Only IPv6 errors in apache error "file does not exist" (while the file exist in IPv4)

**Situation:** VPS with Apache, multiple websites. Document root is `/var/www/html` but nothing can be found there because the files of the websites are found in `/domains/mywebsite.com/public_html/` **Problem:** I'm getting "file does not exist" errors in the Apache error log and they are always related to clients with an IPv6 address. No errors are shown with an IPv4 (except for the regular hack's on pages that don't exist on my VPS). The files that can't be found are most of the times existing webpages on one of my websites. **Analysis:** I have visited my own webpages with a web browser that the errors are referring to but no problems occur and no extra error log in my Apache error log while I'm visiting those pages (and I use a IPv4 address). Example 1: [client ---IPv6 address---] file does not exist: `/var/www/html/specificwebpage, referrer: https://www.google.be/` The "specific webpage" is one of my webpages of one of my sites (and is rewritten by .htaccess to specificwebpage.php). Example 2: [client ---IPv6 address---] file does not exist: `/var/www/html/css, referrer: http://mywebsite.com/subdirectory/` When I visit this webpage (its rewritten by `.htaccess` to `subdirectory/index.php`) then there are no error seen in my browser and no extra error log line in the Apache log.


Font rendering issue

I realized there are problems about how fonts are rendered in different browsers/OS for a site I'm working on. I'm using Cantarell from Google Web Fonts, size 16px, it that matters. Here is some screenshot. Firefox Ubuntu, good: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/oLPQL.gif) Firefox WinXP, good: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ksHQy.gif) Chrome WinXP, bad: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pct7k.gif) IE WinXP, bad: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/9QgwH.gif) I can assure that in a page full of text the problem manifests greatly. Why this happen? Any trick to fix the issue? **-- EDIT:** I'd like to clarify what the problem is: in Chrome and IE, if you look closely at the `€ 500 stats` part, you will see spurious pixels making the font really ugly.


abusive registration?

I once owned a gTLD domain that was none profit, there were a fair few links around the internet that linked to my site from other respected websites. After my work was complete on this domain, I unfortunately let the domain fall to auction as I did not auto-renew. Now this domain has pornography on it by the new owner and I am very worried as children may click on the links (containing my company name)found around the internet. Please can someone advise me on the best route to sort this out? could this be considered an abusive registration? Thank you very much for your help.


Error in Custom Domain Name for my Tumblr account

I have a top level domain (harib.co.in) which already hosts a WordPress powered blog. I need to associate it with my tumblr account (harihb.tumblr.com). In my blog settings screen, I selected 'Use custom domain name' and entered my domain name there. When I clicked the button "Test your domain", it says               This subdomain’s CNAME is not pointing to Tumblr. You need to change your subdomain’s CNAME to:         domains.tumblr.com      I logged in to my registrar's control panel and deleted the existing A records and added a CNAME record. It finally looks like this               harib.co.in    domains.tumblr.com      After waiting for about a day, I still couldn't get the redirection done. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hzWY5.png) Please let me know what is the mistake that I'm doing? EDIT: Now, I am getting page not found error whenever I try to access harib.co.in which means the CNAME has been validated, right? However, the settings in Tumblr page still gives               This subdomain’s CNAME is not pointing to Tumblr. You need to change your subdomain’s CNAME to:         domains.tumblr.com


Difference between two kinds of Bing URL Referers

Most of the referral URLS that I get from Bing have the following syntax: `http://www.bing.com/search?q=keywords+keywords&[some other variables]` However I just noticed that maybe 10-20% of them are coming in like this: `http://www.bing.com/url?source=search&[some other variables]&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com/user-landing-page-on-my- site&yrktarget=_top&q=keywords+keywords&[some other variables]` The first syntax gives me the keywords the user typed in, but the second actually gives me the keywords the user typed in _and_ their landing page on my site. I was originally unaware of this second kind altogether because I have a customized referral report that filters out URLs containing my domain. But now that I noticed them I want to know why they occur to see if I can get more to occur this way because the second syntax contains more valuable information. If I go to one of the first URLs, it gives me a typical Bing query page. The second URLs seem to just redirect me to the Bing home page. I'm not sure if it has to do with the kind of search being performed (I also get a few `http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=` referers) or some other metric. **Does anyone know what causes some referral URLs from Bing to have the _/search?q_ syntax and others to have the _/url?source_ syntax?** P.S. I have verified that I am getting both kinds of URLs from non-advertising clicks. P.P.S. I am not talking about data in Google Analytics or similar software but the raw $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] value coming from the client's original request.


Preventing download of files while allowing them to be viewed

We have a site with a login area for customers to download documents that the client uploads for them. Got some 'sensitive' documents though that the client is forbidden from making available for download, but are allowed to display in the login area, provided the file can't be downloaded by the user. Obviously as soon as the information is on screen there are ways of capturing it, but I think as long as there's no file > save (or right click > save as) kind of option possible then it's OK. Better still if the information couldn't even be copy / pasted. Any ideas how something like that could be achieved?


How to track HTTP and HTTPS from the same Google Analytics account?

I have a website with tutorials and a discuss forum. The website load on http protocol and the forum load with https for security reasons. For both of them I run the default Google Analytics code, but I saw that the forum it's mot tracked. Besides that, in Analytics, landing pages are noted very weird:               /forum/http://my-address.com      or     /article_id/http://my-address.com     or     category/article_id/http://my-address.com      The tutorial site is like `http://example.com` and the forum is like `https://example.com/forum` Can I track both of them with only one Analytics account?


How do I block US users from my website without interfering with SEO?

My website uses Apache 2.2.14 (which forwards all requests to Tomcat underneath). I need to block all US users from accessing the website (and potentially users from other countries). But importantly I do not want this to interfere with any any Google/Bing/Yahoo indexing and page ranking (the bots must be allowed access). What is the best way to accomplish this?


How to keep a local copy of all images and still serve images from Amazon S3?

I'm using amazon s3 to host assets for my site (mainly images). At the moment when a user uploads an image via a form, the php script uploads the image directly to my bucket on s3. I would like to keep a local copy of every image that's uploaded so that if amazon decides to drop me as a customer for whatever reason, I will at least have all my images to backup from and not have my site be forever lost. Right now I am doing manual backups by downloading all the images that were uploaded at the end of each day via the Control Panel on the AWS site. I'm looking for a better automated way to achieve this. I'm sure there are others that also keep a local copy of assets and use amazon to host just for the CDN benefits. What method/script or tool do you guys use to achieve this?


Should I use a subdomain or subdirectory for a Q & A forum section of a site?

I run a coupons and deals website in a niche market, and I'm in the process of adding a questions and answers section to it. Based on my research, I found popular websites that use either subdomains or subdirectories for the Q & A forum section of their site. What I want to know is, which is a better option, and if there are any advantages of using one over the other?


Should I ping to Google sitemap-index.xml or only the sitemap file that has been modified?

I have a sitemap-index.xml with 7 files. After updating one of the 7 with new content should I ping Google with the index file or with the updated file? In my index I also use lastmod so Google can see when downloading it which item is newest.


How can I measure website page load times from different countries?

Recently, I migrated one of my personal projects into cloud and hosted the app on UK based servers. I reside in Turkey and I would like to see how long it takes for my pages to load for UK based users and those from other countries. I tried to ping the web site but I am getting time outs. I think it is because of the load balancer. Are there any services around that will allow me to monitor my website's page load times around the world?


Is there a way to hide from Alexa?

My competitor is using Alexa to see what I am doing. I need to get rid of my sites from Alexa. How to do so? How to kick out all Alexa toolbar bot requests or mislead them to other places?


Google Webmaster Tools shows invalid data

Webmaster Tools shows 1 URL error (not found page). The report says that 5 pages are linking to a page (let's call it x) that does not exist (and because it doesn't exists it returns a soft 404). HOWEVER, I look in those 5 pages (in the source code) and none is linking to the x page. It is like Google sees an old page that was indeed pointing to x. What is the problem? How do I know if Google cached an old version for those 5 pages?


can source code be downloaded from server?

I am developing an asp.net website and decided not to have a database. I need to store 5 sensitive data so I decided to create 5 private variables on my code. They are well protected and readonly but I am concerned if sourcecode can be accesed or downloaded from the webserver, I mean hacked. The hosting is provided by go daddy with ssl protection. Thank you.


google result only shows canceled domain

I created a blog with blogger. Then I took .tk domain for my blog. However later I bought .com domain. Then I canceled my .tk domain. now google search shows .tk results. But ger error once click that results. Can't find .com doman results. what should I do. Thanks in advance.


How can I create email accounts on my web server?

I'm wondering how to create an `info@domain.com` or any other email account (e.g., `john@domain.com`, `ann@domain.com`). What should I do? I have my domains in GoDaddy, but I would like to not pay for creating emails accounts. I have my sites on a server with Ubuntu + Apache as the web server. I don't have cPanel in my server.


SEO cost of garbage text

For SEO, "Content is King". I wonder what would be the SEO cost of garbage text inserted between descriptive content. The case I have in mind concerns ascii art. Such page would contain consecutive blocks containing a description of the ascii art, followed by the ascii art itself. Example:

here is an hideous kitty

        (%(//    (6%(        /%7%CCGG66%%C        (%7%%G#QO%C%(       /%7%%%OOGC777%/        77(%G6C6GQ%(%/        C67%%776%7%%%         (O%OGQQ#GCC         (77%G6CGQG%(         7%%%%%GQ%%C%/        (%77%%GQ6%%%%(       /#O((%GQGGG%%7(        O%7%%%OOGC%%%%(       (%%77%CGQ@Q%%%(%%/      /C%766OQQ#OQG6C777%(      7%C7%%6GGQGQO6%%%%7%     (7%77%OQ@Q#@#QC%((%%%/     (7%7%%GG(%OQ#Q#QGC%77/      7%77%6OOGQ@#%O6%(7%%/      /77%%6GQ@#QCOQGCO%%(        /(%C6G##@@QOO%%%/           ///(O@#@(/(/                /#@6/                  (GG#/                   /@@O                    /@@6                     Q@O             (      /O@O             @@6 /(QQ@@               (@@6@#

      or maybe worse, instead of `<pre>` element, the ascii art can be composed of consecutive `<span>` in `<div>` in order to set different colors to each part of the art. In both case, the page is full of textual data that are non-sense for a search engine. If this implies a negative impact on SEO, is there a way to tell the search engine to ignore these garbage parts?


Where can I find graphic artists who can draw clean Windows 7/Mac style icons?

Not sure if this should be a community wiki, but I'd like to find some graphic artists who can create beautiful Windows 7 icons (for use on the web)... somewhat similar in style to the image below. Does anyone have suggestions on who has a similar style? ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/iMtlC.png)


Configuring my domains for best search engine results

Couldn't think of a more decent question title, sorry. Basically, I have 3 domain names:               mydomain.com     mydomain.net     mydomain.co.uk      The website is actually hosted at the .co.uk address, using nameserver addresses. What is the best way to deal with the two top-level domains. Do I add the same nameserver addresses to them, so all point at the same place? Or do I do a permanent redirect through my domains control panel? Or do I add a redirect in my windows IIS7 web.config file. What I don't want, in Google listings, is all three domains listed. I just want .com or .net listed, but when visited, it goes to .co.uk site. Any help or suggestions gratefully received.


GPL 3 and "webapps"

I am working on a "webapp" (no content by me, all user driven) and want to license it with the GPL 3. I do plan on having a tarball with the php, html, css, javascript, etc as well as an installer to set up a mysql database for it and some other small stuff so someone else can host a personalized one if they want (like phpbb). The GPL requires that the user be allowed to modify and run the modified software. I obviously cannot allow that on my server, but am not sure if that stopping the user like that violates the terms of the GPL. Also, I do plan on an easy, readable (probably csv) export/import option so the user can move their data around if they want. Is that enough to placate the GPL?


rel="nofollow" SEO effect

Google Webmasters Tools shows `rel="nofollow"` links as a backlink. I believe that `rel="nofollow"` helps SEO and PageRank but according to many people it is not. What is your idea about this? Did you see that `rel="nofollow"` links also helps your rank and SEO?


Family History Website

I want to develop a website that has family history information. Something like Ancestry.com but much simpler. I want to display photos, family tree, have logins and allow members to upload family photos,documents,stories and comments and have tags for the docs and photos and maybe a message board and blog. Also, this is not for the general public but just my extended family. I'd like each person to have their own page with a bio, pics and information. Is there anything that already does something like this? I don't want to waste time writing this if it already exists. thank you I'm familiar with asp.net and php.


htaccess 301 redirect subdirectory one level deeper - why is this not working?

it is probably a stupid question, but I have real troubles figuring out, how to redirect /products to /products/item It is a simple redirect, no regex needed. The toplevel site /products should just always redirect to /products/item I tried:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RedirectMatch 301 /products(.*) /products/item/$1     </IfModule>      I receive the error, that the webserver is redirecting in an infinite loop. That might be because of the rest of the htaccess file. Which looks like that:               # Custom Rules     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RedirectMatch 301 /products(.*) /products/item/$1     </IfModule>          # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # END WordPress      But the strangest thing: When I load the page, I get the error. When I then hit reload, it works??? Thanks for your help! ole


In Joomla how to change the module mod_news_show_gk3?

How can I change the mod_news_show_gk3 module to:   * Change the size of the post image. It uses the first image of the post, but it seems to not be resizing the image.   * Add an extra field: It is important to show in the main page what is the source of the post. I would then like to add an extra field during post editing time, namely "source", and then I would like to show the source below the title and before the text.   * Change the title size. Title is oversized and I couldn't find any way to decrease its size.   * Add a border around the section. Here is the address: `http://central.antinovaordemmundial.com/`.


.htaccess and 301 redirects .co.uk to .com

I want to redirect a `.co.uk` to `.com`:   * `example.co.uk/any-file-or-folder` and   * `example.com/any-file-or-folder` to   * `www.example.com/any-file-or-folder`. I've refered to this question/answer: htaccess and 301 redirects - multiple domains. Which lead me to write:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.co\.uk$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]      Which redirects `example.co.uk` and `example.com` to `www.example.com` just fine but `example.co.uk/test/` does not go to `www.example.com/test/`. Any pointers on where I am going wrong?


How can I redirect URLs in Google App Engine to new ones?

I need to redirect a couple of my old URLs to new ones. I use Google App Engine for deploying my website online. Is _app.yaml_ the only way I can redirect the URLs? I am very new to Python and wish there was another way in which I could redirect my URLs For example: I have changed a couple of my URLs from `www.xxx.com/abc.html` to `www.xxx.com/folder/abc.html`. Since these urls are already indexed by Google and appear in a couple of forums, I want users to be redirected to the new pages when they click the old URLs.


Mail group managers similar to Plesk

I'm relocating my client's pages to a new server. Their old system was running Plesk and had some email groups and a few mail forwards defined. The new server has no Plesk and I'd really rather not install it just for the email groups either, so I'm looking for a new alternative for creating and managing the lists. Their main site is going to run on Drupal 6.x, so a module for that would be the preferred choice. I tried searching for one myself, but to no avail. Anything else that gets the job done will do as well, as long as the client who is not very tech-savvy can modify and add lists herself. The server is a Debian 5, root access is available. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.


Bot crawling my site, blocked it, now it's back and can't stop it

I had a bot of some sort crawling my site like crazy for the last day or so. It says in Google Analytics that it's from San Jose in the US. The IP addresses that appeared in the access logs were 38.99.82.224, 38.99.82.197, 38.99.82.229. I blocked each of those and then it stopped for a couple of hours. Now it's back and in the access logs, it says that the domain accessing the site is my own, i.e. `www.example.ie` How can I stop this? I blocked the whole range of 38.99.82 by placing the following in a htaccess file.               # Block Site Crawling our website #     Order Deny,Allow     Deny from 38.99.82.224, 38.99.82.197, 38.99.82.229, 38.99.82.0-255


Google crawlers screen size

Imagine a I have two types of images (A and AAA(heavier)) for the same website: depending on the size of the screen it will show one image or other. Now I'm wondering what images (A or AAA) loads the Google crawler when it visits my site. In other words: has the Google crawlers any "screen size"? I suppose, in case the it loads the A images, the page-speed puntuation will be better than if it loads the images AAA.


Vertically center h1 in div

I know there are various solutions posted for this issue here, but for the life of me I can't get any of them to work. For a responsive website I'm trying to center an h1 text in a div. Centering horizontally is not an issue, but I'm having problems getting it centered vertically. Probably I'm doing something wrong or misunderstanding the explanations I found here (and in all probability both). So as I'm probably interpreting earlier solutions given the wrong way, could someone please explain what exactly I have to add to the code beneath to get the h1 to center vertically? (As you can see, I've already stripped the code of all my previous attempts to do so myself) My CSS:               html, body {     height: 100%;     margin: 0;     }          #section1 {     min-height: 90%;      text-align:center     }      My HTML:

Lorem ipsum


SEO - why did my google search rank drop?

My nutrition shop websites for tampa and brandon were coming up on page one of google search results and now they have dissappeared. The 2 websites serve different markets although they are close geographically and have the same products, keywords, and layouts. Brandon, FL is considered a suburb of Tampa, FL and could be grouped into the Tampa Bay area. There's also a mirror site nutrition shop setup for orlando. Is the google search ranking drop because: 1) from a flash banner recently added on the front page 2) is the site just being re-indexed on all search engines b/c of new content? 3) is it seen as duplicate content as there are separate websites for the cities of Tampa and Brandon but with the same content? What can be done to fix this? Thanks!


Should I bother supporting IE6?

IE6 is deprecated and Microsoft is bent on killing it. However, I know that a lot of people still use it. Should I continue to support it anyways?


Should we still support IE6

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I bother supporting IE6? As an independent web developer, should I still be supporting IE6 on my own site/or client web sites?


How to get number of posts to appear in extended information section?

I have forums website, and I am looking through Google search engine, and I can see that some (not mine) forums have something like this under the link of the site: > 28 nov 2005 - Number of posts: 4 - Number of authors: 3 (This may not be exactly what this text since I translated it from my native language) How do I get this information to appear? What do I need to add to my forum in order for Google to catch it? I am aware of microdata, I just don't know which one (and how) should I use here.


What is the best way to maintain translations of a user guide website?

I have static HTML files of a Japanese user guide website which I need to translate into English every time they come out with a new version. I've been using html2pot and using pootle to translate, then converting back with po2html. I'm thinking there must be a better way though, I just don't know what.


Good php+mysql system for managing library of books (book catalogue/database software)

Anyone know a good web based system to manage libraries (of books)? It's like a book catalogue/database software, but with web interface, because I want people to be able do searches / queries in the web system. I prefer systems based on PHP and MySQL, because in general they are easier to install and administer, but others are also welcome.


Routing and relative paths

CodeIgniter and many other PHP frameworks rout URLs, e.g. if default controller is root.php then both URLs will work               website.com/     website.com/root      if controller has a function 'login' then this URL is valid               website.com/root/login      This is very handy, but the HTML template that used to work in first example, doesn't work in the second, e.g. this relative path is no longer valid               <link rel='stylesheet' href='stylesheets/style.css'/>      and instead I have to use               <link rel='stylesheet' href='../stylesheets/style.css'/>      Is there a way around it?


Accepting Online Payments in Canada?

I need a solution for accepting payments online via website. My first choices were Google Checkout, and Amazon Payments. Both of which don't seem to be available in Canada. Are there any alternate options or a way to process payments on site?


Text doesn't fit on ONE page - This same text is too large

Lets say I am describing the text in, for example, 2100 words for the same keyword. My purpose would be to have 700 words per page. Obviously I need to have 3 pages so I can divide the text with, in average, 700 words per page. The first page (where the text will begin) has doindex attribute, other two have noindex attribute. This way I can protect myself from getting visitors on the website in the middle of the text (second page) or at the end of the text (third page). So I can get visitors always where the text starts and that's why it is doindex. Obviously, since its the same text but split on 3 parts due its size, I am targeting the same keyword. All 3 URLs will have either exactly the same URL or similar. What do I have to care about so I create preventive solution in advance so I'm not going to have issue with duplication or cannibalization? What are the list of tasks I need to keep in mind? I have instinct that if I do this, it is very possible I will have duplication issue but don't want that or cannibalizaton. I already know that I should NOT use pagination but rather nofollow internal links from page1 to page2 and from page2 to page3. Anchor text of them should probably be the same - keyword which I'm targeting.


Does Google Analytics track links that use onclick="parent.location='Something.html' "?

I am using onclick="parent.location='#'" to make a table into a link, but will Google Analytics see this as a link or will it cause mayhem in the reports?


Problem using mod_deflate with ProxyPass

Using Apache 2.0 (2.0.53) on a particular legacy system, enabling mod_deflate causes directly-served content to be gzip-encoded just fine. However, and this is my problem, content proxied from another server using ProxyPass is not getting gzip-encoded. Wireshark shows me there is no encoding header in the response and the body is in plain text. I have another similar system, also running Apache 2.0 (2.0.52), where the proxied content IS being gzipped, and I can't find any significant difference between the configuration of the two systems. Details: mod_deflate is being enabled using a file `/etc/httpd/conf.d/deflate.conf` containing:               <ifModule mod_deflate.c>     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/xml text/css text/plain     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript application/json     </ifModule>      The proxying is being done within the `<VirtualHost>` section using these lines:               ProxyPass /mtserver http://localhost:8000     ProxyPassReverse /mtserver http://localhost:8000      Can anyone point me at a possible reason for one system not compressing the proxied content?


Form label position for best usability

I'm creating a form that will ask a visitor for their `firstname`, `middle initial`, and `lastname`. I want the those text fields to be all inline, but where should I place the labels? On the left, top, or under the fields. I'm looking for the best approach from a usability standpoint.


Webmin - Setting up multiple virtual hosts - Subdomains

Can someone please help me in using WEBMIN to setup virtual hosts.   1. My current domain www.MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com currently functions. Settings are as follows - Apache - Handles the name-based server www.MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com on all addresses Address Any Port 80 Server Name www.MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com Document Root /var/www/html BIND DNS Server - Master Zone MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com ns1.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works ns2.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works www.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE -works mail.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works ftp.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works What I need - something.mydomainlolfake.com -- CANT GET THIS TO WORK What I tried - Create new virtual host Handles the name-based server something.mydomainlolfake.com on something.mydomainlolfake.com Address Any Port 81 Document Root: /var/www/vhosts/something What happens - I create the new VHOST and then ALL address try to go to that new Document root. I need different addresses to go to their respective folders. Can someone please give me better instructions on how to set that up using webmin? TLDR# How do I make a something.mydomainlolfake.com subdomain work in webmin on my CENTOS 6 web server?


Online gift certificates: Systems to avoid fraud

What good methods are there out there for avoiding fraud with electronic gift certificates (ones which are created and the information distributed electronically via website)? I'm looking to audit/redesign an existing system, and want to get a good overview of the parts of the system that would be good to put in place to decrease fraud. A few parts that I can think of that I am interested in to start with:   * Rejection criteria   * Flagging criteria (e.g. if the date range between purchase and use is huge, different countries of origin, etc)    * Theft indications   * Prevention of oracle attacks on a gift card system (e.g. randomly trying gift cert authentications until one works)   * Data to include as part of the gift certificate for later authentication.   * Authentication systems for verifying that the gift certificates actually match.   * etc I don't think it matters too much for the topic (unless there are libraries to check into?), but I'm running a site with a php backend.


Facebook Connect with CodeIgniter login problems

I'm having a problem using Facebook Connect on my latest website. I'm running it using the CodeIgniter framework and Elliot Haughin's library (http://www.haughin.com/code/facebook/). Everything is setup okay, when the user goes to login, the request is sent to Facebook okay and returns with the code (which i presume identifies the session?). However, it doesnt seem to update the library, and after doing all this still thinks that the user is not logged in. It makes me think its a bug in the library itself, but I can't see anyone else with this problem. I have tried dumping the error log from the library but it doesnt find any problems.


Is all data about a domain name provided to a TLD registry by the registrar visible on Whois?

I am trying to understand more about how the domain registration process works between the registry and the registrar. My question is when a domain name is registered by a registrar such as GoDaddy, is all the information that the registrar forwards to the TLD registry about that domain name publicly available for view on Whois or is there some information that is hidden by the registry? When a domain name is purchased with the option of 'private registrations' so that the registrar hides confidential information like address details, is that information kept private by the registrar only or does it also get passed on to the registry but flagged as private information?


How can I remove the .html extension for static webpages that are indexed so they'll still work in a WordPress site?

I have a static HTML website with less than 100 pages and 99 of them are indexed in Google's search engine. I want to convert it into a WordPress website, but there are some problems I'm worried about. My HTML website pages have an `.html` extension at the end of them and they're indexed with that extension, so converting those pages (even with the same content) to a WordPress page without any extension causes my whole website to be removed from Google's search. I'm going to need to make sure that the `.html` extension is removed from URLs that already have just an `.html` extension. I want to do this using a _.htaccess_ file. I found the following code, but it doesn't work:               ^(([^/]+/)*[^/.]+)\.html?$


I would like to share how I configured my Web server for educational reasons. Should I worry that this is a security risk?

I just finished setting up a server to run a python pyramid application, and while I did not find any guidance on the Internet that helped me, I feel like I could contribute one myself. I'm considering posting all of the commands that I used, in order, on my blog (with passwords removed, of course). However, this will result in me sharing my directory structure, deployment script, user list, IP tables config, and other things which occur to me could be advantageous to a hacker. It's obvious that it's better for me not to share this information, but is the security risks so great that I should worry about sharing this stuff? If so, what parts of it should I be most worried about?


How would I tell if a prospective client website is under DDoS attack?

I have a person asking me whether the DDoS Mitigation Service they're using is worth it. This is out of my expertise, but clearly at some point someone sold this service to the client. Assuming I don't have anything but a domain name, what information can I gather about whether they are indeed under attack and/or how well the DDoS Mitigation Service is working? Assume I don't have any administrative access to the site/server(s) in question.


How does the new iPad's (aka iPad 3) resolution play with responsive design?

So "the new iPad" has been released with a new "retina display" resolution of 2048x1536 px, but the screen size is still 9.7 inches as the previous iPad... I am wondering how will CSS media queries respond to this device? How will we design a tablet version (i.e. for browser viewports <768px) if the browser reads 1536px width?


duplicate links to subdomain hurting SEO

I have a main site, http://hollywoodnose.com and http://forum.hollywoodnose.com. What I was doing was showing the 8 most recent forum posts in the right column of http://hollywoodnose.com. In my Google Webmasters account for the forum subdomain it shows 300+ incoming links fromt the main domain. Obviously it sees every page as in incoming link. Since then my traffic is literally cut in half. I've removed the recent forum posts fromt the main domain and guess I can only wait now. This seems really odd to me that this would happen. I still have a link in the nav bar of the main domain to the forum and one in the footer. Will the same thing (duplicate links) happen or will I have to remove these two links or possibly set them to rel="nofollow"? Would that make it seem like spam? How do I handle this situation and has anyone ever dealt with something like this? Thank you.


Is it better to have multiple domains for cities or one single TLD?

I make websites for small businesses, and for some reason business owners love to have several domains with the same website but the TLD containing the city name. For example:   1. smallbizname.com   2. clevelandsmallbizname.com   3. columbussmallbizname.com   4. cincinnatismallbizname.com I've seen questions about localization per country aspects, but this is a much smaller scale, so I don't think the same rules apply. The problem I have is the companies never want to write separate content per domain, just have the same website hosted several times at each domain. I feel this probably hurts SEO for two reasons:   1. Traffic gets scattered throughout domains, could be boosting just one domain.   2. Duplicate content penalty because the content is identical. My question boils down to this: should I redirect all the city domains to the main business name domain, or does having these separate sites help to rank better per city? If they are redirected, how does Google rank the redirects?


Why should I use a Content Management System?

I've heard a lot about cms's like drupal, joomla, and wordpress. I've always hand-coded most of my PHP and HTML and done fine. What are the pros and cons of using a cms?


How do I properly point sub.domain1.com to sub.domain2.com?

I'm trying to point sub.domain1.com to sub.domain2.com. They are both hosted on _different_ servers. I've tried changing the CNAME, but that is giving me a "You don't have permission." error when I go to sub.domain1.com in my browser. Currently, I'm url masking sub.domain1.com to sub.domain2.com, but I don't want to do this for various reasons. I would like sub.domain1.com url to remain in the address bar. This is for my mobile site, just an fyi.


How to serve static content without https in a secure site?

I want to serve static content from my site but my site is https-only. My static http server only serve http content (non https) but many IE users are complaining about being unable to log into. What do I need to do? Should I add https to my static-content http server?


Why Webmaster Tools shows different data to different users?

We have a problem between marketing and development department in our StartUp: Google Webmaster Tools is showing different data to different users which are logged in. Why is this happening and how we can prevent this in the future? For example, one of the team members sees 6 messages in Google Webmaster Tools while other sees only 2 of them.


Why is Joomla based website that was copied off of live server into localhost not showing pictures and throwing 404 error?

I have copied Joomla based website via FTP onto my machine and I am trying to make it run on my localhost which is provided by the latest version of XAMPP. I have exported and imported the DB with no problems. I have placed all the files and folders into HTDOCS folder but when I go to localhost example site all I get is the text that is on the front page but no pictures and it displays 404 Error. Do I need to make changes to .htaccess? If so, can some one point me to the right direction? Thanks


As the title says; What is the difference between Visitor and Unique Visitor? A visitor is a user with a cookie for one browser, as long as that cookie is valid, isn't that unique enough? If not, how is unique visitor calculated?


How to detect search engines on Cloudfront?

Is there a way to "ask" google to add a query string paramater to the url when crawling my website? (maybe in robots.txt?) so that when it crawls example.com, it would add something like ?iam=google . Because we use Cloudfront to serve our website, we need a way to detect search engines on the cloudfront and forward them to origin server.


Should paginated sites be included in sitemap?

My website is ad listing for boats, boats' engines, boat rentals, etc (`www.mynautics.com`). There are ads listed on multiple pages. I have finished (not jet seen on link above) pagination:   * added `prev`   * added `next` On some pages (sorting, etc.) I also added canonical relation. Now I want to add pages to sitemap generator and I am not sure if I should add all URLs for example:   * `example.com/list/page/1`   * `example.com/list/page/2`   * `example.com/list/page/3`   * `example.com/list/page/4` Or should I just add `example.com/list`?


Is better for SEO to have text on the page versus in the title of the a tag?

We have a page on our site with a listing of product categories. All the links point to other pages on our site. Currently there's no text associated with the links other then the linked text itself which is just the name of each category or subcategory. We're thinking of adding some descriptive text for each link. From a usability standpoint, I'd prefer _not_ having this text appear on the page itself because all our users will pretty much already know what each category is without needing any descriptive text. From a usability perspective it would be better if it appeared in the title since then it doesn't clutter up the page and only shows up when they mouse over a particular link. But from an SEO perspective, would it matter if the text appears on the page, below each link, or if I place the text in the title attribute of the a tag? edit: I mean the title attribute of the tag, not the title of the page itself.


301 Redirect are these URLs equivalent?

I want to redirect an entire duplicate directory to the same files in the directory above the dup_folder. Redirect Code in .htaccess:               Redirect 301 /dup_folder/ http://www.example.biz/      It redirects to:               http://www.example.biz/inspection11.htm?q=dup_folder/inspection11.htm      But I want it to redirect to:               http://www.example.biz/inspection11.htm      Is there something I can add to .htaccess to Rewrite the URL to how I want, or are the two above URLs seen as the exact same URL to a search engine?


Can I change the type of elements in the microdata format?

With regard to microdata I was wondering if the elements must be exactly like the examples (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176035) or that Google/Bing look if the itemprop attributes occur on certain elements. e.g. could I replace this:
some text
      with this:               some text      Without affecting its functionality?


Move subdir to subdomain for separate SERP listings?

I market a conference and we have two very distinct customers. Attendees and Exhibitors/Sponsors. Each customer has a different sales funnel. I thought it'd be best to separate these into different web properties by dropping the exhibitor/sponsorship sales to a separate subdomain(sales.domain.com) to get two separate SERP listings (Attendee oriented, B2B oriented). I setup r301s and links from navi, but no SEO juice is being passed on. Did I completely messup in my thinking of being able to get two distinct search results?


Safe way to send thousands of promotional emails

My new partner has an email list with over 1 Million email addresses for targeted traffic (no spam... only genuine subscribers from his last startup ) But now I have a problem.. how can I sent an email to all those email addresses ? I can't use my ISP SMTP mailer, they will block me immediately for bulk mailing. I thought of a way to send emails slowly . Like dividing them in sets of few thousands and sending to each set daily . Will it be fine solution ?


Why does 301 redirect work for http but not for https?

Through my domain registrar I have set up a domain, essayme.co.uk, to automatically forward to https://google.com. If I go to http://essayme.co.uk it works as expected and redirects me to https://google.com.               $curl -i http://essayme.co.uk     HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Cache-Control: max-age=900     Content-Type: text/html     Location: https://google.com     Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5     X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319     X-Powered-By: ASP.NET     Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 11:14:16 GMT     Content-Length: 0     Age: 0     Connection: keep-alive      However, if I go to https://essayme.co.uk it just freezes and times out.               $curl -i https://essayme.co.uk     curl: (7) Failed connect to essayme.co.uk:443; Operation timed out      What is happening in the second case? (and, if possible, how can I get the redirect to work for https?) * * * Problem background/clarification: I don't have an SSL certificate for the essayme.co.uk domain above, but I do for my live domain (let's call it mywebsite.com), and I was seeing the exact same problem on this domain (hence why I'm trying to debug the problem). Unfortunately I can't experiment with the live domain (as it's live) and I would like to avoid having to buy a second certificate for essayme.co.uk just for debugging (unless absolutely necessary). The problem I was seeing:   * my live domain, mywebsite.com (not its real name), has a valid SSL certificate.   * Visiting https://www.mywebsite.com displayed the webpage as expected.   * I had set up forwarding (like in the question above) from the naked domain (mywebsite.com) to https://www.mywebsite.com)   * Visiting http://mywebsite.com redirected to https://www.mywebsite.com as expected.   * However, visiting https://mywebsite.com would freeze and time out (as in the question above). I also tried forwarding it to http://www.otherwebsite.com as an experiment (i.e. forwarding to another site that does not use SSL), but the result was the same:   * Visiting http://mywebsite.com redirected to http://www.otherwebsite.com as expected.   * Visiting https://mywebsite.com would freeze and time out again. So I set up essayme.co.uk as an experiment to try and understand why it doesn't work.


How do I make dotCMS pick up the preferred language from the browser's settings?

I have a bilingual dotCMS site. Switching between languages with the pulldown at the top of the page works great, but the default language is always English (or whatever else I configure). I'd much rather have the user be presented with the language specified by his browser (which of course he can then later change with the pulldown). It seems that dotCMS does not do this automatically. Can I enable this by some setting or plugin ?


Need suggestion for a bulletin board engine, Java based, JSP/JSF, and free

Could you please advise me of a bulletin board engine that is based in Java? And for its scripting language, either JSP or JSF. I'd also prefer it to use Spring, Hibernate and/or other frameworks. It would be better, still, if it's free.


How do I select last event value of the day in Google Analytic

I'm trying to select last event value of the day in Google Analytics. The problem is that Event Value column shows the sum of all events of the specific date, but I would like to see only the last one. How do I select last event value only of the day in Google Analytic?


problem with google search in link:article-stack.com

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why google is not showing links to my site in result? If I google `link:article-stack.com`, it shows 4 interlinks in result.   1. If it shows interlinks it should show > 250 links. But it is showing 4 only.   2. Google webmaster is saying 8 external links. But google search is not showing it   3. Previously it was showing 6 links  a) 1 from stackoverflow b) 1 from wordpress c) 4 from my own site then it came to 5. Now it is 4 only. While there are               a) 3-4 links on stackoverflow     b) 3-4 links on stackexchange     c) 3 links on wordpress     d) 4-5 links on sulekha      I already had checked that all external pages, which are pointing to my site, are indexed and cached by google. Am i searching in wrong way?


Redirecting domain from one web host to another

First time I've ever had to redirect a domain from one web host to another. I'm not moving the domain registration as the domain is due to be renewed soon so don't want to risk any complications. I've followed a detailed guide (http://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/point- domain-name-website.shtml) but is it just the NS addresses I need to change with that of the new web host? Assuming the above is correct, would it be normal for this to take longer than 3 days to replicate globally? Thanks


What is the idea behind occupying domains?

I see that most domain names that contain some nice words like: www.pixelmania.com , www.musicbox.com and so on... are registered but look just auto-populated with some random data. Why they do this ? Is it for me to pay extra to get that domain? Is it for advertising purposes (all of them have insane amounts of ads on them)? Or what ... ?


Can calling mixpanel.track cause reattribution of conversions in Mixpanel funnels?

I am currently using MixPanel to A/B test which of two different landing page images converts better. At the beginning of each hit to the page, I do               mixpanel.track('Main', {illustration_ab : '{{illustration_ab}}'});      Here illustration_ab contains the name of the image that was shown to the user. Then after gathering data, later on I can go look at the funnels and split by this variable to see which has higher conversion rate. I just started wondering though, if someone converts but then comes back to the page later and gets assigned another illustration_ab, will that get the user's past conversion reattributed to fall under the different image? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/icw93.png)


SEO Tips for new Website

I am no expert in SEO but I do know how it works and stuff. What I would like to know is what steps do YOU guys take when starting a new SEO project. Like from beginning to end. Also I would like to rent/buy links. Can someone please point me to the right direction on doing this? Thanks in advance.


Transferring a domain difficulty

I registered a domain using Google apps. The process was simple and only cost $10 and the domain was registered automatically by Google through godaddy. Now I need to transfer the domain to its new owner and the new owner's tech support team are having difficulty getting it transferred over. They have asked me to do the following: Unlock the domain for transfer Remove the private registration Provide a transfer code The private registration is through domains by proxy. is there some way to do this easily? Any advice appreciated.


WebPermission problem with GoDaddy hosting

I purchased a Windows web host from `godaddy.com`. When I want to use an email verification component (that wants to connect to the Internet) on my host, I get an error related to Web Permission denied (ASP.NET 4). I searched for this error and found that GoDaddy has changed web permission in ASP.NET and restricts some features. When I want to use components that require these web permission on my site, I get error 500 (Internal Server Error). Can I give permission to an assembly only or solve my problem in another way? I asked this question to the Godaddy support team, but I didn't get any answers.


jQuery lightbox-like message box

Is there - as far as you know - a lighbox-like jQuery plugin that can display text in a lighbox fashion? I would need to display information and error messages in a message box which should behave just as a lightbox (i.e. shadowing background).


"Restricted by Robots.txt" in Google Webmaster Tools when no robots.txt exists

In Google Webmaster Tools, I have 832 errors in the sitemap with the error being "URL restricted by robots.txt". I don't have a robots.txt file, and the robots meta tag equals "index, follow". I _did_ have a robots.txt file, and the date it existed could well correspond with the date of the crawl errors in Google Webmaster Tools. However, the dashboard shows these crawl errors remain, "updated Sept 23, 2011" (yesterday). All of the crawl errors are about 3 weeks old, which is probably before I deleted robots.txt. Is the fact the crawl errors remain as of yesterday indicating Google has not recrawled the site? Google has tried to download /robots.txt again, as recently as 4 hours ago, and has not found it, and will not of for weeks. Do I need to ping Google to crawl the site again?


pre-gzipping files and serving to clients possible?

I understand that we can do some settings in .htaccess to allow gzipping on the fly. However is there anyway we could do it "not-on-the-fly"? I have a static file that I wish to serve gzipped, but I do not wish to do the gzipping on the fly (in other words pre-gzipped). How would we go about doing it?


SEO best practices - how to move to a new domain and new site keeping the old SEO 'power'?

I have a website (a photography blog). I just bought a new domain with a better name (my real name). And I have bought a new template and there is a completely new structure. I know Google says that it's better to have 1 good site instead than 2 average sites. Now I don't know what to do. There are similar things I can do but I am not sure which one is the best: 1) Redirect 301 the old domain to the new one.   2) Keep the old site and redirect 301 each page (eg. old homepage to new homepage, old article about XYZ to new article about XYZ, etc).   3) Keep both sites. Focus only on the new site. Add a backlink in every page of the old site pointing to the respective page on the new site.   4) [...if you know about other better ways, feel free to let me know...] What option do you think is the best for SEO and keep/give the good SERP for the new site? If you think 2 or 3 is the best way, then, just `.htaccess` 301 redirects/rewrites are a good option, or better if I do also some edit in GWT?


Effective methods of reducing bandwidth (and thus page load times)?

What are the most effective methods when it comes to reducing the amount of bandwidth a website needs to render a page? Aggressive caching? Minifying JS/CSS? Gzip? CMS? Sprites?


Should I block indexing of my mobile site?

I notice that Yahoo and Bing have started indexing the mobile version of my website, which is located at /mobile from the root. All of the mobile content is just a reduced layout version of the real site. Is it going to negatively affect my SEO if the crawlers are seeing two locations that essentially have the same content?


Is Cloudflare unzipping gzipped dynamic content?

I'm using Cloudflare for a small website that is frequently accessed from mobile phones where bandwidth usage is crucial. I used to gzip every php response and this reduced my bandwidth usage, however, since I'm using Cloudflare, dynamic content going trough Cloudflare isn't gzipped anymore. Is this a feature or bug?


Can the blog width be dynamic on Blogger?

I see that Blogger will let you set the blog width under Overview-> Template Designer->Adjust Widths. However, this seems to be a fixe width - is there an easy way to set a max and a min width?


How does this stackexchange form saved the work, I mean keep an auto save function, to retrieve loss of work, in case the user's browser crashes.


Need database with some country specific data like schools, medical centers etc

Hi is there some database with official information about medical centers, schools, POI's and they'r geo coordinates for all countries in the world? It coul'd be not for free too, but I need the GEO coordinates as well, because I need to connect them to my products! Thanks Nik


Google Webmaster tools "Time spent downloading a page"

In Google Webmaster Tools -> Diagnostics -> Crawl Stats, there is a chart **Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)**. What is that chart measuring? Is it the time to fetch the HTML text only, or does it include the time to fetch other files included in the head section of the HTML text, or maybe it's the overall time to load the whole page including embedded widgets and ads? I can't find any clues in the Google Help.


IIS website resolve to IP

IIS newb. In IIS How do I get my website to resolve to an IP address as well as it's associated domain name? It currently resolves through the domain but I also need to able to view it via the IP.


Know a good place to purchase seed data of storenames, addresses, and phone numbers?

I just build a new web app, and I am looking for data to seed it with. Anyone know any good seed data retailers? Or am I missing something and there is a way to do this for free. I am entirely open to scraping, and have built a couple scrapers I enjoyed.


GWT: Generate more complete crawl error report

I'm a developer in charge of managing Webmasters and related issues (including correcting crawl errors) for dozens (hundreds, maybe?) of active sites and as part of my duties I create a report of every discrepancy, including all pages generating a 404 and all pages that link to those pages. Currently within Webmaster Tools I'm able to download a csv file of all pages with a 404 response, but I'm then having to manually click on every single one of those links and copy the "linked from" field to paste into my spreadsheet. This is extremely tedious and seems unnecessary; I would expect the ability to download all that data at once. I'm ultimately looking for the end result of one csv file that has every url with a 404, but also has every url that links to each one of them. Am I overlooking this functionality somewhere or does anyone have a good solution? > _**Edit 1 (2/11/2013):_** **Example of what the csv output looks like now:**               URL,Response Code,News Error,Detected,Category     http://www.abcdef.com/123.php,404,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/456.php,404,,11/12/13,Not found      Which is great, but let's say 123.php has 5 pages that link to it. Now I have to duplicate that row in my spreadsheet 4 more times, then go into Webmasters, get all the url's that link to the page, and add that data to my spreadsheet. **The output I would prefer:**               URL,Response Code,Linked From,News Error,Detected,Category     http://www.abcdef.com/123.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage1.php,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/123.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage2.php,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/123.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage3.php,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/456.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage1.php,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/456.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage2.php,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/456.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage3.php,,11/12/13,Not found      Note the (hypothetical) addition of a "Linked From" column, as well as the fact there are only 2 unique URL's now (like before) but all of the "Linked To" pages are shown in one report. > _**Edit 2 (2/12/2013):_** To clarify, my question is less about detecting and correcting 404's, but more about generating a report of what Google has listed as errors. Oftentimes, these errors aren't even valid anymore but I still need documentation to show that Google detected a problem and that problem is now fixed. Many of the "linked from" url's I find are actually outdated, cached resources. For example, I'll frequently see that the linked-from url is the sitemap, which is actually an old sitemap cached by Google that points to an old page. Neither the sitemap or old page exist, but they still appear in my crawl error reports because they are cached resources.


Do I need fail over for an lightly used internal web application?

I received an email from my web hosting provider where I have 2 dedicated servers saying that from now on I have to pay for my IP fail over addresses. The server we have hosts a tool used internally by our company. Traffic to it is quite low. No more than 3 people will use it at the same time. If something happens we can wait a day to have the tool up and running again. Is it worth having these fail-over addresses?


Cheap Bulk Domain Registration

I have 6-7 domain names that I have thought of and I'm planning to buy it in bulk so that I can save. Or am I wrong on this? In my case, since its my first time to this hosting/domain registration, I only knew of GoDaddy with regards to domain registration. Questions:   1. Will I lose out if I chose a cheap domain registrar compared to one that's popular?   2. For a newbie like me, what companies can you recommend for me to register domain names in bulk for cheap or affordable price?   3. I notice that some prices are higher because they offer support and customer service? Aren't those servers not reliable at all?   4. I've heard of some domain registrars that they're increasing their prices every renewal? Is that just natural in a business sense for these domain registrars? Before posting this, I've been reading about NameCheap.com, and I'm considering registering for them unless you have other good choices to give me. I'll appreciate every suggestion or advice you can give.


Domain Name Expired, Will My Backorder Work?

I'm interested in a domain name that expired August 9, 2012 and backordered it a few months ago. When I check the status of the domain name, it is listed as "autoRenewPeriod". It has a new expiration date of August 9, 2013, but a Google search indicates that "autoRenewPeriod" means the registrar automatically renewed the domain but has not received payment yet. Does anyone have experience with this? How long will it stay in "autoRenewPeriod" before being released by the registrar? Do I have a good chance of grabbing the domain name?


Download images and other documents from external websites

We're running a website which enables users to download documents about our company, such as:   -wallpapers with the company logo.   -company logos in various flavours.   -media kits in pdf format. Since these files are quite big in size (some reach 1MB), we no longer want them to be downloaded from our website directly as it's consuming our bandwidth. Accordingly we've been looking into document sharing services. For instance we found Scribd which could allow us to share `pdf` files, but not our `wallpapers` and `logos` which are in `png` format. **Is there a free service we can use for our users to reliably download any type of files we want to host?** (ideally on a service which allows users to easily browse through our files).


HTTP-to-SMS gateway software

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website? I want to send SMS via PHP or ASP API and want to process the incoming SMS; suggest me a good HTTP-to-SMS gateway.


How to send messages?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website? I am building a online SMS service that can send messages to mobile phones. I want to send messages like google. How is this done? Any programming language is welcomed. I am using Apache server and mysql as database management system.


Installing python packages on shared hosting?

I will be hosting a Django application on hostgator.com and was wondering how can I install django apps and python packages without using pip, since I won't have access to the root account.


How can I neatly embed Flash in a page in a way that is cross-browser compatible?

When I receive Flash objects from my designer, it comes with an example HTML page which includes both `<object>` tags and `<embed>` tags as well as a whole heap of JavaScript. If I copy and paste this code in to my webpage, it works, but the code looks a mess (and there is so much of it!). If I remove the extra code and try either just `<embed>` or `<object>` on their own, it works in some browsers, but not others. Is there a neat, minimal method that works in all the major browsers?


Should I use IIS or my DNS provider to redirect my naked domain to its www version?

How do I get the naked domain for my site that is typed into a browser (`example.com`) to automatically redirect to `www.mywebsite.com`. Would this be done on the internal IIS web server or through the registration service DNS settings? I use `Register.com` and I tried asking their technical support, but they did not answer my question with a usable solution.


Google Analytics Request URI to Event advanced filter

I have a query string attached to a Request URI. Whilst I can see this data within the pages report and it works, I was thinking about setting up an advanced filter to convert the request URI to an Event, with the hope this would clean up my pages report and sit this query with related events in my data. I can see in advanced filters that this is possible, but seems limited to specifying a single event area, so Cat, action or Label, not all 3. Does any one know how I could set up an advanced filter to find any URIs that contain a specific query string, say example below.               www.example.com?querystring=123      and convert this into an event, where I can set the Cat, action and label.


How to point search engines to another subpage?

I have a webpage concerning a subject, let's say buttons to keep it simple. It is the foremost web page on this topic for my language and region: searching for 'button' in my language will always display my webpage in the top stop (after the paid adds). However, since my language is grammatically more complex than English, the word can be written in different forms & cases. Searching via Google using one particular way of writing 'button' will display my forum in the top spot instead of the landing page. Then my competitors are listed as following hits, but not my landing page. This is not ideal for me because the landing page is designed to be friendly to new users and offers far more useful information than the forum. In fact, the forum is mostly there for the loyal and hardcore users who already know where to find it while for new users it is way too specialized. What would be a good course of action to correct this problem? I could block search bots from indexing the forum - attempting to guess Google's logic they are possibly trying to give several possible websites for a given query and then select the most appropriate subpage to 'represent' that web app, thus removing the forum could make Google pick the landing page instead (or a number of other subpages, really, anything but the forum). But of course I'm afraid of simply losing my search ranking without gaining anything. A link of type canonical isn't the tool to use, either, because the landing page and forum's content definitely isn't the same. A link with `rel='home'` is another option, though honestly it doesn't make sense that it would affect search results. Perhaps moving the forum to its own subdomain, e.g. `forum.buttons.com` instead of `buttons.com/forum` would help?


How can I host a large number of Wordpress sites that perform well and are easy to maintain?

My company a large number of small Wordpress sites. Currently we have about 10, but that number will eventually grow into the range of 50-70. We currently have a Linode for all of our sites, but it is starting to get unwieldy installing Wordpress and configuring it for every new site. Anyone have any recommendations for hosting lots and lots of Wordpress sites in as simple a way as possible? Preferably we'd like the performance of a Linode with the ease of a shared host with a one-click install.


What can cause ncftpget to create load on server?

When I'm transferring big files between two servers with ncftpget I'm experiencing very high load on the receiving server. What can cause this?


htaccess rewrite doesn't work

I'm trying to redirect url's in my /joomla/ folder containing "rsform" to the same url but except for /joomla/ /formulieren/. However my tried .htaccess rewrite doesn't work. I tried:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} rsform     RewriteRule  ^(.+)$ http://watervriendengeleen.nl/joomla/ [L,R=301]      And other URL related rewrites like `Redirect /joomla/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=12&Itemid=99999 http://sitename.com/formulieren/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=12&Itemid=99999` which didn't work either. Any thoughts?


Is is okay to use press kit images with attribution in my personal blog?

First up, not sure if this question is correct at WebMasters kindly redirect if it's not. I have a personal (non-commercial) blog where I write about technology and programming etc. I was wondering if I could use Official presskit images for example image of Surface tablet from MS Presskit when I am writing about the Surface Pro? Secondly, if it's okay to use the image, should the images be re-hosted on my blog or hotlinked to image provided by Microsoft? In this particular case Microsoft's Terms of Use seems very generic (http://www.microsoft.com/en- us/legal/intellectualproperty/copyright/default.aspx#EPC) I am not looking for a Legal opinion, more of best practices that webmasters/bloggers follow.


Pretending a file is in subdirectory with .htaccess

I have a web application, and it has a RESTful PHP backend that uses Zend framework (which does its own URL rewriting magic). The problem is, my backend's entry-page is `api.php` and the endpoints look like:               api.php/resource1     api.php/resource2/id      All I want to do is remove the `.php` file extension so my URLs look a little cleaner. Is there any way of doing this without removing the file extension from the PHP file?


2 domains 1 host package

I have a windows web hosting package. I have 2 different domain names. Can i point my first domain to the the hosting package and then run BlogEngine.NET and then point the second domain to the hosting package running NopCommerce cart? www.domain1.co.uk (blog) www.domain2.co.uk (e-commerce cart) In IIS i would just create a new application within the site and create the bindings for domain2. But does this work for web hosting packages from 123-reg.co.uk


How can I find out if my domain has been added to email blacklists?

We do a lot of mass emailing of our contacts to promote events, send out newsletters, etc. Some people read and react, some people unsubscribe, but I fear that some might actually mark the email as spam. Is there any way to figure out whether my domain has been added to email blacklists or spam registries? Also, if I use a service like MailChimp to send the emails, how would this work? If one unscrupulous customer was using MailChimp for evil, wouldn't it affect all of their customers?


Dating site review - Am I allowed to write site description with screenshot for each reviewed site?

I want to publish a review of 100 dating websites. I didn't contact all site managers, some of them didn't reply. Am I allowed to publish description for each dating site and publish also a screenshot of their site? I hope anybody have any clue if this is legally allowed.


domain extension is matter for seo

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does server location or TLD affects SEO I would like to buy domain for my blog, while registering the blog i saw the price variations between domain extensions. Is domain extension is matter for seo. for example:-               .com     .org     .in     etc..      Advice me.


Is there a significant hit to a non .com TLDs exact match domain (EMD) names after Google's Panda update?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does server location or TLD affects SEO In this article, there is a good overview of exact match domain names and how they affect SEO after Google's Panda update. The last graph shows the _Non-com EMD Influence_ , where it is suggested that a .com tld will perform better than a non-.com one. However, let's consider local search. In the US, .com's work great. However, let's say you're in Canada, and you have a .ca EMD, all with local, Canadian results. Would the expectation be that the .com equivalent still perform better? As a user I would expect the .ca results to be more relevant, and I'm wondering if anyone else has experience with this?


What server location?

I have four choices for my server location:   * Kent, UK   * Dallas, US   * Los Angeles, US   * Singapore, Asia I live in The Netherlands and I expect the most of my customers to probably do too. So what is the best server location? Thanks :)


Ok to target product names in adwords?

If I have widget company called "Widget Designer" and I have a direct competitor who has "Widgitator Version 5", am I allowed to target a campaign using the literal keywords "Widgitator"? Is this OK? Will they ever find out? Is it bad business? **Update** I can't really say what the words are, but this is a good example, if my product is called "Chair-o-matic" and it makes chairs, and a competitors is called "Chair Maker 5" can I target the keyword pair "Chair Maker"?


Transferring blogspot blog to own domain blog hosted by blogger

I currently have a blogspot.com blog and I'm thinking of transferring everything to a custom domain blog, but one which is hosted by Blogger. Will my old posts and images be automatically transferred to the new blog? thanks in advance


Why doesn't autofocus="autofocus" work in Mozilla Firefox?

<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Gw" MAXLENGTH="225" size="42" autofocus="autofocus">      If I try this with Google Chrome it works. I just want to highlight a form without `<script>`. Why doesn't it work?


Reviewing a website

I'm looking for a tool (free/paid) like a program that help me in reviewing my website style and interface such as explain the content of the home page (footer, header ..... ) taking snapshots and write comment on them ... I know this can be done using (print screen) and the MS paint but I need a more professional tool to use.


Hide content from search engines (legitimate, not SEO related)

I have a website which contains famous and original (made by users) quotes, poetries, and such. Recently many of our users start to complain because their name is searchable on Google since we have a very good indexing of the website (for every positive thing there is a negative side...) Now we want to offer to users a "privacy" mode in the website, while retaining indexing for most pages: their name won't be indexed but only visible to users, while their texts will be both visible and indexed. Follow me: this isn't a SEO related question, this is legitimate hiding. We don't want people to be searchable on search engines, but only their texts. Why we want texts to be searchable? Because many use our website as "central repository" of their texts, which are copied by others on Facebook without retaining the author name: people searching for "anonymous" content have to find their page on our website and see the author name there. Obviously the author profile would be completely blocked with meta tags, the only pages where this is relevant are those by topic, like this: http://www.pensieriparole.it/aforismi/politica/pag1 and other "general" pages like those containing latest insertions: http://www.pensieriparole.it/poesie/ **What do you think is the best way to hide these names?** I heard recently Google is actually rendering some js, and using a `document.write` directly on the page is some sort of cloaking as far as I can tell. So i thought about an `iframe` with the author name as document fragment (`#Author+Name`) and a little js that does `document.write` there. This way I can block that `iframe` from being crawled with `robots.txt`, while allowing browsers to cache it, no matter which name it has to print, and ask for it only the first time.


Working with Host file in Windows XP?

I just want to setup a local server on my pc. I have WAMP installed. Now, for test, I wrote www.google.com www.google.temp in **hosts** file, in location **C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc**. But, when I am loading www.google.temp, it's not loading anything. Actually, I want to make my folder C:/wamp/www/test to load like, www.test.loc


Adding site credit in footer of site as a <a> tag - bad practice for google penguin?

When I'm making a clients site I always include a link `<p>site by <a href="example.com" target="blank" rel="no follow"><strong>example</strong></a></p>` Is this bad practice from a SEO point of view, especially after the Google penguin update? Could this damage my clients site (the one hosting the link) and / or my site (the one that the link is pointing to). Does making the link no follow get around the fact Google might deem the link to be a site wide spam link?


I'm going through shopping cart nightmares!

Help Please! My situation is that I need a stand alone cart that has robust DB functions which will not only collect all data relative to the purchase, but then either allow me to export all of that information to QuickBooks or convey all data relative to the purchase to Paypal so that I can integrate those records with QuickBooks. Either will do! But it has to be a robust database! My bookkeeper is QuickBooks proficient and finally my accounting is in a beautiful and highly functional format. But my cart stinks! Every single sales record must be hand entered into QBs! Cool Cart, my present cart, not only cannot convey the information it collects to Paypal, but it can't integrate to QuickBooks either and the owner has no interest in doing anything to help or for that matter offer any tech support! Paypal's cart, my first cart, kept the inventory and sales records in a format that QuickBooks loves, but it is so incomplete when it comes to a company needing a robust cart capable of offering coupons, wholesale pricing for retailers, many other customer option shortcomings. I'm going down the tubes trying to research 100+ cars on line only to find out that they may have a DB but the DB won't either integrate with Paypal or Quick Books or it won't collect all of the sales data, down to the little details, eg. what item exactly did the customer buy, how much did that customer pay for that item, was a record of sales tax collected or the shipping costs recorded in the DB? I don't want or need the actual Credit card information! I just need complete data to integrate to my bookkeeping systems. Otherwise, I am relegated to huge time consuming data entry by hand! I just need a highly functioning cart not the hosting. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.


How do I make a gradient overlay transparent?

The site I'm working on has three layers (from the bottom): a tiled background image, a simple top-to-bottom gradient, and the actual content window on top. I am trying to change the opacity of the gradient itself so that it will give the background a faded appearance as well as some color. However, whenever I try to add opacity to the gradient div (opacity: 0.4;), for some reason it yanks the tiled-image background layer to the front (covering everything) and makes the "background" only slightly transparent. How do I get the gradient to become transparent without this happening?


Buttons or text navigation in mobile website

When building a mobile site, will using _JPG_ buttons for navigation penalize the SEO for the site? (Assuming I use proper keyword `alt` text for the buttons) Stylistically the site obviously looks better with some simple buttons, but does this decrease the juice I may gain from simple text links?


Google Webmaster tools - painlessly change 300,000 urls

I have a site with over 300,000 products. Many of these products have non- alphanumeric characters in their names. I have encoded these, rendering thousands of links that look like this:               product/SPARKLE+POWER+INTERNATIONAL/FSP180-50NI%28V%29/316925      note: this equates to: products/[manufacturer]/[model#]/[site specific ID] However, Google webmaster tools thinks that the url should be reviewed like this:               SPARKLE+POWER+INTERNATIONAL/FSP180-50NI(V)/316925      Which returns a 404 error To simplify things, I want to change all non-alphanumeric characters to '~'. My site navigation will still work, but I am afraid that I will lose a lot of search ranking and search page links because of the url changes. What is the best way to keep this from happening? Also, is their a way to make Google webmaster tools understand urlencoded URL elements (double encoding?)


Mail using google apps rejected as SPAM, having trouble using SPF records

The situation:   * Domain name: fisharwe.com   * Site hosted by eukhost.com   * Domain name registrar: nearlyfreespeech.net   * Mx Records point to google apps servers   * created a TXT record at nearlyfreespeech with the following:      * v=spf1 ip4:109.203.117.237 a:fisharwe.com include:aspmx.googlemail.com ~all   * Mail is sent either through the gapps web interface, either through the site (which uses ASP)   * Some mail still gets rejected as spam I manage my own apache server, so I am not a complete newbie, but I am having trouble understanding DNSes. Specifically, I am not sure I really understand the syntax of SPF.   When I go to the intodns check, I get a few errors still.   I don't really understand what to do. Google search yields a lot of resources, but most of them unclear, often contradicting each other. Is there any place that gives a comprehensive, cohesive view of how servers and DNS work? With a few receipes for most common use cases, that would be perfect. For the record, here are the errors I get at intoDns:   * Domain NS records      * Nameserver records returned by the parent servers are:         * ns.phx3.nearlyfreespeech.net. ['208.94.116.65'] [TTL=172800]       * ns.phx7.nearlyfreespeech.net. ['208.94.117.1'] [TTL=172800]    * NS records from your nameservers      * NS records got from your nameservers listed at the parent NS are:        * ns.phx3.nearlyfreespeech.net ['208.94.116.65'] [TTL=3600]       * ns.phx7.nearlyfreespeech.net ['208.94.117.1'] [TTL=3600]   * Glue for NS records      * INFO: GLUE was not sent when I asked your nameservers for your NS records.This is ok but you should know that in this case an extra A record lookup is required in order to get the IPs of your NS records. The nameservers without glue are:        * 208.94.117.1       * 208.94.116.65     * You can fix this for example by adding A records to your nameservers for the zones listed above.    * SOA MNAME entry      * WARNING: SOA MNAME (ns.phx1.nearlyfreespeech.net) is not listed as a primary nameserver at your parent nameserver!     * Warn SOA Serial Your SOA serial number is: 1323999125. This can be ok if you know what you are doing.     * Warn SOA REFRESH WARNING: Your SOA REFRESH interval is: 600. That is not so ok   * SOA EXPIRE      * Your SOA EXPIRE number is: 86400. That is NOT OK     * WWW A Record        * Your www.fisharwe.com A record is: [109.203.117.236] [109.203.117.237]  I know this question is unlikely to serve the community as it is very specific, but I don't know where to turn to, I've been on this for days now. Any pointer would be appreciated.


How to add your business website to Google Places with multiple addresses but less than 10

1. I know how to add a business website to Google Places with one address.   2. I know how to add a business website to Google Places with more than 10 addresses. What I don't know how to do is add a business with more than one address but less than 10, so lets pretend this number is 3 addresses. Each of them with exact same website, exact same services but 3 serving locations. Logging into Google Places, I can see the business has been added and has one address attached. Google has somewhat changed Google Places in the past 6 months and I can't see an option to add another address, never mind 3 of them. The reason it's important to attach all valid addresses is that it's important for Local SEO. When searching on the Help, I'm informed with this information: > The bulk upload tool is recommended for users who want to manage more than > 10 locations. If you already have locations in Google Places for Business, > we recommend you delete them before using the bulk upload tool. Why? Changes > made to locations in the bulk upload tool will not be reflected in Google > Places for Business. Changes made to locations in Google Places for Business > will not be reflected in the bulk upload tool. Locations added using the > bulk upload tool can only be used in Google AdWords Location Extensions if > there are no locations in Google Places for Business. > > CHECKBOX [ ] I have 10 or more locations, and do not plan to use Google > AdWords Location Extensions. I've found no help information indicating how to add businesses with more than 1 address but less than 10. So how do you add more than 1 business website with multiple addresses to Google Places?


Allintitle Operators - How do they work?

I've been using the allintitle operators to determine keyword competition (in conjunction with using the Adwords Keyword Generator), my understanding is that when you do an allintitle search, the results will reflect all webpages that have "all" of those words in the title tag regardless of their order. When, however, I do a search for `allintitle:thai restaurants`, I get 744,000 results But when I reverse the order `allintitle:restaurants thai`, I get over 27 million results. What am I missing?


Xampp and file paths

I'm having hard time with xampp, it really getting me crazy. I have few installations of WordPress with Roots Template, which was loading without any css, js..etc. And the solution was to delete Boilerplate's default `.htaccess` and add:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteRule ^assets/css/(.*) /wp-content/themes/test_template/assets/css/$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteRule ^assets/js/(.*) /wp-content/themes/test_template/assets/js/$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteRule ^assets/img/(.*) /wp-content/themes/test_template/assets/img/$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteRule ^plugins/(.*) /wp-content/plugins/$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>     # END WordPress      Now I'm facing the same problem but with HTML5 Boilerplate and Twitter- bootstrap, standard html5 file with no complex code. I've tried using:                dirname(__FILE__);      And it still can't locate the files. Anybody had the same problem and found the solution? Thanks in advance.


Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet, Georgia, etc as webfonts?

Does anyone know if the so called "web safe fonts" like Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet or Georgia are available as webfonts (that you can link to and safely use in your stylesheet) on a public CDN (content delivery network)? These fonts might be common but they aren't guaranteedly installed on every client computer so I think it would be nice to reliably have them everywhere. I haven't found them on Google's palette or with a search but I'm hoping that I just overlooked an obvious solution. Maybe Microsoft has a webfont CDN too only it is not quite well known yet?


Pros and cons of the Google font API

I am currently using a font from the google font directory on my website. I don't fully understand how it works, but it seems like when someone opens my site, their browser is told to go and fetch the font from Google. (correct me if I'm wrong). Now, what I'm wondering is, what are the pros and cons of this over just specifying a font family the old-school way? Presumably doing it the google font directory way has the advantage that they'll definitely see the font I want them to. (as long as the font directory is up). But does this way have disadvantages? Maybe using fonts that are stored locally speeds up the site loading?


Why my site not linking with google.com?

i am very tired about my website ranking in google. i am dong hard work about it but not getting anywhere my site in google. actually i am web master of a www.panbeli.in matrimony website INDIA. i am trying to improve its visibility in google last 5 month but not getting any positive result. but other search engine giving good result like yahoo and bing but google showing no any result in top 20 page result. my website is www.panbeli.in and my keyword are- bari samaj bari matrimony bari community bari shadi panbeli please help me if you can, b'coz i am very frustrated about it. my domain age is 4 years when i type link:panbeli.in in google search does not appear any pages from my site in google. whats the meaning is that?my site does not indexed in google?


How do I get a list of all indexed links?

I am looking for a way to take every link that I have indexed by Google and export them to a CSV file. Recently I have had way more pages indexed by Google then I actually have and I want to find where all these pages are coming from without having to view each search result page.


Should I use my domain registrar's nameserver or find an alternative?

I've recently been moving my client's sites as well as my own and my friends to a cloud server instance I've set up. I don't have a nameserver setup on my instance because I'm not sure how to deploy and manage that side of things yet. I'm using the default nameservers where possible for the sites and just changing the A record DNS settings to point at the server. Some clients are complaining that the sites are running slower then before (since I changed nameservers back to the defaults). Some of the domain registrars are a nightmare to deal with and I can't convince some of my clients to leave them. Is there a sort of paid service I can use instead?


Prevent crawler that doesn't honoring robots.txt

I have some problem, when I try to write robots.txt for my site ... I find some issues by search on Google, and tell me about honor and not honoring `robots.txt`, how I can prevent it, can I perform it with `.htaccess` or other way ?


How to redirect one domain to another (wildcard) without inheriting the back links?

I want to redirect my old domain to a new one. Im running a blog and I need to use wildcard redirect so all the posts will be redirected accordingly. But I don't want to inherit the backlinks in those posts. I want a fresh site! How to do this?


Google Webmaster Tools - I want to target by language, should I add location targeting?

I have a multilingual site, which I would like to target by language. Google Webmaster Tools provides the option to add a subdomain per language subdomain which can be geotargeted. If I'm more interested in language based targeting, which as far as I know isn't supported, should I still select the geotargeting?


Web app to take screen shot of website and annotate?

Does anyone know of a website that will take a full screen shot of another website and let users write notes over it then send that annotated photo by email or private link? Basically looking for quicker way to write notes on a site other than taking a screen shot my self and putting it into photoshop. Just an update, I don't need any browser extensions which I already have and do the same. I'm looking for a website app which does this to give to a client.


Any concerns for registering a domain.me if domain.com is already taken?

I'm interested in registering a domain, let's just call it `myna.me` but `myname.com` is already taken (but not in use). What might be the concerns of registering a `.me` if the .com version is already taken? This will be for a web app I'm working on which is in a niche market within web design. I'm sure I can market this using the `.me` TLD because it fits perfectly into the brand, and most of the marketing will be done directly within the web design community. So I'm not too worried about word of mouth confusing the TLD. Could this negatively impact anything for me, or should I worry about the `.com` owner suddenly trying to compete or steal traffic from me?


Is there a way to stop a keyword from appearing in Google Webmaster Tools?

I added a web site a while ago to Google's index and it contains lots of links with the text "Permalink" that, well, link to permalinks of different content/pages. Now "Permalink" is the #1 keyword in Google Webmaster Tools. Is there a way to prevent this? ### EDIT: It is possible to do this by replacing               Permalink      With                     And then using CSS to render the text Permalink:               a:after {       content: 'Permalink';     }      But I was basically interested to know if it is possible to hint Google Bot to consider the term "Permalink" as insignificant.


Site returning 404 header to Google, not sure why

A Drupal site that works fine for regular users returns a 404 not found error when I try to use the W3C validator on it; it is also not being indexed by Google at all (which is the main issue but I suspect there is a connection). It is a https:// site with .htaccess rule to redirect any http:// request to the https://. I had had it running in Google webmaster tools and thought it was fine, but it turns out I had not added the HTTPS domain. After adding the HTTPS domain it's also returning the header as               HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found     Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:37:43 GMT     Server: Apache     Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT     Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0      Robots.txt just has               User-agent: *     Crawl-delay: 10     # Files     Disallow: /cron.php      How can I check what the issue is here?


Should layout be solely based on CSS?

Is it a good sign if your website looks like a plaintext file with hyperlinks when the stylesheet is disabled?


Customize Mediawiki's monobook.css with some skins

I have installed MediaWiKi on Ubuntu server. I am trying to customize the wiki's appearance, so I tried different skins (fratman, GuMax, and mozillawiki) None of them satisfied me. I want a skin that looks like this link. It has smooth tabs and sidebar but does not lose the wiki specific appearance. Does anybody know if it's possible to customize the wiki to look like the one in the link?


best way of updating website files quickly

I was wondering if there is a better way of updating my website's content. Right now, I make it in a text editor, and then test it on the localhost. When I am happy with the code, I save the files and then copy them onto the file manager on my web host. An example is when I add an option in the 'settings' section for the user to upload a profile picture. The settings.php needs to be updated, and an add_picture.php needs to be added. Uploading these takes a long time. Is there a quick way of transferring added content and scripts from my computer onto the webhost? Maybe a CMS is right for my needs, but i'm not too sure what this is? (i run a LAMP server)


Normalizing Website Usage to U.S. Standard

My website is largely targeted to US business users. Not surprisingly, the number of visits during the weekdays is much larger than on Saturdays and Sundays. In addition, on holidays like July 4 or Christmas, the number of visitors drop dramatically. I also have a feeling that internet usage decreases slightly in summer months while people are on vacation/outside. The result is that in Google Analytics (pic below), my daily visitors go up and down and appears relatively erratic. It's hard to determine if any increase or drop in visits is attributable to something on my site or is part of a trend across the US. Is there a way to normalize the number of visitors to my site against internet usage in general? Or are there tools other than Google Analytics that do this? If normalized, the chart below would look much flatter and if there was an increase, I would know it would be attributed to something on my site rather than to the internet in general. Visits to my site: ![Notice the weekly up and down and the drop around July 4](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GbnHQ.png)


How do I make or setup a mailing list?

I know I could program it myself, but maybe there is a simple (that's the keyword) package. I like to add a box, snippet, form or page to my site for users to input their email address. Then I'd like it to automatically send email saying you have successfully subscribe. I'd want an unsubscribe link and I would be using SMTP on Google apps. I would like to send email with HTML, so I can have a simple sentence with a complex link such as this. I don't know if I'll get marked as spam if I try to send everyone an email at once. I'd like the software to manage it. Also, I'd like to get the emails in a simple format like CSV. Is there a simple app that does this? if not i can write a simple form which does a simple insert (or delete when unsubscribing) and write a 200-300 line app to send my emails out for me.


What is the right approach to use AdSense with responsive web design?

Recently I was studying responsive design a lot and designed couple of sites. But I was wondering how would I use Google AdSense (which is pixel based) ads on my responsive design? Very typical example is suppose I have a `728x90` ads on header. Or if I do a mobile first approach I would need different versions of ad sizes for different view posts but Google doesn't allow more than three ad unit per page (as far as I know). So, Question: **What is the right approach/best practice of using Google AdSense on a responsive site design?**


ASP.NET Simple CMS

I have an existing ASP.NET web site. The site has a "news" section and I'd like to add some very simple content management functionality to that an administrator can edit the news. I had thought of using DotNetNuke.   * Is this a sensible option?    * Any pointers for adding this simple functionality?    * Should I look at another solution?


How do I set up anonymous email forwarder using cPanel?

Some companies demand your email address, then send you spam. I'm quite familiar with cPanel. How would I set up an anonymous email forwarder, so I can give them a valid email address, and kill that email address if the company turns into an evil spammer? Note that to be effective, it would have to filter out any email addresses listed in the body of the forwarded email (otherwise those email addresses will end up on their spam list too).


Connecting to my website without SSH

I have seen tutorials and read on how to connect to my website using the shell and basically getting a SSH access to it. But the problem is, SSH access is disabled for my account and I can't get it enabled (extra $). How do I connect to my website hosting server without SSH? I need to do this because I want to be able to install software on my server. So how do I do that without SSH?