Top new questions this week:

Is it sufficient to secure a order status page just by a random URL?

After a (corporate) customer bought some items in our online shop, we send an email with an overview what he has bought to him. We'd like to inform our customer about received payments, packet …

security privacy

asked by Dan Elpat 7 votes answered by Itai 8 votes

Google - will they penalize you for random content ordering?

A client of mine wants to have their work ordered randomly on the website each time you load the page. My concern is that Google will see this as an effort to try and trick it into changing content …

google seo

asked by Matthew3man 5 votes answered by Mario Awad 1 vote

How reliable is the number of hits provided by Google site: command?

A partner of my company (not sure whether i can tell their name here - i´ll use example.com instead) asked me yesterday, why there is such a big difference when they enter the site command at google …

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asked by limepix 4 votes answered by Stephen Ostermiller 5 votes

We are getting a slew of requests from IE9 for /scanImageUrl

The requests are ALL from Internet Exploder 9 with compatibility mode turned on. We know compatibility mod is on, because of the trident attribute being sent in the user agent string. This just …

internet-explorer-9

asked by ttomsen 3 votes

Why the sudden popularity of .io domains?

I've noticed a number of new webapps and sites are being hosted at .io domains (the top-level domain for the British Indian Ocean Territories). A couple examples include: Forecast.io GitHub.io …

domains top-level-domains

asked by SamtheBrand 3 votes answered by Su' 3 votes

Test different timezones

What is a simple way to temporarily change the timezone in Chrome so as to test how a site renders for different locations? On OSX Mountain Lion, I've tried as bash script with: export …

html javascript internationalization i18n

asked by pufferfish 2 votes answered by bybe 0 votes

Analytics: Cloud Flare vs Google - What discrepancy is too big?

Been using cloudflare for one of our sites for about a week now, and cloudflare reports 450% more real visitor page views than google analytics (so that's not bots or blocked threats) I understand …

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asked by CodeMonkey 2 votes answered by Andrew Lott 0 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one?

If I add multiple A-records for my domain, they are returned in a round robin order by DNS servers. Example: 1.1.1.1 A example.com 1.1.1.2 A example.com 1.1.1.3 A example.com But how does web …

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asked by Jonas 10 votes answered by Joff 11 votes

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

I have a joomla website installed and working good. i installed Qlue404 component which redirects 404 page to a custom page., sometimes when i try the symbols ' and some others the 404 page appears …

security website-development

asked by Allen Sebastian 2 votes answered by John Conde 1 vote

Can you answer these?

Best practices for serving multiple sites with Apache2

I have a server with a number of virtual hosts. Over the last couple of years I have continually been improving on most parts of serving these sites, everything from how and where to do logging, how …

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asked by Mogget 1 vote

Mapping different users to folders with mod_rewrite

I'm setting up a DAV server with Apache 2.2 and would like, if at all possible, to be able to redirect a user to their own folder without having per-user URLs, if at all possible. So I point a user …

mod-rewrite

asked by Chris J 1 vote

Implementing OpenSearch, what is the benefits?

I have implemented opensearch in my website. But I don't know what is the benefits of it. Does it has any effects in search engines? For example, can I tell google about my implementation?

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asked by Javad_Amiry 1 vote