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22,137 | <p>I have inherited a Sitecore architecture that is a mess from an SEO duplicate content POV. </p>
<p>There are multiple aliases that have been created (and indexed by the search engines) for many of the 2nd tier pages of the site. </p>
<p>Due to server issues, I am not able to 301 redirect these duped pages, so I wo... | [
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"text": "<p>Mike,\nI think the easiest, and first place, I would start is to modify your Layout (.aspx) such that pa... | 2011/11/16 | [
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There are multiple aliases that have been created (and indexed by the search engines) for many of the 2nd tier pages of the site.
Due to server issues, I am not able to 301 redirect these duped pages, so I would like to use t... | Mike,
I think the easiest, and first place, I would start is to modify your Layout (.aspx) such that pages using an alias have the `<link rel="canonical" href="..."/>` in the head.
You can leverage code provided with [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6919116/how-to-check-whether-sitecore-item-is-using-... |
22,165 | <p>It's a PHP app. How can I minimize the downtime while updating the entire codebase?</p>
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* before we update, the document root of the server is :
+ in `/www/app-2009-09-01`
+ but is accessed via a symbolic link, called `/www/application`
* we put the whole new code base to `/www/app-2009-09-08`
* once the whole code base is there :
+ we remove the old symbolic link
+... |
22,186 | <p>I'm seeing in my access log a number of request very suspicious:</p>
<pre><code>/i
/im
/imaa
/imag
/image
/images
/images/d
/images/di
/images/dis
</code></pre>
<p>They part from a known resource (in the above example /images/disrupt.jpg).</p>
<p>All comming from same IP. Requests varies from 1/sec to 10/sec, se... | [
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"text": "<blockquote>\n <p>Do they use always same IP?</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>No, search engines can be expected to us... | 2011/11/18 | [
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```
/i
/im
/imaa
/imag
/image
/images
/images/d
/images/di
/images/dis
```
They part from a known resource (in the above example /images/disrupt.jpg).
All comming from same IP. Requests varies from 1/sec to 10/sec, seems somewhat random.
It's obvi... | Finally I found who was the responsible, it was a javascript that tried to load the resources in real time as somebody write an article.
As the user was typing the url of an image, the script tried to load it even if the path was not complete, hence that 404 logs. |
22,232 | <p>A site that I am developing works with the format <code>www.domain.com</code> but when typing the domain without the www i.e <code>domain.com</code> I receive a error 400 bad request. How can I enable non-www for my site.</p>
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"text": "<p>To solve your problem, if you're using Apache, you can use <a href=\"http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0... | 2011/11/19 | [
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] | A site that I am developing works with the format `www.domain.com` but when typing the domain without the www i.e `domain.com` I receive a error 400 bad request. How can I enable non-www for my site. | To solve your problem, if you're using Apache, you can use [mod\_rewrite](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html) in this way:
* Create a text file and call it .htaccess
* Open the file with a text editor and write:
>
>
> ```
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^juve-news\.com [NC]
> Rewrit... |
22,233 | <p>Waht non-commercial (free) good video player can yous suggest in order to put on my webpage? I am doing it first time and have no idea what is now being widely used.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>EDIT:</p>
<p>Is <a href="http://videojs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://videojs.com/</a> video player good? (format support, relia... | [
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Thanks!
EDIT:
Is <http://videojs.com/> video player good? (format support, reliability, fast download, comparability ???) | To solve your problem, if you're using Apache, you can use [mod\_rewrite](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html) in this way:
* Create a text file and call it .htaccess
* Open the file with a text editor and write:
>
>
> ```
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^juve-news\.com [NC]
> Rewrit... |
22,251 | <p>I'm doing some work on a webpage, meaning I gotta modify a few things. As a result of this I installed apache and all the things that come associated with it, and also installed Joomla, and I got everything running well. </p>
<p>My problem is, I need to make apache run this website locally, so I downloaded the publ... | [
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"text": "<p>Is this site all HTML? If so you should only need to copy all files and folders starting at the site root (where ... | 2011/07/06 | [
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My problem is, I need to make apache run this website locally, so I downloaded the public\_html f... | It is not that hard but you will have to get your hands dirty :) It sounds like your Apache is currently only running the one site, which makes things a little easier.
* **Get Apache to start.** In general, you enable as a service and it starts every time your computer starts. The exact command to do this depends on y... |
22,301 | <p>I use Google's <a href="https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__c=3148491556&__u=1908280996&__o=te&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_STATS#search.none" rel="nofollow">Traffic Estimator</a> to calculate the Estimated Average Cost Per Click.</p>
<p>I use the following filters:</p>
<pre><code>Locations: A... | [
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"text": "<p>The \"Max CPC\" field is the maximum you wish to pay per click. If you enter a Max CPC of $100 then you w... | 2011/11/21 | [
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I use the following filters:
```
Locations: Australia
Languages: English
```
and the following phrase ... | The "Max CPC" field is the maximum you wish to pay per click. If you enter a Max CPC of $100 then you will never pay more than $100 per click, so the average will always be less than $100 - in this case $6.08.
However, restricting it to $10 Max CPC means you're cutting out all the clicks from $10 to $100, therefore th... |
22,358 | <p>I have been working to promote my website from long time but not getting such traffic as work I have done on that.
My website is running online with another domain using framset so is it somewhere affecting on search index & ranking.</p>
<p>My parent website is <a href="http://www.battle%20cancer.com" rel="nofo... | [
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"text": "<ol>\n<li><p>Search engines don't like frames. If a site's content is in a frame it essentially is invisible to... | 2011/11/18 | [
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My website is running online with another domain using framset so is it somewhere affecting on search index & ranking.
My parent website is [http://www.battle cancer.com](http://www.battle%20cancer.com) a... | 1. Search engines don't like frames. If a site's content is in a frame it essentially is invisible to search engines.
2. It's duplicate content which is considered low quality content. Even if #1 wasn't an issue, the site would the duplicate content and as a result filtered out of the search results.
So this will only... |
22,374 | <p>I installed phpmyadmin in Win7, and if I type <code>http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php</code> in the browser, it will log in phpmyadmin as root user by default.</p>
<p>I created a new user but still there's no login window... every time it logs in as root by default.. how can I change user?</p>
<p>Many thanks!<... | [
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"text": "<p>this one was tricky to figure out at first, but in the end it's the Egg of Columbus:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Close al... | 2011/11/22 | [
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I created a new user but still there's no login window... every time it logs in as root by default.. how can I change user?
Many thanks! | **How to set phpmyadmin prompt for login name and password**
Set the auth\_type to http in you config file of phpmyadmin
```
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http'; // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; // MySQL user
$cfg['Servers'][... |
22,411 | <p>I am just creating sitemap for my site and wanted to find out if I should include # links for SEO?</p>
<p><strong>For Example:</strong> </p>
<pre><code>www.mydomain.com/#comment1
www.mydomain.com/#comment2
</code></pre>
<p>Does this help with SEO or because the page is essentially the same just conflict?</p>
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**For Example:**
```
www.mydomain.com/#comment1
www.mydomain.com/#comment2
```
Does this help with SEO or because the page is essentially the same just conflict? | No, you shouldn't include # links. They refer to the same page, and the sitemap is saying how often the page changes (as well as page structure).
In fact, your server won't get a request for the #. The browser, or crawler bot, requests the URL www.mydomain.com and then when it retrieves the page jumps to the part of t... |
22,451 | <p>I've written a small htaccess file to redirect Internet Explorer users to a specific page
Here are the contents :</p>
<pre><code># MS Internet Explorer - Mozilla v4
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla/4(.*)MSIE
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /sorry.php [L]
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"text": "<p>Well, generally no, I don't. Websites are often complex tasks, so I prefer to develop a personal relationship wi... | 2011/11/09 | [
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Here are the contents :
```
# MS Internet Explorer - Mozilla v4
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla/4(.*)MSIE
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /sorry.php [L]
# All other browsers
#RewriteRule ^index\.html$ /index.32... | I agree. I think the personal approach is the best option but with larger enterprise scale projects a more structured approach may be required. This article contains all of the best resources I have seen on the web about requirements gathering:
<http://qwertyphilia.com/2008/11/requirements-gathering-for-web-projects/> |
22,470 | <p>Bit of a general question here. We are in the process of converting a number of our clients from older web sites to new ones.</p>
<p>The problem we are getting, and sorry for being so general here, is we are getting a sharp decline in traffic as reported on Google Analytics. It's not a gradual decline, it seems to ... | [
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The problem we are getting, and sorry for being so general here, is we are getting a sharp decline in traffic as reported on Google Analytics. It's not a gradual decline, it seems to hit almost... | To answer point b specifically, using a serverside include to generare your analytics code is absolutely fine. |
22,504 | <p>I've found some unusual activity in my site's Apache logs and every hit has this UserAgent string:</p>
<pre><code>"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-gb; SiteCon/8.8.14)"
</code></pre>
<p>What is SiteCon?</p>
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"text": "<p>Remember that user agents are free to send any header they want to (even none). Lookup the IP addresses asso... | 2011/11/25 | [
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```
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-gb; SiteCon/8.8.14)"
```
What is SiteCon? | It turns out the UserAgent is attached when using the web site monitoring / uptime provider Site Confidence: <http://www.siteconfidence.com.au/> |
22,512 | <p>Should I be using WAI-ARIA in my website builds? Will it have any benefit? Is anyone adding 'role' to their code at the moment?</p>
<p>Some info about WAI-ARIA - <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria" rel="nofollow">www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria</a>.</p>
<p>The tab, link, checkbox and slider roles, plus many more,... | [
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"text": "<p>OK I have been doing some thinking and research around this since you asked this.</p>\n\n<p>It is now my opinion th... | 2011/11/25 | [
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Some info about WAI-ARIA - [www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria](http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria).
The tab, link, checkbox and slider roles, plus many more, aren't available yet for HTML5. From looki... | OK I have been doing some thinking and research around this since you asked this.
It is now my opinion that you should use them, and I intend to start bringing them into projects.
Just because they aren't available doesn't mean they can't be parsed by assistive technologies and if they help to even add a little bit o... |
22,534 | <p>I want to add content from other blogs to my own (with the authors permission) to help build additional relevant content and support articles I've found useful that others have written.</p>
<p>I'm looking into how to do this responsibly - ie, by giving the original content author a boost and not competing against t... | [
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"text": "<p>Instead of using canonical, you should be using <a href=\"http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/a... | 2011/11/24 | [
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I'm looking into how to do this responsibly - ie, by giving the original content author a boost and not competing against them for se... | Instead of using canonical, you should be using [rel=author](http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1408986), which will give the original author all credit. It is extremely simple to use tho, but it requires that the original author will give you a link from his/her google profile to end the loo... |
22,616 | <p>Lots of web sites uses following meta tag to specify the default language of the document:</p>
<pre><code><meta http-equiv="content-language" content="es-ES">
</code></pre>
<p>When I go to <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html-markup-20110113/meta.http-equiv.content-language.html#meta.http-equiv.content... | [
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```
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="es-ES">
```
When I go to [W3C site and read about HTML language mark](http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html-markup-20110113/meta.http-equiv.content-language.html#meta.http-equiv.con... | It belongs ion the `<html>` tag:
```
<html lang="en">
``` |
22,726 | <p>I have just got new hosting for my website and I have a directory /www which I put all my website files within and a folder in that directory called 'store'.</p>
<p>Within 'store' is several files and folders, I want to give the folder 'store' and all files and folders within the 'store' folder all permissions.</p>... | [
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"text": "<p>You would use that code from the command line through SSH. You can use a free SSH client like <a href=\"http... | 2011/11/30 | [
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Within 'store' is several files and folders, I want to give the folder 'store' and all files and folders within the 'store' folder all permissions.
How do I do ... | On Windows use Putty to connect to your server's command line.
On Mac you can make a SSH connection using a program called Terminal. Open the terminal, type ssh @ and hit enter. Type in the info to connect to your server.
chmod is a command line program. It is not an Apache configuration, which is what is put into .... |
22,732 | <p>I developed a site nearly 2 years (PHP, JAVA), but I am a new SEOer. </p>
<p>My database has almost 1M articles. I have some questions I need help with: </p>
<ol>
<li>Is it as a good idea to create static pages from all the articles? </li>
<li>Are more pages in the one site better for SEO? </li>
<li>If I created e... | [
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My database has almost 1M articles. I have some questions I need help with:
1. Is it as a good idea to create static pages from all the articles?
2. Are more pages in the one site better for SEO?
3. If I created each article into a static page, th... | It doesn't matter where your pages come from (e.g. database / static).
You just have to make sure that all your pages can be accessed by following links on your site (this is how search engines crawl your site).
Either by adding the url's to a menu (not really the way to go with 1M pages :-) ) or by links at some oth... |
22,738 | <p><strong>Is it possible to conditionally call AddHandler in the .htaccess under Apache (2.x)?</strong></p>
<p>My present situation requires that a certain AddHandler is needed by one production server but that one breaks the development server. This requires to have 2 versions of .htaccess which is pain. So, instead... | [
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My present situation requires that a certain AddHandler is needed by one production server but that one breaks the development server. This requires to have 2 versions of .htaccess which is pain. So, instead I would like to wrap o... | Use mod\_rewrite and [the H= flag](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/flags.html#flag_h). In .htaccess, use a `-` as the substitution if you set H= in a flag. You can then do your IP checks in a RewriteCond.
Here's some (untested!) code to accomplish this:
```
# Standard preamble for using mod_rewrite in a ... |
22,783 | <p>I have a series of web pages that link to the following:</p>
<pre><code>jquery-ui-1.8.4.custom.min.js
jquery.ui.widget.js
jquery.ui.core.js
jquery.ui.accordion.js
jquery.ui.selectmenu.js
jquery.ui.button.js
</code></pre>
<p>Not every page uses each .js (for example, not every pages uses jquery.ui.button) however I... | [
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```
jquery-ui-1.8.4.custom.min.js
jquery.ui.widget.js
jquery.ui.core.js
jquery.ui.accordion.js
jquery.ui.selectmenu.js
jquery.ui.button.js
```
Not every page uses each .js (for example, not every pages uses jquery.ui.button) however I was wondering if it would... | Yes, you should combine the files.
Just use the [custom download builder](http://jqueryui.com/download) to select the parts you need, and it'll do it for you. |
22,784 | <p>I have a catchall <em>.htaccess</em> directive like this:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L]
</code></pre>
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] | I have a catchall *.htaccess* directive like this:
```
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L]
```
Anything that doesn't exist and the URL is rewritten back to the index page. This is fine, however I want the header to be sent a 404 instead of a 200. How... | I think the only way to do so is using `ErrorDocument` directive:
```
ErrorDocument 404 index.php
```
because with `RewriteRule` you are "masking" the error serving another page to the request.
Yet you must know that `ErrorDocument 404` won't change the URL of the page, thus you will have your homepage on a wrong U... |
22,830 | <p>I saw some sites having a <code><<back</code> link on each page below the site top level that basically just invokes a JScript function that gets the browser history and navigates one page back. So it functions exactly as a browser "Back" button would.</p>
<p>To me it makes no sense - it just duplicates an al... | [
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] | I saw some sites having a `<<back` link on each page below the site top level that basically just invokes a JScript function that gets the browser history and navigates one page back. So it functions exactly as a browser "Back" button would.
To me it makes no sense - it just duplicates an already existing thing. I tri... | >
> Is such link really helpful?
>
>
>
As ChrisF noted, this is entirely dependent upon whether or not your site's audience benefits from the feature.
>
> How is it better than just a browser "Back" button?
>
>
>
Most implementations look like this:
```
<a href="#" onClick="javascript:history.go(-1);">back<... |
22,954 | <p>I'm In a situation that's slightly different from this question.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/2375/10665">Why would anyone need my registrar information for a new web
site?</a></li>
</ul>
<p>We currently host our own web server and mail server. We're moving to a SaaS accounting and ... | [
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* [Why would anyone need my registrar information for a new web
site?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/2375/10665)
We currently host our own web server and mail server. We're moving to a SaaS accounting and practice management service. One option... | No, they shouldn't need your registrar information. They may want the login details for your ISP so they can, for example, change the mail routing to point to their servers. They may not be trying to do you harm, they may just assume that your registrar is also providing DNS. |
23,030 | <p>I have Drupal installed in a subfolder <code>drupal</code> but I want to access pages as it is in root folder: <code>http://www.example.com</code> instead of <code>http://www.example.com/drupal</code></p>
<p>I'm able to have this working, but it's also working with URL containing subfolder, so I have <code>http://w... | [
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"text": "<p>Try this, just add <code>RewriteRule ^drupal/(.*) - [F,L]</code>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>Options -Indexes\nOpti... | 2011/12/06 | [
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I'm able to have this working, but it's also working with URL containing subfolder, so I have `http://www.example.com` and a clone site in `http://www.... | I thought there would be a way (e.g. maybe something to do with subrequests) to determine if the URI being checked is from an internal rewrite (from a previous rewrite rule), but there doesn't seem to be AFAICT, so the solution I came up with checks the original HTTP request, which has some drawbacks (it's not URI deco... |
23,043 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/6185/new-meta-tags-with-positive-effects-for-seo-ranking-in-2011-and-beyond">New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>What are meta tags import... | [
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> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/6185/new-meta-tags-with-positive-effects-for-seo-ranking-in-2011-and-beyond)
>
>
>
What are meta tags important for seo? Especially for blogs. I often find som... | SEO wise they're getting less important than they used to be. Google seems to take **page content** more into account now but they're still useful to have in place. Other search engines still place more importance in them than Google do.
There's a very good reference here - <http://www.metatags.org/all_metatags>
High... |
23,068 | <p>Currently we are thinking of two possible URL structures for Products page and Product Detail Page and which one should we go with ?</p>
<p>1st Approach:</p>
<pre><code>/products/ - Displays Products
/product/<product-slug> - Display Product Details
/product/ - Redirect to Products (Can someone shed light on... | [
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] | Currently we are thinking of two possible URL structures for Products page and Product Detail Page and which one should we go with ?
1st Approach:
```
/products/ - Displays Products
/product/<product-slug> - Display Product Details
/product/ - Redirect to Products (Can someone shed light on redirecting
di... | Just use `/products/` for the main page and `/products/*` for item pages.
You're just complicating things unnecessarily. Unless there's more reasoning you're not bringing up. |
23,084 | <p>Here is a weird one that I am not sure what to do. Today our companies e-commerce site went down. I tailed the production log and saw that we were receiving a ton of request from this range of IP's 157.55.98.0/157.55.100.0. I googled around and come to find out that it is a MSN Web Crawler. </p>
<p>So essential... | [
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"text": "<p>Sign up with <a href=\"http://w.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Bing webmaster too... | 2011/12/07 | [
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] | Here is a weird one that I am not sure what to do. Today our companies e-commerce site went down. I tailed the production log and saw that we were receiving a ton of request from this range of IP's 157.55.98.0/157.55.100.0. I googled around and come to find out that it is a MSN Web Crawler.
So essentially MS web craw... | Sign up with [Bing webmaster tools](http://w.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster) and fill out their crawl speed chart. Set it for fastest crawling during your off hours and a much reduced rate during your busiest times.
If Bing is knocking over your website, you need to rethink your web server capacity. The best test is to se... |
23,105 | <p>This may be a silly question, but if I only have access to edit a website through a CMS, and can't touch the headers, is there a way to redirect the page without prompting the user to click a link?</p>
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] | This may be a silly question, but if I only have access to edit a website through a CMS, and can't touch the headers, is there a way to redirect the page without prompting the user to click a link? | You can use JavaScript to redirect them with code in the `<body>` of the page. It won't be a 301 redirect, however, as you can only do that with HTTP headers.
```
<script type="text/javascript">
window.location = "http://www.example.com/"
</script>
``` |
23,141 | <p>This is what I am trying to do. I am not familiar with Nginx enough to create custom rewrite rules like you can with Apache. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could help me with the Nginx config file! Thank you in advance! </p>
<p>I have an image server running Nginx on port 80 and Apache listening on 8... | [
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] | This is what I am trying to do. I am not familiar with Nginx enough to create custom rewrite rules like you can with Apache. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could help me with the Nginx config file! Thank you in advance!
I have an image server running Nginx on port 80 and Apache listening on 8080. What I w... | Nginx uses the `try_files` directive to 'see if something exists and fallback to another option' instead of using if statements and rewrites.
Within your server block, create a location block that will match your files (e.g. files ending in jpg, gif, png - add whatever extensions you want). Within that block, you will... |
23,143 | <p>I put a robots.txt in my server
<br> This is the code that I putted in</p>
<pre><code>User-agent: *
Disallow: /
</code></pre>
<p>I just want my entire site won't be searchable in google.
<br> I also put in the <code>NO INDEX, NO FOLLOW</code> on the header of my site, Here's the code:</p>
<pre><code><META NAME... | [
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This is the code that I putted in
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```
I just want my entire site won't be searchable in google.
I also put in the `NO INDEX, NO FOLLOW` on the header of my site, Here's the code:
```
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
```
I'm wonderin... | It never takes effect immediately. Google has to go to your site and look at the updated robots.txt file, which can take hours or days.
I suggest you make an account on [Google Webmaster Tools](http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/).
This will give you insight into what Google knows about your site.
I believe othe... |
23,154 | <pre><code><h3 id="My_Heading">My Heading</h3>
<h3 id="My_Awesome_Heading">My Awesome Heading</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>Whatever your heading text is, is what the id of the header is</p>
<p>Is this something that can be automated? I saw this on a websites code with firebug. If it is automatic, w... | [
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<h3 id="My_Heading">My Heading</h3>
<h3 id="My_Awesome_Heading">My Awesome Heading</h3>
```
Whatever your heading text is, is what the id of the header is
Is this something that can be automated? I saw this on a websites code with firebug. If it is automatic, what is it called? | You can do this with a little bit of jQuery
To take the ID and create your H3 text from that...
```
$(document).ready(function() {
$('h3').each(function() {
var newHeading = $(this).attr('id'); //Get the ID
newHeading = newHeading.replace('_', ' '); //Replace the _ with a space
$(this).tex... |
23,228 | <p>What am I missing? If I go to <code>mysite.com:9999</code> I get my site, but not <code>mysite.com</code> Obviously the users shouldn't need to type in the port, so what do I need to do? I'm not really trying to hide the port so much as not require the user to type it in the URL. Is this an Apache configuration ... | [
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"text": "<p>The HTTP protocol uses port 80 by default. If you configure your web server to use a nonstandard port, the... | 2011/12/11 | [
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] | What am I missing? If I go to `mysite.com:9999` I get my site, but not `mysite.com` Obviously the users shouldn't need to type in the port, so what do I need to do? I'm not really trying to hide the port so much as not require the user to type it in the URL. Is this an Apache configuration setting somewhere? Should I b... | Here is the manual for [DNS SRV records (RFC 2782)](http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2782.txt) which can be used to change the default port to match what you actually use:
```
_http._tcp.example.com. IN SRV 0 5 80 www.example.com.
```
where next to last field is port, which can have any real value. D... |
23,277 | <p>Does anyone know of any good guides for someone new to editing and making .htaccess files. Anything about rewriting urls, directory access and passwording a directory would be great.</p>
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* The [howto's htaccess official guide](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html)
* The [official mod\_rewrite guide](http://httpd.apache.org/docs... |
23,283 | <p>I'm referring to the keyword tags, not the html tags. For example: I added the SEO tag to this question.</p>
<p>I'm sure tags are very important for SEO on the question page, but are they also important on the home page?</p>
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I'm sure tags are very important for SEO on the question page, but are they also important on the home page?
If StackExchange was to remove the tags from the home page would this have an impact on SEO? | * Here's the wiki of [serverfault.com](https://serverfault.com/questions/214512/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-mod-rewrite-rules-but-were-afraid-to-as)
* The [howto's htaccess official guide](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html)
* The [official mod\_rewrite guide](http://httpd.apache.org/docs... |
23,341 | <p>My site is www.trainerroad.com and lives on Azure.</p>
<p>I have a customer who get's</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.trainerroad.com</p>
</blockquote>
<p>When trying to access our website. Yesterday they could hit our site.</p>
<p>I had him do an nslookup and here's what he r... | [
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"text": "<p>Is it only in Chrome this happens? I would ask them to check in one other browser.</p>\n\n<p>Could it be set up to... | 2011/12/13 | [
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I have a customer who get's
>
> Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.trainerroad.com
>
>
>
When trying to access our website. Yesterday they could hit our site.
I had him do an nslookup and here's what he responded with:
```
Microsoft Windows XP [Versi... | We've addressed this from the other side on Super User as a Community FAQ:
>
> ### [How do I diagnose not being able to reach a specific website as an end user?](https://superuser.com/q/231977/20088)
>
>
> If I can generally reach web pages on the Internet but can't reach a specific one, how do I troubleshoot what ... |
23,382 | <h2>The situation</h2>
<p>Across the entire domain, we'd like the URLs to <em>hide file extensions</em> and <em>remove trailing slashes</em>, independent of the domain name itself (as in, works on any domain).</p>
<h2>Sample of our directory structure</h2>
<p>We're not using index.* files except for the homepage.</p... | [
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] | The situation
-------------
Across the entire domain, we'd like the URLs to *hide file extensions* and *remove trailing slashes*, independent of the domain name itself (as in, works on any domain).
Sample of our directory structure
---------------------------------
We're not using index.\* files except for the homep... | Thanks for your time to look at the question, but we appeared to have figured it out:
```
Options -Multiviews -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
DirectorySlash Off
# remove trailing slash
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23,402 | <p>So I've been assigned to take a look at our SEO (an area I have some, but not amazing competence in), and the first thing I noticed is that our robots.txt file says the following:</p>
<pre><code># go away
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
</code></pre>
<p>Now, I'm pretty competent at reading computer, and as far as I can ... | [
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```
# go away
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```
Now, I'm pretty competent at reading computer, and as far as I can tell, this says ALL spider... | Maybe someone didn't want to pay for spider traffic?
Regardless, you are reading it correctly:
<http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html>
>
> Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about
> their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion
> Protocol. It works likes this: a robot... |
23,404 | <p>I'm working on a site that has a search facility with multiple parameters that look up property listings. The possible parameters are:</p>
<p>City, Area, Building Type, Min. Bedrooms, Max Rental Price, Page Number, Sort Order.</p>
<p>The 'raw' url, without any rewriting would look something like this:</p>
<p><st... | [
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City, Area, Building Type, Min. Bedrooms, Max Rental Price, Page Number, Sort Order.
The 'raw' url, without any rewriting would look something like this:
**www.mysite.com/city=1&area... | Canonical URLs are to be used when two different URLs can be used to pull up the same content. If your URL rewriting causes this to happen then canonical URLs will be necessary.
So if:
```
www.mysite.com/london/kensington/apartments
```
pulls up the same content as
```
www.mysite.com/city=london&area=kensington&ty... |
23,448 | <p>I have been trying to make a subdomain from a directory (made by <em>.htaccess</em>) to be used as the main page starting like <code>http://domain.com/sub/2/3/4.html</code> and turning into <code>http://sub.domain.com/2/3/4.html</code>.</p>
<p>The folder system goes like:</p>
<pre><code>www\sub\2\3\
</code></pre>
... | [
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The folder system goes like:
```
www\sub\2\3\
```
in `www` there is a `index.html` and in the sub folder the... | I have found some fantastic code for the .htaccess
that converts any folder in the main www directory into sub-domains
e.g. www/somefolder turns into somefolder.domain.com
you can also set it so that any directory inside a certain directory becomes a subdomain
e.g. www/folder/somefolder turns into somefolder.domain.com... |
23,462 | <p>I need some urgent advice please with regard to Google analytics and multiple domains, and how best to handle them.</p>
<p>Got a very sensitive customer who has a number of domains:
EG
somethingvauxhall.co.uk, somthing-vauxhall.co.uk, something-group.co.uk, somethinggroup.co.uk, somethinggroup.com etc</p>
<p>I was... | [
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Got a very sensitive customer who has a number of domains:
EG
somethingvauxhall.co.uk, somthing-vauxhall.co.uk, something-group.co.uk, somethinggroup.co.uk, somethinggroup.com etc
I was under the impres... | There are a variety of usability and historical SEO reasons to use permanent redirects over temporary redirects, however, the need to do so for SEO purposes has been mitigated by the advent of [canonical link](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html) specifications (and you could ... |
23,480 | <p>Can I get your feedback on the best tools to build an auction website with the following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>The site takes a commission (like 5%) on each transaction</li>
<li>Each user can assign a rating (like 4.5 stars) to his completed transaction,<br>
and comment on the seller's profile.</li>
<li>Accept pay... | [
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* The site takes a commission (like 5%) on each transaction
* Each user can assign a rating (like 4.5 stars) to his completed transaction,
and comment on the seller's profile.
* Accept payments in paypal and credit ca... | There are a variety of usability and historical SEO reasons to use permanent redirects over temporary redirects, however, the need to do so for SEO purposes has been mitigated by the advent of [canonical link](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html) specifications (and you could ... |
23,525 | <p>If you want google's cache of your site to remain unchanged, is it a good idea to add noarchive to robots.txt? Or will this wipe out your caches?</p>
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```
<meta name="Googlebot" content="noarchive">
```
When you have done that, then Google will stop caching the page entirely and won't show a cache link at all. *There is no way t... |
23,568 | <p>I am having trouble with pleskrestore on Plesk 10.4.1, CentOS 5. </p>
<p>I have 6 files I created (also in Plesk 10.4.1) with pleskbackup, split into 4GB:</p>
<p>Here is what I used ...</p>
<pre><code>$ /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup --server --output file=ftp://user:pass@domain.com/colossus729_split_0 --split=4G... | [
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I have 6 files I created (also in Plesk 10.4.1) with pleskbackup, split into 4GB:
Here is what I used ...
```
$ /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup --server --output file=ftp://user:pass@domain.com/colossus729_split_0 --split=4G
```
... to make these fil... | So tried to do all this with the documentation, but it is lacking in detail and accuracy. Plus, all the error messages their applications return are worthless.
Oh, and I have to say that this is the last time I embark on a project with Plesk.
Instead, my support folks had to unpack (untar?) the files so I could acces... |
23,571 | <p>When setting up a new website, how important is it to include keywords and potential search terms in the actual domain name? How heavily is this weighted when it comes to ranking highly on google searches?</p>
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Oh, and I have to say that this is the last time I embark on a project with Plesk.
Instead, my support folks had to unpack (untar?) the files so I could acces... |
23,584 | <p>Below are little part of my access_log</p>
<pre><code>118.186.8.50 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:42:57 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"
05
118.186.8.50 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:42:57 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"
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118.186.8.50 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:42:57 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"
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118.186... | Someone was [Fuzzing](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Fuzzing) your server. Also see [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing).
Basically involves sending rapid blocks of invalid data to see if anything breaks.
Nginx is set to return a 400 error error when no request data is sent.
Don't worry about it. ... |
23,622 | <p>I have a select input on a search results page and each option's value is a URL to sort the search results. There's an onchange event on the select to refresh the page with the sort option. Google webmaster tools is showing that I have duplicate meta content because it's following the sort URL's. Is there a way to p... | [
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23,641 | <p>I am running a static PHP website for the past 3 months. It's not a CMS but just simple PHP files (no database) in to which I add content. I am struggling to manually create RSS feeds as it is very time consuming. Can someone suggest me ways to save time creating RSS feeds? I am also looking to automate the process ... | [
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23,655 | <p>I am kind of fan of Github and it's Gists. Since the gists can be included via a small Javascript snippet and <code>document.write</code> commands, I was asking myself if they were SEO friendly. </p>
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23,720 | <p>I have a new client with a huge inventory of antique items. My client has each item named properly on the website, however, each item has many common variations of each name. Often times the most popular search term is not the proper (official) name. I had the thought of creating a page for each variant of the na... | [
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"text": "<p>That's creating low quality content. It's the same thing over and over again. No one is going to link to it s... | 2011/12/22 | [
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A better plan might be to put some of the alternative terminology on the curr... |
23,726 | <p>My hosting provider has problems. I put Drupal on a sub-domain of my site. When I try logging in or clicking a link it comes to a Internal server error. But if I navigate to the actual directory it works fine. What should I do?</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<p><strong>Works:</strong> sld.tld/subdomainroot/Y</p>
<p><strong... | [
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Examples:
**Works:** sld.tld/subdomainroot/Y
**Fails** subdomain.sld.tld/Y | Pending concrete info from the logs of both the subdomain and second-level domain, my best guess is that the problem is caused by, either:
* having nested/overlapping document roots (which Apache generally does not like),
* the subdomain is misconfigured in Apache
* the Drupal install is configured to use the first we... |
23,836 | <p>Plain and simple - I want user to get main.php file instead of index.php, when he enters website. Such a straightforward task has caused me a lot of pain, and couple of hours googling. Following does not work:</p>
<pre><code>Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/$ /subdomain/main.php
</code></pre>
... | [
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"text": "<p>I don't think I've ever seen these sites given a formal name, but they're basically <a href=\"https://www.google.co... | 2011/12/26 | [
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```
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/$ /subdomain/main.php
```
This doesn't work eith... | I don't think I've ever seen these sites given a formal name, but they're basically [solicitation letters](https://www.google.com/search?q=solicitation+letter). Most people just call them "scams."
I can't do the research for you, but just do a search for the word "scam" right on that Tim Ferriss page for plenty of di... |
23,868 | <p>I have an apache2 installation on <code>www.main_domain.com</code> (invalid underscore in domain name is intentional; this is an example), and the default page gives links for two secondary sites, also served by the same webserver since they point to the same address. The sites have lots of stuff in common, so I wou... | [
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```
/var/www/site1
/var/www/site2
/var/www/site3
```
To share assets, you ... |
23,872 | <p>Although I'm aware of the various methods to show content only to users of a specific IE version, I was wondering if using <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512%28v=vs.85%29.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">conditional comments</a> would have an effect on the way my site is indexed. If I choose to... | [
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23,900 | <p>I would like to make my local website (running on a virtual CentOs machine) accessible for my mate who is also working on the website.
I have created a new line in my router config to forward all requests on port 8080 to my centos machine.
I've setup apache to listen on port 8080 as my ISP blocks port 80.
I've setu... | [
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I have created a new line in my router config to forward all requests on port 8080 to my centos machine.
I've setup apache to listen on port 8080 as my ISP blocks port 80.
I've setup m... | In your apache virtual host configuration (where you specified that is should listen on port 8080), be sure to add www.mydomain.local (or whatever you use) as a ServerAlias.
Simply just add a line below the initial `<virtualHost *:8080>` tag, saying:
```
ServerAlias www.mydomain.local
```
**Update**: Your mate also... |
23,909 | <p>For static websites, I always made a Sitemap.xml file and submitted it to search engines like google, bing etc.</p>
<p>But now, I have made a website in Asp.net MVC which has 3 dynamic pages which yields content for the supplied id. For example there is a <em>Store</em> controller with <em>Section</em> action metho... | [
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But now, I have made a website in Asp.net MVC which has 3 dynamic pages which yields content for the supplied id. For example there is a *Store* controller with *Section* action method that takes an *id* (li... | You can always create a dynamic sitemap :)
All you need to do is assemble all the current dynamic elements, and present them in xml format. For example, if you have a simple e-shop with multiple products, your sitemap should look like:
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.or... |
23,916 | <p>If I have a sitemap index, can the sitemaps listed in the index be located in a subdirectory, but have links that isn't specific to the subdirectory? I'm trying to avoid having multiple sitemaps in the root directory of my server, if I can help it. </p>
<p>/Sitemap.xml</p>
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/Sitemap.xml
```
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schema... | According to the "spec" that w3d mentions, sitemap files cannot reference URLs in alternate directories.
However, this is simply not true for all the search engines. I have put sitemap files in a subdirectory and never had a single error in Google or Bing Webmaster Tools.
So in practice *it makes no difference* where... |
23,956 | <p><strong>1. Symptom:</strong></p>
<p>I found lots of requests for the same resource on Apache logs, like this:</p>
<pre><code>/image/default/dHtmTreeImg/iconUnCheckAll.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 120
10.83.140.23 - - [29/Dec/2011:08:50:10 +0800] "GET /image/default/dHtmTreeImg/iconUnCheckAll.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 120
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I found lots of requests for the same resource on Apache logs, like this:
```
/image/default/dHtmTreeImg/iconUnCheckAll.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 120
10.83.140.23 - - [29/Dec/2011:08:50:10 +0800] "GET /image/default/dHtmTreeImg/iconUnCheckAll.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 120
10.83.140.23 - - [29/Dec/2011:08:50:10 +0800]... | There are several options. You could use an industry standard such as FontLab Studio which is indeed expensive or other freeware alternatives:
* [Font Struct](http://fontstruct.com/)
* [FontForge](http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/)
* BitFontMaker2 |
23,993 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/22303/why-should-we-use-tags-like-p-span-hx-tags-when-we-can-use-css-instead">Why should we use tags like p, span, hx tags when we can use CSS instead?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Do you think that is ... | [
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> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [Why should we use tags like p, span, hx tags when we can use CSS instead?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/22303/why-should-we-use-tags-like-p-span-hx-tags-when-we-can-use-css-instead)
>
>
>
Do you think that is actual difference between, as example
```
<h1>
<sp... | From an SEO perspective, it doesn't matter too much. There's some speculation that, in general, a high content-to-markup ratio is better for SEO. But I've seen no real evidence for this. This often repeated statement is probably generalized from the fact that high quality pages generally have lots of content, and pages... |
24,033 | <p>My url is: <code>website.com/profile/?id=24</code></p>
<p>I want it to be: <code>website.com/profile/kevinlee</code></p>
<p>The <code>?id=24</code> will be replaced with the username of the <code>id=24</code> in the database</p>
<p>How do I convert it to that?</p>
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I want it to be: `website.com/profile/kevinlee`
The `?id=24` will be replaced with the username of the `id=24` in the database
How do I convert it to that? | If the user names (like kevinlee) are unique on the system, this is pretty straight forward. First, for simplicity, I would move the profile call to a profile.php page, and move it out of the /profile/ directory (I'm assuming it used to just be an index.php page in /profile/?). You don't have to do that, but it just ma... |
24,049 | <p>I have created an employee webpage with a lot of company info, links, etc., but I want to protect the page because it contains some confidential company information. </p>
<p>I am running IIS7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2, and I already have the site setup as a normal, non-protected site. I want all active directory ... | [
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I am running IIS7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2, and I already have the site setup as a normal, non-protected site. I want all active directory users to h... | Even if you are not using ASP.NET web forms you can use [ASP.NET Web Forms authentication](http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials/security/introduction/security-basics-and-asp-net-support-cs) as the site is hosted by IIS.
If your web.config you can [specify directories](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316871) that req... |
24,057 | <p>Redirect has been widely discussed and most problems solved, so I am sorry for opening yet another post about this, but none of the codes I am trying work.</p>
<p>I have a WordPress site hosted in <code>http://mydomain.com/clientsdomain.com/wordpress</code></p>
<p>I would like to temporarily redirect <code>http://... | [
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] | Redirect has been widely discussed and most problems solved, so I am sorry for opening yet another post about this, but none of the codes I am trying work.
I have a WordPress site hosted in `http://mydomain.com/clientsdomain.com/wordpress`
I would like to temporarily redirect `http://clientsdomain.com/` to the abovem... | `.htaccess` is unlikely to be sufficient (of course, in principle `.htaccess` is just a place for local configuration, it depends on which modules are available too).
**EDIT:** (more details on why [`mod_rewrite`/redirect](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/remapping.html#movehomedirs)) doesn't work)
Assuming t... |
24,058 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/25745/which-content-management-system-cms-should-i-use">Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I'm looking for some software to run a small community website. I... | [
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> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/25745/which-content-management-system-cms-should-i-use)
>
>
>
I'm looking for some software to run a small community website. Ideally, what I want is:
* A wiki
* Static pages of... | `.htaccess` is unlikely to be sufficient (of course, in principle `.htaccess` is just a place for local configuration, it depends on which modules are available too).
**EDIT:** (more details on why [`mod_rewrite`/redirect](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/remapping.html#movehomedirs)) doesn't work)
Assuming t... |
24,061 | <p>I have someone I'm making a website for with a domain name and current website hosted at fasthosts. I've built them a website hosted at a different host, unlimited web hosting. The website I've made them is in a directory like this <code>www.mysite.com/dev/0002</code>.</p>
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So fasthosts: Is the registrar for the domain name, it also ... | `.htaccess` is unlikely to be sufficient (of course, in principle `.htaccess` is just a place for local configuration, it depends on which modules are available too).
**EDIT:** (more details on why [`mod_rewrite`/redirect](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/remapping.html#movehomedirs)) doesn't work)
Assuming t... |
24,090 | <p>For a couple of months I've got a Wordpress website (<a href="http://www.tricky-design.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tricky-design.com</a>) online. I was curious how many visitor do visit my website therefore I'd setup a statistics counter Statpress (plugin wordpress). </p>
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24,103 | <p>I want to set my firewall to only allow HTTP connections that originate from <a href="http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/" rel="noreferrer">Apps Script</a>. My Google Spreadsheets project uses URLFetch make queries back to my server. For development, that "server" is just my desktop at home. To allow th... | [
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216.239.32.0 - 216.239.63.255
64.233.160.0 - 64.233.191.255
66.249.80.0 - 66.249.95.255
72.14.192.0 - 72.14.255.255
209.85.128.0 - 209.85.255.255
66.102.0.0 - 66.102.15.255
74.125.0.0 - 74.125.255.255
64.18.0.0 - 64.18.15.255
207.126.144.0 - 207.126.159.255
173.194.0.0 - 173.194.255.255
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Source: <https://devel... |
24,125 | <p>We have a website (www.semanticdesigns.com) that delivers a default encoding of ISO-8859-1. The pages are written in, guess what, ASCII mostly with some ISO-8859-1 characters.</p>
<p>We have a few example directories where the pages under that directory are actually UTF-8-encoded with BOM.
(http://www.semanticdesi... | [
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We have a few example directories where the pages under that directory are actually UTF-8-encoded with BOM.
(http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Pr... | The charset specified by web server in the HTTP header [has priority](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset).
There are a few solutions to your problems:
* Tell web server to output different header for files in some directories (use AddCharset of AddDefaultCharset directives in the context... |
24,169 | <p>I'm using VPS server with ubuntu and webmin. And in one of my domain
I'd like to use google apps, but neither in webmin panel nor in conf file
I see a place to add this google spf : </p>
<pre><code>v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all
</code></pre>
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I'd like to use google apps, but neither in webmin panel nor in conf file
I see a place to add this google spf :
```
v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all
``` | You need to create a TXT record and set it to that value.
Webmin help page: <http://doxfer.webmin.com/Webmin/BINDDNSServer#Record_types> |
24,182 | <p>People from stackoverflow have been working closely with google team to help them make the panda algorithm more efficient, so I guess they've learned a lot from the google team.</p>
<p>Thus they may have done very clever friendly URLs to maximize the page rank.</p>
<p>I've seen from time to time very long URLs (c... | [
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"text": "<p>It happens for me too. I'd report it here <a href=\"http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry\" rel=\"... | 2012/01/05 | [
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Thus they may have done very clever friendly URLs to maximize the page rank.
I've seen from time to time very long URLs (can't find where) i... | It happens for me too. I'd report it here <http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry> if I were you.
I wouldn't let it stop you using it. Chrome gets update so often that it should go away so soon. If it were an IE bug I'd be recommending you find a way round it as IE gets updated so infrequently. |
24,184 | <p>Here's my (short) story:</p>
<p>I've made a website for a customer that didn't pay me.
He bought a lot of domains:</p>
<pre><code>http://groupesynergies.com/
http://groupesynergies.fr/
</code></pre>
<p>and so on.</p>
<p>Thanks to my work, he went up 5th in the google <em>France</em> search "groupe synergies" (ag... | [
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I've made a website for a customer that didn't pay me.
He bought a lot of domains:
```
http://groupesynergies.com/
http://groupesynergies.fr/
```
and so on.
Thanks to my work, he went up 5th in the google *France* search "groupe synergies" (against other websites that are far more huge).
... | First, to clear up something: PageRank (all one word) is a special algorithm that ranks pages based on how many incoming links it has and how important those links are. It is a number from 1 to 10. So if you are wondering why `groupesynergies.com` has a higher PageRank it would be purely because it has more and higher ... |
24,216 | <p>(Note: I have not linked to my site, but you can see the address below)</p>
<p>Visiting my site gives that typical</p>
<blockquote>
<p>zeno.biyg.org contains malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site.</p>
</blockquote>
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Visiting my site gives that typical
>
> zeno.biyg.org contains malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site.
>
>
>
I have the webpage listed under my Google Webmaster account, and it says:
>
> Unfortunately, Google has... | Figured it out. "Fetch as Googlebot" was reporting the site just fine too. I then used someone's tool to spoof crawler as Google and saw it happening.
The portal plugin for phpBB had some base64 code inserted due to bad permissions (7xx) and I fixed it all.
I'll probably wipe this server out though. |
24,225 | <p>So I’m trying to mark up some structured data using a combination of the contact vCard Microformat and Microdata using Schema.org’s <a href="http://schema.org/Place" rel="nofollow"><code>Place</code></a> type. </p>
<p>I’d love to do both at once, but I have a problem that I don’t know whether the Schema.org Microda... | [
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I’d love to do both at once, but I have a problem that I don’t know whether the Schema.org Microdata examples require exact duplication of HTML, ... | No, you don't need to duplicate the HTML exactly: microdata schemas are based on the [microdata attributes](http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/#encoding-microdata). It doesn't matter (usually; e.g. [links are an exception](http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/#values)) what HTML tag those attributes are applied to.
You may want... |
24,240 | <p>Just migrated to a new server, and its error reporting level for PHP is higher than the server we migrated from. It's showing warnings and notes about deprecated PHP.</p>
<p>While obviously, the long term solution is to address the warnings, in the short term, I need to silence them from echoing from the server.</p... | [
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While obviously, the long term solution is to address the warnings, in the short term, I need to silence them from echoing from the server.
I've tried ... | >
> I am trying to justify this by thinking that somehow a lot of ad buyers buy inventory >for the year and have to get setup to do another big buy now that it's a new calendar >year but that thought isn't close to comforting.
>
>
>
How's your CTR and/or fill rate? If those are down that would suggest
1. Your me... |
24,248 | <p>As an added backup, I'd love to have an external hard drive sitting here with my Mac that backs up our web server. Is there any way to have a total backup initially done of the entire web server, with it then doing any changed documents after that? </p>
<p>Server is running linux (hosted by Media Temple, dv 4.0 / P... | [
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] | As an added backup, I'd love to have an external hard drive sitting here with my Mac that backs up our web server. Is there any way to have a total backup initially done of the entire web server, with it then doing any changed documents after that?
Server is running linux (hosted by Media Temple, dv 4.0 / Plesk 10.x)... | `rsync` or `rdiff-backup` are good tools for doing this. rsync is available with MacOS X I believe. I found a good tutorial on how to do use them with Plesk here: <http://vmblog.com/archive/2006/12/02/2378.aspx>
Quick examples:
```
rsync -aze ssh root@remoteserver:/var/lib/mysql /backup/mysql
rdiff-backup user@hostna... |
24,260 | <p>my situation is the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>I need to do an automated backup of a database</li>
<li>I have only FTP access, PhpMyAdmin, and PHP</li>
</ul>
<p>So:</p>
<ul>
<li>No SSH means I can't use mysqldump</li>
<li>No Perl (and no cron) means I cannot call the mysqldumper cron script</li>
</ul>
<p>Do you kno... | [
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* I need to do an automated backup of a database
* I have only FTP access, PhpMyAdmin, and PHP
So:
* No SSH means I can't use mysqldump
* No Perl (and no cron) means I cannot call the mysqldumper cron script
Do you know any tool which would do an unassisted backup of a database? By un... | This sound like a job for [phpMyBackupPro](http://www.phpmybackuppro.net/) that I used a long time ago in a similar situation. It will let you create a scheduled backup by calling a simple PHP script on your server that you can call by URL. The backups can then be either stored on the server, FTPed to another server or... |
24,306 | <p>I have IIS 7 website.</p>
<p>I need to redirect users during maintenance time to home page from other sub pages within site.</p>
<p>for example</p>
<p>if user request <code>http://www.example.com/products/234</code></p>
<p>I need system to show default message, site under maintenance not 404 error</p>
<p>How it... | [
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I need to redirect users during maintenance time to home page from other sub pages within site.
for example
if user request `http://www.example.com/products/234`
I need system to show default message, site under maintenance not 404 error
How it can be done in IIS 7? | ```
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<httpRedirect enabled="true" exactDestination="true" httpResponseStatus="Found">
<add wildcard="*.php" destination="/default.htm" />
</httpRedirect>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
``` |
24,344 | <p>I have the following Custom Report set up in Google Analytics:</p>
<p>Metrics:</p>
<ul>
<li>Avg Time on Page</li>
<li>Avg Time on Site</li>
</ul>
<p>Dimensions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Page</li>
</ul>
<p>So a report looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>Page Avg Time on Page Avg Time on Site
/an-arti... | [
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Metrics:
* Avg Time on Page
* Avg Time on Site
Dimensions:
* Page
So a report looks like this:
```
Page Avg Time on Page Avg Time on Site
/an-article 00:03:14 00:00:11
/another-article 00:0... | Google Analytics counts bounces (where only one page was viewed by the visitor) as having a "time on site" of 0. But it still counts the full time on *page* for that visit. [[Source.](http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=7f1a0537ed9f8fe8&hl=en)]
If a site has lots of bounces – where many... |
24,371 | <p>In the past, I extensively used CSS image replacement techniques for SEO purposes and to separate presentation from content. </p>
<p>But from my reading of the <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66353" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Webmaster</a> guidelines and <a href="... | [
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] | In the past, I extensively used CSS image replacement techniques for SEO purposes and to separate presentation from content.
But from my reading of the [Google Webmaster](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66353) guidelines and [other comments](https://stackoverflow.com/q/7225629/24376) r... | I don't really understand why you would use CSS image replacement in this case when the image ALt Tag would suffice? I am an SEO and I wouldn't recommend that approach to a client.
While it is true that it is not really known how much Googlebot can parse JS or CSS, I wouldn't rule it out (but neither would I categoric... |
24,372 | <p>I'm trying to edit a index.html file but in my heading my html special character code is not showing on the screen.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code><h5>Souscrire &#224; infolettre</h5>
</code></pre>
<p>This should display as "<code>Souscrire à infolettre</code>" but the <code>à</code> isn't showing... | [
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] | I'm trying to edit a index.html file but in my heading my html special character code is not showing on the screen.
Example:
```
<h5>Souscrire à infolettre</h5>
```
This should display as "`Souscrire à infolettre`" but the `à` isn't showing. | As a french user, you should not do that. Simply encode all your files in UTF-8 and you will be able to use whatever accent you want : ç,é,è,à,ô...
But you will need to add a little header to the html file.
```
<meta charset="utf-8">
``` |
24,386 | <p>Is it possible to send an automatic email that includes details about the requested page to the webmaster when a visitors hits a 500 internal server error page? </p>
<p>That way the web master could act more quickly to solve the problem. This is a general question so which platform is used is irrelevant. </p>
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That way the web master could act more quickly to solve the problem. This is a general question so which platform is used is irrelevant. | Yes, it's possible. You just need to ascertain whether the web server is IIS or Apache and then you can set it to show a custom page (which will contain the code to capture the details you want from the user and e-mail it to you) whenever a 500 error is encountered.
For Apache, for instance, it's really simple. Simply... |
24,399 | <p>I'm making a site with two columns. Either of the columns can be larger than the other and they have different backgrounds. My problem in trying to do it with CSS with the clearfix trick, is that colors are right when the color of the underlying wrapper has the color of the shorter column, but when it has the color ... | [
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"text": "<p><strong>SEO</strong></p>\n\n<p>For SEO, which actually might be quite important for online shopping, I wou... | 2012/01/10 | [
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For SEO, which actually might be quite important for online shopping, I would go for the long page. Hidden content is not referenced by search engines. Thus, some data **might** not be indexed.
The safe solution would be a long page.
**Accesibility**
Content has to be accessible. Tabs are not the solution... |
24,443 | <p>Should I return a http 401 status code on an html based login form? The page is a dedicated login form, and does not have any other meaningful content, just site framework. The URL however, can be for a page that does have meaningful content, but requires login. Note that this setup only returns the status code 4... | [
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```
WWW-Authenticate: Bogus realm="b... |
24,445 | <p>Well, I have a co-worker (actually my superior) who often sets his articles' slugs to expected / relevant search terms such as:</p>
<pre><code>keywordA-keywordB-keywordC-keywordD-keywordE
</code></pre>
<p>I usually make mine closer to the article's title, e.g.:</p>
<pre><code>robber-robs-XYZ-bank-10-million
</cod... | [
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```
keywordA-keywordB-keywordC-keywordD-keywordE
```
I usually make mine closer to the article's title, e.g.:
```
robber-robs-XYZ-bank-10-million
```
He claims placing only the expected ... | Your co-worker's method looks suspiciously like [keyword stuffing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword_stuffing) and may not actually be relevant if the content doesn't contain those keywords. That's not to say URLs should be devoid of keywords, I just think it should be planned better and *make sense* to humans too o... |
24,454 | <p>I am victim of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Domain name front running</a>. I searched for domain names on some sites
& I lost those names soon.</p>
<p>Now, what is the safest way to search for availability of domain names? Using</p>
<pre><code>nslooku... | [
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& I lost those names soon.
Now, what is the safest way to search for availability of domain names? Using
```
nslookup -type=ns domain.example
```
is a way that I found, thoug... | 1. Bypass the registrar when searching for available domains by querying the registry directly.
2. Buy the domain you want as soon as you know it's available.
3. Use a registrar who doesn't have a history of pinching unregistered names of value when you try to register them.
### To bypass the registrar when doing sear... |
24,475 | <p>My host has given me this log and tells me its mySQL overloading my server:</p>
<pre><code>| 266976 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 30 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |
| 266978 | db_name | localhost | db... | [
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```
| 266976 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 30 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |
| 266978 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Qu... | When you see `Copying to tmp table`, that's often a sign that you wrote a bad query that is going to take a long time to run. Your post is showing several that are taking 45 seconds or more to run. Identify what queries are running that are taking a long time.
You'll need to alter those queries to make proper use of i... |
24,505 | <p>I've just finished making a website for my dad and need to get it on line. He has a domain already (and I have access to the admin panel for that on 'fasthosts') and my mum already has some server space which she rents jointly with an old colleague of hers who handles most of the administration. My questions is:</p>... | [
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How d... | To change/set where a domain points to, you need to do 3 things:
1. Add the domain to your web server, which is typically done via a web host's administration panel unless you're running your own web server.
2. Add the domain to the nameservers you'll be using. This is also typically done via a web host's admin panel ... |
24,569 | <p>I have some pages on my site that I want to keep search engines away from, so I disallowed them in my <code>robots.txt</code> file like this:</p>
<pre><code>User-Agent: *
Disallow: /email
</code></pre>
<p>Yet I recently noticed that Google still sometimes returns links to those pages in their search results. Why do... | [
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```
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /email
```
Yet I recently noticed that Google still sometimes returns links to those pages in their search results. Why does this happen, and how can I stop i... | It seems that Google deliberately includes URLs disallowed in `robots.txt` in their index if there are links to those URLs from other pages they've crawled. To quote their [Webmaster Tools help pages](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449):
>
> "While Google won't crawl or index the c... |
24,651 | <p>On behalf of my client, I have purchased a few really good URLs, to assist with their SEO.</p>
<p>I want to understand whether my proposed use of these domains, as micro-sites to <i>encouraged</i> visitors to visit the main site, will result in blacklisting.</p>
<pre><code> Here's my invented example:
'Farmaceuti... | [
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Here's my invented example:
'Farmaceuticals' Ltd. They sell big, ... | I think it's safe to say it's a common misconception that having a larger quantity of sites (for the sake of interlinking and psychologically thinking that they'll reach a larger audience) is a good way to go.
What is important here is the quality of content.
Start thinking of 'mini-sites' and pages on your main web... |
24,659 | <p>You can <a href="http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp">whois</a> a domain to see who the domain is registered with.</p>
<p>Is there anyway you can find out which <em>company</em> a individual is hosting with? (i.e. Rackspace, Godaddy, etc.)</p>
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Is there anyway you can find out which *company* a individual is hosting with? (i.e. Rackspace, Godaddy, etc.) | The best you could do is ping / nslookup it to get the IP; and lookup who the IP belongs to. Given superuser.com as an example:
>
> PING superuser.com (64.34.119.12): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 64.34.119.12: icmp\_seq=0 ttl=52 time=50.067 ms
>
>
>
Then doing a WHOIS on the IP Address:
```
VCSJONESMBP:~ kjone... |
24,687 | <p>We want to know how many concurrent users the apache is serving at one time? Can I do it by installing some statistics tools? I tried webalizer but it only shows hourly hits, not the number of users. Or I have to analyze the log using some tools?</p>
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Or you can write your own script from the command line that just check the number of current connections on the port Apache is running on (usually 80), for example:
```
netstat -plan | grep... |
24,709 | <p>Say we've produced a widget for other sites to use, like so:</p>
<pre><code><iframe src="http://example.com/whatever.php" frameBorder="0" width="200px" height="300px" scrolling="no"></iframe>
</code></pre>
<p>The client would like to be able to see within GA who has embedded the thing. Is there some r... | [
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"text": "<p>Do you do server log file analysis, if so the simplest (hacky) way would be to track the requests for... | 2012/01/17 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/24709",
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] | Say we've produced a widget for other sites to use, like so:
```
<iframe src="http://example.com/whatever.php" frameBorder="0" width="200px" height="300px" scrolling="no"></iframe>
```
The client would like to be able to see within GA who has embedded the thing. Is there some referer information automatically passe... | If you have not modified the tracking snippet, this traffic will typically end up on your client's Traffic Sources > [Referrals](http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1247839) report - [unless](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7620328/is-there-referrer-header-while-using-ssl) the widget is e... |
24,716 | <p>I am using the following .htaccess with Wordpress to remove index.php from the visible URL. This works but forces an http redirect so the URL changes in the browser window. If I remove the [R] it no longer works. Why would this happen?</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond ... | [
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```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILE... | If you have not modified the tracking snippet, this traffic will typically end up on your client's Traffic Sources > [Referrals](http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1247839) report - [unless](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7620328/is-there-referrer-header-while-using-ssl) the widget is e... |
24,749 | <p>When looking at my Apache2 access logs, I occasionally see GET requests asking my server for a page on a completely different server. For example:</p>
<pre><code>xx.xx.xx.xx - - [18/Jan/2012:07:12:10 -0500] "GET http://someotherserver.com/?sometimesmorestuff=likethis HTTP/1.1" 200 389 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; ... | [
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"text": "<p>Unless <code>someothersite.com</code>'s IP address refers to your server request relating to it should never go to y... | 2012/01/18 | [
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] | When looking at my Apache2 access logs, I occasionally see GET requests asking my server for a page on a completely different server. For example:
```
xx.xx.xx.xx - - [18/Jan/2012:07:12:10 -0500] "GET http://someotherserver.com/?sometimesmorestuff=likethis HTTP/1.1" 200 389 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0... | I found where I had read about this before. It was in the [Apache FAQ](http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/FAQ#Why_do_I_see_requests_for_other_sites_appearing_in_my_log_files.3F):
>
> This is usually the result of malicious clients trying to exploit open proxy servers to access a website without revealing their true locatio... |
24,752 | <p>I've setup a redirect in <code>.htaccess</code> to consolidate <code>example.com</code> to <code>www.example.com</code> traffic on our Apache server.</p>
<p>Looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^centerline\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.centerl... | [
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] | I've setup a redirect in `.htaccess` to consolidate `example.com` to `www.example.com` traffic on our Apache server.
Looks like this:
```
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^centerline\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.centerline.net/$1 [R=301,L]
```
Works as expected, except f... | I found where I had read about this before. It was in the [Apache FAQ](http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/FAQ#Why_do_I_see_requests_for_other_sites_appearing_in_my_log_files.3F):
>
> This is usually the result of malicious clients trying to exploit open proxy servers to access a website without revealing their true locatio... |
24,778 | <p>Simply I am trying to do this:</p>
<p>When a person types <code>myurl.com</code> it will convert into <code>www.myurl.com</code> and when person types <code>www.myurl.com</code> it stays <code>www.myurl.com</code> (mainly I want to do this for search engine optimization, so Google doesn't think I have 2 domains, na... | [
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"text": "<p>As far as I'm aware, Litespeed also supports mod_rewrite in .htaccess files. So, if you don't already have a fi... | 2012/01/19 | [
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] | Simply I am trying to do this:
When a person types `myurl.com` it will convert into `www.myurl.com` and when person types `www.myurl.com` it stays `www.myurl.com` (mainly I want to do this for search engine optimization, so Google doesn't think I have 2 domains, naked and with www.)
I am pointing DNS from Netfirms to... | As far as I'm aware, Litespeed also supports mod\_rewrite in .htaccess files. So, if you don't already have a file called ".htaccess" in the public root of your website, create it and insert the following script...
### For single domains
```
Options +FollowSymLinks # Must be enabled if not already
RewriteEngin... |
24,868 | <p>We have a website that has nice rankings in the Google SERPs for
keywords which aren't in the meta description. As a result, Google
assembles a text to display on the SERPs from the website top-down.
Since a form is the first thing displayed on the page, the text is
completely scrambled.</p>
<p>This would be the ... | [
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"text": "<p>Moving around content in-and-of-itself will not get you penalized by Google. Moving it around to manipulate ... | 2012/01/21 | [
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"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
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] | We have a website that has nice rankings in the Google SERPs for
keywords which aren't in the meta description. As a result, Google
assembles a text to display on the SERPs from the website top-down.
Since a form is the first thing displayed on the page, the text is
completely scrambled.
This would be the code for t... | I very much doubt it's going to be penalized, since it's a common and recommended practice for implementing top-of-the-page navigation elements.
For example, [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org)'s tab interface and search form are implemented like that. If you look at a [random Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/... |
24,908 | <p>I'm building an image-based horizontal navigation bar for a site, as the designer wants a specific typeface, and the font is not licensed for embedded web use. I assumed the best way to do this would be to make an unordered list of the menu options, then style them with background-image replacements. I've done this,... | [
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"text": "<p>Using the Alt <em>attribute</em> would be a very good way to make sure this is accessible without making a \... | 2012/01/22 | [
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Since developers support alt so badly most blind users (using [JAWS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAWS_%28screen_reader%29) or [Supernova](http://www.yourdolphin.co.uk/productdetail.asp?id=5)) will load up either a list of the a tags on the page o... |
24,922 | <p>Urls go like</p>
<pre><code>domain/approved/education/kids/female
</code></pre>
<p>but I also have filter page in place that lets you do this</p>
<pre><code>domain/approved/education-entertainment-business/kids/female and so on
</code></pre>
<p>which means list all female kids articles no matter what Level1 cate... | [
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] | Urls go like
```
domain/approved/education/kids/female
```
but I also have filter page in place that lets you do this
```
domain/approved/education-entertainment-business/kids/female and so on
```
which means list all female kids articles no matter what Level1 category they fall in.
But that also means that
```... | * If you have the same content being pulled up by multiple URLs you will need to use canonical URLs so search engines will know which URL is the primary URL for that content
* You should only list the primary URL in your XML sitemap as listing all of the duplicate URLs will not benefit you since you know only the prima... |
24,927 | <p>Whenever I place my .htaccess file in my web directory I receive a 500 internal server error and within the error.log file specifying:</p>
<pre><code>[Sat Jan 21 13:46:07 2012] [error] [client xx.xx.xxx.xx] Request exceeded the limit
of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error.
Use 'LimitInternalR... | [
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"text": "<p>Change your code with this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews\nRewriteEngine On\nRewriteCon... | 2012/01/21 | [
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] | Whenever I place my .htaccess file in my web directory I receive a 500 internal server error and within the error.log file specifying:
```
[Sat Jan 21 13:46:07 2012] [error] [client xx.xx.xxx.xx] Request exceeded the limit
of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error.
Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to i... | Change your code with this:
```
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
``` |
24,997 | <p>I'm responsible for ICT at FOS Open Scouting, a belgian scouting organisation. </p>
<p>Our website was hacked a few years back and blocked by Facebook as a result. After we regained control over the site Facebook continued to block our domain and this is causing us a number of problems.</p>
<p>We have tried many t... | [
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"text": "<p>Getting a response out of facebook seems to be very difficult indeed. I would post your question in t... | 2012/01/24 | [
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] | I'm responsible for ICT at FOS Open Scouting, a belgian scouting organisation.
Our website was hacked a few years back and blocked by Facebook as a result. After we regained control over the site Facebook continued to block our domain and this is causing us a number of problems.
We have tried many times in the past ... | The problem has been resolved. For anyone who finds itself in the situation above: Send a letter to
```
Facebook HQ
1601 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
```
Or if you live outside the U.S. or Canada
```
Facebook Ireland Ltd.
Hanover Reach
5-7 Hanover Quay
Dublin 2 Ireland
```
---
An additional success story ... |
25,036 | <p>Today I bought a domain from GoDaddy for my personal usage. I'm trying to forward requests from the domain to a DlinkDDNS account with no success so far.</p>
<p><code>https://account.dlinkddns.com:port</code> works great. I can access the server behind my router. The same request using the domain isn't working <cod... | [
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"text": "<p>If the forwarding with masking is what is called CNAME otherwise then this should work fine, and for your se... | 2012/01/25 | [
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`https://account.dlinkddns.com:port` works great. I can access the server behind my router. The same request using the domain isn't working `https://www.example.com:... | **Go DADDY forwarding + masking is HTTP redirections and URL Frame.**
<http://help.godaddy.com/article/422>
**If you want to make other ports than https or https to work, you need to make a CNAME in your DNS settings.**
<http://help.godaddy.com/article/680#cnames>
**Once you setup up a CNAME correctly, the answer t... |