Today’s tutorial left me wondering about finding the most appropriate solution for what appeared to be an attempt to hack my customer’s WordPress website. If you’ve been around the Internet long, especially if you own and operate a website, then chances are you’ve interacted with a website running WordPress. And while WordPress is the go-to…
Stop Thieves from Bandwidth and Image Stealing
Today’s tutorial is quite simple. Have you ever taken time to review your logs only to find spikes in website bandwidth usage? If not, then you might want to go and read up on how people are *stealing* your bandwidth, images and doing so at your expense….
Creating Custom Error Pages Using .htaccess file
Let’s just say you’re surfing along the web, googling your little heart out until it’s content. You click from one search result to the next. All of a sudden you arrive at one search result only to figure click around the website, arriving at an error page that’s quite amusing (see below): Click here for…
Remove or Add the trailing slash to URL
Just about every content management system, most using WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla to host their website, you can think that’s hosted in a Apache, Linux or Unix environment makes use of mod-write and .htaccess. Today, I’m going to give a quick and short explanation that seems to plague some when migrating from one web platform…
Redirect HTTPS and HTTP Requests
Not long ago, I shared a tutorial with you about redirecting www and non-www website traffic using htaccess. One of the items I didn’t address is how to account for redirecting http and https requests. With all of the talk about Google now factoring SSL (also known as HTTPS traffic) as a ranking factor in…