I was debugging about some mod_rewrite errors caused by the .htaccess file on one of my sites and couldn’t solve the problem myself so I opted for a help thread on the SitePoint.com forum. Turned out it’s not the problem of my mod_rewrite rules in .htaccess but some incorrect file permissions that were causing the …
The other day I was very upset about some extraordinary down times of my unmanaged VPS box at Linode. As it’s unmanaged, support staff at Linode are not responsible for the failures. I contacted them and they told me it’s OOM (Out Of Memory), pointing me to the right documentation to figure out how to …
As the most popular web server for hosting websites, Apache is second to none. It thrives for a reason, that is, it’s versatile and adapts to all situations and answer to even the slightest demands of a website. Below are some books from Amazon about administering Apache that may give you a new perspective and …
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Every HTTP requests made by any client web browsers to an Apache should conform to the HTTP specification and provide certain set of headers information for the server to parse and understand. Useful headers information that can be retrieved in PHP by function apache_request_headers() includes: User-Agent: Operating System, browser and its version number, … Accept-Language: …
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To get the PHP version as well as the Apache version of the current host build, you will need the PHP function apache_get_version(): $ver = apache_get_version(); Sample output: Apache/2.2.6 (Win32) PHP/5.2.5 Which returns a string containing the Apache version number (2.2.6) as well as that of PHP (5.2.5). You can also get the PHP version …
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Sometimes you will need to detect if a certain Apache module is installed dynamically from PHP so as to determine for proper actions to take. For example, if you write inherent functionalities for optional SEO friendly URLs, you will want to know if the client host has the famous Apache module mod_rewrite installed and enabled, …
When your site’s ready in design and majority of common media resources won’t change for quite some time, say, half a year, for example, the images and flashes. It makes sense to set the expiration of them much longer than the default to prevent the client browsers downloading them every time a visitor drops by, …
Well, just came across a rather insightful post by ronburk at Webmaster World, which by the way, is probably the most resourceful place for any veteran webmaster. Consumer behavioral analysis is one of the most important part of any marketing campaigns in any industry. The better you get to know your customers, the better you …
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As a result of the spreading SEO awareness and how Google works, it is always recommended to use as less dynamic URLs as possible for your site. If one must, try using as less variables in the dynamic URL as possible. A dynamic URL is one with a question mark that passes dynamic variables to …
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