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301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It is very easy to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page.

If you have to change file names or move pages around, it’s the best option to preserve your rankings and incoming traffic. The code “301″ is interpreted as “moved permanently”.

Redirect to www

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all requests coming in to domain.com will get redirected to www.domain.com
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Please REPLACE domain.com and www.newdomain.com with your actual domain name.

Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.

Redirect a Single Page

Add the following text to your .htaccess file and upload to the base directory of your website.

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html /newpage.html

So, for example, you changed your domain, it would be:

Redirect 301 http://olddomain.com http://newdomain.com

Redirect 301 /pagename.php http://newdomain.com/newpagename.php

What is Web Hosting
As peculiar as it may seem to most techies, many people don’t understand what web hosting is. Basically, web hosting is what allows the world to see your website. You can design, code, and place a website on your harddrive where nobody sees it.. or you can spend a few bucks a month and host it on a type of computer known as a Web Server. This allows you to share your masterpiece with the public. A web server sends out, or serves, the files (html/php pages, images, etc.) to the visitors web browser (FireFox, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc.).

Shared Web Hosting $50 yearly

Professional Web Hosting $19.95 monthly

Does it matter which web host you choose?
Choosing your web host is one of the most important decisions you will make regarding your website. Subpar web hosting service can ruin your websites growth, traffic statistics, and mostly importantly, the visitors opinion of your website. Some web hosts promise the moon and can barely get off the ground. These companies are usually oversellers who cram as many websites on each server as possible. Often,  they may not even own the server they’re selling space on. More often than not, this results in extremely poor performance. If the web server your website is hosted on can’t keep up with the load, all the websites hosted on that machine suffer.

Quality Matters

The old saying, “you get what you pay for” is true almost everytime. Web hosting is no exception. Most people new to website hosting opt for the cheapest plan they can find at first. That is, until they actually experience the service! Their site loads slowly, responds sluggishly, and sometimes might not even load or go offline! Making the move to a quality web host is the first step to success for your website. Don’t spend a bunch of money developing your website only to skimp on the web hosting and ruin your visitors site experience. Who cares how cool the flash intro is if it takes 10 minutes to load?

So, what should I do?

We’ve been messing with servers and playing with the Apache web server for years now. We are tech guys, plain and simple. Just setting up a server and configuring it out the ying yang brings joy to our day. That’s why when we choose where to host our websites, we choose the best. We’ve partnered with several of the industry’s leading web hosts and stand behind their service. They offer professional solutions to all of your hosting needs. Need a quality affordable shared plan for your first website? ChaseHosting’s F1FTY.com has you covered for only $50 dollars a year. Talk about bang for your buck, 1 Terabyte of disk space and unlimited transfer! F1FTY servers are guaranteed to have less than 200 websites per server.

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The main goal of an eCommerce website may be to get visitors to buy a product, but this involves much more than just offering and finding the right product. Above all, customers have to have a feeling of trust and security in order to follow through and actually hand you the cash. This isn’t easy, but it certainly isn’t difficult either. Here are a few tips:

Share Other’s Experiences

Take time to collect testimonials from people who have purchased from you previously. Then, use customer photos and business seals like one from the Better Business Bureau with these testimonials to help other web visitors see the value and benefits you have to offer. Just be sure they’re in prominent areas of your site.

Make It Easy To Contact You

A contact page can be a company’s greatest ally when it comes to inspiring trust. After all, if something goes wrong and the customer knows they can contact you to look after it, they have nothing to worry about. Therefore, be sure to have a completed contact page and demonstrate that the customer is important to you.

Use an SSL Certificate

With so many criminals online, sending important information like credit card numbers is a scary prospect. This is where a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate can really help. This is a method of sending data over a secure network. With this certificate, the user knows any sensitive information they share with you is encrypted and safe.

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Online, it is crucial for your visitors to know that the connection is secure. To encrypt the connection to your website, SSL certificates are commonly used to establish a secure connection. Webmasters may buy SSL certificates to secure their website from web hosting companies who sell offerings from premium vendors such as GeoTrust, Verisign, and others. Apache recommends Web Host With Us for buying SSL certificates.

Setup SSL Tutorial teaches you how to generate and setup a SSL certificate.

Assuming you have apache and openssl installed, you would like to generate and setup an SSL certificate for a domain and generate a CSR.

First, Generate the RSA & CSR (Signing Request)

[root@chevelle root]#
[root@chevelle root]# cd /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key

Generate the RSA without a passphrase: Generating a RSA private key without a passphrase (I recommended this, otherwise when apache restarts, you have to enter a passphrase which can leave the server offline until someone inputs the passphrase)
[root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key]# openssl genrsa -out yourdomain.key 1024

Or, with a passphrase: Generating a RSA private key with a passphrase. You will be prompted to enter a passphrase right after you hit enter.
[root@chevelle/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key]# openssl genrsa -des3 -out yourdomain.key 1024

You should generally NOT generate the RSA private key with a passphrase if you have scripts that restart apache automatically in case of a crash or otherwise. If there is a passphrase, Apache will just sit there and wait for the script to input the passphrase which means downtime, and downtime usually equals bad.

Next generate the CSR using the RSA Private Key

[root@chevelle/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.csr]# openssl req -new -key yourdomain.key -out yourdomain.csr
[root@chevelle/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.csr]# mv yourdomain.csr ../ssl.csr

You will be asked to enter your Common Name, Organization, Organization Unit, City or Locality, State or Province and Country.
Do not enter these characters ‘< > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ * / ( ) ?.,&’ because they will not be accepted.

Common Name: the domain for the web server (e.g. MYdomain.com)
Organization: the name of your organization (e.g. YUPAPA)
Organization Unit: the section of the organization (e.g. Sales)
City or Locality: the city where your organzation is located (e.g. Flanders)
State or Province: the state / province where your organzation is located (e.g New Jersey)
Country: the country where your organzation is located (e.g US)

You may be asked for an email address and a challenge password. I usually just hit enter.

Now you should have:
/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/yourdomain.key
/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.csr/yourdomain.csr

Be sure to always make a backup copy of your private key! If you lose it, you’ll have to purchase a new cert!

Now you need to submit your CSR to your provider and they will mail you the certificate. They usually also send you a confirmation email before the certificate is sent out.
Now that you have the certificate..

Installing the Certificate for Apache

[root@chevelle root]# cd /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt

Copy the certificate that they mailed you to yourdomain.crt
Open your httpd.conf file and place the following to your virtualhost

<VirtualHost 209.123.546.123:443>
- other config details-
SSLEngine  on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/yourdomain.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/yourdomain.key
</VirtualHost>

Restart apache
OPTION 1 [root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt]# apachectl restart
OPTION 2 (using the sh script) [root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

You may be asked to enter the passphrase IF you generated the RSA with a passphrase. If you do NOT want to be asked for a passphrase when restarting apache, re-generate your RSA key file.
[root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt]# cd ../ssl.key
[root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key]# mv yourdomain.key yourdomain.key.has-passphrase
[root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key]# openssl rsa -in yourdomain.key.has-passphrase -out yourdomain.key

And then restart apache again
[root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

Now you should be able to access https://yourdomain.com

From the Apache forums:

I’m posting this message for the benefit of other newbies like me.

Thanks to CHASE’s advice, I now have a very simple mail script that works:

<?php
$to = $_REQUEST['MyEmail'] ;
$subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ;
$greeting = $_REQUEST['greeting'] ;
$realname = $_REQUEST['realname'] ;
$HisEmail = $_REQUEST['HisEmail'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$headers = “From: $HisEmail”;
$send = mail($to, $subject, $greeting.”\n”.”\n”.$realname.”\n”.”\n”.$HisEmail.”\n”.”\n”.$message, $headers);
?>

In the BODY of the email that I receive, the script shows the person’s greeting (e.g., Ms.), name, email address, and the comments that he/she made.

As I improve the script, I’ll post the results for the benefit of other newbies like me. Suggestions are, of course, welcome. 

– Dr. T.

If you’re looking for a good developmental server for your work, or just for personal use, what better place than your workstation? It eliminates the need for uploading your work to a remote server and allows you to run your scripts and test your website in a server environment. You can even set it up to be accessible to the public, password protected, or invisible behind your firewall. 

Nowadays, it is easier than ever to get a complete web server setup on Windows. WAMP is a popular package combining the popular web server Apache, MySQL Database server, and PHP scripting language. The install takes a few minutes and is super easy; if you can click Next, you’re good. With a couple quick tweaks to your router and httpd.conf file you are ready to serve files to the web. The below steps will get you up and running in minutes, let’s get started!

First, download the WAMP install package from the WAMP homepage. Once you download WAMP, double click the exe and begin the install process.

Click Next to begin:

After agreeing to the WAMP license, select the destination location. Leave the default location as “c:wamp” and click Next:

Choose your shortcut options and click Next:

Review your installation destination is correct. Click Install and WAMP will begin the install process:

WAMP will extract and install itself. The process should only take a few seconds.

WAMP will prompt you to enter the SMTP server and email to be used by PHP to send emails. Leave the default SMTP value as “localhost”, put your email address in the Email field and click Next:

If you have Firefox installed, WAMP will ask you if you would like to use Firefox as the default browser with WAMP. This is a personal choice, so feel free to choose either “Yes” or “No.” I prefer to use Firefox for pretty much everythig so I click “Yes” and then click Next:

You will likely be prompted by Vista whether the Windows Firewall should allow or block the features of WAMP. You want to allow all of the features of WAMP, so click Unblock:

Congratulations, the installation process is complete. Yes, it was really that easy. Now click Finish and Launch WAMP now:

Open a browser and enter “127.0.0.1″ or “localhost” as the URL, and you will see a summary of the installation process:

There are a few more configuration changes you must make to use WAMP. Firstly, open a port on your router and allow it to forward requests to WAMP. This will allow you to connect to your WAMP server from outside your local area network.

You will need to learn what your local area network IP address is before opening a port on the router. In order to do this, open Command Prompt by going to Start – Run, and typing “cmd”. It will open up a command prompt window.

Once in Command Prompt, type ipconfig. This command will show you your network IP information, we are interested in the IPv4 address and Default Gateway of your Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection.

Your address will be different from the one displayed. Write the IPv4 address and Default Gateway down and close the Command Prompt.

You are at the point where you can open a port on our router and forward requests to WAMP. The firmware for routers is different, so the directions are different for every router.  Connect to your router through the browser of your choice. Enter the Default Gateway address you wrote down above.

If you have a Linksys router enter http://192.168.1.1 into the URL bar. If you have a NETGEAR router enter http://192.168.0.1.

Once you are in your router’s control panel, you will have a location called something along the lines of “Port Range Forwarding.” You will want to create a new entry and call the application WAMP to easily identify the application that is using the port. Enter 80 for Start and End, choose Both for Protocol and enter your IPv4 address (my address was 192.168.1.123) you obtained form the Command Prompt as the IP Address. Choose Enable and click Save Settings:

You need to edit one more file before you will be able to access your documents from outside your local area network. Click the WAMP icon that has been added to the system tray, choose “Config files,” and select “httpd.conf”:

This will open httpd.conf in Notepad. You will need to edit the section called “Controls who can get stuff from this server.” Scroll down to this section (it’s a little less than half way through the file) and change the line that says “Deny from all” to “Allow from all” and resave the document:

Click the WAMP icon in the system tray and restart Apache:

Open a browser and navigate to “http://www.whatismyip.com” and find out what your IP address is. Now open a browser and enter “http://yourIPaddress” and you will be forwarded to your WAMP server whether you are inside or outside your local area network. Anything you put into your “c:wampwww” directory will be stored on your server. For example, if you copied all your pictures to “c:wampwwwpictures,” you will be able to navigate to “http://yourIPaddress/pictures” and all of your pictures will be available.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced that the first all-Arabic Web addresses are now online according to CNN. While this doesn’t seem like a big change for Western countries, this is significant to the global access of the internet.

Prior to this change, non-English speaking countries had to use the traditional .com, .net, .org or one of the other available Western suffixes. Now they will be able to use suffixes in their own language.

Foreign letters have been able to be used for the main part of the web address, however, the ability to use non-Western suffixes is just now reaching the market.

The First Of Its Kind

The first international suffix of its kind is the Arabic version of “.masr,” which means “Egypt.” While the western-typed version of .eg will remain, the Arabic version can be used in its place for Arabic speaking people. The change has been a long transition on the part of ICANN to include non-Western characters in the available domains.

At this time, Chinese and Russian characters have yet to be included in the change. However, over twenty countries in eleven different languages have applied to be included. As more countries join in, more websites will make the transition to continue to reach the growing population of internet users.

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Domain names are a valuable commodity, whether you know it or not.  They have been bought and sold over the past couple decades, sometimes going for millions of dollars, but why is this?  The domain name that you choose for your website will have a profound impact on your site’s marketability in several different ways.  The name you choose for your site will affect your search engine optimization efforts, as well as the number of visitors you can retain.

Domain Names and SEO

Before you decide on a catchy domain name, you should consider using your website’s targeted keywords in the name.  If you don’t know what those are yet, you had better start researching.  Search engines give a lot of extra weight when ranking a site for a specific keyword if the keyword happens to be in the domain name.  SEO takes a lot of time to perfect, and by adding keywords to your domain name you can get a leg up on the competition.

Domain Names and Repeat Business

When you are brainstorming domain names, short names are best.  If a domain name is short, people will tend to type it directly into their URL bar when they want to visit your site.  How many times do you use Google to get to Amazon.com?  If your domain name is too complicated, it will be hard for your visitors to remember.  Unfortunately, the internet has been around for a long time and it might be hard to come up with an available one word domain name in your niche.  This means that you might have to choose an unrelated one-word domain name.  If you are willing to put in the work to promote your site, this will not hurt you in the long run.  It will only slow you down a little.  This might be a sacrifice you will have to make if you are trying to create a viral website.

Combination of the Two

When you are able to get a short, search engine optimized domain name for your site, you get the best of both worlds.  It can be very hard to come up with something that hasn’t already been taken, but it is worth the time and effort if you can come up with something.  Even if you never use the domain name, you can make a pretty penny by selling it to the highest bidder.

Domain names will have more of an impact on the amount of traffic that your website receives than you could ever imagine.  It is time well spent to invest several hours in the creation of your site’s domain name.  If you can come up with a good domain name, it will be the first big step in getting your online business known. When you are shopping for web hosting, look for companies like FatCow that offer a free domain name!