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steviewdr

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  1. It matters somewhat where your site is hosted. If you are targeting people in a particular country, then it is best to host the website on a server in that country. It is only minor however. When searching/googling for terms remember that where you are based will return different results. If you go to Brazil and search for a term, and go to the UK and search on google you will get different results returned. I agree with BestEast. If you want to improve SEO, you need to update your content, have regular content updated. Work on getting good quality links in to your website. -steve
  2. Looks nice. I would adjust the background image a little. ( see: http://www.bfa.edu/ ). Have the background image in the middle. Make the background image a bit taller so it will repeat down smoother. The text and components are a little too spaced out. http://pixelmauler.com/myWordpress/?page_id=4 Perhaps if you could adjust the line height a little in places. -steve
  3. Just a few ideas: Instead of the men/women icons, you could look into using different images. I know wordpress has a plugin which has random images of avatars. The view results in the poll area would be nice if they showed up on the same page using ajax or some other method. I know its rare, but the following email address is actually considered valid: username.o'surname@email.com -steve
  4. Looks good. Nice and simple. You have a little too many different font sizes (forgotten password, some results... Home.Stats.Join, Join LabWaves, The count so far.. are all different sizes). If you could keep to 3-4 different font sizes, it would look a little better in my opinion. The Join LabWaves green box needs to be center aligned in that blue div, the same with the "Some results" text. It'll be interesting to see the site with some more content. -steve
  5. I didn't read all the previous posts too carefully but here are my thoughts: The text on the navigation is a little too big in relation to the other text (header text). The header text could really do with an image of a labrador or logo of some sort. Minor issue: the down arrow on the keyboard works the images. This is ok, but if the page is really long, using the down arrow only moves the images (instead of scrolling the images). The "Whats happening" section. You could make the bullets bigger and more pronounced. You could even use a graphical bullet. Looks good apart from that. The background gradient might be a little too strong. Perhaps a lighter gradient color change would be a little easier on the eye. -steve
  6. Yep. Same here, I really like the new look. Took 2-3 minutes to find my way (active boards etc.), but it looks well. I agree that the header could be changed/ spiced up a little. Looks really professional. Good job! -steve
  7. Hi All, I'm designing up a new homepage website. I've been away from webdesign for a while. Whats your thoughts and initial impressions on the following: http://burkesys.com/stephen/webdev/sburke/ I think I might need to standardise on a fixed set/range of colors. The header image will be random, and as a result will have its own set of colors. I'm not sure if this will work good or not. Good or bad? Hows the colors? Good/bad? Hows the width? Thanks for any thoughts ye might have. -steve
  8. Where is the pdf created? Is it created in /tmp before been emailed? Check permissions to see if the pdf can be created. -steve
  9. Yes, you should organise the users into groups and then set the permissions suitably as 750 or similar. Users would have to be manually assigned to a particular group when they are first setup (unless you have ldap details etc.). Look into the sudo command. Users can be granted fine grained access to certain commands. -steve
  10. Take a look at scponly. It works well for me. I'm not sure can you disallow upward directory traversal though. Its worth a look. Its on apt in Debian and ubuntu. There might be a handy rpm for redhat. -steve
  11. The apache logs would contain information on people who logged in, or tried to. -steve
  12. Well the "Server reached Max Clients" will cause the hang. Put your apache2.conf (or httpd.conf) file here. -steve
  13. You need to run: top and see what process is chewing up the cpu. Kill the process then by going: kill PID(number from top) -steve
  14. See: http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Mail_-_mutt_etc#Log_PHP_and_mail.28.29 -steve
  15. Well you could easily do this: Under: "ServerName blog2.local", put "ServerAlias blog3.local" and another line "ServerAlias blog4.local". Overall it'd look like: <VirtualHost */blog2:80> ServerAdmin aad@test.com DocumentRoot C:/cygwin/home/test/blogcommon ServerName blog1.local ServerAlias blog2.local ServerAlias blog3.local ServerAlias blog4.local Note, the addresses will remain the same in the address bar, it just means that you can run the 4 domains from 1 document root. -steve
  16. Yes. You can easily mount a disk image created with dd. The only issue, is the "incremental backups" you requested. This would be a little trickier for an entire disk image. Have you heard of LVM? It allows you to take snapshots of a filesystem. This will allow for incremental backups and can easily be mounted. LVM snapshots are no good if the disk dies tho. But, if you have RAID 1, lvm snapshots are good. Of course you should still have an offsite backup, which I personally use duplicity. -steve
  17. steviewdr

    Help with SSL?

    A SSL cert for example.com is different to www.example.com. You'd need two different certs. What you could do is to forward http://www.example to https://example.com A wildcart ssl cert will not work either, it would work for https://mail.example.com and https://www.example.com but not for https://example.com. </my-two-cents> -steve
  18. On some installs, apache will keep building up a single error log file, reaching gigs in size. You want to install "logrotate" (apt-get install logrotate etc...) if your on linux. It rotates the log files, gzips them and looks after them nicely. -steve
  19. Your going to have to do some googling, reading & learning. rpm -qa Shows all listed installed packages. rpm -qa | grep yum Shows all yum packages installed. Your going to have to search and download a rpm package for either yum (if you want to try and fix it) or httpd. (RPMs available on http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/index.html and other places too). Read: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ -steve
  20. Looks like its a vhost config issue. Here's my configs, albeit on linux: http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Apache_2_%26_SSL_-_PHP4_-_MySQL_4.1#Apache2_SSL_.26_Virtual_Hosting -steve
  21. I wonder could you use rpm to remove and reinstall yum. -steve
  22. Can you go: telnet server.ip 443 it should give you a black screen. No matter what certs you have, telnet should connect. -steve
  23. Do you have a "Listen 443" in your apache.conf? -steve
  24. So all requests from the school to the website show as 403? On your computer (outside of the school) does it work OK? Get someone in the school to run this in a Command Prompt: ping www.websitename.com (and email you the IP address). It sounds like their DNS might be doing something strange. They might be going www.websitename.com, however it could be going to a different IP. -steve
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