Category Archives: Web Hosting
[Solved] — Incorrect Redirect on Comment Submission
Edit: Thanks to WordPress Answers user peteroak the problem with the comments is now fixed. Turns out that I’d accidentally got an extra redirect statement in the .htaccess file for the blog that required the comment submission to come from this site’s url to prevent some automatically submitted spam. Unfortunately, it had been added to [...]
Allow page URLs with or without trailing .html
I use different programs to keep track of the different parts of this website. MODx content management system (CMS) runs the front page and the project and about sections; WordPress organises the blog posts; OpenCart tends to the shop, and ikiwiki will compile the wiki. When I first installed MODx, I decided to give every [...]
git workflow for self-updating sites
or: How to Use Revision Control When Your Site Can Make Changes to it’s Own Files I’m assuming that you have setup git on a shared server, and resolved any git-upload and git-receive errors. There are two ways to making changes to the website’s files: Web side changes: The site is updated or file attachments [...]
suPHP for Apache in Ubuntu
As part of my learning more about web hosting, I have a VPS that hosts a testing area for this site and I also host a couple of virtual hosts for other people. One of the side effects of the standard server setup that I have been using is that in WordPress, whenever I want [...]
Combating Link Rot on short URLs
Link rot is when the address you use no longer points to a page. It could be that the site has been shudown, the page has moved or the content has been lost. But if you use a URL shortening service then there’s additional possibility—the shortening service is no longer running. Short URLs exist for [...]
Shared Hosting or VPS
I realise that for most people, there isn’t a choice for them between having a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or Shared Hosting for a new site. Shared hosting is the easiest way to get a self hosted site, all the standard configuration is set up; some packages even come with options to install content management [...]
Choosing a Blog Platform
If you want to self host a blog, there are two main contenders: WordPress Moveable Type Now, I’d already decided to not use MODx, as used in the main site, as the blog engine. MODx can function as a blog, and the demo site includes one, but it don’t have the expertise with MODx to [...]