Top new questions this week:

What's a good method for testing out a new web page for just a small set of users?

I'm wanting to test out a few new pages and have just a small set of beta testing users be able to access them before I allow them to go live to the rest of the site. What I've typically done is ...

testing beta upgrading

asked by Tony DiNitto 5 votes answered by JustJohn 0 votes

Indexing too many pages good or bad?

We have a football website, in the website each football match has a separate page (for match details), and we decided to make unique title for each match page. Now I find many of these matches ...

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asked by DeepBlue 5 votes answered by Mike 2 votes

Is it safe to give write permission to _www user account?

I want to use PHP to modify some of my files, but can someone else use this account to modify my files without my acknowledgment?

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asked by user65872 5 votes answered by Frank Robert Anderson 5 votes

Should the first breadcrumb not be the home page?

This question has been asked a few times but I came across something that I feel changes the answer. Whenever I use breadcrumbs on my site, I always include a link to the home page. Since I usually ...

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asked by John R Perry 4 votes answered by Yhorian 1 vote

Block IP requesting xmlrpc.php

We have a firewall with modsecurity installed. I would like to write a rule to block any IP address for 24 hours if that IP requests xmlrpc.php. Please note that we do not use WordPress on our ...

security mod-security

asked by Marcus 4 votes answered by Simon Hayter 4 votes

Changing 301 redirect multiple times

Let's say I am a mortgage broker that has an entire neighborhood of houses to sell. I sell one of the houses, call it House A. For whatever reason, House A has great SEO, while the rest do not rank ...

301-redirect

asked by sportle 4 votes answered by Mike 4 votes

Configure 3 domains in CloudFlare, with 2 redirecting to the first one, for a wordpress installation in openshift

My friend has 3 domains: example.com example.com.cc example.com.co The website is hosted at OpenShift and it's already redirecting example.com to it (using the guide in this answer). So far, so ...

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asked by Somebody still uses you MS-DOS 3 votes answered by Somebody still uses you MS-DOS 0 votes

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How can I find the IP address for my visitors in Google Analytics Universal reports?

Does anyone know if/where I can find IP addresses of my visitors in Google Analytics Universal reports?

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asked by zachu 5 votes answered by nyuen 7 votes

Should I escape the Apostrophe ( ' ) character with its HTML entity (')?

What characters should be escaped with their HTML entities. For example, & is escaped with &. Should ' be escaped with '?

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asked by Tom 22 votes answered by drew 26 votes

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How to properly set up SRV DNS record?

I'm setting up DNS server for my home network. It contains plenty of machines but I have only one public IP so there's a lot of NAT, proxies etc. Many people find it difficult to memorize all services ...

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asked by user2111737 3 votes

Will search engines index content in video caption files?

If I put an HTML5 video player on a web page and it has an associated caption file (WebVTT) using the <track> tag inside the <video> tag, will it affect my search results in a positive ...

seo indexing html5 video

asked by Moose 2 votes

Facebook Web app development: Storing user access token in a session variable

If i store facebook user access token in session variable , as there will be huge users (may be 10000 daily) will it cause the hosting server any issue ? EDIT 1: Server specification: 400mb disk ...

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asked by user61152 1 vote