If you need to block a user agent / bot / browser from your site, you can do so with a .htaccess rewrite -- note this applies to apache web servers and nginx would have its own method. RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} botName…
Aliasing a domain to a primary domain is a great way to simplify domain hosting as only one main site has to be updated. However, when aliasing a domain you need to consider SEO (Search Engine Optimization) because if a search engine sees the same…
Is your script not behaving as expected or producing a white page? If so, it could be a PHP error that is causing it and to find out you can either have errors logged or displayed by using the following .htaccess file directives. PHP Error Logging:…
Mail Server Info: Login: Is your full email address (example@example.com) Incoming mail server: mail.example.com -- example.com being your real domain Outgoing mail server: mail.example.com -- example.com being your real domain Mailbox Type to use:…
If you would like to check mail on our servers with a mail client (outlook thunderbird, etc) as well as check on your smartphone, ipad, another computer, or webmail, it is best to use IMAP for both devices/computers. IMAP stores the mail on the…
Starting at PHP 5.6, PHP does a verify of the SSL certificate and if it fails to the connection is terminated and will return a failed connection error. To get around this, you need to change the verify_peer and verify_peer_name in the stream /…
Most settings for PHP can be configured via a file called ".user.ini" as defined by the user_ini.filename php.ini setting. This file is a built-in option for PHP and generally works on any PHP . This file can hold php.ini directives, one setting…
Using PHP's mail() function and/or sendmail will sometimes cause anti-spam filters to filter out your mail. As such, it is best to use a SMTP authenticated conenection to the mail server for the domain. For PHP, you can use phpmailer classes. Most…
Our Linux servers require SSL/TLS for FTP connections -- otherwise known as FTP over SSL. This requirement is in place because:To ensure account security by requiring logins to go through a secure connection and rejecting any logins that are not on…
On our shared servers, we have pagespeed module enabled in nginx (the front web server). This module should improve page load speeds better then are already fast load speeds. However, if you ever want to disable pagespeed, just do the following:…
