http://example.com/...)       # uncomment the following:       # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]       # RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]            # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory or in a       # VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.       # For example if your site is at http://example.com/drupal uncomment and       # modify the following line:       #RewriteBase /~cmuench/rocdocs/html/       #       # If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,       # uncomment the following line:       # RewriteBase /            # Pass all requests not referring directly to files in the filesystem to       # index.php. Clean URLs are handled in drupal_environment_initialize().       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico       RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]            # Rules to correctly serve gzip compressed CSS and JS files.       # Requires both mod_rewrite and mod_headers to be enabled.       <IfModule mod_headers.c>         # Serve gzip compressed CSS files if they exist and the client accepts gzip.         RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-encoding} gzip         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.gz -s         RewriteRule ^(.*)\.css $1\.css\.gz [QSA]              # Serve gzip compressed JS files if they exist and the client accepts gzip.         RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-encoding} gzip         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.gz -s         RewriteRule ^(.*)\.js $1\.js\.gz [QSA]              # Serve correct content types, and prevent mod_deflate double gzip.         RewriteRule \.css\.gz$ - [T=text/css,E=no-gzip:1]         RewriteRule \.js\.gz$ - [T=text/javascript,E=no-gzip:1]              <FilesMatch "(\.js\.gz|\.css\.gz)$">           # Serve correct encoding type.           Header set Content-Encoding gzip           # Force proxies to cache gzipped & non-gzipped css/js files separately.           Header append Vary Accept-Encoding         </FilesMatch>       </IfModule>     </IfModule>


Rich snippet errors in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool for category pages

I'm receiving the following errors in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool: ![Rich Snnipets Tools Errors](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wE4Fv.png) It seems like the page for the category "galeria" does not contain these fields. There are also some more errors like this (all with categories links). The strange thing is that the first category doesn't show those errors. Anyway, I added the "entry-title" fields:

Categoría Biología

         ...
      but the error is still there. Also, "author" and "update" doesn't seem to make sense here (categories), so should those messages be ignored? **Update:** Here is a link to Google's Structured Data Testing Tool for the page to demonstrate this, and to view the HTML code by clicking on the HTML tab.


what's a good jquery-based content slider?

I've searched around there's so many but none seems to fit the requirements. so here is what i'm looking for: - needs to be lightweight (10+kb of JS just to slide images around is an overkill in my opinion and this is where most of the sliders fail at) - not many effects are needed, simple slide or fade will do - possible CSS3 support with fallback to jquery.animate would be a plus. - it should let you put links on the images without having to use a caption I tried nivoslider its too heavy, flexslider is 11kb minified javascript, anythingslider is 15kb minified, orbit is now part of foundation and the latest version is also too big.


Nameservers and DNS - Appropriate Steps to Move to A VPS?

I bought a VPS and I am trying to transfer my domain over to the new server, I took two steps so far, but I don't think I did it quite right as its been 24 hours and most all DNS check sites still indicate errors with my name-servers. Here is what I have done so far,   * Made new nameservers in my namecheap account    * (`ns1.domain.com`) and (`ns2.domain.com`) with the same IP as my VPS only has one IP.   * Then I went in and changed the name servers for the domain itself to the newly made name-servers. Is there any more to be done? The VPS does not have cPanel, and this is my first time setting up LAMP, and dealing straight from the command line for everything without the help of WHM or cPanel. Thanks everyone, necro.


How can I determine why my site loads slowly in Google Chrome?

My site seems to be making my Google Chrome hang. I assume it has something to do with javascript. Is it just my personal computers chrome or everyones chrome? http://blog.blundell-apps.com It work's in my Firefox, it used to work in my chrome. I was wondering if it was just my GChrome or everyones. Apart from just asking you now. Is there any automated ways for me to check this? If it is working for you could you say so. Then what would you think the issue is in my browser? If it's not working for you, could you recommend how I would go about debugging it since I can't load it in chrome, I can't load firebug.


wordpress header problem / cant add open graph tags

i am trying to add the facebook open graph tags to my wordpress site woozybmx.com i tried several options but everytime i add them the facebook lint returns something like the tags would be placed outside the header and it cant read it. can you help me? saying where exactly to place them in my header.php? i tried everything and it just doesnt work! thanks!!!


How to check on the 99.99% Up time Guarantee?

I subscribed to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) which promises 99.99% of up time guarantee. But I often encounter down time, slow access time and I'm thinking about how to "get them". Is there anyway/ service that allows me to prove that the web hosting provider isn't delivering the 99.99% up time guarantee?


Google can't recognize Schema.org image property from Product

How can I use `itemprop="image"` from http://schema.org/Product so Google can recognize it in this case?


Awstats IIS Log configuration fields extended

Good Day: We are _implementing_ AwStat in our IIS Servers and after reading the documentation and browsing some googled results, we still have questions... so where's the best site for asking them? hehe :)   * _IIS Log configuration_. Awstat is very specific in what you must "check" and what not to check, **but it gives no reason for that**... will it work correctly with more fields?   * If we configure both _sc-bytes_ and _cs-bytes_... Will it duplicate the info? I think both fields are useful.   * The same server redirect by Tomcat Conector to three different contents (/blabla /blablo2 /bleble)... ¿What will you do to get different statics of them? Awtstats can't filter by 'cs-uri-stem' filter... Thanks in advance.


Defining pages by custom variable, reporting to Google Analytics

Does anyone know how I could add some information to my page (whether in a meta tag or some other way) to indicate to Google Analytics that a page is targeted to a certain segment? This is pretty straightforward on my main site where everything is set up in hierarchy by target user so I can just use the URL to filter the data. However for my subdomains, its a flat structure that's just a bunch of landing and conversion pages so I can't use the URL.


facebook like button count

I just created a simple webpage where people can browse funny photos and share it with their friends. But I'm having problems with the Facebook like button. I have used the Facebook like button before on a static URL with iframe. And that seemed to work fine. I'mm using the XFBML version and not the iframe version because the iframe version affects the pages layout. This is the code I got from Facebook:

<fb:like href="" send="false" layout="button_count" width="450" show_faces="false" font="tahoma"></fb:like>      Facebook says that "href - the URL to like. The XFBML version defaults to the current page. " So i left that one open. Problem: When users click Like the counter won't update. It still shows nothing as if no one ever clicked the button.


Need Help With H1 Tags for Product Sub-pages

The site I'm currently building will feature a range of products for the organization it represents. Each product will have a main landing page and a series of sub-pages for "About", "Pricing", "Contact", etc. I'm a bit confused on the best way to handle the `h1` tags for these pages. Each page will have the organization's logo as an image at the top. For the landing page of each product I was planning on `<h1>Product Name</h1>`However, on the sub-pages, I'd still like to retain the title of the product.... Would it be acceptable to use `<h1>Product Name — About</h1>`, `<h1>Product Name – Pricing</h1>`? Is there a better way to do this?


Web crawler tool that generate a list of all the anchors used on a site

I'm looking for a web crawler tool that'll go through all the anchor text on a whole web site and generate a list for me to check. I want to make sure all the anchors are really descriptive outside the context. I don't care if it's web based or a desktop based software.


How would Google Analytics track different user groups with a custom dimension and metrics?

I have a custom dimension `user` and metrics like `visit_duration`, `action_a`, `action_b`.               --------------------------------------------------------     |     user     |  visit_duration | action_a | action_b |     ---------------+-----------------+----------+----------+     |    guest     |       1:30      |    7     |    12    |     ---------------+-----------------+----------+----------+     |   reg user   |       3:50      |    12    |    41    |     ---------------+-----------------+----------+----------+     | premium user |       7:15      |    32    |    101   |     --------------------------------------------------------      What happens with the data of a user that had status `guest` and now has status `reg user`? Which average data will it effect? Will all the data from this user move to `reg user` or will they be split into data that was tracked while this user had status `guest` and data that is tracked while he has status `reg user`? Or is my approach, to track different user groups totally wrong?


Need assistance matching a general theme style as well as eCommerce capability

I'm in the process of acquiring a new design client. They are getting into the business of "auto parts wholesaling" and they want a storefront. My preference is/was to create something from scratch. However, here is an established trend in their particular market (similar parts, layout, etc). They _insist_ on following the existing visual trend, as per the following: http://www.xtremediesel.com/ http://www.thoroughbreddiesel.com/ http://www.alligatorperformance.com/ My plan of attack at this point is to find a comparable WP theme and a flexible (but useful) backend/product management. Their current demo site (which their previous developer made a stab at) is using Pinnacle Cart. It is no where near what they need, nor is it intuitive to work with. I was actually considering Magento for its greater abilities but I'm still considering options. That said, my two primary dilemmas are as follows: 1) I need a theme that mimics the general style of those listed. They explicitly said they didn't want anything too clean (e.g. ThemeForest, Woothemes) as it "wasn't rugged or busy looking enough" for their field. 2) I need a WP/Magento/WP e-Commerce (or any one of a host of other) plugin that will allow for bulk import/update of nearly 200,000 products, descriptions and images. I'm not opposed to manually interfacing with the DB for import, but in the end, I need a store/system that doesn't needlessly add 50 tables to accommodate some "wet behind the ears" concept of table normalization and is easy to add to. Anyway, if anyone has any quality suggestions regarding either of these issues, it would be most appreciated. Best.


Ultimate security checklist

I'm looking for a complete security checklist that will allow me to secure my websites. After some research here is what I got: - **use SSL to protect authenticated content**   - **tighten the server TCP/IP stack** (e.g. enabling syn cookies, limiting the number of connections by ips.., allowing only public access to port 80...)   - **prevent illegitimate bots from crawling your website** to save bandwidth for legitimate users (e.g. using `mod_rewrite` and blocking based on HTTP user agent)   - **review your code for common security mistakes** (e.g. with OWASP top 10)   - **use an application firewall for additional security** (e.g. `mod_security`)   - **test your application security with assessment tools** (e.g. these questions on "webmasters" or "serverfault") Any input to complete this list would be appreciated. Also information as to how much money/time is usually required to carry out these steps would allow a cost-effective approach to security.


Should your Nameservers be under a Different Domain

I notice that, with most of the web hosts I use, they provide nameserver addresses under their main domain (or a related domain). For example **Mediatemple** provides name servers which are:   1. `ns1.mediatemple.net`   2. `ns2.mediatemple.net` So when I setup a website on their servers, under a domain like `myserver.com` the nameservers are not under that domain. When I was setting up with a new host for another site, they setup nameservers under the domain of the site I was setting up. So, the website I was installing was `myserver.com`, they setup nameservers as `ns1.myserver.com` and `ns2.myserver.com`. **Is this best practice? Should the nameservers be associated with a different domain?** ( _My thoughts are that they should, otherwise you need to access the DNS records for`myserver.com` in order to find out where the servers which house the DNS records you just accessed are.... Sounds a bit chicken & egg to me._) Any advice or observations greatly appreciated.


Google is not indexing my entire site despite having a sitemap

I have an e-commerce website `www.beyondtime.in`. I have been constantly monitoring Googlebot crawling on my website and my webmaster account. Lately, I have found two issues that I have not been able to understand. 1.) The Google Bots have been only crawling `www.beyondtime.in/telecom.php` when the URL is not even valid. What needs to be done to let Google crawl other pages of the website as well? 2.) The second question is about the Google Webmaster account, where I've submitted my sitemap with 227 URLs. Out of that, only 156 have been indexed. None of the images of my website have been indexed by Google.


Are there best practices for preparing users for the launch of a revised web site?

We were contracted to revise and modernize a static web site that is very active in terms of adding content but had not been significantly reorganized since the mid-2000's. We are migrating them to a CMS and adding a ton of new functionality, reorganizing the content, etc. However, we are concerned that just throwing the new site out there upon approval from the client will be a bit shocking to their user base and may generate a fair amount of backlash and complaining on social media which we would like to limit/avoid. Are there any best practices to guide us in preparing the users to "get over it" or otherwise mitigate hostility to something new?


CloudFlare blocking NVD3 Chart on my website

I have installed NVD3 Chart on my website today only and now I find that CloudFlare blocks it so the site hangs till continuously. I am sure that this is an issue with CloudFlare because when I access my website by visiting the direct IP of the server I am able to use everything, but when I visit it via the domain name and hover over the graph, the browser hangs.


Where do I create the file .htaccess, in order to serve my HTML5 cache manifest file correctly?

From a post on http://diveintohtml5.org/offline.html (Wayback Machine Copy) > Your cache manifest file can be located anywhere on your web server, but it > must be served with the content type text/cache-manifest. If you are running > an Apache-based web server, you can probably just put an AddType directive > in the .htaccess file at the root of your web directory: >   >   >     AddType text/cache-manifest .manifest >   Where do I create the file .htaccess? Need some more setup with apachectl ? Thanks very much !


The simplest way to track Google Analytics without JavaScript?

Is it possible to track Google Analytics on my site, when JavaScript is not available?


Suggestions on a Music Server

We have been using gnump3d as the music server for some 3 years in our college. But as of now the development of it has stopped and it is not that much reliable anymore, as it crashes whenever the server is restarted. Is there any other open source Music servers that can be used?


Any free web analytics/tracking services without JavaScript?

Is there any free web analytics/tracking service that can work without JavaScript on client side?


Can I be charged for letting a domain expire?

A few months ago I let a domain expire that I no longer wanted. I just received a bill from a collections agency saying that I owe about $100 because although I let the domain expire, it's necessary to cancel it as well. The domain in question is a ".at" Austrian. I've never needed to cancel a domain before - letting it expire was enough. This was my first Austrian domain name, and I'd appreciate any insight the community might have.


What is domain "masking" or "cloaking"? Why should it be avoided for a new web site?

What exactly is the domain name "masking" or "cloaking" offered by some hosting companies, (as opposed to redirection), and what are the various reasons it should be avoided when setting up a new web site "on the cheap"?


Lost traffic from Google because of meta-tag adding

I have a site aroundnails.com. It has English version on subdomain `en.aroundnails.com`. Reading about language related meta-tags for Google, I have placed such a meta tag on the main page of main site:               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.aroundnails.com/" />      By this way I have tried to say Google, that my site on `en.aroundnails.com` is the english version of main site, not a duplicate. After two days I have lost a huge part of traffic from Google, more than a half. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/R8ZvB.jpg) At the beginning of september I have moved this meta-tag, but traffic remained at the same level. Hope somebody can help me to solve this issue.


Should I redirect my domains to the same address?

If I own example.org, example.com, example.net, and want visiters to view the same site no matter what address they go to, should I redirect two of the addresses to the third, or simply serve up the site without redirection regardless of the addresses used?


Where is the best place to buy domain names and how much should I pay?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  New Domain Registration - Price differences I want to buy a domain name. I plan to set up my own A, NS, and MX records using Slicehost. So I guess I just need the cheapest place, right? How much I should be paying for .com or .org?


Can bots crawl through "checkbox" form elements which act as a filter for products?

For example, my site has a list of products, with a filter box which allows you to narrow by price, features, etc. My question is, can google crawl this form, see the url results (which is a bunch of query variables in a long url), and then index that URL?


<meta name="robots" content="noindex"> in "Fetch as Google"

I don't know why but when I execute "fetch as Google" it returns me               HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Cache-Control: private     Content-Type: text/html     Content-Encoding: gzip     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5     Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQACRADAQ=ECAINNFBMGNDEPAEBKBLOBOP; path=/     X-Powered-By: ASP.NET     Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:18:29 GMT     Content-Length: 153          <meta name="robots" content="noindex">      The `noindex` doesn't exist. Does anybody know what could be wrong?


Is 66,200 results in google good for a start up content based website

Is 66,200 results in google good for a start up QnA content based website.


I have a domain and hosting service, how do I make a website?

I just got a domain and hosting service. What is the kind of program I need to make a website to upload it to the hosting server? I tried to Google it, but all of the results were about using X hosting service.


Getting rank for keywords that I don't want to appear on my website

One of my products has two names. One of them is what I consider correct and thus it is what I want to appear on my website. The other name is incorrect for me, so I would like to avoid it. But I know that many people will search my product using the "bad" name. How could I get the "bad" name indexed for my site on search engines even if nobody can read it there? Of course, I want to do it "legally" so that no engine will ban my site considering it as cloaking, black hat SEO, etc... EDIT: Having that "bad" name on my backlinks is not an option. For example I would perceive user reviews connecting my site to that word as a negative point. Maybe having my site as a search result for that word could be negative as well, but I think it is worth it.


Turn Site into a PDF

I have a wordpress site about 25 pages, is it possible to click and make a PDF from the whole site ?


Where do I get the standard, tiny Facebook and Twitter icons?

I've seen a lot of sites with tiny 't' and 'f' logos for Facebook and Twitter. They're pretty common, but the only images I can find available are for paid icon sets. Are people really using custom icons for these or are Facebook and Twitter offering official ones somewhere on their websites?


clean urls and differences in hosts

I am developing a relatively static website, where I want to be able to access each page without typing .html (or .htm or .xhtml ...) at the end (`/about` not `/about.html`). I am developing using the Apache 2.2 server (in OSX). Links like the above work just fine. No monkeying around with `mod_rewrite`, they just work. However, on my actual web host (fatcow.com) this does not work (a link to `/about` just raises a 404 error). I've called them and they don't seem to know what is going on... or particularly think it is their problem. They are using Apache 2.0. What is going on here and what is the best method for getting around it? I'd prefer a solution that didn't involve adding a `mod_rewrite` entry for each of my pages, but if that is needed how would I do that? For reference, if I do go with a `mod_rewrite` solution it would look like:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^about$ /about.html     #and so on, for each page


How do the professionals slice PSD's really fast?

I've got a solid background in HTML and CSS, but my company frequently outsources PSD to HTML slicing to another company, and they somehow return the results really, really fast. Has anyone had any experience working for a place like this, and can you divulge any of the tools and secrets they use for such a quick turnaround? I'm going to have to be doing a lot of this coming up real soon, and it would great to be able to speed up the process.


Promoting my site on Facebook with my primary account, or create a new account?

I am about to launch my website and I so far have been using my personal account to promote the site in relevant groups etc. If I start to promote the site in a larger geographical area should I be concerned with using my personal account? Should I create a fake account just for this promotion so it's not tied to my personal account? I have created a Facebook Page, but I can't use it to post in relevant FB groups which is where the interested people would be. Thoughts?


Finding out who owns a Google Analytics UA code

An old client got in touch asking about GA access, but is isn't something we have and the company we believe has it isn't claiming ownership either. Is there a way to contact Google to ask who the owner of a particular UA is? Or anyway to do it without Google? I should mention, we don't want ownership, we just want to track down who has it and point the client in the right direction.


What is a "Public DNS registered IP address"?

I've been reading this ICANN agreement on new TLDs and it has this section on DNS service availability, which i don't completely understand: > Refers to the ability of the group of listed-as-authoritative name servers > of a particular domain name (e.g., a TLD), to answer DNS queries from DNS > probes. For the service to be considered available at a particular moment, > at least, two of the delegated name servers registered in the DNS must have > successful results from “DNS tests” to each of their **public-DNS registered > “IP addresses”** to which the name server resolves. If 51% or more of the > DNS testing probes see the service as unavailable during a given time, the > DNS service will be considered unavailable. I'm not 100% sure of the part in bold: does "public" refer to the DNS or to the IP addesses? It looks like there's a mistake and that the hyphen should have been after "DNS". So basically does it mean " **the public IP addresses registered in the DNS** "?


SEO - Hidden with CSS, visible with JS?

Hiding stuff can be cloaking if it's made for make the page rank higher. However here is a question about hiding content, not for higher ranking but for the user. **Question**   * Hiding content with CSS and showing it with JS is dangerous (because Google don't read JS well)?   * Hiding content with JS and showing it with JS is safer?   * Hiding content is ok if it can be visible again by user no matter technique? A source that support your answer would be nice.


Why does google crawl my page only once even I set changefreq:daily?

I have built a new site, submitted my homepage URL to Google, and my sitemap(I have about 6,300 pages.). Now when I type `site:mydomain.com`, there have 1,992 pages have crawled. But they were all crawled at Jul 20(The day I sumbitted sitemap). In my sitemap, I set different changefreq and priority for my different page URLs. But I have 3 pages set `changefreq:hourly` and at least 120 pages set `changefreq:daily`, 3,000 pages set `changefreq:weekly` and the rest are `changefreq:monthly`. But why does Google not crawl my pages as I set `changefreq:hourly`, `changefreq:daily`? My site is about news(from Bing api). Community, forum, photo, etc. now are in testing. In `www.google.com/analytics` every day I get about 15 visitors (most of them are our stuff) And in `www.google.com/webmasters`, my site now has `58 queries`, `2,500 impressions`. How can I improve Google's crawl frequency?


Changing domains and Google Analytics

My website has moved from `example.com` to `example2.com` and now I have two questions:   1. Although all pages in `example.com` are being 301 redirected to `example2.com`, why are my users now about 50% of the old user count?   2. Do I need to create a new Google Analytics property for the new site?  It seems that old parameters (for the old site) is working but it's a little strange that in these 5 days that I have moved the site the number of users are less but the monthly number of visitors and unique visitors are increasing.


If I have a page rank of 5, and I get alot of backlinks from sites with PR 1, will I then decrease in PR?

As the title says, will I? Ex: I have PR 5, and suddenly a thousand sites link to me and they all have just PR 0, 1 or 2, will this cause my PR to drop?


how is sites such as alexa.com monitor all web wide sites traffic in the internet ?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  alexa and compete Hello, i'm trying to understand idea of traffic monitoring sites such as alexa.com , which can monitor traffic for any site in the internet (although if it not registered account underit and didn't put any code to alexa for help it to monitor this site traffic) ??


Protecting Wordpress Multisite from rogue programs

If I have 100 sites on a wordpress multisite installation and I give admin access to multiple developers, how can I protect the system from choking if one of them writes an infinite for loop?


Why are image sprites usually only created for ".png" files and not ".jpg"?

I was wondering why when people talk about sprites they only mention `.png` files. Is there any problem in creating sprites for `.jpg` files?


"NS1" and "NS2" A records suddenly required?

I have a VPS server that I host several sites on. One of the domain names I use for a site hosted on the VPS is registered through a different company. The site was working fine until this morning when it randomly went down. After hours of talking to my hosting service support, they decided that the problem was I did not have an A record for `NS1` and `NS2` pointing to my name server's ip addresses and they claimed the absence of those `A records` are why the site went down. I have never heard of needing an `A record` for `NS1` and `NS2` before. I am confused as to why the site would work just fine without the `A records` and then suddenly go down when no DNS changes were previously made. Could someone explain this to me?


Does submitting 'URL and all linked pages' help with new website indexing?

I am aware that sitemaps are one way to provide lists of page URLs to Google bots. However, Google webmaster allows one to fetch a page as Google and to submit the 'URL and all linked pages'. Does this accelerate new website indexing (assuming the fetched page contains links other pages on the site) or not?


Weather Widget/API

I am developing a website and am looking for an easy piece of code that I can add to a webpage that will display the weather for today and also for the next 5 days for a given location (Wellington, New Zealand). I have fund some resources on-line, yet I am looking for a horizontal weather display, rather than a vertical display. What is the easiest to implement and what do people recommend? I would prefer a piece of code to just copy/paste into a HTML page, but if an API exists, that is easy to use, then I may look into using that. **UPDATE** I have found the following link that has the information that I am looking for: http://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:00000.1.93436 Here is a screenshot of what I am wanting to display on my own webpage: http://canning.co.nz/WeatherExample.jpg Can I please have some help to input the correct code into a HTML document to display this information shown above.


Is gzip compression available for GitHub pages?

I'm using GitHub pages to host my site. While checking Google PageSpeed Insights, it recommends that I enable gzip compression. Since I have a static site hosted on GitHub, I'm not sure that is possible. Is it possible to enable gzip compression on GitHub?


How to transition from a shared server to VPS or dedicated managed server

I have a website that's currently on a shared server plan. It's been working fine. In about a week, I'm expecting a spike in traffic during a specific 4-day event. I could have as many as 1000 visitors at one time on my site. My site is basically a phpBB 3.0 forum. I'm not sure what would happen with such a spike. Would the server crash or would access to the site slow to a crawl? My host is offering to switch me to a VPS or dedicated server for a month. I'm not concerned about the cost. I've never done this before. I'm concerned that the transition won't go smoothly and my website won't work on the new server (VPS or managed dedicated), without troubleshooting my code and making changes. My website is on a shared server that uses cPanel. Not sure if this makes the transition to a VPS of dedicated seamless and reliable. I would appreciate some insight and advice on what to expect in this type of transition.


How to tell whether spammers are bots or humans?

How can you tell if the people that are spamming your forum or website are in fact bots or human spammers? **Please note that the question is not about preventing spammers. It is to _determine if the people that are already spamming_ are bots or humans.**


Apache Reverse Proxy

I would like to host 2 Joomla! websites on separate machines using XAMPP with Apache. I need to make sure it is configured the correct way but I am not sure if I understand how it is to be written in the config files.(on both PC's) things to be configured as far as I know:   * Host file   * httpd file to allow proxy   * vhost file I have all the basics set up on the "proxy" to run multiple websites from the one server. However I want to put one of the websites on a separate server on its own and still be able to run multiple sites from the first. for the sake of example my IP address from the ISP is `12.123.124.12` the internal addresses for each machine:   * server1: 192.168.1.146   * server2: 192.168.1.114 I know that I can do this from one machine with Virtual Hosts but I would like to accomplish it with two separate machines...


Should I use CNAME or A record for Tumblr custom domain in case of .msk.ru TLD?

I'm setting up custom domain for tlog and already have domain name like `<business-name>.msk.ru` Depending on official Tumblr help in case of third+ domain name I should use CNAME DNS record, not A. But it seems like I'm not so good in DNS related things. So... does `.msk.ru` domains counts as third level or not?


What hosting control panels do major websites use?

I use cPanel for my personal website only because it came standard when I bought the domain name, but recently it came to my attention that there are other control panels available. I was curious as to whether major websites such as Amazon, Google or Facebook use cPanel or whether they have their own method of running their websites?


How to find out if a soundtrack will be allowed by youtube or not?

Members on my site are uploading lots of videos to youtube. They usually add soundtracks to the videos and it's frustrating for them if the video gets rejected or blocked because of the soundtrack. Is there a way to find out beforehand if the soundtrack will be rejected or blocked?


DDos Mitigation Services

Any have any experience using these? And what are the pro's and cons? Can you expect a high level of false positives? Are they 100% effective?


How to track a cronjob running on my site?

I have an old Joomla 1.5 site hosted on a shared Bluehost server. Recently my .htaccess files are being rewritten every 10 minutes, and the site has been black listed. It looks like some php cronjob. What is the procedure to track where the file could be? The cpanel provides no features to track malware or any such. How could I track the source of the problem?


How does robots.txt handle links to disallowed pages?

We have affiliates that link to our site with a querystring. e.g.               Affiliate Link      In my robots.txt file, i have:               Disallow: /affiliate/*?*      What would a search engine do with the link? Will it hit our site, then stop because it's disallowed? I'm guessing it'll index it, but will it index with the query string? Ultimately, we want the link to our site to be followed, but we don't want the query string'd link to be ranked for obvious reasons. How does this work and how can this be achieved? If the original link had a rel="nofollow", will google completely ignore that link?


How to link my content to a Google+ profile using "rel=author"?

I googled this question and found the answer from here but in featured Google+ I didn't find the options that are mentioned in the above URL. I need my Google+ profile should be resulted in Google result for my keyword. How I can connect my Google+ profile and my website?


Single paging Meta Tag Duplication

How to make Google understand about single paging content issue ? A single page has got above 100 paging ? 1-10 of 199 Go to Page 12345678910 ... like this as mentioned above, Do I need to put fresh meta tag on each page ??? Help me out from this issue ?


Does remote mysql work directly to users?

Recently I started moving my MySql to a remote server to offload the load and bandwith. I thought that when a users connect to the site, the MySql data would be transfer directly to the users, but apparently it does not. My bandwith graph spike to 50Mbps extra from the MySql server keep repeatably hitting my server, I assume that the MySql server first transfer back to main site then transfer data to users. Why does it do this or am I just doing it wrong? Is this how remote MySql work? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.


How can I find out what pages of my site are not indexed by Googlebot?

Google Webmasters Tools show that one of pages of my site isn't indexed (it was added to the sitemap about 2 weeks ago).   How can I find out what page it is?


Redirect link of old webpage to new webpage in Joomla 2.5

I have modified my website `www.vidyaniketan.in`. It is a Joomla 2.5 site. When I search for it in Google by URL, there are several sub-links displayed (e.g., "ABOUT US"). this links to the old webpage. How do I link it to new webpage? I tried following code in my _.htaccess_ file:               Redirect 301 /about_us.html http://www.vidyaniketan.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=468      but unfortunately it's not working.


Where can I find a simple open source css template?

I'm a programmer, and have a solid understanding of XHTML, and back-end programming, but I have the design ability of a warthog (a particularly untalented warthog at that). Has anyone created some open source CSS that I can drop into some well-written XHTML that will make my site look reasonably decent, without a bunch of design work?


When will non-existent content be removed from Google Search results?

About 3 weeks ago I launched a complete redesign of our website, and most, if not all, URLs were changed. Now if you search for my website (http://goo.gl/XDjly) you will see the non-existent pages still in the search results. For example http://goo.gl/1ECSI does not exist anymore. That URL also shows up under Crawl Error -> Not Found in Webmaster tools, yet it's still showing up in search results. I know that eventually Google will drop it (or will it?) but my question is when? Obviously it knows that the page does not exist anymore, why does it take so long to drop them from the seach results? Thank you


Is it possible to show AWS CloudWatch metrics graphs on your own dashboard webpage? It would save the hassle of logging into the AWS console when something weird is going on.


Custom email address with Google Apps?

I am very new with web hosting and I'd like to setup a custom email address with my domain for myself specifically _me@domain.com_. I've already purchased the domain but the .TLD does not come with DNS management, so I have opted for paid DNS hosting with the domain name registrar I purchased my domain from. In Google Apps, I only have the choice of `http://mail.domain.com` and default `http://mail.google.com/a/domain.com`. How then can I do so? Edit: I've already setup it to my specifications. But when I send a test email to the custom email address, I get this error; The error that the other server returned was:               550 550-mail-yx0-f175.google.com [209.85.213.175]:40553 is currently not permitted 550-to relay through this server.       Am I correct in assuming I need to wait for the DNS records to propagate with the new MX records, for me to use the email


Why do some hosting companies restrict the allowed characters in DB names?

GoDaddy allows nothing but letters and numbers in database names. Other hosting companies have similar restrictions. Could there be any technical motivation behind this?


Google Analytics | What are the differences between Custom Variables & User Defined?

Can I think about `User Defined` as just another slot of a `Custom Variable` (with a visitor level scope, and without a name) or it's totally different?


Google Analytics : Is tracking status instantaneous?

I'm currently trying to setup tracking at my website. I'm trying to determine whether my tracking is actually working. It says Tracking not detected on the Google Analytics page. However, when I go to the Realtime reporting, it actually says 1 visitor detected and when I log in in another incognito window, it says 2 visitors. So I feel it's actually working. Just wondering is the status instanteous? I just want to know whether it's actually working.


How to package web site configuration for distribution

Is there a way, preferably PowerShell based, to extract all the configuration data for a particular web site, for installing that web site on site at clients?


Using mod_rewrite to rewrite URLs with question marks in them

This is probably a mind-numbingly simple question, but for some reason mod_rewrite always manages to completely befuddle me every time I interact with it. A long time ago when I set up my blog and podcast, I didn't yet grasp the whole concept of permalinks; and so the RSS feed URL that I submitted to iTunes was of the form: http://otakunopodcast.com/?feed=podcast (note the question mark) Now that I have permalinks set up properly, my RSS feed url is now: http://otakunopodcast.com/feed/podcast (note the lack of ugly question marks ;-) ) So I would like to write a mod_rewrite rule to convert from the former to the latter, generating a 301 in the process. However every attempt I have made to do so has either ended up in it not working, or worse, causing a rewrite loop. Any and all help gratefully appreciated. Thanks!


Bounced emails with email on Google Apps for Business

I use Google Apps for Business. I have things set so I can login at gmail.com using richard(at)wordfruit.com as my login name, and when I send mail it sends from richard(at)wordfruit.com I've had a couple of people tell me that emails bounced. From lots of other people I've received emails fine. People who got bounced emails have contacted me through a contact form on wordfruit.com -- messages through that form get delivered to richard(at)wordfruit.com (the same email that those people got bounces with). One person who got a bounce tried emailing me again later and got a bounce again. Both times, that person was able to contact me through the online form. Where should I look to solve this? Or how can I solve it? Here's a message that one person got: Message: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: Richard(at)wordfruit.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 535 535 Incorrect authentication data (SMTP AUTH failed with the remote server) (state 7).


How do I get the IP of the attacker?

I have a website which was attacked by a spammer. How do I get the IP address of that spammer, so that I can block that IP? I am using Drupal 6.


Will changing from www to non-www version affect my rankings?

I currently force www. and also specify that in Google Webmaster Tools. I know it's recommended to just pick on or the other, and to not use both. But if I change everything to not have www, and I force that in the server configs, and I change it in Webmaster Tools, will it still have an effect on my rankings?


Can I display ads on a site whose domain name includes a trademark?

I own a domain containing a trademarked word. I don't want to get into trouble with the trademark owner so my plan is to use the domain to display information (wiki-style) about the service the trademark owner provides. My question is whether I can display ads on this website to make money. For example, let's say I own Google.org (Google being a trademark). On this domain I would write about the real Google (history, business etc.) Can I get into trouble for having ads on this page including ones that promote other search engines (Yahoo, Bing, etc.).


Is it possible for a website to determine whether the user is browsing through a transparent proxy?

I'm currently browsing through a local transparent proxy. I'm receiving 404 responses from a couple of web hosts, although the proxy works perfectly with everything else; I was wondering whether it could be the websites recognizing and blocking the proxy user. Is this a possibility or is there something wrong with the proxy?


Google Analytics (Universal): Search Term Exclusions

Having recently migrated to the Universal Analytics version of Google Analytics I now am able to use the Search Term Exclusions feature to divert organic branded search to the 'direct' channel instead of organic search. Their documentation is ambiguous about whether this includes the portion of branded search that is in the (not provided) category. Given that both Google Search and Google Analytics potentially can access each other's data, it's plausible that they can divert all the branded search coming from Google properties into Direct. **Q: Does anybody know either way if the branded search traffic that is in the (not provided) pot is diverted to Direct using the Search Term Exclusion feature?** I know why these terms are (not provided), and I also know that Google Search knows what the keyword data is, so it is technically entirely possible for them to do this. I just don't know if they do. Anyone done it and seen a chunk of their (not provided) search go down and their Direct go up? **Thanks**.


Business Info Rich Snippet

If you search Google for "company information" you'll see that a lot of websites have a new snippet showing information about the business in grey after the breadcrumb trail. What does a business do to get that snippet? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DwZdF.jpg)


your fresh content on Google

I have actually pretty simple question. Having new sitemap every week and get it indexed immediately. How can I guarantee that the new fresh content will be indexed immediately by Google without building new sitemap. I suspect there are should be kind of trigger to index just one particular URL that will be working with huge sitemap created early.


Configuring SSL on tomcat 7 and the files and format required

There exists lot of information on the web and on stackoverflow regarding configuring SSL on Tomcat but it's still confusing and things have not worked for me. I have received two files from the certificate authority x.   * Root certificate (crt format)    * Actual certificate (crt format)   * Type2 certificate (crt format) Using OpenSSL the files have been converted to .pem format. Question is what are the following property values.   * SSLCertificateFile=? (is it actual certificate in .pem format)   * SSLCACertificateFile=? (is it root certificate in .pem format)   * SSLCertificateChainFile=?   * Is it a grouping of all the certificates (read somewhere that you need to add all the files BEGIN - END BEGIN - END)?   * If yes then what order?   * SSLCertificateKeyFile=? (Now the most confusing part)      * I know that it is a private key but how is it created? And from which crt files is it created?) Any one who has been able to figure out what is what?


Do I need robots.txt?

I want to allow all bots to crawl everything, do I need to create a robots.txt? If the file is missing will it have a negative influence on some crawlers? If I need to create it, what should it look like?


Alternative to the deprecated Google Web Seach API

This question is slightly related to the question located here. My current solution is using the deprecated Google Web Search API - but since it's deprecated, qeuries to the API is now limited. This is a problem for me - the suggested alternative is using the Google Custom Search API but this only allows me to search on specific sites and pages. This is not what I need. I need to be able to search the web for a query, preferebly through Google. But I'm open to alternatives.


Canonical reference for rel="foo"

The answers to a lot of google-juice questions seem to involve the use of _rel=_ in _a_ tags (eg rel="canonical"). Is there an exhaustive list somewhere of all of the possible options for this tag and what they mean? I found this from W3 schools, but it doesn't have _canonical_ on it and I'm wondering what else it's missing.


Facebook likes reset after moving to HTTPS

I've got a question regarding the Facebook _like_ button. We worked on a piece recently that embeds a number of social share buttons (please see the source code below). When the piece was released, it was on HTTP, and received over 2k _likes_ (the URL 'slug' hasn't changed at all). The site was recently migrated to permanent-on HTTPS, and the _like_ data has been reset, and we've been left with 50 new, recent _likes_. If you see in the source code, the URL is set explicitly to like the HTTP version, which I believe to be correct. Can anyone help me work out what's happened here? Here's the HTML bit of the _like_ button:


What could cause my website to only be accessible via SSH?

So I just switched to a new VPS and have had some issues. I have setup a basic LAMP stack on Centos 6.2. I'm a programmer, but have a decent amount of knowledge in service administration since I work for a very small company and have to do a little bit of everything. I've setup many LAMP servers without any issues. On this server, ever since I set it up the page load speeds have been ridiculous. On a basic Drupal 7 installation, page load times range from 10 sec to 60+ sec. As I was trying to get some work done earlier, the website just stopped loading altogether. I can't even access it via the IP address. But what's strange is that I can SSH into it via my domain name just fine. I'm stumped as to what could be the cause of this. I tried restarting apache and mysql and both restarted without any issues. I'm guessing it's something on my hosts end, but if it's an issue on my end I'd rather not wait around for them to answer my ticket as I have work I need to get done. What could cause my server to all of a sudden only be accessible via SSH? I've tried to give as much information as possible, but please let me know if there's anything else you might need.


Clicks counting and crawler bots

I am currently running a small affiliate-program for Facebook users. We use an auto-poster to publish links to fan pages. Every hit is stored in our database and we have included a 24 hour reload block for the IP-addresses. My problem right now is that the PHP script also stores every hit from all the bots that crawls my website. Now I was thinking to block those bots with the _robots.txt_ of my website but I am afraid that this will have a negative effect on my AdSense ads. Does anybody have an idea for me how to work this out?


Apache Server - Wrong Certificate

At work we are moving a website from "outside" to "inside". Standard LAMP website (Apache, MySQL, PHP). The issue I'm having is that it's serving up the wrong certificate. https:/intranet - on my computer, and some other computers, it's serving up the SSL for intranet like it should... On other computers it's serving up the certificate for https:/intranettest instead. HTTPS:/intranet/ put in browser, yet Apache is serving the wrong certificate. I'm at a loss for "how" it's serving the wrong certificate for some websites, and not others (more wrong than right)... If it hits the server, the DNS switch has occured like it should, so they are arriving at the "New" server instead of the "old". I hope I'm asking this right.


How to reduce delay between forum posts in phpbb

In my phpbb forum, just after I post a reply to a thread, a page is shown and I've to wait around 5 secs to return back to the thread. How do I reduced the time to 0. (I tried setting the "Flood Interval" to 0 but it dint work.


What's the difference between 'top servers' and 'active sites' in Netcraft's web server survey?

I'm looking at the graphs on this page and I don't understand the difference between two market share graphs:   * Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains   * Market Share for Active Sites Across All Domains I understand the distinction between hostnames and active sites as explained here, but I can't quite grok what _exactly_ the _top servers_ graph is showing. If you look at the stats for MS in March 2002 one graph says 34% and the other 27%.


Will placing Google Ads at the bottom of the page have any effect?

What is the effect of placing Google Ads or any other kind at the bottom of the page? With the ads as last element in the page, like placing ads below the half section of the page. For example, some pages would be 2000px long and some would be more than 5000px so it would need more scrolling to get to the bottom... Even if the user reaches the bottom, will they spend time looking at the ads?


Handling SEO for Infinite pages that cause external slow API calls

I have an 'infinite' amount of pages in my site which rely on an external API. Generating each page takes time (1 minute). Links in the site point to such pages, and when a users clicks them they are generated and he waits. Considering I cannot pre-create them all, I am trying to figure out the best SEO approach to handle these pages.   Options:   1. Create really simple pages for the web spiders and only real users will fetch the data and generate the page. A little bit 'afraid' google will see this as low quality content, which might also feel duplicated.    2. Put them under a directory in my site (e.g. /non-generated/) and put a disallow in robots.txt. Problem here is I don't want users to have to deal with a different URL when wanting to share this page or make sense of it. Thought about maybe redirecting real users from this URL back to the regular hierarchy and that way 'fooling' google not to get to them. Again not sure he will like me for that.   3. Letting him crawl these pages. Main problem is I can't control to rate of the API calls and also my site seems slower than it should from a spider's perspective (if he only crawled the generated pages, he'd think it's much faster). Which approach would you suggest?


How to enable CSS3 features in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8?

While IE9 looks very promising, IE6, IE7 and IE8 will probably haunt us for many years to come, slowing the spread of CSS3 on the web. A number of projects based on HTC and JS add some CSS3 support to IE:   * CSS3PIE   * IE7.js   * eCSStender   * DD_roundies   * border-radius.htc (curved-corner)   * ie-css3.htc   * ie-css3.js I only have experience with CSS3PIE (doing the rounded stuff on http://docs.composite.net/) and except for the mouse over effects this works well and is pure CSS3. What CSS3 features do the different projects bring to IE and how well? Any of them a clear winner?


Am I legally required to remove all data associated with a customer (UK)?

A customer has asked that we remove all our stored information from our database. From a moral standpoint, we have no problem with this, but simply deleting all the data will leave us with orders that have no record of who placed them, for example. We use this data extensively for reporting and administration purposes. Do we have to, by law, remove all personal information identifying this customer? Our company is UK-based.


Why does my htm pages have a number attached at the end of the link?

When I wanted to fetch a certain page with `htm` extension I noticed an attachment after the htm extenstion `http://www.example.com/IP_814.htm#.Uk1_MtKsh8E` Google could not fetch this page it gave the 502 error code. When I fetched the same page as `http://www.example.com/IP_814.htm` Google fetched it and gave me the green check. When I created the page, I named it `IP_814` with extension `htm` as this is a individual internal product page. I believe that the code or number behind the `htm` changes daily. What should I do so Google crawls my individual product pages with the `htm` extension?


FTP: 550 Permissions Denied

I'm attempting to upload files to my remote server via FTP, but I continually get blocked from uploading files with "550 Permissions Denied". The strange part is that it worked at first perfectly, an only now has it stopped working. The user I am logged into has the proper privileges, but I still can't upload. ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/35wr6.png) ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cieSf.png) Any help?


301 redirect behavior in a drupal system

I am migrating an older site to a newer one which is using drupal. As part of this I am trying to setup some 301 redirects to the new pages but I am getting some unexpected behavior. I added the following line to my .htaccess file: redirect 301 /redirect.html http://www.mysite.com/newpage Unfortunately, what happens is that I get taken to: http://www.mysite.com/newpage?q=redirect.html Which of course doesn't load correctly. Any thoughts?


Should I include forum posts in the sitemap?

I am launching a medical discussion forum for sharing study materials and discussing other topics. The forum will probably grow fast and reach at least a few hundred topics. Should every discussion topic be included in the sitemap?


SEO changing main domain in Google Search results?

At the moment there is 3 domains pointing to same server for content, and of course their have the `canonical` URL set to tell Google about the duplicate content, but the questions is, if we take into consideration the follow:   * url_1 - `something.se`   * url_2 - `somethingelse.com`   * url_3 - `something-notcool.com` Right now if I Google something something for example it will go to `something.se`, but I want to tell Google to use `somethingelse.com` instead. So, how can I do that? I tried with 301 redirects, but it end up in infinity loop when the person loaded `somethingelse.com`...


Difference between mail. and pop. & smtp.?

When hosting a website I often notice that all of the following are defined under DNS:   * POP = mail.example.com   * SMTP = mail.example.com versus   * POP = pop.example.com   * SMTP = smtp.example.com Is it wise to use "mail.example.com" for both POP and SMTP when configuring a mail client? What is the difference between each of the two approaches? It seems to work fine (sends and receives mail as expected).


Is Google search site:yoursite.com result count a good indicator of Google's indexing and does it really mean anything in SEO terms?

I'm not sure this is the best stack site for this question. But it does have to do with Google search functionality so I think it is justifiable to ask here. If I'm wrong, please let me know. My boss likes to check site:yoursite.com almost daily and see the number of results. He thinks it is good when there is a higher number. The weirdest thing is that the number fluctuates wildly. One day it will be 37,000, and the next day it will be 300,000. I've even tried it from two different locations at the same exact time and gotten the same discrepancy. Why would the same site: search return different numbers of results from two different locations or two different times when the site has changed very little if at all? Is the site: result count really a good indicator of how well-indexed your site is by Google? When it's high, does it indicate that you're doing a good job of SEO? I know that that last question is rather silly, but any kind of answer connecting site: to SEO would help. I don't think the number matters much but I need evidence to convince my boss he's barking up the wrong tree.


CMS Made Simple: Why does home page return a 404 under www subdomain?

Anyone know why my homepage wont load with the www prefix. Links such as               www.mysite.net/about-us      will load fine but               www.mysite.net      returns a 404. Everypage works including the home page if I leave out the www. The site has cms made simple in the backend and has a root_url set without the www. The dns has a cname to the www too. As Requested here is the htaccess               RewriteEngine On               RewriteRule ^gallery(/((([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)(/(\d+))?)/?)?)?$ index.php?page=77&groupId=$4&showpage=$6 [NC,QSA,L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [NC,QSA,L]      Thanks


Testing websites for Firefox

What versions do you test with when testing for Firefox compatibility? Firefox 3 is a no-brainer, but do you then test for 4, 5, 6, 7, _and_ 8?


How do i show visitor count in my page?

I am using google analytics for tracking the visitors on my website. I can view all the stat reports from my google login. I am wondering if i could place the visitor summary stat in my home page of my website. Can i show the reports of google analytics on my site's home page?


How to setup up .htaccess rewrites for http and https on the same site?

I'm having some issues with _htaccess_ rewrites i need to redirect different parts of my site to HTTPS rather than HTTP, for example login and news sections. I'm not sure how to go about doing this in the correct manner. So at the moment I have               RewriteRule   ^login/?$  index.php?p=login [R,L]      I would like to redirect this to HTTPS, I have tried the following:               RewriteRule ^login/?$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/index.php?p=login [R,L]      but it doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something? I have rewrite on and all other settings as they work. Also is there anyway to get _htaccess_ to use a different set of rules if HTTPS is set to when it is not? Update: So what I want to do is rewrite `http://www.site.tld/login/` rewrite to `https://www.site.tld/login/code` and then further rewrite to `https://www.site.tld/index.php?p=login`. So the user sees: `https://www.site.tld/login/` but it is actually doing `https://www.site.tld/index.php?p=login`


SpamAssassin penalising DK Signed

I am checking an email for spam via isnotspam.com, in the results I'm receiving the following messages:               ----------------------------------------------------------     DomainKeys check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: neutral (message not signed)     ID(s) verified: header.From=production@studionec.com     Selector=     domain=     DomainKeys DNS Record=          ----------------------------------------------------------     DKIM check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=production@studionec.com     Selector=mandrill     domain=mail2.wdc04.mandrillapp.com     DomainKeys DNS Record=mandrill._domainkey.mail2.wdc04.mandrillapp.com      In the SpamAssassin results it shows the following:               * 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100%     * [score: 1.0000]     * -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no     * trust     * [205.201.139.2 listed in list.dnswl.org]     * -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record     * -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay     * domain     * -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record     * 1.0 DK_SIGNED DK_SIGNED     * 0.2 BAYES_999 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99.9 to 100%     * [score: 1.0000]     * 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message     * 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily     * valid     * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature     * 0.0 T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT Fill in a short form with personal     * information     X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=4.8 required=-20.0 tests=BAYES_99,BAYES_999,     DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DK_SIGNED,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,     SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no     version=3.3.1     X-Spam-Score: 4.8      DK_SIGNED is presumably DomainKeys or DKIM, and it's giving a + 1.0 to the spam score, why is this happening and is there a way of stopping it? I looked up DomainKeys and found the following listed in Wikipedia so is this a bug or poor configuration on my end? > Both DomainKeys and DKIM were published in May 2007. DomainKeys was issued > as a "historical" protocol and DKIM was issued as its standards-track > replacement.


Robots.txt practices with .htaccess redirections (inherits)

I have a question regarding how to write robots.txt files for many domains and subdomains with redirects in place. We have a hosting account that enacts primary and add-on domains. All of our domains and subdomains, including the primary domain, is redirected via htaccess 301s to their own subdirectories in the primary domain's root directory. I'm confused about how I would write the robots.txt for certain directories. First, I wanted to confirm I am right in understanding that for domains _and_ subdomains, crawlers will look to the directory that acts as that urls root directory for the crawling rules(robots.txt). Also, that a directory will not be affected by a robots.txt present in their parent directory if the directory has its own domain/subdomain, and that url is the one being accessed by crawlers. (Am pretty sure, but I wanted to confirm I didnt have a fundamentally flawed understanding of robots.txt) In the original root directory on the account(where the primary domain was directed before htaccess was put in place) what should the robots.txt contain? When crawlers look to crawl our primary domain, will they look to the original root directory for the robots.txt or will they reference the file contained in the new subdirectory where all the primary domain's site files are located? If so, what should the root's robot.txt include if anything at all. Would I be right to include a simple 'disallow: /' for all agents, and then include more specific robots.txt files in each subdirectory with more specific instructions. Would that affect the crawling of the directory where the primary domain is now redirected? Any help is greatly appreciated, Thanks!


Change domain name for existing site, what is the easiest and cheapest way?

Suppose I have an existing site and I want to change the domain name without changing hosting. I could set up a 301 redirect from the new site to the old site, but that doesn't actually change the name, it just redirects. I could set up new hosting and actually move the site to the new host with a 301 redirect from old to new, but that means paying for new hosting which I'd like to avoid since I don't actually need two sites running. What other options do I have?


Forwarding www.example.com/abc to abc.example.com

I have a web directory that can be accessed via either http://www.example.com/abc or http://abc.example.com. Same physical directory, same contents, just different addresses. I want to redirect to abc.example.com if it is accessed via www.example.com/abc. Can I do it by a simple PHP script? The `index.php` will be the contents for either address anyway.