title: How to set htaccess working on opensuse for codeigniter project

text: I'm trying to have htaccess work on codeigniter project but the module is not working and I don't know how to enable rewrite module. To have read the htaccess. The OS is Opensuse 12.2. I have this directive in the default-server.conf               Alias /safememoirs/ /home/gabriele/Web/safememoirs/          <Directory "/home/gabriele/Web/safememoirs">       Options Indexes MultiViews       AllowOverride None       Order allow,deny       Allow from all     </Directory>      But I don't understand A how to enable the module B Where should I put the .htaccess directive id in the default-server.conf or in the site directory?


title: Best Web Site Copying Software

text: I just wanted to get some opinions on the best "web site copying" software out there (free or commercial is fine). I have a site that I've recently become responsible for managing, and the previous consultant has not provided operating system access. As such, the plan is to re-host the web site. I realize there are a lot of different issues to consider in doing this. However, I don't have much choice in the matter now. The plan is to use web site copying software (ala HTTrack) to "rip" the web site, and then modify what is downloaded back in to a maintainable site. This, of course, involves HTML, css, javascript, etc on the front-end. I'd like to recover as much of the site as possible to make re-creating it as easy as possible.


title: Is it ok to use the original-source meta tag for pages that are not news

text: I am building an online shop for selling products manufactured by others. Should I use the `original-source` meta tag to give credit for the product (or product info) to the original manufacturer or is this tag intended to be used only for news ?


title: Dynamic php pages getting direct traffic

text: I just launched a website and for the 1st 30 days was only getting word of mouth traffic with good analytic #s. Bounce rate around 32% and average of 3 minutes visit duration. Now that I've submitted a sitemap, I am getting about 72% bounce rate and only 1 min on the site. The weirdest thing is the direct traffic landing on dynamic php pages is the bulk of the high bounce rate and most of them show 0 seconds for duration. I submitted these dynamic pages in my site map so wondering if someone is using that information and crawling my site???? Example of the dynamic urls:               www.example.com/good-gas-station-new-york-ny.html     www.example.com/bp-gas-station-miami-fl.html      Any ideas of what it could be? Should I be worried?


title: Hosting a website for 10-20 users

text: I am thinking about a way to stay in touch with friends from college and many people don't have Facebook/Twitter/etc so I wanted to make a very minimal website in which users can login (username / password) and post links to websites or just post text. Ideally it would be forum style and I would like to host it from a home computer. I have minimal experience with Ubuntu but think it is possible. Here are my questions:   1. If 20 people log onto a website that I am hosting from a home computer, will that use a lot of my internet bandwidth?   2. Other than a static IP and Apache server, is there anything else I need to install to get going?


title: html tag for grouping forms?

text: I thought I remember seeing this somewhere but maybe not. Isn't there an HTML tag for grouping forms similar to the tag for grouping headers? so for example:               <fgroup>         <form>             <!-- misc. data -->         </form>         <form>             <!-- misc. data -->         </form>     </fgroup>


title: How to set a 1-order-per-PC limit on my website?

text: On my website people can order free coupons for my local service. I would like to set a limit of 1 coupon order per PC. Can someone suggest a way to implement this, even if the visitor would delete all his browser cookies **_and_** changed his IP-address by using TOR? Or isn't there a reliable way to do this?


title: GWT: reporting crawling errors for non existing links

text:
Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that never existed, and if i check the "Linked from" tab for a given error link, it shows another that never existed. They all mention `joomla/` which is not the cms used on this domain (it's wordpress fyi). Exampled: `http://example.com/joomla/index.php/component/user/register` Linked from: `http://example.com/joomla/component/user/login?return=L2######` What is going on? **UPDATE 1** I tried something: I provided one of the faulty urls to the "Fetch as Google" functionality. Instead of returning a 404, it returns a 301 to another Joomla page.               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Server: Apache/2.4.3     X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.4-10     X-Pingback: http://example.com/xmlrpc.php     Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT     Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0     Pragma: no-cache     Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=1fgr5v2oip39miibuptd51s8h0; path=/     Set-Cookie: woocommerce_items_in_cart=0; expires=Sat, 12-Jan-2013 11:44:01 GMT; path=/     Location: http://example.com/joomla/component/user/register     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1     Content-Length: 387     Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:44:01 GMT     Via: 1.1 varnish     Connection: keep-alive     Accept-Ranges: bytes     Age: 0          <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">          <title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
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The document has moved here.

Additionally, a 301 Moved Permanently     error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


title: How to exclude myself from Google Website Optimizer results?

text: I have a website on which I run Google Website Optimizer (A/B tests) and Google Analytics. We have automated tests that check some web pages and I am worried that this might interfere with Google Website Optimizer. I have added a filter to Google Analytics, so that Analytics will not track clicks that come from my own IP address. Can I do the same for Google Website Optimizer? How? Thanks.


title: Which server application should i choose in my position?

text: I have a 32bit Windows 7 installed 1gb Ram pc at my office. I need to run simple database related i/o web pages for answering few (5-100) requests at the same time. There is no need to huge amounts of data transferred from database. I am native earlier experienced with vbscript (ASP) however, theoretically i can code with any script language (PHP etc.). Which is the free, weightless, source friendly solution as a server and DBMS you would suggest?


title: cdn.domain.com indexed by Google. The content is being considered as duplicate content

text: I am running my website with CodeIgniter framework. I have setup cdn using cname cdn.domain.com which is being indexed by Google. And the content of the both domain.com and cdn.domain.com is having same content and is being considered as duplicated resulting ranking issue. I tried contacting the developer and he was not able to help. I hope there is some way to avoid such issue.


title: Brand name showing before the title in search results

text: If we search for our brand name or any keywords that relate to our website, the first words to appear in the title shown in the Google result preview follow this format: `Brand Name: Title` Here's a screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CJrsM.png) I am using Yoast WordPress SEO, and each of the pages are not optimized the same as the above result. Here's the WordPress code:               <title><?php wp_title('«', true, 'right'); ?> <?php  bloginfo('name'); ?></title>      If we comment out the PHP code inside the title, the page itself has no title then. I wanted to have the title first, followed by the brand name in the search results.


title: 301 redirects and non-existent directories

text: I just wanted to clarify something; my boss often messes up and tells a customer to go to a specific directory; i.e. `mysite.co.uk/directory/` instead of the actual correct URL `mysite.co.uk/this_page.html`. As the customer is normally about to look at the page I add a 301 redirect in the _.htaccess_ page so it redirects them from the non-existent directory to the correct page. Is this a sensible idea, will it eventually lead to slowing down the load time of the website and does it affect any SEO or ranking?


title: Any reason a site has 2 links to favicon?

text: A site I'm looking at has the following 2 links to its favicon:               <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="/_assets960/media/favicon.ico" />          <link rel="icon" href="/favIcon.ico"/>      Question: Is there a good reason why you would specify the icon twice in these two slightly-different ways?


title: free dns providers for a subdomain

text: I am looking for a free DNS service provider for a subdomain. Does anyone know who does it?


title: Add copyright notice to a website

text: I want to add a copyright notice to a website I created. Something like > (c) Me 2010. All rights reserved. I am aware that everything written by someone is automatically copyrighted (if I'm not mistaken, and perhaps depending on country laws). I see some sites use the following format for this > (c) Me 2009-2010. However for me that makes no sense to add an 'end-date' to the notice. I am aware I can code to update the notice every year, but I just find it strange. Or is it just me? Another question is: I also use copyrighted code from others (they are all mentioned in the credits including links to their licenses of course) on my site. Would it still be OK to add the copyright notice to the site with only Me in it? So to sum it up I have 2 questions:   * What is THE RIGHT WAYTM of adding a copyright notice on a website (or code or whatever)? If there is one.   * Is it allowed to copyright code with other copyrighted code within it?


title: Measurable goals for a new web team/department?

text: I'm part of a new web team (the area is new) and we have to define goals. I need to define this goals so they can be measurable maybe monthly and yearly. So my questions is if these goals should be monetary only or quantity of websites reached, both or if there are better parameters than the ones cited? I will be so grateful if you at least can point the right way to find them.


title: How can I allow search engines to index my invite only website in ruby on rails?

text: I have a ruby on rails website that will be in invite-only mode for the next couple of months. Currently I have it set up so visits to any page performs an authentication:               before_filter :authenticate, :except => [:beta] //authenticate checks for a logged in user      But the webpage has a lot of content that I would like to see indexed by search engines, and I was wondering if there's an easy way to allow crawlers to do their work? I am not very knowledgable on SEO related stuff at all, so sorry if this is an suboptimal way to phrase the question.


title: What happens if I try to set a cookie on a bot?

text: I'm building my site to include some user-identifying cookies. When a visitor chimes in, I will set a cookie with a unique visitor id (a guid) and the date- time of the visit, and save a visit record (including his user-agent, referer (if any), and so on, in my database. I plan to check each user to see if they have the cookie I've set, and then create a visit record each subsequent time they come by, to include if they click any links on my site. The site is very very new (only about a week old as of today), but I've been tracking my visitors in a text log and I see that I can identify visiting bots by their user-agents (the Google and Bing bots/crawlers have come by, along with a couple of others). It occurs to me that they probably won't accept cookies. Does anyone know this for sure? Or do they also collect cookies in addition to site information?


title: How you solve "preventing common words from Google" issue?

text: My topic seems to be solved by stackexchange engine but me (a human) couldn't find a solution here. As you may understand on subject, I have many repeated words on my site like "comment", "like", "read more" and also some system messages like "mysql_result","error", "php" etc. I saw that my most valuable words are these on Webmaster's Tools. Some people suggests to load those texts from a js file and restrict access to those files. Or using iframes for those text areas. Both have some negative sides, too. I think about another solution which is using images instead of repeated texts but it is neither practical nor seems well. Thank you for suggestions.


title: How to track outbound links in Google Analytics?

text: I'm having trouble tracking outbound links from my page. I can see the visits to the page in Google Analytics, but still I can't see what I'm doing wrong (of course I have replaced the UA-XXXX code with my own code). Can anyone spot anything wrong with the below code? One interesting thing is that when I include the tracking function in the `<head>` section, my page doesn't load correctly in Firefox. So, I checked the syntax and all seems ok. I've added this just before the closing `</body>` tag:                          I have this just before the closing `</head>` tag:                     This is an example of an outbound link:               blah site


title: Google search of links:mysite.com returns less links than imagined

text: I did a Google search `links:mysite.com` and it only returns 3 results. I know there are a lot my more back links in existence than that. Why does Google not show the other links I have to my site?


title: SVN Checkout folder as local webroot

text: I have XAMPP installed and running. I have an SVN working directory (WD) on my local that checks out from the repository. I set up a virtual host in xampp to point to my WD, but my browser (FF) gives me a 500 http status error: > Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script. When I place a regular folder in the same location with the WD and switch names, it works fine.. Can I not use an SVN working directory as a web root folder?


title: Write to an alias directory on Apache

text: How do I enable writing via PHP to an alias directory. I have the following on my `VirtualHost`:               <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName domain.com     ServerAlias m.domain.com          ...etc          AliasMatch ^(.*)/user/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/images/(.*) "C:/Apache/webroot/user/$2/images/$3"      <Directory "C:/Apache/webroot/user">         Options Indexes MultiViews         AllowOverride None         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      So if I tried to view a file or an image from `m.domain.com` I can see it being fetched from the `alias` directory; however, when I try to write it fails. for example if i tried something like `<?php file_put_contents("user/sam/images/sample.png", $img); ?>` it would fail. Any suggestions or ideas is really appreciated.


title: gmail apps is asking me to pay amount

text: I used gmail apps for free, now when i setup gmail apps for a new website, it says i need to pay 5$ per month. what happened to free gmail apps with 10 user accounts? Please help me in this regard.


title: Use a GET variable to see a referrer in Google Analytics

text: I have a system on my site that sends an email to a customer with a certain url in it (not a private url, just the info they've requested). The format of this url is just straight on:               http://www.mysite.com/the/requested/data      When the user clicks on this url, Google Analytics sees this as 'Direct' traffic. However, I also have a lot of 'real' direct traffic, users that just type the url, or use bookmarks, and I need to distinguish these 'mailed' users from the rest. I was thinking about this:               http://www.mysite.com/the/requested/data?ref=mail      and then in the frontend (a Drupal 7 site), capture this GET variable ref, and if it is set to mail, then call the Javascript to trigger a Google Analytics Event. Is this the only way to go about? Or are there other/better ways? Thanks for the input!


title: Login script with member area/user

text: Is there a free script which I can use to: Share some PDF with my partners. But i need the user to reach only those PDFs which they have privileges for. So I need:   * login script with registration (i will make the registration if need. So registration function will public)   * every user should have their own member area   * I will upload PDFs to the specified user areas   * when my partners sign in they can see only those PDFs that they have privileges for


title: Setting up domain name for google apps domain and google app engine appplication

text: I have deployed a app or a static web page on comingsoonjoineventus.appspot.com, when the users click joinevenuts.com they should be redirected to the appspot link. But its redirecting to google sites home page of the domain. I check the domain settings in both godaddy and also google domain cpanel. I am not able to figure it out. kindly help me in this regard


title: In Google Analytics how do I display full URL of referring pages?

text: This is such a basic thing that I can't believe I can't find it. In the **Traffic Sources > Referrals** screen I can see a list of _domains_ but where is a list of referring _pages_?


title: Can I use GMail to manage my emails?

text: Say I buy a domain `foo.com` - can I easily use GMail to receive and send emails from an address of that domain. For example, `admin@foo.com`? Is this possible or do I have to install a mail server on my VPS? I would prefer something free.


title: Does Googlebot (and/or search engines) index a forwarded page?

text: Let's say I have `example.com` domain, and I force the user to use the HTTPS over HTTP. The question is as browsers just accept and load the forwarded/new page (when the request for `http://example.com` -> `https://example.com`), does the Googlebot (or other search engines) accept the forwarded page and index the new page and just ignore the old page? In other word, does search engines accept HTTPS beside the HTTP?


title: 'Back button' functionality, how important is it?

text: It is increasingly common for "rich" applications to break the back button. I've always held that this was bad form but perhaps that view is outdated? Is it ever Ok to break the back button? And if so, what are the criteria? * * * **Edit:** To clarify I was more referring to applications where clicking the back button basically just sends you right back where you were. Effectively disabled but not in any way harmful to press.


title: What are the template naming convention standards?

text: What is the standard for template naming conventions within a CMS? Should the name be Structural (e.g. Two Column Template) or purpose based (e.g. News Template) or something else? It makes sense to me that the name be structural based, but I would like to know what the standard is here before we proceed with this project.


title: how can I set my site root from: localhost/mysite/ to: localhost/mysite/view/ via htaccess

text: hi just wondering if this is possible, when you access my default site directory localhost/mysite I want to set the path to render localhost/mysite/view/ all my html pages will be rendered here just like an php MVC structure can do... is it possible with htacces? I'm an absolute newbie so I apologize if you find this question somehow stupid. thanks so much in advance :)


title: About the <link rel="index" /> tag

text: I'm trying to figure out how to use it. I understand that this tag tell Google which page is the root parent / parent of the current page. So, for example, on a page that's listing a product from a certain category, the `rel="index"` value should be the product category page (the page which lists all products from that category). Am I right? And the index value of that product category page is the "Products" page, ie. the page which lists products from all categories (or featured / most bought / popular products or whatever). Is this how index should be used? If yes, then what if the page which the index points to has `"noindex, follow"`, because it serves duplicate content?


title: Do you think e-shop is better than eshop?

text: this question was into my mind since a long time, and now I found this Q/A place to ask about it. What do you think? Thank you.


title: Custom Domain for Tumblr

text: I am trying to set up a custom domain for my tumblr account. http://blog.scribeair.com/ to http://scribeair.tumblr.com Can some one help me how to set up the DNS records for the subdomain. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7saDZ.png)


We are building a finance website and need to chart stocks along an x and y axis and would like to use pinch and zoom interaction to change focus on the charts. What is the most accessible charting framework for mobile devices? We are building for all current generation smart phones and require our users to have JavaScript enabled.


title: Making my domain show up instead of my sitemap.xml in Google search results

text: If I search Google for a term or my site name, Google returns the URL `sitename.com/sitemap.xml` on the first or second page of the results. _I want the main site to return in the results and not the sitemap_.


title: How can I make my website look better?

text: So I have a website currently under development.. let me just first say that the domain name is NOT the name of the website or going to have any relation to it.. http://pandafi.com/ This site is currently in its early stages of building, and what I need help with is the color.. I can't really find any color for the register box that matches the background, and I'm not sure if these are the right colors to use at all..


title: Can using Varnish still help to improve the performance of my site if I already use CloudFlare?

text: I'm using CloudFlare right now. Can Varnish still help to improve the performance of my site?


title: Advantages of purchasing a domain & hosting before website is developed

text: I have seen many website owners who have purchased the domain & a hosting provider before the website is online. These websites generally says "Website coming soon".. I know that you need to purchase a domain since someone else might buy it. But why do you need a hosting provider, is there any SEO advantage? or is there any other specific reason?.


title: Embeddables and moving from wordpress.com to self host

text: I transfered my wordpress blog from .com to a self host but it is full with embeds from youtube and flickr, written like thus: > [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=someurl] and so how do I go about converting those wordpress.com embeds to normal embeds? Thank you


title: How can I query over a page name at google analytics

text: I am running a website that every customer has a different query string attached to the url plus one random guid attached at the end:               /myPage/?cust=one&randomGuid     /myPage/?cust=two&randomGuid     /myPage/?cust=three&randomGuid      I would like to measure how many page views I have using only the `cust` query string parameter discarding the random part of the string. The regex for this job would be `cust=(.*?)&` but I don't know how to apply this in google analytics


title: Controlling text that appears in google search results

text: I have recently made a simple (pure HTML) website. The most important key phrase that I want to capture is "full reserve banking". Currently, if I type "full reserve banking" (without quotes) into google, then my site appears as the 7th item on the first page. I am reasonably happy with this as the site is so new. But one frustration is that the text that google displays in relation to my site is rather misleading. The main message I would like to get across is that my site is "A collection of resources for anyone interested in this alternative monetary system." and I have this as the first line of text on the page. Unfortunately, this important sentence is nowhere to be seen in the google search result. So my question is - is there anything I can do to fix this error? **Edit:** I noticed that someone edited this question to remove the name of the website. I was very keen to leave it in because being able to look at it makes it far easier to diagnose what I did wrong. Indeed the answer suggested by "Su" clearly shows that they looked at my website and analyzed what it was doing which helped them give a clearer answer. If I am breaking some policy by including the name then please explain what this policy is in a comment. **Edit:** I have now made a series of changes to my meta descriptions as inspired by the answers given here. On the homepage I now have the text:               <META NAME="description" CONTENT="A collection of resources for anyone      interested in Full Reserve Banking. What it is, how it works,      web resources, organisations, research papers etc.">      I am now very excited to see what will happen after the next visit by the google robots. **Edit:** Result! I just did a google search for "full reserve banking", and the text that appeared was:                 Full Reserve Banking: The definitive resource.       A collection of resources for anyone interested in Full Reserve Banking. What it is,       how it works, web resources, organisations, research papers etc.       www.fullreservebanking.com/ - Cached      By the way, I **did** originally have a meta description - but it was too short, it just said "full reserve banking". Google obviously assumed this was too little and so chose to use its own algorithms to cook up a different sentence from the main text.


title: Converting Facebook Connect to Application

text: I currently operate a site which uses the Facebook Connect for log-in. I would like to "convert" this site to a facebook appliation (that is, to be used as an iframe in Facebook website). What will be the best way to do so? What changes do I need to make in the log-in procedure to enable it? Is there anyway I can use the same URL of my site to be served as the facebook app, and in that way avoid duplication of content (one for the website version and the other one for the app)? Joel


title: Restricted Flow Of Power

text: I'm sure all is fine, but i need some reassurance. Last month my company launched consolidated two of their websites into one new website. www.fdmgroup.com and www.fdmacademy.com into a newly designed www.fdmgroup.com. Because the FDM Academy grew as it's own brand we decided not to just forward the domain to the fdmgroup website, but instead just mirror the new FDM Group website and use a canonical tags to the FDM Group domain (so the link juice will pass to the FDM Group domain pages) The website has be live for nearly a month and i don't believe any power has passed down through the FDM Group website to it's deeper pages even though 301 redirects from the legacy group and academy domains in place. I am also seeing the same problem on the FDM Academy domain, but i expect to see this as every page has a canonical to the same page on the **Is there anything which is restricting the flow of power through the site, or am i just being impatient?**


title: Heat Map Tool Free

text: From looking online, the free heatmap tools consistently mentioned are ClickHeat and ClickDensity. `Heatmap.me` comes up second when searching `heatmap.me` but it is not mentioned much. What feedback is there on this service?


title: Will Google Analytics track URLs that just redirect?

text: I have a link on my site. That links goes to another URL on my site. The code on the server sees that resource being requested and redirects the browser to another website. Will Google Analytics be able to know that the user requested the URL from my server and was redirected? Specifically, I set up a `/buy` link on my `watchmecode.net` site to try and track who is clicking the "Buy & Download" button. This link/button hits my server, and my server immediately does a redirect to the PayPal processing so the user can buy the screencast. Is Google Analytics going to know that the user hit the `/buy` URL on my site, and track that for me? If not, what can I do to make that happen?


title: Web services load test with increment variable

text: I'm trying to found out some application or way to run a load test on a Web services. requests must simultaneous but my big problem is that: for every request, the values passed to a variable long must increment! has any one got any idea ? Tnx!


title: Terminology: what is the correct term to refer to a *particular* browser, OS and device combination?

text: We all do "browser testing" on a variety of web browsers, operating systems and devices. But what is the correct term to refer to a **particular** browser, OS and device combination? Or, to put it another way - what is the type of which the following are tokens?:   * Google Chrome (latest version) on Mac OS X 10.8.5, MacBook Pro 13"   * Safari 6 on iOS 7, iPhone 4S Reading through various developer blogs and websites of online browser testing services, it seems that most copywriters simply find ways to avoid using a term for this. But, in many cases, this strikes me as awkward and verbose. The best term I've come up with so far is _browser environment_ , but I'd love to hear if anyone either (a) knows the standard term for this or (b) can think of something better than my suggestion.


title: How to fix 404 crawl error of a website

text:
I have a navigational links in a php page `nav.php`, Which is included in all pages of my website. I have got folder structure like below               +top_folder          -config.php           +includes_folder            -nav.php  (conatins links to all pages in my website)          +courses_folder            -course1.php            -course2.php            -nav.php      **config.php**               <?php          $main_url = "http://www.myapp.com/";     ?>      **nav.php file**

<a href="<?=$main_url?>courses_folder/course1.php">Course 1

<a href="<?=$main_url?>courses_folder/course2.php">Course 2

      So, I am including the `top_folder/includes_folder/nav.php` file in all pages. But I also placed `nav.php` in other location: `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` and I am not including this file in any file of my website. `$main_url` is only defined in `config.php`, which I am including in all files, Not in `nav.php`. So the `$main_url` is being displayed as blank in crawled page i.e. `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` Google has crawled `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` page also. The links are not proper bacause $main_url is null in this case. So It's been a 7 months since i done this changes. Is it a good idea to just include the `config.php` in `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` file **OR** Do i need to create the files and folders (As links in `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` file). **OR** Do i need to disallow the links (`robots.txt`) in `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` file Among the above, Which is the recommended solution to solve the 404 issues without affecting the SEO.


title: How to add lock symbol to my website using private SSL in https pages

text: I just purchased SSL for my website from hostgator, so that I can add lock symbol in my website, when users visit `https://www.mysite.com` For example: ![SSL Certificate](http://i.stack.imgur.com/q5KQ4.png) Now they have installed the certificate, but I am unable to make this thing visible on my site. When I am opening the site with `https://` it shows no lock symbol. Please help me to show lock symbol and security certificate information when `https://` pages open in my PHP Script.


title: Can I drop multiple URLs from Google's Cache using a wildcard in a query string?

text: I made a mistake with one of my sites and a whole bunch of data got picked up by Google before I caught it. I need to fix this relatively fast by asking Google to drop the cached copy of the pages and then re-spider as they wish. The URL would be something like: domain.com/memberprofile.php?member=XXXXXX Does anyone know if I can submit: domain.com/memberprofile.php?member= as a single request through webmaster tools? If not, what are my other alternatives?


title: Are there tools to measure displayed dimensions in percentages?

text: I use MesureIt! to measure pixels on websites, generally to check if things add up right when developing. I'm making a fluid layout right now, and would really like to do the same, but I couldn't find anything that would show me measurements in % (relative to the window). Is there anything that does this?


title: Several link on one page - Effect on SEO and User Experience?

text: I've been researching the question if several `<a href=“#”>link</a>` links on one page have a bad impact on SEO and User Experience, for quite a while now but didn't really come to a conclusion. This method is used when a site structure is ready from the start but content etc is missing. So you put up a frontpage with those links and extend the whole site step by step over time. So time after time those links will be removed with the actual link but it can take its time. Lets say we have a big site with 50 pages and 5 pages have several of those "unready" links. Lets clear the facts: **User experience:** For the user it should be a really bad experience when they see a link for more information and expect to get these information but then just get linked to the top of the current page. If a page is full of such links I can imagine its frustrating and they will leave immediately. **Google's View:** Their crawlers see the site structure right from the start and it should be more cost effective not to recalculate link juice etc with every update. And we know Google really cares about costs and effectiveness of their crawling. But on the other hand, they also really care about the user experience and consider this as one major ranking factor. So my question is: Does have several of those "not ready" links on one page, a bad impact on Google rankings? I'm really interested how different webmasters see this topic.


title: Skip part of URL

text: I have a server running on XAMPP in LAN. In htdocs I've created subfolder called 'apps' (it's because I'm using one CodeIgniter's files to multiple webpages). Now, when somenone want to visit a webpage, must visit: `http://myserver/apps/app_name`. Is it possible with _.htaccess_ (or else) to skip that `/apps/` part? `http://myserver/app_name` ?


title: Recovery from URL structure change?

text: in July this year, we have changed the URL structure of the website from: > **Post** : domain.com/blog/post/986/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by- > chinatsu/ > > **Category** : domain.com/blog/index/cosplay/ to > **Post** : domain.com/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by-chinatsu-986/ > > **Category** : domain.com/cosplay/ Everything was (supposedly) properly redirected with 301 redirects and it first seemed that the traffic returned after a couple of days, but it has now been close to 2 months and things keep going worse although Google is slowly indexing the changes. ![The red line indicates the URL structure change](http://i.stack.imgur.com/EhYmd.png) What is worrying me even more is that the **Pages crawled per day** from Webmaster Tools started drastically dropping a few days ago and has just reached a new low in months (from over 2000 to 700). Should I be worried or will things sort out eventually?


title: Online Video Platform for own servers

text: I need an application, similar to Ooyala, Vzaar, Brightcove, that manages & encodes all videos. The only difference, is that I want to host the software and content on my own servers, preferably Ubuntu, using PHP. Software does not have to be free. The closest I've got to is Kaltura OS.


title: getting 500 intenal error when setting 301 redirect using .htaccess

text: I am trying to use a 301 redirect to direct users and bots to my new site but when I put the .htaccess live i keep getting a 500 internal error shown. The site is actually a subdomain which i want to redirect to another subdomain on another site. I'm not sure if that's relevant but I thought I should include this information. The web server I'm using is Apache and this is the htaccess code I'm using:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule (.*) http://www.blog.mysite.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]      Any idea what might be wrong with this?


title: Google analytics changes visitors

text: Yesterday 26 Feb. 2014 I noticed that Analytics stated that my total visits is about 350 visits. Today's, 27 Feb., morning I noticed that it recorded for the same day about 750 visits. Now, in the night, 27 Feb., it returned to 350 visits. Is there any problem with my analytic code on my website? Or does it an issue with Google?


title: php+mysql account management software?

text: I need an account system added to my website as a plugin to all of my HTML pages. The account system plugin needs to,register new users, log in current users, remove users who want to disconnect service, and manipulate all of these things via database on my web server. However, I do not know how to program in the PHP language or create and manipulate MySQL databases. I want a program that can create and manipulate the MySQL database automatically for my website and handle also PHP calls automatically. Are there any open source freeware programs out there that i can use? If so what are the names of these freeware?


title: Embed Code for Olympics

text: I am not sure if this is technically the right place to ask but here it goes: I would like to have on my site a medal count for the upcoming 2012 Olympics. My question is this: Is there a simple embed code that could do this? OR How to I create one? Thanks for the assistance and help.


title: How to remove our IP address from Microsoft's email blacklist?

text: We have a website, users sign up and receive links to confirm they signed up BUT:   1. Microsoft blocked our IP (no one with Microsoft email account can receive our emails.)   2. We tried contacting microsoft submitting the detailed form about our problem.   3. We posted 3 times in their community about our problem.   4. We tweeted they about our problem.   5. We tried finding out some telephone support number (the few there are aren't helping at all.) Do you think we solved? the answer is **NO** :/ We are still unable to send emails from our IP to Microsoft email accounts and have been unable to for the last 3 months. Our emails are perfect. We checked all the email headers following Microsoft's guidelines, but it seems not enough. Checking our IP reputation it seems everything is OK, indeed we can send email easly to any other provider: Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Here is the full error returned by Microsoft:               host mx1.hotmail.com[65.55.37.120] said: 550         SC-001 (COL0-MC4-F28) Unfortunately, messages from 94.23.***** weren't         sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their         network is on our block list. You can also refer your provider to         http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. (in reply to MAIL         FROM command)      We are running NGIX + PHP mailer from a virtual private server (no Hosting or shared hosting.) Are there any other way to try to get help?


title: Random traffic sources on Google Analytics

text: According to Google Analytics, a lot of my traffic comes from random small websites. However, when I go on those websites, I don't see a link to my website. What's going on here? My first thought was that the traffic was generated by bots with fake headers. However, my website shows no indication of any hacking attempts.


title: How To: Super quality images and text

text: Sometimes I come across sites that are different than others in terms of quality. For example (sorry for the ad), http://www.taskrabbit.com/ . The image quality is perfect, everything "shines" and the text,buttons, background is also super quality. How it's made? What's the secret? Thanks


title: "Popular searches for this page" links with links to the same page, SEO difference?

text: I've seen a few pages that have a section with "Popular searches for this page" and then have the search terms in a link pointing back to the same page (e.g. http://theenglishchillicompany.co.uk/the-complete-chilli-pepper-book-a- gardeners-guide-to-choosing-growing-preserving-and-cooking/) I assume they are doing it for SEO purposes (with more links to the page with the desired search terms). Does this make a difference? It seems strange that a link on page A to page A would be counted! Am I wrong?


title: Joomla 1.6 URL rewrite on IIS7 (removing /index.php/)

text: Joomla 1.6 was released today and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of the /index.php/ part? How link looks now: > `http://www.example.org/index.php/stuff` How link would look after URL rewrite: > `http://www.example.org/stuff` The old code (j1.5) at this link doesn't work: http://docs.joomla.org/SEO_and_IIS_ISAPI


title: Can copying site content for a mobile version of the site impact SEO?

text: I am thinking about copying our content (text content especially) from our main site (eg: `example.com`) to the mobile version of the site (eg: `m.example.com` or `example.com/m`). What are the SEO side effects of doing so? Do SEO experts recommend this practice? If you have external articles or reference, hope you guys can share here also.


title: Cloudflare is it safe?

text: I am thinking of signing up with cloud flare, but since i'm not very familiar with the technical side of things, I wanted to ask here first. How safe is it to sign up with services, like cloud flare? Do they ultimately own my domain? Are they able to take away control of my domain? The way I see it, I transfer ownership of my domain to them, and they will also appear as owners in whois. Is this how it works? I'm confused. Note, I am not asking how reputable cloud flare is, but rather how it works, and if they are **technically** able to snatch my domain.


title: How does my server validate my email address

text: I am attempting to send emails from my website (localhost, test and live) and I am finding that only a fraction ever reach their destination. One of the problems may be that my web server is not communicating the fact that my emails are coming from a valid email address and/or source. I've read that my web server (or DNS) may be contacted by an email system regarding the emails that that appear to be sent from my domain. If the server does not respond and tell the email system that the email address or IP address is trustworthy, the email may be treated as spam. How does this validation system work? How do I add emails and IP addresses to my server so that they are regarded as good sources? In general, I want for emails to be seen as valid when they come from my server and when they come from my localhost (for testing reasons.)


title: I can't find my backup for the cpanel in whm/cpanel

text: **The Problem:** I have made a complete backup from the cpanel for the whole home folder. I have placed this folder in the default home directory. Thereafter, i tried to restore this file from the WHM, but i couldn't find it. Does anyone know what causes such problems? **Additional Details:**   1. I am the administrator of the cpanel and i have complete access to the reseller WHM.   2. Check more details below with images:  ![The Location of the Backup File in the cPanel](http://i.stack.imgur.com/RwD1h.png) ![No Backups were found in the WHM panel](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Dex3a.png) ![An error message of cannot restore is printed down upon trying to search for available backups for the username "admin"](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kSdPA.png) Thanks in advance for your help! any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated.


title: How to make search engines display only the title of a web page on their search results?

text: I want to make search engines display only the title of my web page on their search results.   And I don't want to show any descriptions and any texts of my page on the search results.      For example, this site is displayed like:               Stack Overflow     A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.     stackoverflow.com/ - Cached - Similar         In this case, I don't want to make search engines display the text `A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.`.   And I want to make them display like:               Stack Overflow     stackoverflow.com/ - Cached - Similar


title: How do you perform renewal pricing comparison on the domain name you already owned

text: Last year, I just purchased 2 domain names from a domain registrar company. Now, my owned domain names are going to expire in few more months. When I decide to continue to renew the domain names with them, I realize they increase the renewal price for more than 100% I want to know what price I will pay for, if I renew the domain names with other domain registrar companies. However, when I perform such checking on the other domain registrar companies' websites, they will state that the domain names is not available. (As I'm still owning them) So, may I know, how can I perform renewal pricing comparison on the domain name I already owned, and not yet expired?


title: Redirecting multiple ccTLD's to 1 gTLD: delete the 'old' domains in Google Webmaster Tools?

text: We are planning to redirect our current multiple ccTLD's (`.com`, `.de`, `.nl`) to 1 gTLD with country specific subdirectories (`.com/en`, `.com/de`, `.com/nl`). We will use permanent 301 redirects from the ccTLD to the relevant subdirectories of the gTLD. With this move, should we delete the multiple indexed ccTLD's in Google Webmaster Tools and only have the new gTLD indexed?


title: Will a rel=canonical link pointing to a 301 redirect pass less pagerank than one without a 301?

text: On this official Google page about canonical links it says: > **Can rel="canonical" be a redirect?** > > Yes, you can specify a URL that redirects as a canonical URL. Google will > then process the redirect as usual and try to index it. There is no mention that this might dilute the impact of the canonical link. However, Google has made clear elsewhere that 301 redirects _do_ dilute PageRank - roughly as much as a link dilutes PageRank. Is that relevant here? I'm assuming the answer is "no" but I wanted to confirm. Relevant but not duplicate: Does Rel=Canonical Pass PR from Links or Just Fix Dup Content.


title: Get all registered country code top-level domain names

text: Is there a way to get all the registered domain names for .CN or another country code (CC) top-level domain (TLD)? Is there a central registry for such data? If not, how do I go about collecting them?


title: Is it correct to redirect useless "?" URLs to cleaner URLs

text: This is **not** about redirecting `/index.php?id=6252` to `/category-name`. It's about redirecting:               /category-name?ref=blabla&something=useless-stuff     /category-name?     /category-name????????      to:               /category-name      in a small website that does not use GET methods at all.    I have never seen this technique used (or discussed) anywhere, even Google allows you to visit: `https://www.google.com/?????` (PR=0) instead of: `https://www.google.com/` (PR=9) I don't like adding extra HTML tags (i.e. canonical) or HTTP headers to my website, so I thought why not this? My biggest fears though is that search engines wouldn't appreciate it.    I just came to this question but it doesn't add much, I'm not planning to share URLs with extra parameters: Google adds useless parameters to my URL    **Update:** I'm starting to believe there's nothing wrong with this technique. Videos from Matt Cutts:   * What are the advantages of 301 redirects over rel="canonical"?   * Is there an advantage to using rel="canonical" over a 301 redirect? And an image picked from a moz article (look at that ?ref=123 example!): ![Canonical URL Tag 301](http://d1avok0lzls2w.cloudfront.net/img_uploads/canonical-url-tag.gif)


title: Use new hosting which is already used buy a domain, for a new domain

text: I am new to web hosting n stuffs, I am having a domain called www.yassershaikh.com from domainz.in, from where I had taken a LINUX hosting. I am running a wordpress blog there. Now I have taken a another domain from goDaddy called www.codera.org, now here I want to use Windows hosting, but that I am not planning to buy for atleast 6 months. So I was thinking if it's possible to use the hosting(LINUX) which I am using for my first site. Is this possible ? Please guide me on this please. (Also for now I am just redirecting it to one page on my blog.)


title: Can a HTML form submit to a secure SSL location that keeps the user on the HTTPS site?

text: I've enabled SSL for my apache server so when I attempt to go to `https://mysite/private/index.html`, my browser displays a generic dialog asking me to provide my username and password to log in. How does one use an HTML form to start a secure session? For example, do I need to set the action to a PHP script that can somehow start the same secure session that Apache uses? This is an acceptable solution; however, I'd like to finesse things a bit by making a login page with an HTML form that would somehow start the SSL session and then take me to `https://mysite/private/index.html`. How would one do that?


title: Are there specific legal issues for web developers working on sex dating sites?

text: Say I have created many ordinary websites which are not related to any dating/sexual content. Are the rules and regulations for a developer the same when making a sex- related dating site? I'm talking about a site where people meet together and get to know each other, with the intent of having a sexual relationship (you know what I mean), also featuring webcam sex, but not explicitly a porno site. Do such sites have any special legal issues for developers compared with non- sexual/dating sites?


title: Convert Microsoft Word documents (.doc/x) into HTML files

text: Does anybody knows of a good application to get it done quickly and efficiently ? I bought Word Cleaner but the results are merely sufficient and I need to go over all the generated html files to clean tons of useless injected tags like               Hello World      Most of the articles displayed on a website I manage are based on documents written on MS Word by people how has little idea of what are margins for or ordered/unordered lists, foot/end notes etc and I cannot make them use something else. Does anyone has a tip to help me handle those pages more efficiently than going over them to correct and apply my CSS style ? NB: Just for the record, using "Save as HTML DOC" in Word is faaar worst than Word cleaner


title: Websites with numerous subdomains or totally seperate domains

text: What is the general practice for a situation where you have a parent company that engages in different services and needs websites for each of their services. Which of the two options below is normally followed/advised ? Option 1:               www.maincompany.com     www.service1.com     www.service2.com     www.service3.com      Option 2:               www.maincompany.com     www.service1.maincompany.com     www.service2.maincompany.com     www.service3.maincompany.com


title: Does google adsense ban sites which has links to mp3 files on other websites?

text: I wanted to build a website that will have the links to mp3s on other websites. Does google permit us to put the adsense on such website?


In regards to SEO, is a site map important for a small 3 page website? I understand that it is not needed for the convenience of a user visiting the site, but will it help the search engines find it?


title: Move the DokuWiki data directory somewhere else?

text: I need to move the DokuWiki data directory away from its default location (because I keep the installation and configuration in version control, but data needs to kept elsewhere, in order to be properly backed up and not be clobbered when upgrading the software version). How do I this? Is there a simple configuration file? Are there any gotchas?


title: New site. Tons of traffic from Google. Nothing from Yahoo or Bing. What gives?

text: I've launched a number of sites recently (8-12 weeks) that are getting tons of traffic from google search at an increasing rate (both image and web), but they are getting absolutely nothing from bing or yahoo. what gives? what are some tricks to get yahoo and bing to send some search traffic?


title: Can Google stop crawling/indexing your site because you are working a lot on it?

text: I think I read somewhere that Google could stop crawling/indexing a site/blog if there was a lot of work performed on it (like many pages are modified, deleted or loaded daily). It would wait until the site stabilizes. Unfortunately, I cannot find the post or video mentioning this. Am I making this up or is there any truth behind this? If Google indeed suspends its crawling/indexing, when does it come back? Can someone clarify?


title: Sound effects for websites

text: Is there a standard go-to place for sound effects for websites? Preferably ones that are free to use for whatever I'd like. Kinda like a bootstrap for sounds instead of css and javascript.


title: ebay products in my joomla site

text: I want show ebay products in my joomla site. Please give me your suggestion Or if any step by step instruction guide. Have any joomla extension provide this ??? Thanks


title: www and non www can suffer duplicated content

text: Do you know if i should use canonical tag, or 301 redirection from `http://mydomain.com` to `http://www.mydomain.com` To avoid duplicated content penalty in case other pages link to the domain without the www.? or is Google enough smart now just to identify whats the canonical one?


title: Removing the subdomain as a subdirectory in Apache

text: I simply trying to make my webpage come up as `owncloud.example.com` instead of `owncloud.example.com/owncloud`. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4, and using OpenSSL. I have tried changing things in my _apache.conf_ and _conf-available_ , and I have changed the root directory to `/var/www/` and put the first one in there without any luck.


title: How to forward non-www to www. Using Godaddy DNS Manager

text: so I've set `www.mydomain.com` to point to `ghs.google.com`, which correctly loads my Google site, but if you go to `mydomain.com`, it doesn't redirect/forward to `www.mydomain.com`, it just hangs. is there a way to change this in the Godaddy DNS manager?


title: Improvement of url by changing slash to underline or dash

text: I have a website with links similar to:               http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4183948/css-set-background      if I change links to:               http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4183948_css-set-background      ( `/` to `_` ) does it improve my website's SEO rank? if it does why most of websites avoid doing that?


title: Prezi HTML 5 & html5 book recommendation

text: I was wondering what were you thought on being able to build an app similar to prezi (presentation app) using HTML 5. Also while you're at it, I'm looking for a good HTML 5 book recommendation. Thanks!!


title: Web Analytic web site

text: I am a student at e-commerce major.I want to analysis my project competitor site for business plan.I need to know number of visitor per day or month but I can't find this analytic.   I used Alexa but it didn't have this feature( I remember Alexa last year shows this analytic but in new version they don't show Number of visitor)   I google it but in all same website.all of theme need to put some code in website.


title: Rewrite cond regex to split an url with a /

text: I'm struggling to correct the aftereffects a bogus redirect I made which led to a lot of 404s. I need to 301 redirect URLs that look like > example.com/xysometext to > example.com/xy/sometext the `example.com/xy` and `example.com/xy/` parts are permanent, while `sometext` is unique for each page (i.e. `.*`) I'm only starting to undestand mod-rewrite syntax, help much appreciated. Thanks.


title: Google is still crawling and indexing my old, dummy, test pages which now are 404 not found

text: I have set up my site with sample pages and data (lorem ipsum, etc..) and Google has crawled these pages. I deleted all these pages and actually added real content but in webmaster tools, i still get a lot of 404 errors Google trying to crawl these pages. I have set them to "mark as resolved" but some pages still come back as 404. Furthermore, I have a lot of these sample pages still listed when i do a search of my site on Google. How to remove them. I think these irrelevant pages are hurting my rating. I actually wanted to erase all these pages and start getting my site being being indexed as a new one but I read it's not possible? (I have submitted a sitemap and used "Fetch as Google.")


title: Abandoning high ranking website but using URL for SEO benefits

text: I have two websites. A pet products (e.g. `petsite.com`) website and a dog products (e.g. `dogsite.com`) website. Petsite runs on Prestashop and Dogsite runs on EKMPowershop. All the goods sold on Dogsite we already sell on Petsite but Dogsite ranks much higher on Google for dog specific keywords; we, however, get more sales overall on Petsite due to the extensive email marketing that we do for it. We'd like to abandon Dogsite completely and focus our efforts on Petsite. Is there any way we could take advantage of the SEO benefits gained from the `dogsite.com` URL and use it for the dog products category within the `petsite.com` website? Maybe using URL redirects, URL cloaking or some other method? So maybe if someone clicks on `dogsite.com`, they are taken to `petsite.com/dogs` instead? Would my Google ranking for the URL be negatively affected by the redirect? Help with this would be much appreciated.


title: Custom page title in list of pages in a category

text: The display name of the page in Mediawiki can be changed using the magic word:               {{DISPLAYTITLE:name_with_underscore}}      But the list of pages on the category page displays the original name (without the underscore in my example). Is there a way to display a custom name in this list?


title: links aren't clickable

text: On this webpage, I can't click the navigation items on the left. There is no layer laid over the top. I can't see what is preventing a click.


title: Scaling a cloud-based ecommerce site

text: I'm researching cloud services to host an e-commerce site. And I'm trying to understand some basics on how they are able to scale things. From what I can gather from AWS, Rackspace, etc documentation: Setup 1: You can get an instance of a webserver (AWS - EC2, Rackspace - Cloud Server) up. Then you can grow that instance to have more resources or make replicas of that instance to handle more traffic. And it seems like you can install a database local to these instances. Setup 2: You can have instance(s) of a webserver (AWS - EC2, Rackspace - Cloud Server) up. You can also have instance(s) of a database (AWS - RDS, Rackspace - Cloud Database) up. So the webserver instances can communicate with the database instances through a single access point. When I use the term instances, I'm just thinking of replicas that can be access through a single access point and data is synchronized across each replica in the background. This could be the wrong mental image, but it's the best I got right now. I can understand how setup 2 can be scalable. Webserver instances don't change at all since it's just the source code. So all the http requests are distributed to the different webserver instances and is load balanced. And the data queries have a single access point and are then distributed to the different database instances and is load balanced and all the data writes are sync'd between all database instances that is transparent to the application/webserver instance(s). But for setup 1, where there is a database setup locally within each webserver instance, how is the data able to be synchronized across the other databases local to the other web server instances? Since the instances of each webserver can't talk to each other, how can you spin up multiple instances to scale the app? Is this setup mainly for sites with static content where the data inside the database is not getting changed? So with an e-commerce site where orders are written to the database, this architecture will just not be feasible? Or is there some way to get each webserver instance to update their local database to some master copy? Sorry for such a simple question. I'm guessing the documentation doesn't say it plainly because it's so simple or I just wasn't able to find the correct document/page. Update: I stumbled upon a blog and this: Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes are off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance. Amazon Elastic Block Store provides highly available, highly reliable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance and exposed as a device within the instance. Amazon EBS is particularly suited for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage. So it seems as though, one should connect an EC2 with an EBS. Now all that's left to be done is have your database software (on the EC2) read/write the database data files on the EBS. AWS has so many products and they all sound pretty similar. Not sure how Rackspace and the other cloud servers have something similar or not. I'm still fuzzy if multiple instances of EC2s can read/write to the same EBS. Or if each instance of EC2s have their own EBS and then there's some other mechanism to keep all EBSs in sync. I guess that would be a separate question...but just in case someone has further insight. Also, the e-commerce platform would be Spree/Rails with PostGreSQL/MySQL database...in case someone has further insight... Thanks!


title: How sitemap.xml influences indexation?

text: If a page is missing in sitemap.xml (but crawable through HTML hyperlinks), may this cause it not to be indexed? (I mean it would be indexed without sitemap, but not indexed with sitemap because it is missing in the sitemap.)


title: How can i distinguish revenue from different folders in Adsense?

text: I am currently running three websites using adsense. Since i do this more to be useful than to earn something, i have a subdomain of a free hoster and my websites live in subfolders e.q. mydomain.hoster.com/website1, mydomain.hoster.com/website2, to which i link with .tk aliases. Is there a way to distinguish adsense income from website1 to website 2? I tried using custom channels, but somehow this part of adsense eludes me. Can someone shed some light on this?


title: Website address hacked, emails created but not showing in manage your account

text: I have a website, `thebleudoor.com`. It is hosted by yahoo. It gets 2000-3000 hits a day and has been for at least 5 years. A few months ago, as admin of the website, I started getting bounced back emails from newly created emails like `d4f7a91f9@thebleudoor.com`. Yahoo only shows 2 emails for my account. They said they can't do anything about it. Now, my " _spam hacked email accounts_ " are getting spam. They haven't altered or used my website or email or bank info, just the good name of my website. Is there anything I can do? Do I need to be concerned? Changing my provider won't really help will it?


title: Is it possible to create a 301 redirect and MX records at a naked domain?

text: I'm wondering since I found out that creating a CNAME and an MX record is not allowed. I want to create a 301 redirect from `example.com` to `www.example.com`, and have email with `@example.com` addresses. I'm using 1&1 as my registrar, btw.


title: SEO: 301 redirects and canonical tag

text: from the book "Art of SEO": > 301s carry cross-domain functionality, meaning you can redirect a page at > Domain1.com to Domain2.com and carry over those search engine metrics. This > is not the case with the canonical URL tag, which operates exclusively on a > single root domain (it will carry over across subfolders and subdomains). What does the 1st line mean? Say if I move domains, I can 301 the old domain to the new and have the same search engine ranking? I don't really get how the canonical tag fits into the picture. Can someone explain?


title: User Registration forms— Do we need a user name?

text: Lets say we are designing a new website's registration form. Would I need to provide a space for a username, or should I simply require an email address? Are there any serious issues with either of these methods?


title: Recurring Profile and Bundled Item (Magento)

text: I have a subscription service that people pay monthly for, so I’ve setup a “Virtual Product” with a Recurring Profile. At the same time, I want to have it so they can add different one time products. To accomplish this I’ve tried creating a “Bundled Product” with all the different one time products and adding the “Virtual Product” to that “Bundled Product”. However, when I go to checkout it says “Nominal item can be purchased standalone only. To proceed please remove other items from the quote.” How do I allow people to subscribe to the service and purchase the products at the same time? **note: I am using Paypal Website Payment Pro as my merchant account.


title: Can I skip the PEM pass phrase question when I restart the webserver?

text: After buying a multi-domain SSL certificate I have started testing it with the Nginx webserver (following documentation in their SSL wiki page). Everything is fine, it works and I get a green padlock symbol in the URL bar but... every time I restart Nginx I get asked the following question (once for each server, e.g. **5 times** ): > _Starting nginx: Enter PEM pass phrase:_ Is this normal and what many other people do? or can I configure it so the password is remembered? In particular, this is a issue when the machine is rebooted because the webserver won't start until the PEM pass phrase is entered (meaning the website has downtime until there is some human interaction).


title: How do you determine the monetary value of an established domain / website?

text: I have some domains that I've been building for the last few years and now I'd like to sell them. I tried several services (including Sedo) to try and ascertain just how much money each domain was worth, but not one service agreed with any other service's assessment. I don't want to sell myself short, but I don't want to make the asking price inappropriate. Is there a formula to determine this, based on rank / traffic / etc? I know it can't be an exact science, but I'd like to be sure that I'm not selling myself short. Additionally, I'd like to be able to tell if I'm paying to much for a domain if I want to buy one in the future.


title: How can I simulate mobile device browsers to test websites on a desktop?

text: Are there any good tools that can be run on desktop machines (Windows or Linux) that can simulate a mobile device, preferably with some options as to screen size and mobile browser (user agent if not full render engine). I know it is never going to be perfect (especially without an actual touchscreen), but having a tool on our development machines to do what testing we can that way would be very useful.


title: Robots.txt not working because my site is still searchable

text: I put a robots.txt in my server   This is the code that I putted in               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      I just want my entire site won't be searchable in google.   I also put in the `NO INDEX, NO FOLLOW` on the header of my site, Here's the code:               <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">      I'm wondering why is it that when I try to search the my website in google it is still showing up. what has happened here?   Should this take effect immedietly? or what?   Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as well as rewarded! Thanks! :)


title: Is it true that the Google Spider gives the most relevance of a search result to the first 68 characters of the <title>?

text: I am reading documentation about my CMS and it states that an HTML page `<title>` tag is really important in SEO. It states that the Google Spider gives the most relevance to the first 68 characters of a site title. (68 characters being the number of characters that Google will display in it's search engine result pages,) Can anyone verify this is still true? I read in The Information Diet that content farms were getting too good at gaming Google's algorithm for collecting and posting SERPs and so google had to change the search algorithm.


title: NginX redirect to PHP file if image does not exist on file server

text: This is what I am trying to do. I am not familiar with Nginx enough to create custom rewrite rules like you can with Apache. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could help me with the Nginx config file! Thank you in advance! I have an image server running Nginx on port 80 and Apache listening on 8080. What I would like to do is... when you request an image that does not exist like so:               http://img.server.com/(...ANY DIRECTORY...)/123_4_anyimagename.jpg      it will redirect to               http://img.server.com:8080/image.php?id=123_4_anyimagename      * * * Thank you! I almost have this working! I had to put in the root               location ~ \.(gif|jpg|png)${         root /var/www/mysite.com/httpdocs/;         try_files $uri @img_proxy     }          location @img_proxy {         rewrite ^(.*)$ /image.php?id=$1         proxy_pass      http://127.0.0.1:8080;     }      So in images.php file which is located at /var/www/mysite.com/httpdocs/image.php I simply have               <?php echo "test"; ?>        to see if its working. The problem seems to be php is not kicking in and its just rendering as plain text. Its almost there! Any clues as to where to look? If I run `http://mydomain.com:8080/image.php` I get "test" as the output. So I know php is working. What am I overlooking?


title: What tools are used to make a PDF accessible to people with disabilities

text: In the US sites should be made accessible for people with disabilities. This is often followed for HTML, but ignored for PDF files. Since there is quite a lot of PDF content on the web, what tools do you use to make that content accessible? http://section508.gov/ has the facts for the United States.


title: SEO value of duplicating content externally

text: I run a website that includes a blog which was hand-coded by myself and is hosted on the same domain. My partner in this endeavour thinks it would be a good idea to open up a Blogger/WordPress blog and duplicate the on-site blog on this off-site blog. AFAIK the main reason for doing this is the SEO benefits of the inbound links that this off-site blog will create. I think this is a bad idea, because:   1. Effectively what we're doing is creating a (very small scale) link farm.   2. We're more likely to be punished than rewarded (in SEO terms) for duplicating our content across domains.   3. This introduces a problem of synchronising our content across domains. For example, if a blog post is edited on the on-site blog, then ideally the off-site blog should be similarly updated. I know very little about SEO, so I would be interested to hear what more informed readers have to say.


title: How to prevent a 404 Error when creating a subdomain and using www to access it?

text: I have installed a multi-site installation of WordPress onto my domain. I then added the necessary code to the `wp-config.php` file and `.htaccess` as instructed by WordPress. I also installed a plugin called Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin which allowed me to place a 301 redirect onto the main domain as I only want to use the sub domain and not the main domain. Then I also added the following line of code to the `wp-config.php` file to redirect the main domain `define( 'NOBLOGREDIRECT', 'URL Redirect Address' );` The site works fine with a redirect on the main domain and my subdomain runs fine when you type in `subdomain.example.com` or `http://subdomain.example.com`. However when I enter `www.subdomain.example.com` or `http://www.subdomain.example.com` the following error message is returned: > Not Found > > The requested URL / was not found on this server. > > Apache/2.4.9 (Unix) Server at www.subdomain.domain.com Port 80 Any help with this would be much appreciated.


title: How do I go about assigning my computer to my domain name?

text: I've just registered a domain name, just to test how uploading a website works (I've made heaps, but never uploaded one), and I am unsure of where to go next. I wish to use my own personal computer just to test it, then later on I will see what my options are. It'd be a waste for me to buy hosting if I feel the whole website thing isn't for me... I understand that in order to appoint my computer to the domain name I need to specify some DNS servers, but how do I set this up on my computer? I'm running Windows 7, I've installed IIS and have my site working nice in my LAN, but I want people outside of my LAN to access it using the domain name I've purchased. Please excuse me if things don't make sense or I'm doing something wrong; I'm new and just trying to learn.


title: Site not accessible without www in url - Error 400 bad request

text: A site that I am developing works with the format `www.domain.com` but when typing the domain without the www i.e `domain.com` I receive a error 400 bad request. How can I enable non-www for my site.


title: Please advice a free video player for my site

text: Waht non-commercial (free) good video player can yous suggest in order to put on my webpage? I am doing it first time and have no idea what is now being widely used. Thanks! EDIT: Is http://videojs.com/ video player good? (format support, reliability, fast download, comparability ???)


title: Is there any Google Adsense revenue if a visitor rolls over (hovers) on an ad unit?

text: I have noticed an increase in interactive flash animations especilly on 300px wide adsense ads. Many of them ask the visitor to rollover to either reveal what the ad is about, show a clip, etc. So I wonder: the visitor is giving attention to this ad, is viewing its message -- **_without clicking on it_**. In essence, the ad agency's objective is accomplished without a click, which would be a significant money saver if PPC is considered. This seems very ingenious on their part, and I wonder how this is handled by Google. Shouldn't there be a fee for a publisher if visitors interact with ads, regardless of clicks? CTR becomes irrelevant in this context. Are you aware of anything being discussed in this respect?


title: Forward .html/.htm to .php with .config

text: I'm moving a site from my linux hosted server to a client's windows hosted server. The .htaccess file no longer works and I'm told that windows servers use .config . How can I forward all users accessing .html & .htm files to the equivalent .php file. Server Info... OS/Hosting Type: Windows / Shared Hosting .Net Runtime Version: ASP.Net 2.0/3.0/3.5 PHP Version: PHP 5.2 IIS Version: IIS 7.0 Data Center: US Regional EDIT *Hosting provided by GoDaddy Was told by a friend following should work but it has no effect on the site.               <configuration>     <system.webServer>         <handlers>             <add name="PHP-FastCGI" verb="*"                  path="*.html"                  modules="FastCgiModule"                 scriptProcessor="c:\php\php-cgi.exe"                  resourceType="Either" />         </handlers>     </system.webServer>     </configuration>


title: Is it ok to optimise my site for “freevideos” instead of “free videos”?

text: I am optimizing my website for SEO and after doing some research on google keyword tool I found out that there are a lot of searches for glued keywords with very thew competition in the search results. As an example:"free videos" has around 45,500,000 monthly searches with 92.600.000 result pages with exact match But... the keyword: "freevideos" has about 1,500,000 monthly searches with 128.000 result pages with exact match As you can see the ratio searches/page results is very very high in the second example then in the first. So the question is: aren't there any draw backs by optimizing for such a keyword? There are tons of such keywords with millions of searches with little to no competition. I already got a few visitis being on positions 70-100 so that makes me think that the numbers are right.


title: Clean URL: with or without "?"

text: Simple question What is better:               http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html      or               http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456      As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my SEO knowledge might be a little off. Also the last one seems to be easier and cleaner to implement on my end. Please explain to me which is better and for what reasons.


title: htaccess rewriterule for aliasses

text: On our main domain we are running a CMS which feeds several domains with different input. The domains are directed with A records to the main ip address. The htaccess works fine it will bring up the right pages if you type in a url, lets say `www.ictzorg.nl` It will show the url `www.ictzorg.nl` in your browser which is originally `www.ckc-seminars.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL` This is the htaccess code               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?ictzorg.nl$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ckc-seminars.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL/$1 [P]      Problem now is that if you click on a link on that page it will search for               www.ictzorg.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL/Page/450      It should direct to               www.ckc-seminars.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL/Page/450      and should be shown in the URL bar as               www.ictzorg.nl/Page/450


title: Best practices for SEO of YouTube video content

text: What are best practices for search engine optimization of YouTube video content? By that I mean filling in descriptions, titles, tags and so on. I can't find good information about this on the internet, about which keywords to use, optimal/maximum lenght of texts and other (?) issues


title: Set IP address to point to certain domain

text: I have a Linux VPS, DirectAdmin as web panel and already set a domain to it. everything is OK and I can see my website in my browser using domain name. Now I need to have access to my site using its IP address. something like `http://86.57.88.29`, but when I try to load my site in a browser using its IP I get below message and I have to post-fix my IP with /~admin (`http://86.57.88.29/~admin`) to get it work. > **This IP is being shared among many domains. To view the domain you are > looking for, simply enter the domain name in the location bar of your web > browser.** So how can I configure my IP to point to my public_html folder without and ~admin like phrase? Thanks.


title: Region specific language in Google Search results?

text: I have a dynamic English language site. If a user views the site in the US (with a US IP address) some of the site's language is altered so that it make more sense to a US audience. Anywhere else, Australia, United Kingdom, etc. the site displays its default language. When I Google Search my site from the UK the language from the US site appears in the snippet of information. I'm guessing it's because Google is crawling my site from within the US so it's only seeing the US language version. Can I instruct the Google indexer on which site is the US version and which is the non-US version and have it display the correct language in its search results?


title: SEO friendly URL

text: I want to create SEO friendly URL for my website. I am creating a _.htaccess_ file but these file not run in Bluehost. Bluehost gets an "Internal Server Error": > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable > to complete your request. > > Please contact the server administrator, > webmaster@ompeespace.coraltechnologies.com and inform them of the time the > error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the > error. > > More information about this error may be available in the server error log. > > Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying > to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." I can't understand what did I do.


title: Server script that sends a warning each time an error appears

text: I have a managed VPS, and I share inside it a few domain accounts.   After one of those accounts run out of disk space, and a big fat error appeared in all other accounts because of that, I asked the hosting to turn off the "eaccelerator" a feature that they´ve implemented for me to make my sites faster. The thing is that I don't want this horrible problem to happen again, and I would like to have something that tells me if any error appears in any of my sites, maybe a SMS, or an email. Is there any script that would allow you to do that?


title: For better SEO: What to use for html title tag: "|" vs ":" vs "-"?

text: I'm asking this because I don't know if it matters for better SEO or not.               MyWebsite.com - Current Page Title     MyWebsite.com : Current Page Title     MyWebsite.com :: Current Page Title     MyWebsite.com | Current Page Title      Currently I'm using the first option from above. I'm just wondering, 1) which one better for good SEO? 2) Also, which is better for good SEO: Do we keep the site name in the beginning (like above) or the end of the title tag (like below)?               Current Page Title - MyWebsite.com     Current Page Title : MyWebsite.com     Current Page Title :: MyWebsite.com     Current Page Title | MyWebsite.com      I've noticed that Google use something like this:               searchterm - Google Search


I'm about to remove a large part of a website in order to replace it by a better alternative which, unfortunately, cannot be mapped to older URIs with URL rewriting. The part of the website I want to remove is indexed by Google. Would Google penalize me for removing indexed pages?


title: Why do websites require retyping the password upon user error in a registration form?

text: Many times, when you fill out a registration form and miss a required field, the form reloads with all the fields filled out except for the password which you have to retype. I'm wondering if I should do the same. I really prefer not to, because as a user I'm very annoyed by the need to retype the password. Is it a security measure? What does it protect from? **EDIT:** Helping the user remember the password is important, but does not answer the question. Most forms have two password fields anyway, and I see no reason to make the user type the password 4 or 6 times instead of 2.


title: Wordpress, Joomla, on amazon S3 only? or do I need EC2 instance

text: for services like wordpress and joomla, I remember kind of just dropping project files on an FTP when I was doing static websites. Now Amazon S3 buckets reminds me of that, and it can be used for static websites. My question is would that work for wordpress and joomla installations? Just googling "wordpress on s3" reveals some solutions to complications that people experience, but don't really address what the issues were. Same for Joomla, I believe this requires write permissions to a relational database but I assume its all self contained Is there any reason that I couldn't just have an entire wordpress site on S3 with all the essential wordpress files nested in the folders underneath the top level directory?


title: Page Spamming via locations

text: Hi guys I am new here so please be gentle :) I have created a web page for a small mail order business. The page asks the reader if they are in need of a supplier for products in their "area" and if they have ever been let down by a supplier in that "area" etc. It also lists all the local villages and hamlets around the [area] where they can also supply too. This page is dynamically created and the [area] changes and so do the small towns that are local to the town. The page also contains information on the products so the word count vs town names is not stupid. An example of one of the URL would be www.website.com/1014/Halesowen/ It basically covers the whole of the UK so around 800 main towns with 28,000 local villages. The URL changes, so does the title and h1 tags, also each page is Geo coded for that town. My question really is this a good or bad idea? Is it a black hat technique ? I have been told if I have to ask the question then it probably is but the site does supply to all these areas just as any mail order company does and would like to get listed higher in each town for the products. I have seen this done on a few sites but only with a few targeted towns and not the whole of the UK so I would be really interested in your guys thoughts on this. I would post the URL to the site but as I am new here I am a bit unsure of the rules regarding posting links. The whole site needs a lot of other onsite SEO work doing and I will be doing that over the next few weeks. I look forward to your views on this. p.s. If I am allowed to post the URL without getting into trouble so you can see it someone let me know? Thanks in advance


title: Why sometimes URLs are reached without the "www"'s in the url?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What does WWW do? The usual form of an internet adress is for example `http://www.example.com`. Sometimes I encounter pages, that have the `www` missing, like in this real world example:               https://service.discoplus.de/      Why is that so? If I type in `https://wwwservice.discoplus.de/` (with www) it asks me a security question and then rerouts me to `http://www.discoplus.de/`. So obviously internet adresses with and without `www` are not equivalent. Thanks for any enlightening!


title: Force Social Marketing for users

text: We offer weekly deals in our website. We would like to engage a social experience by offering bigger discounts if a user invites 3 his/her friends to the site. I wonder if there are special services which offer such functionality to integrate to your site.. We could implement it, but we prefer to safe some time and pay for such service if it exists. Thanks.


title: How to Remove Extensions From, and Force the Trailing Slash at the End of URLs?

text: Example of current file structure:               example.com/foo.php       example.com/bar.html       example.com/directory/       example.com/directory/foo.php       example.com/directory/bar.html       example.com/cgi-bin/directory/foo.cgi*        I would like to remove HTML, PHP and CGI extensions from, and then force the trailing slash at the end of URLs. So, it could look like this:               example.com/foo/       example.com/bar/       example.com/directory/       example.com/directory/foo/       example.com/directory/bar/       example.com/cgi-bin/directory/foo/      I am very frustrated because I've searched for 17 hours straight for solution and visited more than a few hundred pages on various blogs and forums. I'm not joking. So I think I've done my research. Here is the code that sits in my .htaccess file right now:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f     RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)/$ $1.html     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]|/)$     RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]      As you can see, this code only removes .html (and I'm not very happy with it because I think it could be done a lot simpler). I can remove the extension from PHP files when I rename them to .html through .htaccess, but that's not what I want. I want to remove it straight. This is the first thing I don't know how to do. The second thing is actually very annoying. My .htaccess file with code above, adds `.html/` to every string entered after `example.com/directory/foo/`. So if I enter `example.com/directory/foo/bar` (obviously `/bar` doesn't exist since `foo` is a file), instead of just displaying message that page is not found, it converts it to `example.com/directory/foo/bar.html/`, then searches for a file for a few seconds and then displays the not found message. This, of course, is bad behavior. So, once again, I need the code in .htaccess to do the following things:   * **Remove .html extension**   * **Remove .php extension**   * **Remove .cgi extension**   * **Force the trailing slash at the end of URLs**   * **Requests should behave correctly (no adding trailing slashes or extensions to strings if file or directory doesn't exist on server)**   * **Code should be as simple as possible** I would very much appreciate any help. And to first person that gives me the solution, I'll send two $50 iTunes Store gift cards for US store. If this offends anyone, I am truly sorry and I apologize. Thanks in advance. * * * @Kronbernkzion excellent. The only issue I'm having now is 404's don't seem to work right and leads me to a real funky place, I can't even use an absolute 404 redirect.               ErrorDocument 404 http://www.google.com      Did you come across this? How did you get past it? Aside from the 404 rewrite, the full code I've used was:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f     RewriteRule (.*)/$ $1.html [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f     RewriteRule (.*)/$ $1.php [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.cgi -f     RewriteRule (.*)/$ $1.cgi [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.cgi -f     RewriteRule .* %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/ [R=301,L]     </IfModule>


title: My sitemap is indexed but I don't see the site pages being indexed

text: Hi I have a site and my site map is being indexed by google correctly (almost I have 1.165 links and it indexed 1.156). But when I go to the Indexed pages view in Google webmaster tools it only show 60 indexed pages and also I am not getting a lot of keywords because of that. How can I improve that ? My site is a single page Ajax filled app and I create a sitemap so google can find my content.


title: large/huge example databases .sql files to download on the web?

text: Where can i find really large databases .sql files with 100's MB or a few GB text, 10.000.000 plus rows of text so I can test my sphinx search engine indexing


title: How do you save/export changes made in Firebug?

text: Using Firebug to edit CSS, how do I save/export changes made to the CSS? **TOOLS:** Firefox, Firebug * * * **MAJOR UPDATE:** If you know of a way to lock the forward/back/refresh on a FireFox tab, please let me know. Otherwise, I've given up on using FireBug/FireDiff as an IDE for CSS, it's nice, but lol... press backspace at the wrong time and ALL your work is gone... funny. So, really like the browser highlighting to CSS/HTML in Firebug. Know any good CSS editors that do this? Really had hope FireBug would work, but for now only see it as being good for ad-hoc inspection and test; meaning using it for what it's made for. * * * **UPDATES:** **@Lèse majesté:** Just as an update, "Web Developer add-on" does let you edit CSS, but it does not let you edit/save CSS changes made by Firebug. Meaning you use Firebug to ID and maybe test changes, but it does not let you save the changes from Firebug. Here's a "how to" covering how to use them together: FF + FB + WD **@Lèse majesté:** Still playing around with FireDiff. It works okay, found one bug already (although I'm just working around it), and there's no "how to" I've been able to find, so I'm just trying every feature and clicking around... (for example, to export a diff you must be over the last item in the list, right click, and select as "Save Diff". The ".diff" is just a text file, no idea why at this point the ext is .diff.


title: How to internally rewrite a page when requested from specific HTTP_HOST

text: I have a Drupal site, _site.com_ , and our client has a campaign that they're promoting for which they've bought a new domain name, _campaign.com_. I'd like it so that a request for campaign.com internally rewrites to a particular page of the Drupal site. Note Drupal uses an .htaccess file in the document root. The normal Drupal rewrite is               # Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]      I added the following _before_ the normal rewrite.               # Custom URLS (eg. microsites) go here     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =campaign.com     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/     RewriteRule ^ index.php?q=node/22 [L]      Unfortunately it doesn't work, it just shows the homepage. Turning on the rewrite log I get this.               1. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] strip per-dir prefix: D:/wamp/www/ ->      2. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] applying pattern '^' to uri ''     3. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (2) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] rewrite '' -> 'index.php?q=node/22'     4. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (3) split uri=index.php?q=node/22 -> uri=index.php, args=q=node/22     5. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] add per-dir prefix: index.php -> D:/wamp/www/index.php     6. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (2) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] strip document_root prefix: D:/wamp/www/index.php -> /index.php     7. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (1) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] internal redirect with /index.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]     8. [rid#2da7770/initial/redir#1] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] strip per-dir prefix: D:/wamp/www/index.php -> index.php     9. [rid#2da7770/initial/redir#1] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] applying pattern '^' to uri 'index.php'     10.[rid#2da7770/initial/redir#1] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] strip per-dir prefix: D:/wamp/www/index.php -> index.php     11.[rid#2da7770/initial/redir#1] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] applying pattern '^(.*)$' to uri 'index.php'     12.[rid#2da7770/initial/redir#1] (1) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] pass through D:/wamp/www/index.php           I'm not used to mod_rewrite, so I might be missing something, but comparing the logs from a call to http://site.com/node/3 and from http://campaign.com/ I can't see any meaningful difference. Specifically _uri_ and _args_ on line 4 seem correct, the internal redirect on line 7 seems right, and the pass through on line 12 seems right (because the file _index.php_ exists). But for some reason it seems the query string's been discarded/ignored around the time of the internal redirect. I'm completely stumped. Also, if anyone could provide a reference on understanding the rewrite log, that might help. It'd be great if there's a way to track the query string through the internal redirect. FWIW I'm using WampServer 2.1 with Apache 2.2.17.


title: IIS with multiple roots

text: Can IIS7 be setup to have many roots? Say I have a local server on our LAN called `jupiter`. Staff can view their sites via a folder structure such as `http://jupiter/staff/karen`. While this works ok, what they cannot do is use relative addressing to its full. Should they wish to link to a home page then using `href="/default.html"` or something similar will take then to the root of `jupiter` and not to their own top directory. What is the easiest way to accomplish this? I know I can use ports (i.e. `http://jupiter:1001`) to get to karens site, but I would much prefer something like `http://karen.jupiter` or `http://jupiter/~karen`) where accessing the root will take them to the top of their own site structure.


title: Has Facebook changed the way they read meta data?

text: I have a site built on Joomla!3.2. Recently I tried to share on Facebook an article from my site and it seems that Facebook doesn't read my _meta data_. Here is my _`<head>`_ output:                 <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.highplay.pt/blog/porque-e-que-as-historias-vencem-uma-visao-nigel-barlow" />       <meta property="og:title" content="High Play Institute - Porque é que as histórias vencem uma visão?" />       <meta property="og:type" content="article" />       <meta property="og:image" content="http://www.highplay.pt/media/k2/items/cache/48ee1e8a0a8f50dce4f8cb9ab418e211_XL.jpg" />      And here is my **Graph API** from Open Graph Debugger               {        "id": "191441707711484",        "url": "http://www.highplay.pt/blog/porque-e-que-as-historias-vencem-uma-visao-nigel-barlow",        "type": "website",        "title": "http://www.highplay.pt/blog/porque-e-que-as-historias-vencem-uma-visao-nigel-barlow",        "updated_time": "2013-11-21T11:38:46+0000",        "created_time": "2013-11-21T11:22:05+0000",        "is_scraped": true     }      The weird in this is that I tried in last month and it looked great, with XL Image, description and Article name, I dunno why this is happen.


title: How to Export Email "Sent" Folder?

text: A client had her web site and email hosted at "company A". She was switching to "company B" but didn't want to lose her email. I set up a Gmail account, POPed into her webmail account, and pulled the entire inbox into Gmail (for later transfer to her new host). But I forgot about the "sent" folder. Although the hosting plan is still up and running, she changed her domain record to point to the new host. So I can't access the old webmail account via POP or IMAP because the email address needed for authentication now resolves to the new host. Is there any way I can get the contents of the sent folder without having to do a "forward" one message at a time (there are hundreds)?