Mr. Apache: 05.07

31.5.07

Every month a contest called DHSOTM is held for the highest rated website on DreamHost. By winning the contest your site gets SEO and traffic benefits, which I hope to measure soon.

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30.5.07

Rewrite underscores to hyphens for SEO URL

This Apache .htaccess code 301 redirects requests for URLs with underscores (_) to the URL with hyphens.

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Multiply your DreamHost Referrals

Simple and effective method to start making good money from DreamHost Referrals

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Mixed SSL Content Warning - Workaround

Warning messages pop up when I accessed a page with secure and non-secure information and finally I found something that let me post non-ssl encrypted content on an ssl encrypted page and no warning messages will pop up, even in all versions of Internet Explorer!

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Requiring the WWW

Howto with working code: Require the WWW for SEO using Apache htaccess mod_rewrite, and Windows ISAPI_Rewrite

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29.5.07

htaccess file sample

Only the very best tried-and-true htaccess examples.

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25.5.07

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Using the robots meta tag

Official Google Blog: Controlling how search engines access and index your website

AJAX + PHP = Shell Console (web-based)

Ever wanted to execute commands on your server through php? Now you can.

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Optimize Site with a Custom php.ini

Custom PHP.ini tips and tricks, especially useful for those on apache

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Google AdSense disabling arbitrage publisher accounts as of June 1st

Numerous AdSense publishers have been receiving emails from Google the past couple of days stating that their use of their AdSense account is an unsuitable business model and that accounts would be disabled as of June 1st, giving publishers about two weeks notice to prepare for the loss of the AdSense accounts... and since it seems that arbitrage

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Best-Practice SEO for sites Under Construction

Inform Search Engine Bots that you are working on the page so come back in, oh, say an hour? Uses "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" header with retry-after header.

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24.5.07

Change Windows Passwords from DOS

Ever go to get on a computer and the user is logged out, and you don’t know the password? Or do you have some access, but not access to a users private files, and you want access to those files?

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Sweet Custom Boot Menu for Windows

Uses Custom boot.ini to achieve a similar look and operation of GRUB

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Advanced Google-Analytics 404 Error Page

This makes it very easy to diagnose and keep track of 404 Error messages from within google analytics.http://www.askapache.com/seo/tip-google-analytics-404-error-page.html

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Apache HTTP Status Codes Discovered

All 57 HTTP Status Codes and ErrorDocuments. Includes headers and data sent by apache for each one!http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-status-code-headers-errordocument.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codeshttp://wiki.apache.org/httpd/Info/Common_HTTPStatusCodes

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Apache .htaccess New CheatSheet

http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-htaccess.htmlApache Web Server .htaccess and httpd.conf code snippets and examples updated regularly with the newest and best htaccess!

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23.5.07

Common HTTP StatusCodes

Here is a list of all 57 HTTP Status Codes recognized by Apache

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Secrets to make Faster, Speedier sites

Describes the very best and easiest methods to speed up your website. Sources include yahoo, google, oreilly, and the list includes methods of using caching, compression, gzip, css, js, etc.http://www.askapache.com/web-cache/top-methods-for-faster-speedier-web-sites.html

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22.5.07

Speed Up Sites with htaccess Caching

"Increase your page load times and save bandwidth with easy and really effective methods using apache htaccess directives. mod_headers to set expires, and max-age, and cache-control headers on certain filetypes. The second method employs mod_expires to do the same thing -- together with FileETag, makes for some very fast page loads!"

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Installing Multiple OS's Without A Floppy/CD/DVD/Etc.

This article explains how I managed to install over 50 various operating systems on my computer (1 hard drive) without having to burn the distro ISO to disk to boot from. (No floppy, usb, cd, dvd, etc. needed!)

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21.5.07

301 Redirects with mod_rewrite or RedirectMatch

301 Redirects using Apache mod_rewrite or RedirectMatch in .htaccess or httpd.conf

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Security with Apache htaccess

htaccess tricks and tips to increase the security of your site

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Rearranging Flash Elements with zIndex and wmode

I wanted a particular flash movie to show up when a user clicked on one of six buttons. I got the flash element to disappear or appear behind or in front by using the zIndex css attribute with javascript, and the wmode attribute.

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Howto Speed Up Google Analytics

Anyone that uses Google Analytics knows how it slows up your page load time by a few seconds. This method uses crontab to execute a shell script that downloads an updated urchin.js file every 24 hours and saves it into your local sites directory.http://digg.com/tech_news/Speed_up_Google_Analytics_with_this_simple_techniquehttp://www.askapache.com/webmaster/faster-google-analytics-with-a-local-urchinjs.html

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17.5.07