title: Page loading indicator

text: I have a page, and it takes a few seconds to load. I know, and I will make the site load faster (and not the question), but due to animations animating the site in, I am thinking of adding a page loading indicator. This will be injected trough JavaScript and removed again by JavaScript, and removed trough JavaScript, making a non JavaScript page work as normal. Is this a good or bad practice to add a page loader indicator on a standard HTML/CSS based site?


title: How to achieve SEO for XHTML pages which load data in DOM using a JQuery-AJAX service calls?

text: I have a simple website (5-8 XHTML pages and a payment gateway to be done) with about 1500 products having a fix SKU/product code. sample URL for the query: **http://www.domainname.com/product- detail.html?20001-1P16AX** and I'am pulling data via a **JQuery/AJAX service calls** and pushing it to to the DOM. The meta tags, (data in bold italics) i want to populate via **service calls** as under   * <meta name="description" content=" ** _20001-1P16AX,20001 - 1P 16AX 1-way switch grey,EIKON,175_** " />   * <meta name="keywords" content=" ** _20001-1P16AX,20001,switch,grey,EIKON,175,SWITCH,GREY_** "/> * * * My query is ...   * Can we load SEO data in meta tahgs via **JQuery/AJAX service calls**?   * Whether Google or other popular search engines cache this dynamic data and redirect to the **EXACT** product page when searched?   * Is there any better way to achieve SEO/perform search for the above said scenario? I would be very happy to hear from all you experts, please suggest. Thanks   NBaua


title: Visits from internal path

text: I have an online shop with a blog structured this way:   * Shop: `domain`   * Blog: `domain/blog` Both index have the same Google Analytic Code (UA). In the blog I write articles about some products with a link to the product page. Now the problem is, I want to get all visits whose referral links have this pattern `domain/blog/*`.


title: Should I disallow(robots.txt) archive/author pages with links already available on the front page?

text: I am working on a simple Wordpress blog where when an article is published, it appears on ALL these pages:   1. Homepage - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary   2. Parent category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary   3. Child category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary   4. Author page - Headline(clickable)   5. sitemap.xml A good example of what I mean is: http://wp-themes.com/twentyfourteen/ The "Worth A Thousand Words" article is available on the homepage. But it's also available on the category page: http://wp-themes.com/?cat=1 And finally, it's also available on the author apge: http://wp- themes.com/?author=1 Does it makes sense to let Google crawl http://wp-themes.com/?author=1 knowing that all links on that page were already crawled elsewhere? I've been in fact told that I should add all author pages to my robots.txt, under disallow, so as search engine bots do not spider /author/*(or anything with ?author for the above example) since all links on these pages are indeed available elsewhere. Is this a good approach or maybe rel=nofollow is better, or maybe I shouldn't worry about this at all?


title: Country specific SEO

text: I have a wordpress site which is located at a .com address. The site is a simple 4 page personal site with my academic credentials, publications and a health blog that I started. I have done quite a bit of seo and I rank pretty high for the keywords i want on google.co.uk. However, I do not rank at all on google.com.mt which is the Malta specific search. I have therefore just bought the .com.mt domain and pointed the DNS nameservers to my current host provider and redirected it to the .com address. My goal is to make sure I don't screw up my google.co.uk search ranking, while starting to rank on google.com.mt I'm I doing the right thing or do you have any suggestions??


title: Does it matter that the TTL is higher than I've been told?

text: Ok, so the title isn't very descriptive, I know. Basically, I'm trying to configure Outlook.com to use my custom domain! I've followed the steps and made the account etc. and now I have the DNS settings to configure from Windows Live. I added the MX Entries and everything last night but Windows Live is still saying I need to prove my ownership of the domain. The only thing I can think of that I had to use a differrent TTL to the one provided because my web hoster will only allow a minimum of four hours, whereas Windows Live told me to configure the TTL as one hour. Would that stop anything? By the way, my web hoster is JustHost (Shared Hosting)


title: Use of hgroup tag and how much well for SEO it is?

text:
I used `hgroup` tag like as in section. I want to know that it's well for SEO or not and this is a correct use of `hgroup`. HTML:
           <hgroup>
CCTV Camera's online view on your 3G phone

 Shadman, Lahore

 29 Aug 12:22 2014

Ad ID: 1249586

 Views: 2
             </hgroup>
      CSS:               section h1{         font-size:24px;         text-transform:capitalize;         line-height:25px;         font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;         font-weight:normal;}     section h6{         font-size:10px;         font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;         font-weight:normal;         text-transform:capitalize;         float:left;         padding:0 0 0 1%;         color:#999;}     section h6 i{         color:#85B7F3;}     section h6:nth-child(4),     section h6:nth-child(5){         color:#000;         float:right;             padding:0 1% 0 0%;}     section h6 span{         font-weight:bold;}


title: Google adsense bombing

text: I made a website few months ago and put google adsense on it, but someone kept clicking on ads with bad intentions, e.g. google bombing I guess but as result they disabled my google adsense account, now I wonder how did this all happened and what steps should I take in future to stop such kind of attacks. Is there any tricks or tips to save your website from bombing of invalid clicks ? what ways do normally hacker use to bomb adsense on a website ?


title: How to batch remove spamming users and pages they created on MediaWiki?

text: I'm trying to clean up a MediaWiki instance which has been subjected to spamming and vandalism for a period of time. The current status is that there are a large number of users which only created spam pages but typically not altered legitimate pages. And there is only < 10 users which I know are legitimate users and created a small number of legitimate pages. Abstractly, my idea of fixing the messy situation is to find the complete list of users that are not in that small set of legitimate users, and use RenameUser extension to rename them all to a `Spammer` user, and use Nuke extension to mass delete all pages it created. Any practical advice on how to proceed? Since there are hundreds of spammer users, how do I effectively rename them? It seems Renameuser extension does not support automated batch renaming of users by allowing users to be renamed with a list or file.


title: How do I temporarily reference a new web host using my existing domain name?

text: On provider A I have an existing web hosting account running my site. On provider B I have my domain name registered pointing to the web hosting on provider A. I've just purchased a web hosting account with provider B and want to move my site there. Is there a way to temporarily use my domain name to point to provider B while I set up the site (e.g. just from my computer)? I tried to change the HOSTS file (Windows) and while pings resolved to what I set, HTTP requests don't.


title: WYSIWYG vs. BBC Code vs. Plain Text

text: When Putting in a place for users to put it content, (for example, posting a question,answer or comment on this site) What are some things to consider when deciding to use some form of WYSIWYG editor, some form of BBC like markup, or just giving users a plain textarea to work with?


title: Reporting and stopping fake website

text: On Bing and Yahoo (and apparently briefly on Google), we have some websites that are buying up somewhat randomly named domains like `autquahna.com` and `autmusgfn.com`. They put our company name in the meta keywords, and are essentially stealing web traffic from us by putting our company name in the footer of their website. Of course, WhoIs lookups only show fake/protected information. At the end of the day, we want to get these pages reported/removed, as the sites aren't associated with us in any fashion. How do we go about reporting them, etc?


title: Allow directory listing for subdirectories only

text: I am using webspace hosted on IIS 7.5 (according to phpinfo() ). Currently, I am enabling directory listings for a directory and all its subdirectories by placing a web.config like               <location path=".">         <system.webServer>           <directoryBrowse enabled="false" />         </system.webServer>     </location>      in it. Is there a way to disable the directory listing in the directory itself but enable it for all its subdirectories without placing a web.config in each subdirectory or listing all subdirectories here?


title: Links shown in organic keywords in Google Analytics

text: While using Google Analytics, I have observed that many a times some URLs of my website are themselves shown as the keywords. I think its very odd that my users would type complete URL in Google search. So, how do URLs get into the keyword section? I am attaching a screenshot where you can see some of the URLs: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/I2kjH.png)


title: adsense click spamming

text: ## Questions   * What software do people use for adsense click spamming ?   * How are they structured ?   * How does it work ?   * How can we block them ? I tried looking at google but not much information there already.


title: how to restore email from only a full website backup?

text: I am in a helpless position right now..Till last month,I was hosting my website and email accounts with hostgator and everything was going fine till I decided to switch hosting for some services that they dont currently offer.I cancelled my account with them and was given a couple of hours to move my files.I created backup of the entire website from cPanel and downloaded everything from their server to my PC.The problem is,since this was a first time procedure for me,I didnt know that I had to download all my emails to my desktop client.I had read some tutorials providing information on moving my website to a new host and all ,but none of them mentioned about email backups.Now i have all my emails downloaded onto my desktop as part of the full website backup and not on any email client.And Hostgator has closed my account with them.The new host I have decided to move my website to,doesnt host email and they are asking me to host my emails on google apps.Thats ok with me,but I need all the emails in my account since all of them contain my registration and billing details and passwords and other such important things.Please,can someone find me a solution to this problem?


title: Where is the data for items added to a shopping cart stored if not logged into the site?

text: Sites like Amazon allow you to add items to your shopping cart without requiring you to first log in. My question is where do they store this data? This data still seems to be there even if you restart the browser too.


title: My Sites Were Hacked. What To Do?

text: I host multiple domains with this very popular hosting provider and I just went into one of my sites and... I see a black page with message "Hacked by...". I checked and all my sites with the provider are showing this same page. Inside of file system I have seen the hacker placed all default.* and index.* files with this message. So the hacker overwrote all index pages, placed new pages and that is under every, I say again, every folder. Cleaning this up will be close to a most horrible job. What to do (right now I am awaiting the restore of files from hosting provider)? How to prevent this? Whom to blame?


title: "Local" results from a google search

text: I entered "online dating" in Google, and I found some of the results are "local" (I'm in Ottawa, Canada). In the attached images see the results for `www.okcupid.com` and `www.eharmony.com`. Is this something Google does automatically or is there some metadata that the sites publish? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CVHAV.png)


title: Troubleshooting Google Author

text: I have successfully implemented the neat Google Author feature on my Computer Performance website. However, I am struggling to set it up on my fashion- era.com website. The only difference is that the site where it does not work lacks the pure tag:               <!DOCTYPE html>      Instead fashion-era has               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">      One more thing, the Google snippets tools indicates it should work on the fashion era pages. Question: Could this Doctype prevent the Google Author feature working?


title: URL masking with .htaccess

text: I need a hardcore programmer to help me with URL masking. So this is my situation.   1. My website www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/ is the main site that needs to be configured.   2. I have another website/webhotel called www.umagepar.dk   3. www.umagepar.dk is redirected to www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/   4. The blog is an ongoing project where i post a lot of stuff to get my ranking higher on google.   5. www.umagepar.dk which redirect to www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/ is also a project on is own, so I do not want people to know, that it is a blog connected with www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/   6. I therefore need to mask www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/ so it will be called www.umagepar.dk in the URL in the searchbar at all times! How can I do this?


title: Include number and date in Apache log file names

text: I'm trying to figure out how to include the current date and the IP number of the current host inside the Apache log file names, but I fail how to see how I can do that. Part of that has to do with the fact that I don't understand the log rotation mechanism that seems to be enabled by default. Haven't been able to find any documentation on why I have `access.1.log`, `access.xxx.gz.log` files. (I mean, I _do_ understand that it is log rotation, but I _don't_ see how I can influence it. I also understand I could pipe log output through some sort of command to include the current IP number in the file name, but I would assume I would lose my log rotation that way. Basically I want the current mechanism, but then include the IP number in the name, and a date rather than a number.)


title: How to wildcard 301 redirect inner blog so all current posts work with new blog name?

text: Say I have the following:               http://example.com/blog-domain-name/blog-post.html      I want it like this:               http://example.com/blog/blog-post.html      Can I do this with a simple 301 redirect using wildcard without complex apache mod_rewrite? Like /blog-domain-name/* /blog/* Will new blog URL know that I want all requests arriving at destination blog posts?


title: A simple message room

text: Can anyone recommend a simple message room (not chat room) which I can use for a private communication between my users. My idea: to grant some users (2-3 at the most) a specific privilege to talk privately in a message room. none of them would be administrator there. I need such features:   - admin panel for adding users allowed to post messages in room   - room invisible to anyone except users   - filtering not-allowed words   - Ajax-enabled so that replies appear immediately   - other message room features I have a linux hosting so PHP message room would be the best option. I thought of using a forum for this, but it's too much work as a forum is public by nature and I need something **private by nature**. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.


title: How to successively transform a static page (image gallery) to a product type page?

text: A website with about 700 static pages, where about 20 of these are basically the same page that displays products that are custom made in a image gallery like enviroment. The point of having these pages is to attract people that search for different keywords in the same category. All products are built differently, with different materials, sizes, etc, even though they fall into one category. I've noticed that this page does not receive a lot of visitors, and I would like to make it more "Product like" than an image gallery per se, attracting more visitors willing to buy such items. I've done the following:   * Created a master page with all products, codes and material available Then, in each page:   * A button to request a product quote with a form   * Material type (and option for different materials, so the same product can attract people looking for the same thing in a different material)   * Description of product   * Details   * Product code But still, these will be static pages, and I can't really sell anything online, since all products are custom made to order. What other techniques can I also apply so these pages become more "catalog like" to search engines? Is adding things such as "Buy such product" on keywords, and on description tags, title a good idea? What else can I do to improve these pages visibility to potential customers? **Note:** I'm not asking about user experience in these pages, I'm asking about search engines. **Other considerations:** All pages are indexed by SEs, and most traffic comes from image search. All images are named after product (not product code), and they all have proper alt and title tags. Thanks, Cheers!


title: Daily blog archives and duplicate content

text: A few weeks back I realised that my blog software was creating daily post archives. Which basically resulted in duplicate content especially if I only had one post a day. The situation is something like this:               www.sitename.com/blog/archives/2013/06/01 - daily archive for 1 June 2013     www.sitename.com/blog/archives/2013/06/my-post-name.html      So, here we have two pages that are basically identical except the daily archive has some meaningless title like "Daily Archive for 1 June 2003". And I have no control over which content Google decides is the primary content. It's quite possible (and likely) that the daily archive could be the "primary" content and the actual post itself the "duplicate". Once I realised it was doing this I modified the daily archive template to include               <meta name="robots" content="noindex">      Here we are a few weeks later and I still see some daily archives coming up in Google search results. I realise some of those deep pages might not be crawled yet but I am worried that the original post (which should be the PRIMARY content) has been marked duplicate content by Google. Now I've no indexed the daily archives I might end up with no indexed content AND the original articles still flagged as duplicates. And nothing will show up in search at all. Have I screwed myself here or is there a way out?


title: How can I create a review site which is similar to craigslist?

text: I want to create a site where you can review different things in the town. Example could be a Restaurant, a park, a doctor, a school. The user creates review and uploads pic if he has. I want to create a new page for a new item. Basically it would be similar to what craiglist do. When you create a new ad, a new page is created, as in example below. > http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/hab/2770582006.html   1. Does anyone know what framework craigslist is using?   2. How would I achieve this in PHP, MYSQL?   3. A side question. I know of one approach that I can take but I am a little reluctant on that. For example www.mywebsite.com/review.php?item_id=12. There is basically one page and the review is taken of out the database based on the item_id supplied. Is this approach better or the craiglist approach? In short > www.myreviewwebsite.com/review.php?id=123 vs > > www.myreviewwebsite.com/12345.htm Which one is better from marketing point of view, esthetic effect, functional, maintenance and more practical. (note I think I am going to create a separate question of no.3)


title: Are icon fonts bad for SEO?

text: Instead of using `<img>` tags for your icons, you can use icon fonts on `<span>` tags (which offer some advantages such as not having to create a sprite, being able to scale icons up/down without degrading quality...). However, by using an icon font you give up the `<img>` alt attribute (that attribute can help you with SEO). There is a way to add text to the `<span>` and hide it, but I wonder whether this is recognized / penalized by Google (as it seems to go against the quality guidelines). Are icon fonts bad for SEO (i.e. by using icon fonts you give up the alt attribute)? Would inserting text in font icon tag and hiding it with CSS (`text-indent: -9999px`) be recognized / penalized by Google?


title: Will a redirected subdomain lose Google SEO links?

text: Because of a change in brand, I want to redirect our `subdomain.domain.com` to `newdomain.com`. The content being exactly the same, I was thinking of using a 301 wild card redirect to `newdomain.com`. I noticed it is not possible to do a redirect in Google Webmaster Tools as you can with a root domain. Is there a way I can do this redirect without losing all the backlinks referenced with Google?


title: How to use Google Analytics to get a histogram or distribution for time on page?

text: Google Analytics provides a fairly comprehensive breakdown for **session** duration under Audience > Behavior > Engagement: ![session duration histogram - Google Analytics](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JC0jz.png) But I'm having trouble finding a similar GA view or other means of pulling data on the distribution of time on a single page or set of pages. All that's available is "Avg. Time on Page," which of course could be totally thrown off by a handful of extreme outliers. Is there any way to break down this average into a distribution?


title: How to find out if a logo has already been used/exists?

text: I have few concepts of logos for a website. How do I know a specific concept that is finalized, is already used by some other website or not?


title: Is there an index of the IP addresses used by indexing bots?

text: I have a page that gets minimal traffic, but I set up static notifications when it gets hit. Now, I want bots to get ignored, so what I'm doing now is adding bots I see to a "no notify" list. Is there a reference listing of the IP addresses used by indexing robots? e.g, a list like:               $no_mail = array(         '67.195.115.105', // yahoo bot         '207.46.199.50', // msn bot         '61.135.249.246', //youdao bot         '207.46.199.32', // msn bot     );


title: Google Webmaster Central Channel

text: Since there are so many Google Webmaster Central videos on Youtube which one do you think every Webmaster should see? http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp


title: I'd like to use iframe to videos and contents posted other sites?will I be violating any law

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Loading another domain's content in a modal iframe - acceptable? My url is www.indiaracetips.com and if I use iframe in my site will any one sue me?


title: Adding comments to static pages?

text: I've used disqus on a few sites successfully. Are there any other solid solutions for comments for static websites? (For new sites, I tend to use a CMS that includes comments).


title: Is there a program to prevent downloading a whole site

text: I want to avoid reinventing the wheel, so I am wondering if there is an (open source) program that you can use to protect a web server that has paid content by preventing a user from downloading all content to its hard drive; such as detecting atypical behavior (e.g. saving each page, quickly working through all contents) and being able to automatically react on it. Most bigger sites have something like that, throwing you onto a captcha every now and then, so I assume that there is some implementation also in the open source world, but I did some searches, e.g. for ‘outlier detection’, ‘behavior analysis’ or ‘intrusion detection’ and found nothing except Snort, which rather seems to be a desirable part of a firewall than a web server. I would have expected the solution to be more like a proxy server, Apache module or Typo3 extension. Maybe I conducted unfortunate searches in lack of a precise English expression for such a component. Do you know a way to protect against this by some sort of behaviour analysis/outlier detection, something more than checking for easy-to-fake user agent and referrer?


title: Looking for the name of a top bar notification provider

text: Not long ago I saw a website that had a top notification bar that was provided by a third party, customizable and all by I can't for the life of me remember what those guys were called. I'm looking for something similar to what the "Stack" website have (including this one) when visiting the first time. Just a simple bar that can be dismissed or slit closed. Any answers appreciated.


title: Link value of links from social media

text: As a SEO you can benefit from Social Media activities and it even seems key according to Matt Cutts recent video on SEO in 2011. However besides getting 'inbound links' from third party websites or blogs as a result of people that have noticed e.g. your Twitter Tweet or Facebook Post you will, most likely, also receive links from the social media pages itself. **Now, when talking about 'link-value' would Googlebot consider a link from a Social Media page the same value as a link from a website or blog?** Please note: It goes without saying that I understand that the page must be publicly visible, not restricted by e.g. htaccess, should be lacking no-follow tags and that in case an url is shortened it should be done by applying the appropriate redirect. The question is solely about the valuation of a link published on a social media platform.


title: Being a Good Webmaster is so hard?

text: How do you define a good Webmaster ? Because there are a lot of people can say "I'm a webmaster". And i say them "Yes you can use a lot tools, software etc. but this doesn't make you a Webmaster".. What is the features of a Good Webmaster? Is it so hard to be? What do you think about that?


title: If you run a split test, how long do you let it run before you conclude it is inconclusive?

text: When running A/B tests with Google Website Optimizer, Google tells you when a variation has "won". However, sometimes, the test runs for a long time and still there is no winner. When should one decide that there is no significant difference between two variations and stop the test?


title: Google Indexing URL that is a 301 redirect

text: My website URL structure is:               http://www.website.com/{record-type}/{record-id}/{human-readable-name}      If an invalid human readable name is provided, the page 301 redirects to the correct URL. I've noticed recently that Google has started indexing partial URLs, i.e:               http://www.website.com/{record-type}/{record-id}/      If I make requests to those indexed URLs, I am 301 redirected to the correct page. Is there a way to force Google to use the 301 redirected URL?


title: Does Internet Explorer 'timeout'?

text: Within my website I have a single page that dynamically updates via AJAX / JSON in a plain HTML page. Now this page may be left open for up to three or four days. When I left it running over the weekend the data had frozen, the server was still running perfectly and upon a refresh everything started going again. So my question is **Does Internet Explorer(or even other browsers) 'timeout'?**


title: Is there value in creating additional backlinks when you're already first on Google?

text: My site is already ranked #1 in Google for the keywords I care about, but I'd still like to increase traffic. Is there value in trying to create additional backlinks to my site?


title: Meaning of hack request

text: We've been logging GET requests on our domain to the following: `XX/YY/ZZ/CI/MGPGHGPGPFGHCDPFGGHGFHBGCHEGPFHHGG` Is this a known kind of attack? What might it be targeting?


title: Kunena forum permissions problem

text: I am using a Kunena forum, and I have made some pages accessible only for a new group made by me named "Member". The problem is that when I make someone "Member", some of them can see the pages and some cannot. I have no idea what's the problem because I use the same mode to make all of them "Member".


title: Undefined 404's not logging

text: Our custom 404 page sends us Emails to notify us of broken links. We've been lately getting emails with such a missing page: `http://domain.com/undefined` However, no log entries (IIS) exist on that time with such a request. Further - no log entries exist with the requesting IP (also sent in the email). What can this mean?


title: Control over the Internet Archive besides just "Disallow /"?

text: Are there any mechanisms to control what the Internet Archive archives on a site? I know to disallow all pages I could add:               User-agent: ia_archiver     Disallow: /        1. Can I tell the bot that I want them to crawl my site once a month, or once a year?   2. I have a site/pages that doesn't/don't get archived correctly because of assets not picked up. Is there a way to tell the Internet Archive bot what assets it needs if it's going to grab the site?


title: Do sites in subfolders affect the ranking of the main domain?

text: Does putting an unrelated site in a domain's subfolder (to avoid buying a new domain name) affect the domain's search engine ranking even if there are no links between them? For example, is it a bad practice will placing a cooking site at `programming.com/cooking` affect the search engine ranking of `programming.com`?


title: Online advertising program where publishers (site owners) can choose ads?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Self ads targeting I'm wondering what online advertising programs there are out there where the site owner can chose which relevant ads to put on particular pages from a large selection of possible ads. Is there such a thing? (As opposed to adsense style 'auto-relevance' which often produces poor results)


title: no follow in a form action

text: Imagine i have a page on my website that i don't want to be followed by robots. So i put a "rel='nofollow'" on every link to that page. Now imagine i have a form on another page which action is a link to that page. I heard that SEs try to post form. If it is true, they will reach a page that i don't want to be indexed. Am i falling into paranoia ? Do SEs really try to post forms ? Thanks in advance Guillaume


title: DOwnload file from IIS7 server with # in file name

text: I'm running IIS 7 web server and getting an error 404 when trying to download a file with a `#` symbol anywhere in the file name. http://www.server.com/files/my#filename.doc <-- does not download leads to 404 error. If I remove the `#` symbol it works fine. Can anyone suggest why this is happening and if there's a workaround? Thanks


title: Will using all the Google web tools boost trust of a website or help SEO?

text: I have using a single Google account and using that I created Google webmasters account so my website uses single User account access all the service provided by The google like adwords, adsense,webtools, google Map etc. Will this increases trust of my website?


title: PHP accessible shared content between two websites on the same VPS on different domains/IPs

text: I have two ecommerce websites, selling music digital downloads, on the same VPS, currently using cPanel/WHM (but thinking of switching to Virtualmin). They have separate domains and IPs of course. They both share from the same set of music files, so I have duplicate copies in each website directory, which takes up a lot of disk space. How might I go about sharing the same set of music files across both sites, allowing PHP access, so that it does not break my shopping cart's functionality of serving customers the downloads after they have paid for them? I thought of maybe using symlinks or something, but I don't know if it's possible, or if it would have to somehow circumvent built-in security features of the server. I'm new to VPS management.


title: How can the Google Analytics "Screen Colors" metric be remotely accurate?

text: This metric has been around a long time in GA, but only today have I realized I don't think it's possible for it to be useful. Is there some way for GA to tell what monitor a user has? As far as I know, they can only tell what the system color is set to. The reason this is an issue is that nearly all of the cheap LCD panels sold are only 6bits per pixel. http://compreviews.about.com/od/multimedia/a/LCDColor.htm http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/6bit_8bit.htm It seems like the majority of users should show up as 6bit (18bit combined, 24bit if you count alpha) color. Instead, looking at some high traffic sites, 32bit is the vast majority. Is there some way this GA metric can be accurate?


title: When do videos appear in google's web search results?

text: Sometimes videos appear in google's web search results (and not only in Google Videos).   * For a video to appear in the web search results, does it have to appear in Google Videos first?    * Does each and every video that appears in Google Videos has a chance to appear in google's web search results (given that the video is very relevant to the query, more relevant than all the other videos)? Please note: I'm not asking about video sitemaps or mRSS. I'm just asking when do videos appear in google's web search results compared to when do videos appear in Google Videos.


title: Multiple domains with one host - SEO point of view

text: Lets say I currently own the `mycompanyname.com` domain. After some time, I found that it's very hard to rank at the top of the SERPs. After searching, I find there is domain that matches one of my keywords. I built the website in two language and I'm able to assign each language different URLs. Will that impact with SEO? There will be a load of duplicated content between those domain (image video etc). I'm afraid one of my website will have marked as plagiarist because much of the content will be the same.


title: Using SSL Certificates with shared hosting/different domain provider

text: I need to add a HTTPS address to an existing domain. Unfortunately there two companies involved: One for shared web-hosting, and one for the domain. How do SSL Certificated domains work in such instances? Does the company who hosts the domain issue the SSL Certificate? Or is it the web-hosting company that the domain points to? Additionally, are they usually considered separate to their normal HTTP counterparts, with me needing to update their name servers manually (and transfer to the new hosting)? Or are they part of the same domain, and so I won't need to do anything?


title: How an offline main domain can influence traffic on an active sub domain

text: The website(s) design is for a company active in 3 different areas. As an example lets use the following structure:                                   www.example.com      [sub1.example.com] [sub2.example.com] [sub3.example.com]       `sub2.example.com` and `sub3.example.com` are ready to go live but `www.example.com` really isn't and send a 503 HTTP error code. I would like to know if this situation will affect the traffic and ranking of the subdomains ready to go live? Is it preferable to wait and go live with the main domain? Or there is nothing to "fear" and one doesn't affect the other? Thank you


title: Google redirected blog no longer getting found easily

text: I found to my surprise that when I published a new post on my blog (hosted by Googles blogspot.com) and then searched for the title in Google Search it would show up as one of the top hits almost immediately. But now I have the post redirecting to my own subdomain, and even though behind the scenes it is still hosted by Google the blog is not coming up in the search results, although a link to the page from my GooglePlus account is coming up (but this is not as good for me as an actual link to the blog itself)


title: What is the folder picture_library on my Plesk panel on a site hosted at GoDaddy

text: I have my website hosted with godaddy. It's not even a month since I hosted with them.( _actually, the site itself isn't older than a month_ ) When, I logged in to my Parallels Plesk, I saw a folder named **picture_library** I tried to see what's inside that, but there was nothing. It came back even after I deleted it twice.   1. I didn't create a folder with that name, so its not in my code.   2. I didn't think my website, ( _which is not even a month old_ ) will attract hackers :)   3. There's little possibility of virus or something because, GoDaddy is the Market Leaders and I don't think that their servers will be vulnerable to such attacks. My Actual Question: Is it a virus or hacker and how to disable it?


title: Why do characters display funny in <input type="password">?

text: I have the following HTML and css               <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">     <head>     <style type="text/css">     #test     {        font-family:helvetica;        color:#000;        font-size:10px;     }     </style>     </head>     <body>     <input type="password" id="test" name="pass" size="30" max="100">     </body>     </html>      When I open it up in Firefox and enter some chars as expected bullets are displayed, however if I open it in IE 7 or 8 ugly little squares show up. If I comment out the font-family line in the style definition then both IE and Firefox properly display the bullets. My question is not how can I work around this, (I know i can just use a diff font-family or just not specify one) but what is causing IE to not properly display the bullets when the font-family is set to Helvitica?


title: add stock intro and outro to a set of .mp3's?

text: If I have a bunch of existing podcast mp3's, with no intro and outro, can I do something simple to add a stock intro and outro (supplied as .mp3's) to each podcast?


title: Using GoDaddy email AND Google Apps

text: We have 8 people that need emails addresses in our company. 3 need email only, while 5 need emails and the features from Google Apps. We would like to continue to host email for the 3 on GoDaddy, while using Google Apps for the 5. When we insert the MX records in GoDaddy, the 3 no longer could send/receive email, since we were redirecting email to Google. How can we redirect email to these 3 employees through GoDaddy, while keeping the 5 on Google Apps?


title: Creating an SSL Certificate

text: I have a barracuda SSL VPN. I also have a website hosted on winhost.com. On my website, I have a link to login to my VPN. I always get the "untrusted certificate" message. It says its untrusted because the certificate is not signed. This leads me to believe there is a certificate there, it just isn't set up correctly. Can I make my own SSL Certificate for the barracuda VPN, or do I have to buy one? Does barracuda provide a certificate for me? Could I call them up and get them to give me a certificate? I have dabbled in web design/programming a bit, but I know NOTHING about these SSL Certificates other than what I've researched this morning. If I can make my own, how do I go about doing that? Thanks


title: Is tos.html some kind of standard Terms of service filename?

text: I periodically check my log of 404 errors on my site, and aside of most curious hack attempts I often encounter requests for files that are some kind of standard on a specific platform (apple-touch- icon-`SIZE`x`SIZE`-precomposed.png is one of them). And I have just found failed request for tos.html. When I searched it on google, it automatically searched for key "Terms of service", which has led to many terms of service pages, but no information about this kind of filename. I'm quite curious if there's a word for files that should be on the site (index.php, favicon.ico, robots.txt - I couldn't find any relevant tag for this question)


title: Can Google track the referring URL from their Google Maps URL Scheme on Android and iOS devices?

text: If you click on a Google Maps URL link (`comgooglemaps://`) on a website in Safari or Chrome on an Android or iOS device that opens up the native Google Maps App, can/does Google track the referring website that you clicked the link on? For example: if you clicked on `comgooglemaps://?q=Pizza&center=37.759748,-122.427135` from `webmasters.stackexchange.com` in Chrome or Safari on iOS or Android, this takes you to the Google Maps native app. Can Google track the referring site (`webmasters.stackexchange.com`)? If yes, do they?


title: How can I know if my site is down?

text: I would like to be alerted if my site is down (for example have an email sent to me). The site is written in asp .net it is deployed on a dedicated server, windows 2008 with IIS 7


title: Where can I find Mambo 3 downloads / documentation?

text: Does anyone know where I could find copies of the Mambo 3.0.x distributions, manuals and (ideally) instructions for upgrading to Mambo 4.x or Joomla? I have an old site implemented in Mambo 3 that needs to be upgraded. It doesn't work with PHP 5 without hacks that compromise PHP security, and the site admin and navigation menus are broken for "modern" browsers; e.g. IE6 and later.


title: Is there any reason to still use a standard shared web host?

text: There are a few PAAS providers that now provide a free tier of service and cheap prices afterwards. Some, such as AppFog and OpenShift, also offer easy installations of common web apps such as Wordpress. Is there any reason to still use a standard web host for hosting things like PHP scripts or Ruby on Rails apps?


title: How to handle browser-compatibility check for your website

text: Whenever I redesign a website, I spend a lot of time manually checking whether the new website is still supported on all major browsers by opening the website on the corresponding browser. What is a time-efficient way of testing cross browser compatibility?


title: What did I do wrong when buying my domain through Google Apps?

text: Several times in the past I've bought a domain through Google Apps, and every year Google automatically renews the domain for $10. Somehow when I did this today, I ended up additionally being signed up for an annual Google Apps for Business plan at $12/license/yr. I don't need this; I'm only one user. I'd like to cancel this $12/yr Google Apps plan without cancelling the automatical $10/yr domain renewal. However, there is no "cancel" or "downgrade" link, apparently (according to the help docs) because I have an annual pre-paid account. If I choose not to auto-renew my annual account, it also declines auto-renewal of my domain. How can I make this domain just like my others -- auto-renewed at $10/yr, with a free Google Apps account in front of it?


title: Browser compatibility with external links to icecast streams

text: My website is offering a list of links to radio stations streaming audio content hosted on other servers. Many of the audio streams are based on _icecast_ servers There is a big question on what is the better way to link to the streaming audio. The following options are considered:   * many icecast servers (not all) offer .m3u files. This works in most cases, but not all, particularly on old windows machines, where no player is linked to this type of files   * linking directly to the streaming content (direct link example): this gives the worst results, because the browsers do not handle the audio as a streaming, but they start downloading endlessly the audio.   * create a .pls file (pls example) This has a better effect. I also set the MIME type to be correct. But I still got reports from people, particularly using Firefox on Windows 8, that the file gets downloaded but does not start playing Do you have a better experience on how to link to external streaming content? Any reports on the best way to achieve maximum compatibility with browsers and systems?


title: How to evaluate a web developer?

text: I want to hire someone to set up a website. What do I ask to determine competence and integrity of the individual? Is there a chart of reasonable charges/costs? How do I know if I am being over-charged?


title: Google Translate: tracking the foreign language in web page

text: How do I track where the language is coming from? If I'm building a website, and I end up putting together plugins, I'd like to know where the foreign language is coming from? When I'm testing my page, I'm getting Google Translate.


title: How does Wikipedia's SEO work?

text: I'm currently developing an app for Android and iOS and of course I'm thinking about the best ways to market it. Last night I Googled somebody else's app and the third link in was a Wikipedia page on it. I never even thought of apps having Wikipedia pages, but alas there it was. And of course it was very helpful in determining exactly what the app did and in what cases it was useful for (something that's absolutely crucial for potential customers to understand). So then I got to thinking that I should create a Wiki for my app, but how does Wikipedia apply SEO? I know that the question could be overly complicated or specific, I'm just looking for general answers. For instance when somebody Googles my app, where does Wikipedia display on the results? When I create a Wiki for my app, how do I ensure that the Wikipedia page shows in the search results (is there any way to do that? ) I'm sure I'll find all of this out later when I create a Wiki for my app, I guess I'm just asking this out of curiosity. So how does Wikipedia's search engine optimization work? (on a page by page basis)


title: Googlebot can't access my site

text: For some reason, Google Webmaster Tools started showing all these errors while crawling my site, saying that it couldn't reach my pages. I checked my robots.txt everything checks out, so I'm not sure what's wrong.


title: Funnel Visualisation not showing drop out in steps

text: I have a site where users will follow this path (hopefully): `mysite.com/entity`   `mysite.com/entity/pay`   `mysite.com/entity/pay/details`   `mysite.com/entity/pay/confirmation`   `mysite.com/entity/pay/payment`   `mysite.com/entity/paymentsuccessful?lotsofuniquestuff`   The `entity` section could be any one of a multitude of entries, but once the user is on a journey it will stay consistent. I have a goal set up for this as a regular expression, with the match being `.*PaymentSuccessful.*`. This detects goal successes perfectly (as checked with data stored by the site directly). I have set the following steps within the goal:               /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay     /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay/details     /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay/confirmation     /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay/payment      My funnel detects entry into the funnel (e.g. 47 users) of which say 10 complete the funnel. However, all drop offs are after the first step, even though the exist page is listed as the second step! My data also suggests users are getting further in the funnel before failing to reach the goal. What have I done wrong?


title: Why Google asks for "Title" for MIME type "image/*" in Google Webmasters?

text: In my Google Webmasters account, in **Optimization** section, under **HTML improvements** I see that Google has indexed more than 100 links complaining that these links has no **Title** associated with them ( _Missing title tags_ ). However, these links all result in thumbnails of images and they are served as MIME type (Internet Media Type) of "image/png", or "image/jpg", etc. What's wrong here? How should I tell Google that an image can't have a title tag? Note: An example link can be see here.


title: how to check that Google Analytics Tracking Code is firing on an iPad

text: I am used to using the Firebug extension "Omnibug" with Firefox to check that Google Analytics Tracking Code is firing on my website. This application works very well and has minimal overhead. I am now testing the website on an iPad and would like to know if there is a way to check that the GATC is firing on the iPad **natively**? I have spoofed the iPad UA string on Firefox on the desktop and it appears to fire correctly, however i'd like to see it happening on the device itself (if at all possible). I know that Firebug can be installed on an iPhone by means of a bookmarklet, however it is 1) quite buggy and not very user-friendly and 2) it doesn't support Omnibug. How can I check that my GATC is firing on my iPad?


title: iOS Touch Icon through XLSX file?

text: I'm setting up some iPads, and pointing Safari to `www.mywebsite.com/spreadsheet.xlsx` and it's displaying the document fine. That part is OK. I'm just wondering if there is a way to add a iOS Icon to the document so I can save it to the springboard of the iPad? Maybe embedding the document in HTML? PHP could also possibly be used but I'm really not sure how I would go about doing this, has anyone managed anything like this before?


title: About registering domain names

text: Domain name registration charges are yearly or a one time affair? And how long does it take? I want to register a domain name for my personal site.


title: .htaccess guide / examples / tutorials?

text: Does anyone know of any good guides for someone new to editing and making .htaccess files. Anything about rewriting urls, directory access and passwording a directory would be great.


title: Which is better between changing Nameservers and changing DNS "A" Records?

text: I have my hosting on Godaddy and domain on another server. So I was thinking which would be a better option to point the domain to Godaddy hosting   1. Change the name server to that of godaddy.    2. Change the DNS "A" Record on the site where I have bought the domain. thanks... /neer www.technimi.com


title: Does Google Analytic count mismatching/unconfigured URLs?

text: Say url `www.mysite.com` is registered in Google Analytics and the tracking ID is `UA-12345678-90`. What happens if another site with URL `www.anothersite.com` uses this ID too? Does analytic count visits from both sites or does it only take visits from `www.mysite.com` into account? What happens if there is a redirect from `www.anothersite.com` to `www.mysite.com`?


title: More or less accurate online tool to estimate other's website traffic

text: I am looking for a free online traffic estimation tool. I have seen statshow, WebDetail and Yandaloo, but they are giving quite different results for a given URL. Can anyone recommend a tool providing more or less accurate estimations of traffic for a given URL? Thanks. **P.S.:** Else, can someone check their website against the result provided by those tools and tell whether anyone is close to reality? Thanks.


title: Small and free animated icons

text: Anyone knows a good resource on the web with animated icons? Like animated pencil or something like that. Thanks ;)


title: Unusual Spike in Traffic

text: My site received unusual spike of traffic today and they are all from the US, which is outside of my market. My site normally gets about 70-80 daily entrances according to Google Analytics, but there were 350 direct traffic today, and mainly from the states. Could it be someone is trying to hack into my site? If so, what actions could I make to avoid my site from being hacked? Thanks, J


title: Downloaded file is from stale cache

text: I've FTPed a new installer file (for an app I'm maintaining) up to a server on the web, replacing the old installer file. My boss has already sent an email to our users saying "get the new installer from this URL on Monday". The URL looks like "http://app.ourwebsite.com/downloads/installer.zip". I'm afraid I can't give you the real URL because there's some sensitive information up there. When I visit the URL though, I get the old installer. This happens in any of my browsers (FF, IE, Chrome), regardless of whether I clear the browser cache, used the browser before to download the file, close and re-open the browser. If I change the capitalisation of any letter of the file-name part of the URL, I get the new installer. What's going on here? And more importantly, how do I fix it so that when people visit the URL my boss sent out (in its original capitalisation), they get the right file?


title: How to Automate Checking for Stolen Content?

text: So I know about tools like Copyscape and Google Alerts.. great tools, but it's quite tedious for me to copy and paste an URL or phrase for every one of my pages in my sites. Is there any tool out there that monitors your website and emails you or alerts you whenever someone has stolen content from your site? The only service I know is CopySentry and honestly, it's too expensive for me since I got thousands of pages I want to monitor... Anyone else have this problem? or is it just me? Thanks for any help.


title: Google AdSense - set minimum CPC?

text: I have a sports site. It was making like $0.75 per click for couple of months. Now suddenly, average CPC has dropped to $0.5 or even $0.4. Sometimes, I even see $0.2 or $0.08 per click. Is there an option to set minimum CPC for your ads as a publisher? I can't find it anywhere on AdSense but competitors like Adbrite seem to have it.


title: About 80-100 external links on a page? Should I just drop the page for SEO?

text: I have a page on my website that has a bulleted list. In each bullet, there is an external link, and there are about 80-100 links (80-100 bullets) in that list. That list links to all of the SWFs for a specific game, and it is available for my readers. The template for the page is like the following: > [Small paragraph] > > **`<h2>`Title** > > [Small paragraph] > > **`<h3>`Title** > >   * Apple: apple.swf >   * Pear: pear.swf > > > **`<h3>`Title** > >   * Lemon: lemon.swf >   * Banana: 492.swf > This type of formatting repeats for the entire page, and then there is a small conclusion paragraph. Note that there are 80-100 of these type of links, and they all lead outside the site. So now I think I have two options: to edit the page completely, or to delete it (if so, that would be alright).


title: Why Google search displays only the English title of a bilingual website?

text: My website is in two languages; English and Turkish. I used Resources.resx files to create this bilingual website, and my filenames are:                   Resources.resx (default which is Turkish)         Resources.tr-TR.resx (for Turkish only)         Resources.en-EN.resx (for English only)      The homepage title is supposed to be Turkish because default title is Turkish.                   MyWebSite.Resources.Resources.HomePageTitle;       So, in Google search I expect to see the Turkish title because "HomePageTitle" has Turkish title by default. But all I see is the English result of my search; my website's English title comes on screen and when I click the result, the page opens in Turkish, however. Any tips on what I can do to get the search result in default language and not in English?


title: How can I fix an Apache redirect loop

text: I have a strange Apache/WordPress redirect loop that I can't seem to figure out. Here is the relevant logs and other info: http://pastebin.com/E1afW2vw It seems that the page request gets made, and it tries to redirect to the proper directory based on the Alias given in the httpd.conf file. But when it tries to replace back the given URL, it fails to recognize that the directory is an alias and doubles up the base directory (/blog/blog/). Any ideas what might be causing this? And how to fix it? Also... the .htaccess file is located in the root of the /wp directory that is aliased to /blog


title: How to block certain pages/files of a web domain?

text: How do I make certain pages only viewable by me? For example, let's say I own `mydomain.com`, and I want to be the only one that can see `mydomain.com/mypage.php`. I tried changing the permissions of the file to 700, but then I just get a 'you don't have permission' error when I try to access it. Any ideas?


title: Where to find ISP abuse email databases?

text: I have a number of abusive IPs visiting my website, and I want to write a quick script to send automatic email to their ISP, is the any place I can get abuse emails for the ISP automatically, it is an issue, because arin whois result does not hold any email contact for the ISP. I checked maxmind.com and their ISP table has no email table


title: What are the best tools available for SEO?

text: I am Using IISSEO tool that gives a report after analyzing our website. The report also contains recommondations to fix the violations in the web site. but, my doubt is that fixing the bugs is enough task for SEO specialist otherwise does he has any extra functionality?


title: How to run WordPress and Java web app running on Tomcat on the same server?

text: I have to run a WordPress site served via Apache2 & Java-based webapp using Tomcat on the same server. When users come to `example.com` or `example.com/public-pages` they need to served from **WordPress** but when they come to `example.com/private-pages` they need to be served from the **Tomcat**. I have asked this question on serverfault where they suggested using different port, different IP & sub-domain. I want to go for `different port` solution since it will mean I need to buy only one SSL certificate. I tried doing the reverse proxy method by having the following in my `default- ssl.conf`                   <VirtualHost _default_:443>                 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost                 ServerName localhost:443                      DocumentRoot /var/www                      <Directory /var/www>                 #For Wordpress                         Options FollowSymLinks                         AllowOverride All                 </Directory>                      <Proxy *>                         Order deny,allow                         Allow from all                 </Proxy>                      ProxyRequests           Off                 ProxyPass               /private-pages       ajp://localhost:8009/                 ProxyPassReverse        /private-pages       ajp://localhost:8009/                           SSLEngine on                 SSLProxyEngine On                           SSLCertificateFile      /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt                 SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key              </VirtualHost>       As you have noticed I am using `mod_proxy_ajp` in Apache2 for this. And that my Tomcat is listening to port `8009` and then serving content. So now when I go to `example.com/private-pages` I am seeing the content from my Tomcat. But 2 issues are happening.   1. All my static resources are getting 404-ed, so none of my images, CSS, js are getting loaded. I see that the browser is requesting for the resources using URL `example.com/css/*` This will clearly not work because it translates to `example.com:80/css/*` instead of `example.com:8009/css/*` & there are no such resources in the WordPress directory.   2. If I go to `example.com/private-pages/abcd` I am somehow kicked to the WordPress site (which obviously displays a 404 page). I can understand why #1 is happening but have no clue why the #2 is happening. Regardless, if there is another clean solution for resolving this, I would appreciate y'alls help.


title: I keep getting blacklisted.

text: I have just purchased a VPS with Centos 6 and I have installed ZPanel on it. I have created a mailbox and everything seemed to work perfectly for a few days however, suddenly my mail stopped working. I did some basic troubleshooting and discovered that I was blacklisted (CBL). I immediately did a virus scan with CLAMAV and everything was fine. I also created a reverse DNS record and then removed myself from the blacklist. All was well for two days and now, I am back on the list. FYI: the domain is strongimages.net What things should I do to stop getting listed?


title: Setting Default Page for CodeIgniter Site WordPress in Another Directory

text: I'm the developer for a website with Analytics already set up and the Default Page is set to index.php. This is because it is built with the PHP Framework CodeIgniter. I'm confused about and have questions about a few things... GA shows /index.php as the main page, then for about 10% of the results of inner pages it will append index.php to the end of the URL and nothing at the end of the rest of them (no trailing slash). Why is that? And my main concern, WordPress is installed in another directory (/articles) and GA shows and /index.php on every page for WordPress. Of course, those pages come up as 404s if I put them in my browser with the /index.php. Are visitors seeing those 404 pages or is GA just adding that /index.php because it's set as the Default Page? What's the best way for me to set this up in GA under these circumstances?


title: Upgrading website from XHTML 1.0 Transitional to HTML 5: how can it affect SERP positions?

text: We have an enough old but still supported website which is XHTML 1.0 Transitional now. We are going to change it to HTML 5 to add some new features in the future (microdata, `<header>`/`<footer>` tags, etc). At the moment, we are planning just change the doctype to `<!doctype html>` and do some polishing to make our website fully compatible with HTML 5 standard. How can this doctype change affect our SERP positions and other things related to SEO?


title: Redirecting from a dynamic URL to a prettier/simple URL?

text: I am trying to redirect a page via my .htaccess, but it does not seem to be working. Old page: /dyn/?q=customer%20reference&f=1,1,1,1,1,1&c=10,10,10,10,10,10&s=1,1,1,1,1,1,1&st=1 New page: /customer-references/ So it should be as simple as this:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^q=customer(?:[\ +]|%20)reference&f=1$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^dyn/$ /1? [R=301,NE,NC,L]      But it does not seem to be working. Is it because the original page's dynamic URL? The new page is actually a different physical php page if that matters. BTW, I also tried a straight 301 Redirect in the .htaccess. That didn't seem to work either:               redirect 301 /dyn/?q=customer%20reference&f=1,1,1,1,1,1&c=10,10,10,10,10,10&s=1,1,1,1,1,1,1&st=1 /customer-references/      And another failed attempt was this:               RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^customer%20reference&f=1,1,1,1,1,1&c=10,10,10,10,10,10&s=1,1,1,1,1,1,1&st=1$     RewriteRule ^$ http://www.domain.com/customer-references/? [R=301,L]      Am I making this more difficult than it needs to be?


title: Javascript slider with fade

text: I've been scouring the web for a slider that offers a particular effect, but I can't find one. I'm hoping that someone here will be able to help out... Specifically, I need a slider that will slide left and right through a series of HTML DIVs. However, I also need the old slide to fade out as it slides. This is because I don't what to have a visible frame around the the slider, so I don't want the old slide to be cropped against an invisible edge. It's hard to explain in words, so here's a graphic. In each case the green slide is entering the view, the red one is existing. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/5Da3O.png) Is possible, I'd like the slide to use CSS3 transitions where available for the smoothest possible effect. Has only ever come across such a beast?


title: cname forward from https to http

text: We are migrating web host and I wonder if it is possible in the migration phase to do a CNAME forward from `https://address1.com` to `http://address2.com`. Would the certificate still work even if the new domain doesn't have SSL yet?


title: Have UserDir enabled but also want to rewrite url if called differently

text: I am setting up a new server for our users to use have have personal webspace on. I have in my httpd.conf of apache the directives for UserDir as follows               UserDir disabled root     UserDir public_html      This has allowed ``http://myserver/~user/`` requests to work but I am also looking to set it up so the pages can be accessed via ``http://myserver/users/username`` How can this be done? I had thought about mod_rewrite rule but have thus far been unsuccessful. EDIT: Essentnally I am looking to take the ``http://myserver/users/username`` requests and either point them or rewrite them to ``http://myserver/~user/`` whether it changes in the address bar is irrelevant at this time.


title: How can mixed content compromise an entire HTTPS session?

text: Google Chrome is probably one of the stricter browsers out there in terms of highlighting SSL errors. Most browsers will point out when you are viewing an HTTPS page which loads insecure images/Javascript, I understand how this is a security issue - an attacker could have modified the non-SSL content in a way which gives them access to the secure content, injected some javascript for example. However once you have viewed an HTTPS page with mixed content, Google Chrome will continue showing you the mixed content warning (a red line through the 'https://') for as long as you stay browsing the same domain, even for subsequent pages which only include other HTTPS resources. Only once you navigate to another domain, or open a fresh tab does it tell you you're secure again. What is the danger it's protecting you from here? How could mixed content on a previous page _actually_ affect the security of subsequent secured pages? I understand that mixed content should be flagged up, but there must be a specific reason that Google is persisting this warning, other than "Well you _still_ need to know about it"


title: phpbb3 email settings for Zoho SMTP server

text: I've spent a while guessing and googling, and haven't found an answer. In the past I setup my forums to send via my Gmail account, but spambots with fake emails have flooded my inbox, so I setup noreply@domain.net with Zoho mail. Zoho works great, but I need to have my installation of phpbb3 send mass emails through the smtp.zoho.com mail server, and I can't figure out what settings I should use. The instructions on https://www.zoho.com/mail/help/pop- access.html are a little vague for anything that doesn't auto-detect the exact settings.


title: Using gmail / Google apps affecting ranking

text: In the company i work in our boss has told us to stop using gmail for any kind of company communications including not using google apps anymore. He said that he was told that with the new Google policy they're reading user e-mails (we all knew that) and that they will use that info to see if a user is trying to buy traffic, linksharing, etc, you know, the kind of seo optimization / traffic stuff that google doesn't likes. And he said that that will affect the ranking now. More in detail: according to him, an e-mail from a business partner telling me to buy sites for traffic, will impact my seo ranking the same way that people exchanging links through e-mail does. My opinion is that this is paranoid. Yes Google could do it, but they would need lots of logic to detect possible emails about user conversations about buying traffic. But more, no sofware can detect that with accuracy, only a human can then somebody would have to read the e-mail at google's. And that is privacy invasion. And not only that, i can't imagine the amount of people reading who-knows-how-many e-mails. Plus, like i said it would too close to the privacy boundary. Why would google invest millions in this while they can easily improve their algorithm (like penguin) ? What do you think. Is is highly likely ?


title: 301 redirect causes issue in web tools for analysis of performance in Pingdom

text: I was googling all over the pages, trying to find what could be wrong before trying to contact the developers at tools.pingdom.com, gtmetrix.com, juxseo.com, and other sites. Since I have changed my .htaccess file to handle the 301 redirection, forwarding mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com, those web tools do not work proper anymore. Here is my .htaccess of my php application hosted at cpanel.               IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* */robots* */oc-admin*          <Limit GET POST>     order deny,allow     deny from all     allow from all     </Limit>     <Limit PUT DELETE>     order deny,allow     deny from all     </Limit>          AuthName mydomain.com     AuthUserFile /host/mycpanelusername/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd     AuthGroupFile /host/mycpanelusername/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp          RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /~mybasefolder/     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /~mybasefolder/index.php [L]          #maybe this is causing issues to pingdom.com     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$     RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain\.com\/" [R=301,L]          #set the charset and not in html (a best practice)     AddDefaultCharset utf-8      _So, anyone maybe could give me a clue?_ here is the pingdom result after adding the Rewrite statements ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BGCbL.png)


title: How to Edit Simple Flat CSV Text Files Online?

text: For a new website a team of translators will be editing each their own comma separated text files, files like `de.txt` `fr.txt` `cn.txt` etc. All such files reside in one and the same directory. Each file contains lines of plain text: on every line there are English word(s) then after a delimiter character like `;` the translation in German or French etc. follows. there are about twenty of these txt files. I would like to open up the access to such files, by allowing the translators to go online and then login in to some kind of simple plain-text-editor. Be able to read the English text and edit/correct the translations themselves, instead of manual labour cpy pasting from faxes microsoft word document and god knows what other ancient technlogies! **QUESTIONS**   * What solution/technique(s) would you advise me to use here?   * Are there ready-to-implement solutions, or do i have to reinvent the weel?   * Would a single php program file suffice? and do the job in this directory?   * Or does it need to be in ajax for a live feeling?


title: Is it safe to delete a site from Google Webmaster Tools?

text: We have a site registered with the Google Webmaster Tools, but recently due to some problems we have to shutdown the site temporary. As as a result, links indexed by the Google are becoming invalid. I want to know is it safe to delete the site from Google Webmaster Tools temporary and then re-enter the site when we start it again. Will Google crawl it again once we delete the site from it?


title: Appropriate designation for a personal email address at yourname.com

text: Say your name is John Doe, and you own johndoe.com. What are the best practices for identifying your personal email at that domain?   * john@johndoe.com is redundant   * me@johndoe.com seems a bit juvenile   * info@johndoe.com and webmaster@johndoe.com are too impersonal Am I missing a more appropriate alternative? (I know this is on the fringe, but I'm hoping it's just north of objective--or at least interesting enough to the community to get some good feedback.)


title: Should I accept the outsiders blog content creators offerings?

text: It's become quite common to receive offers of blog-posts content for a dynamic website. Some of these offers are unrelated, and of-course shouldn't be published. However, I did get some related offers and wondering about them. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume this tactic is basically an up-to-date black-hat SEO, that is creating real content with links to sites they are trying to improve ranking for. This makes me wonder, can it hurt my site if I include these blog-posts? Of- course I'm only referring to posts that seem relevant to my audience.


title: Is it safe to redirect to ajax enabled content if its not google bot visiting?

text: At a webshop I'm currently working on I have several links that show a fancybox with product information. The link works without ajax, it shows the same content as the fancybox links etc will not work. My question is this, is it considered bad/blackhat to redirect everyone except googlebot back to the page showing the link with a parameter that calls up the fancybox. eg:               if (($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'] != "XMLHttpRequest") && !preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp|msnbot)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {              header("HTTP/1.1 302 Found");         header("location: " . conf("url:site")."index.php?menu_id=".$_GET['menu_id']."&idproduct=".$_GET['idproduct']."&idlist=".$_GET['idlist']."&fb=1");         die();     }


title: How to properly implement 300 Multiple Choices pages for SEO?

text: At the moment, when a URL isn't found, I'm serving a 404 page which shows a list of partially|fully matched alternative pages that the user is may looking for, without saying that is an error page. If no any similar page is found, I show instead the Not Found error message. Basically what I just do there is searching pages that match the "keywords" in the URL and show the list, instead showing the error. Now, instead serving it as 404 I want to know if I can make improve my SEO returning a 300 Multiple Choices status code instead, which to me seems exactly what I'm doing already. Will these pages be indexed by Google? If yes, should I allow that? Many generated URLs may be actually useful to be found in Google SERPs, since that "disambiguation page" will implicitly explain differences between two or more similar resources... but I'm worried of people appending bad words in the URLs and linking to those, just for to manipulate my ranking.


title: Can I use the words Python, Ruby, or Perl in a domain name?

text: I was wondering, can I use any of the following words in a commercial domain relating to that specific industry? `www.xxxxxPython.com` Python doesn't seem to be trademarked as this word and also there seems to be other websites using it in their name. `www.xxxxxPerl.com` This seems copyrighted and almost certainly not likely. `www.xxxxxRuby.com` Ruby is sometimes called Ruby on Rails. Again it seems to be used on other commercial sites, but that doesn't mean it is OK to use. My question is, am I going to be alright to run a commercial site using any of these domains, or is having these words in my domain ultimately going to cause me issues?


title: mod_rewrite works within directory not on root

text: I am having a problem with my RewriteRule for the querystring portion. What I am able to debug is that the rule is being triggered at least because the page "tags.php" is being rendered but without the URL parameters. This .htaccess file with the rules is within the root folder for my sub-domain and has the following content:               # Enable Rewriting       RewriteEngine on            # Rewrite rule for tags     RewriteRule ^tags/(\w+)/(\d+)/?$ tags.php/?tag_name=$1&tag_id=$2 [L]     RewriteRule ^tags/(\w+)/?$ tags.php?tag_name=$1    [L]     RewriteRule ^tags/?$ tags.php?tag_name= [L]      A similar .htaccess file exists for a directory within my sub domain which is working as expected with the necessary URL parameters also being available. The .htaccess file within the directory reads as follows:               # Rewrite rule for tags     RewriteRule ^tags/(\w+)/(\d+)/?$ restAPI.php?type=tags&tag_name=$1&tag_id=$2          RewriteRule ^tags/(\w+)/?$ restAPI.php?type=tags&tag_name=$1         RewriteRule ^tags/?$ restAPI.php?type=tags&tag_name=      Can anyone see a problem with my RewriteRules? I am also facing an _Internal Server Error_ sometimes which I am second guessing is due to the same problem. I have Apache version 2.2.23 on my shared hosting. **Update** I have following folder structure   /sub-domain root   |-- .htaccess   |-- tags.php   |-- article.php   |-- index.php   |-- folders for Images and JavaScript   As suggested by schwarzbrot I also tried changing the rewrite rule associated with _'tags.php'_ but to my surprise linking it to files which didn't even exist didn't give me any error.


title: Joomla "People/Group matcher"?

text: I run a website for rowing club and was asked if there is a possibility to integrate a "people/group matching" functionality, such that people can organize themselves into rowing groups. Specifically a "I look for a group" resp. "We look for a person"-like functionality. Searchability for custom fields would be a plus. I have looked through the Joomla extensions page, however nothing stood out to me. Does anyone of you happen to know a module/component (or web service) that provides such a service? Kind regards, Patrick


title: Google Webmaster Tools suddenly shows 1379 crawl errors

text: Just checking GWT today and it's suddenly showing 1,379 crawl errors (404) but for the most non-sensical URL's that don't exist, for example...               www.example.com/services/newsletters/services/contact      The only changes I've made recently have been setting the preferred domain to 'www' and updating the .htaccess file to redirect to 'www' as Google was showing some results with 'www' and some without. This is my .htaccess file               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On              # Trailing slash enforcement              RewriteBase /         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1/ [L,R=301]              # Returns WWW              RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com         RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]               # Removes index.php              RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]              #Redirects old static .html pages to EE CMS              Redirect 301 /services.html /services          Redirect 301 /take-away.html /services/take-away         Redirect 301 /blog.html /blog         Redirect 301 /about.html /about         Redirect 301 /pin-up-studio.html /pin-up-studio         Redirect 301 /press.html /press         Redirect 301 /links.html /links         Redirect 301 /newsletter.html /newsletter         Redirect 301 /events.html /events         Redirect 301 /contact.html /contact         Redirect 301 /terms-and-conditions.html /terms-and-conditions         Redirect 301 /parties.html /services/party-package         Redirect 301 /gallery.html /gallery         Redirect 301 /bridal.html /services/bridal-styling         Redirect 301 /404.html /404          </IfModule>      Any ideas what I'd done wrong? **EDIT** So another 379 crawl errors have appeared in the last day. When I check the 'linked from' status it says it is being linked from the website itelf. An example is this URL is not found...               http://www.example.com/services/contact.html/bridal-styling/bridal-styling/services/party-package/take-away/contact/pop-up-parlour/bridal-styling       ...and lists these 2 URL's as the 'linked from'               http://example.com/services/contact.html/bridal-styling/bridal-styling/services/party-package/take-away/contact/pop-up-parlour          http://www.example.com/services/contact.html/bridal-styling/bridal-styling/services/party-package/take-away/contact/pop-up-parlour/      As I said before the only changes I've made recently have been setting the preferred domain to 'www' and updating the .htaccess file to redirect to 'www' as Google was showing some results with 'www' and some without. My .htaccess file is as above. It seems the bots seem to have got stuck in a loop when crawling the site? Not sure why it's getting hung up on the www and non www as I've specifically stated in GWT to use www.


title: Moving MySQL database to another server

text: I have a website build using Q2A engine Since I have about 600 active users there, I'm trying to create a copy of it on a second server for test purposes only. I've copied all the files and exported the website (about 28MB raw SQL / 8MB .gz file), but when I'm trying to import it on a new server I get the error:               SELECT USER(     );                    MySQL returned error:       #2006 - MySQL server has gone away      What could go wrong? I've tried several methods: importing raw sql file, gz file, importing on clean database, import on top of installed fresh copy of q2a etc... always the same error.


title: Buying a custom domain for blogger

text: I'm about to move my blogger site to a custom domain. I do all the steps as told but whenever I find the perfect custom domain (that is free) I get redirected to Google apps for business. Is it necessary to get Google apps for business before buying a custom domain? If I start a free trial of Google apps for business and cancel before the trial period expires, will my custom domain still be valid?


title: Google Analytics data Missing for 4 days

text: I used wrong tracking id in my E-commerce tracking code for Google analytics and missed the data for few days. To add that missing data in my account I have written a short script which manually send all orders data for four days to GA account but what my concern is date : Those orders which already placed on different dates and , when if I run my script and so it will send my missing data with current date , which I do not want. ( I want to send date when that order is actually placed) do anyone help me with this ? I am really much stuck with my work here.


title: How to scan files for malware as they are uploaded to the website?

text: My website got hacked, and I was able to locate the bad scripts the hacker entered and remove them. I am aware that there are services available to scan your site for malware. I was wondering if there is any way to scan all the files as they are uploaded via FTP? It would be ideal to ensure that there are no viruses, bad iframes, or bad scripts when hackers try to upload files.


title: Find the traffic stats of a specific page in Google Analytics

text: I use Google Analytics to monitor one of my Websites. However, I have a problem and I cannot monitor the stats with the way I should. What I mean... I have a page which a user can use a link with get parameters to autofill a form. Let's say that I have a page like this one: `www.mywebsite.com/mypage` On the history (and on realtime stats) I have different stats for:               www.mywebsite.com/mypage     www.mywebsite.com/mypage?param=123     www.mywebsite.com/mypage?param=234     www.mywebsite.com/mypage?param=345     ...     ...      There are several parameters and I cannot check them one by one. I would expect a stats page which will present stats for `www.mywebsite.com/mypage` and for any same link with parameters as one page. Is there any way to do this?


title: Mapping different users to folders with mod_rewrite

text: I'm setting up a DAV server with Apache 2.2 and would like, if at all possible, to be able to redirect a user to their own folder without having per-user URLs, if at all possible. So I point a user to `https://dav.example.org/`, I have authentication enabled (AuthType Digest, AuthDigestProvider file) so the user logs in, and then content is served from `/home/%{REMOTE_USER}/dav`. Or that's the theory anyway. The problem is I can't get it to work. The basic rule (at least to start with - I know this won't necessarily redirect everything, but if I can get the root folder to work and at least get an index of files, I can tweak the reg-ex later):               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.*)     RewriteRule ^/        /home/%1/dav/      The problem is that the lookahead doesn't seem to work - it always returns an empty string (I'm running with `RewriteLogLevel 5`, and get "`RewriteCond: input='' pattern='(.*)' => matched`" in the log). I know I'm logged in with a username as I can see the user in the appropriate field in access_log. I've also tried moving this into .htaccess, but it didn't seem to play there (the rewrite engine didn't seem to even start); similarly, it didn't play under a config in the main config file (again, it looked like it failed to process any of the rules). I had some success with it under in that the remote-user was successfully mapped, but then it got stuck in a recursive loop (error log tells me " _Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary._ ", and then I read in the manual that wasn't really supported anyway[1], so I'm rejecting that path. It looks like what I'm doing _should_ be straightforward, but I'm failing to see what I'm missing. Trying to keep config/log snippets brief here to keep question tidy - can add snippets on request. [1] The manual for mod_rewrite in 2.2 says "Although rewrite rules are syntactically permitted in and sections, this should never be necessary and is unsupported." * * * **EDIT** ... this is the virtual site config (I've got a number of virtual sites, so I'm assuming that the root httpd.conf isn't needed)               <VirtualHost *:443>         SSLEngine on         SSLProtocol -ALL +TLSv1         SSLCertificateFile <edited out>         SSLCertificateKeyFile <edited out>         SSLCACertificateFile <edited out>         SSLCertificateChainFile <edited out>         SSLHonorCipherOrder On         SSLCipherSuite RC4-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA              ServerAdmin admin@localhost         DocumentRoot /var/www/dav.example.org         ServerName dav.example.org         ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/dav.example.org.errlog         CustomLog /var/log/apache2/dav.example.org.log combined         RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/dav.example.org.rewritelog         RewriteLogLevel 5         LogLevel debug              <Location />                 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks                 Order allow,deny                 Allow from all                 Dav On                      AuthName DAV                 AuthType Digest                 AuthDigestProvider file                 AuthUserFile /tmp/dig                      <LimitExcept OPTIONS>                         # Testing only - running single-user                         Require user cej                 </LimitExcept>         </Location>              RewriteEngine On         RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.*)         RewriteRule ^/        /home/%1/dav/     </VirtualHost>


title: How can I find the approximate daily traffic of a site which I don't own?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is there any way to discover the traffic of a site I don’t control? I want to find the approximate daily traffic of a site which isn't ours, and the site is located in other country than US (in Greece - hence no Quantcast or Compete.com afaik) and it doesn't use Google Ads (hence no Google Ad Planner). I know about Alexa but the site(s) has/have relatively low traffic and the Alexa's rank isn't very useful (same stands to Google Trends). Or perhaps I should look more at Alexa's data? Any other ideas? PS: I looked before posting here and here. No luck.


title: SEO & Reordering of duplicate content

text: I am currently working on a website, and the designer wants a menu that is setup like this:   * Toplevel1   * Toplevel2      * submenu1     * submenu2     * submenu3   * Toplevel3   * Toplevel4 All menu items have a title and content. When the user clicks toplevel2, the page needs to show all titles and content of the child submenus like so: Title for submenu1 content.... Title for submenu2 content.... Title for submenu3 content.... etc.. If the user instead clicks directly on submenu2, the exact same content should be displayed but with the selected submenu title and content placed first, like this: Title for submenu2 content.... Title for submenu1 content.... Title for submenu3 content.... etc.. Although I could get into a general discussion as to weather or not this is good design, my actual question is: Does this hurt SEO? They are all gonna have different URLS:               www.domain.com/submenu1 www.domain.com/submenu2      etc.. The thing is, I can't just do canonical redirect, since the order of the content still differs between url's. (I posted this question on stack overflow first, but was asked to post it here instead.)


title: 404 crawl error for mailto:info@mydoamin.co.uk in Google Webmaster Tools

text: I'm getting a 404 crawl error for `mailto:info@mydoamin.co.uk`, in Google webmaster tools under the health > crawl errors. Surly Google should see that `mailto:` is related to an email not a webpage.. The HTML I'm using for the mailto on my page is `<a href="mailto:mailto:info@mydoamin.co.uk">info@mydoamin.co.uk</a>` What's the best way to resolve this? Is mailto still widely used or is there a newer alternative ?


title: I'm receiving this error when I point my domain names to a new VPS host: "You must enter a registered nameserver"

text: Why am I getting this error message when I point my domain names from my old host to a new VPS host: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ScmMa.jpg) **knowing that My dns is already registered in my new VPS host!** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/uveF2.jpg)


title: Can I get multiple subdomains for different dns?

text: I have a domain registered with a domain vendor and hosting provider. I tried out with 000webhost as hosting service, so I changed my domain settings to the **000webhost dns addresses**. At 000webhost I can generate as much **subdomains** as I want. So I can get for example:   * subdomain1.mydomain.com   * koala.mydomain.com   * mexico.mydomain.com   * ... But as 000webhost is Apache, PHP MySQL based here comes one of my needings: What if I want to have something like:   * rubyonrails.mydomain.com   * nodejs.mydomain.com That's **subdomains for different technologies**. And I assume I'd look for a free hosting service based on such different technologies. I'd need to deal with their dns for each subdomain. As I know, the immediate solution to this are **CNAMES** , I contacted my domain service provider and they told I should change dns settings to theirs and they'd create as much CNAMES registers and I wanted but I'm not sure this would fix the main hosting with 000webhost, the subdomains for different technologies and the subdomain for a blog hosting. What's the right solution for this and, if anyone knows, does godaddy permit to create any CNAMES registers as intended?


title: I have an old domain that I'm retiring. How do I set up a permanent redirect from the old domain to the new one?

text: I originally posted this as one of the defining questions for the site so I thought I'd ask it again. Currently I have DNS for both domains pointing to the same place but I'd like to set up a permanent redirect from the old one to the new one for any lingering links out in the wild.


title: "Access denied" error in Google Webmaster tools

text: I have an access denied problem in my webmaster tools. It says 404 errors. How can I solve this? I have already fixed the errors, but they are not removed from Google Webmaster Tools.


title: Apache FilesMatch regexp: Can it match by the cache buster 10 digit (rails generated) following the filename?

text: According to the apache FilesMatch docs: > The FilesMatch directive provides for access control by filename Basically, I only want to set an expires header for resources that have a 10 digit "cache buster" id appended to the name. So, here is my attempt at such a thing in my httpd.conf               <FilesMatch "(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css)\?\d{10}$">         ExpiresActive On         ExpiresDefault "now plus 5 minutes"     </FilesMatch>      And here is an example of a resource I want to match:               http://localhost:3000/images/of/elvis/eating-a-bacon-sandwich.png?1306277384      Now obviously my FilesMatch regexp is not matching so I am guessing 1 of 2 things is happening. Either my regexp is wonky or the '?1231231231' cache busting part of the file is not part of what apache considers part of the filename. Can anybody confirm and/or give me a way to cache only those resources that will not persist beyond the next deploy?


title: Is Cherokee, Mono, and Linux truly a viable alternative to Windows and IIS for production ASP.NET web sites?

text: I have played with Apache and Mono and .NET on Linux in the past, but I have yet to deploy any significant production sites to that stack. I recently found Cherokee and an article about enabling FastCGI Mono support and wondered if anyone had any good or bad war stories about delivering ASP.NET on a Linux stack.


title: Domain name never return requested path/document, only /index.html

text: I have my own web server and I purchased domain name to use it with my website. For example - my domain name is `www.example.com` When I navigate to `www.example.com/example.html` (or `www.example.com/example`) I will always be redirected to `178.xx.xx.xx/index.html`. I was able to implement navigation within my website using relative links, but when I do so it would not show the correct URL (for example, I am on `www.example.com/index.html` page, and I navigate to `/example.html` - URL bar would show `www.example.com/index.html` instead of `www.example.com/example.html`) If I navigate to `178.xx.xx.xx/example.html` manually, it opens the right page, so I assume that my server works correctly. I am using Debian with Apache for my web server. For my domain I redirect `www.example.com` to `http://178.xx.xx.xx/` with cloak. From all above I assume the problem is with my domain configuration, as I tried my friend domain name, and it worked correctly.


title: no-www redirect not working / DNS A record

text: I'm far from an expert on this, but I'll try to be as clear as possible. I have an eshop solution leased from a company and it's hosted on their server. I can access it thru company.com/myshop and it also allows me to set up to 3 domains that they should recognize and redirect to my specific shop from. I registered a domain with a different company and am trying to "redirect" it to the eshop. By means of one of the following DNS entries (as they look in the admin GUI)   * * A 111.111.111.111   * *.myshop.com A 111.111.111.111   * myshop.com A 111.111.111.111  I've managed to make www.myshop.com redirect to the IP of company.com (111.111.111.111), which then goes on to do exactly what I expect it to do (ie. recognizes it comes from my domain, does some further redirects itself). However, I **can't seem to make myshop.com** (ie. without the www) **redirect** to that IP, too. The company that I registered the domain with provides a "URL redirect" service, but google would only register the redirect request and wouldn't follow it. That's why I hope for a DNS solution to this - my assumption being I've managed to miss adding a record to the DNS; if, however, the reason lies elsewhere, I'd be happy to hear about that too. If it's a search engine friendly solution (ie the www/no-www dilemma - avoidance of double content penalties), then that's even better; have no prefference either way (www/no- www), just need it to work. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks


title: Interesting domain name fraud - can we get domain back from the fraudster?

text: I am the author of a quite popular weather software - YoWindow. Our website is http://yowindow.com Today I have found out that some person has registered http://yowindows.com domain, the difference is in "S" at the end. Now he is trying to sell our product as affiliate on this page. I have absolutely no knowledge in the field of domain name legislation. So I ask you for help. I wonder if we can take away the domain from the person. Can we claim the domain ownership to us, to avoid this happening in the future? YoWindow is US registered trademark. And there are no any other product with the name YoWindow in the world. So we can prove our rights to the name. Pasha


title: What does the Google Analytics Average Time on Site calculate?

text: When my Google Analytics account shows 10 minutes for time spent on site, what does this mean? Does it mean the visitors have opened one page and left it idling in a tab while (possibly) browsing in another tab? Or does it mean they have been browsing my site for 10 minutes straight with at least a certain amount of actions within a specific amount of time? I couldn't find any explanations of what exactly it is they measure.


title: Can I use RDFa with HTML5?

text: Can I use RDFa with HTML5?


title: Is it o.k. to have a domain name which happens to also be the title of a book?

text: For example, I would like to use the domain "stuckinthemiddle.com", but "Stuck in the Middle" is also the title of a book. Can I get sued on copyright terms? I checked this question, and according to it, "Stuck in the middle" would have to be a trademark (which is not, I believe)...


title: how to customize Tracking Ecommerce Transactions with Google Analytics?

text: In the Ecommerce Transactions with Google Analytics, we can code as below:                   _gaq.push(['_addTrans',         '1234',       // order ID         'SitePoint',  // store         '19.99',      // total         '1.50',       // tax         '3.00',       // shipping         'Chicago',    // city         'Illinois',   // state         'USA'         // country     ]);      But I want to implement it for employer registration page where I wont get order_id and total fields. Instead can I use employer_id and company name by replacing oerder_id and store... Will it works ? for reference you can see GA Ecommerce How to use it for employer registration ?


title: certificate for website login

text: Not sure if this belongs here or at serverfault... I've seen websites where, to login to the website, requires a digital certificate to be installed for the user logging in. As far as I can tell, this certificate is in addition to the website using an SSL certificate (https) I'm just looking to be pointed in the right direction on how to code for this (apache / php hopefully), who issues these certificates (must it be a trusted var or can I ?) or even what to search for via google. -Mario