I’ve got a copy of Joomla! 1.5 on my localhost which I downloaded and installed yesterday using XAMPP to run Apache and MySQL. I spent some time yesterday building the basic structure of a new test website on my localhost and everything was fine until I tried to access it this morning. When I tried [ Read More ]
When you create a domain in cPanel’s WHM, for some reason the default setting does not add DomainKeys or SPF records to your DNS Zone, which means that when you send email, it is likely to go straight to the junk-box, if delivered at all. A simple way to reduce the likelihood of your email [ Read More ]
At some point during your life as a web developer, it will become necessary to execute commands via SSH. Now, SSH isn’t that complicated to get to grips with, but if you don’t use it all the time, chances are you’ll forget some of the most basic (and useful) commands, so I’ve listed the ones [ Read More ]
I love it when there’s a scandal in the corporate world. Monumental gaffes are what makes working on the web so very entertaining sometimes. In this case, security giant ‘Verisign’, the supposed ‘Rolls Royce’ of the security world, have come monumentally unstuck. Now when gaffes occur, it’s usually ok if you deal with it quickly [ Read More ]
Comodo has surpassed the VeriSign brand in the number of SSL Certificates currently in use. Based on independent research conducted by Netsekure.org, Comodo has now supplied 15% more valid SSL Certificates to Web sites than VeriSign has. This data is also reinforced by Comodo’s extensive research of over 1.5 million valid SSL Certificates. A tool [ Read More ]
Yeah, I spent ages trying to work this one out. I was using an image uploader in the backend of X-Cart 4.3.2 to transfer client-supplied images from my PC to their website for an ecommerce catalogue and the images all displayed fine in Firefox, but a couple were missing from IE. I figured it was [ Read More ]
Ok, WordPress has a great feature built in these days which helpfully tells you when an upgrade is available and gives you the ability to upgrade automagically via ftp through the admin backend. 9 times out of 10 this will work without hitch, however today I came across one install that just wouldn’t work at [ Read More ]
Since WordPress does a major upgrade every so often, it’s important to understand that the plugins you use with wordpress may not upgrade automatically as a result. This is not, perhaps the fault of anyone in particular, it’s just that minor glitches are destined to manifest themselves occasionally. In the case of the recent WordPress [ Read More ]
I recently setup a Wordpress blog and knew that I had all the correct settings to allow Permalinks to work (FollowSymLinks, AllowOverride etc.) when rewritten, but still no joy. Until…
Hi there and welcome. This is just a test post to check everything is working. If you can read this then there are no problems. I make no apologies for the appearance of the site right now – updates have to be made to improve the structure and navigability of the site and I can only do this in my spare time when I’m not looking after other peoples’ sites.
