I’ve worked on several sites lately where my client wanted each of their website members to have their own subdomain. Typically, when you set up a subdomain it takes up to 72 hours for the DNS to propagate and start working. I’ve been trying to find a way to allow subdomains to start working right […]
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I haven’t been a fan of GoDaddy for quite a while for many reasons that I won’t go into – many of them are just personal preference and don’t have any significance technically. But, there are a few technical reasons that I don’t like their shared hosting. The first reason is that they don’t allow
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Before I can use a MySQL database in my scripts, I must know: 1) Where the database lives (or the database host) 2) The database name 3) The username and password for a user that is allowed to access that database If my database is already setup, then I can look in the MySQL section
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Scheduling a script to run with cpanel is fairly simple. The hardest part is getting the command syntax correct. To schedule a script on Linux based hosting (as opposed to Windows based hosting), we use what’s called a ‘cron job’. According to Wikipedia, ‘cron’ comes from the Greek word for time – chronos. Scheduling a
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Once your website is up and running, it’s always nice to know how many people are visiting your site. It’s also nice to know where your visitors are from, which pages are are viewed the most, how people are finding your site, etc. There are several different site statistics tools that will help you do
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The purpose behind web pages is to share your information with the world! It’s hard to share that information if your web page is on your local computer. Even though, you *could* make your local computer accessible to the world and let people visit your web page on your local computer, it’s really not a
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I tried to change the quota on an email account in cpanel this morning, but it kept giving me an ‘Invalid maildirsize’ error and wouldn’t let me change the quota. I did a little research and found my answer here. Basically the maildirsize file had gotten corrupt somehow. Deleting that file fixes the problem. The
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