Let’s say you have an old web-page that’s no longer in use. Of course, you’ll want to redirect your users to the correct (new) page. Using PHP, you can modify the headers of a web-page to redirect them to the correct page.
< ?php
header("Location: http://www.mydomain.com/newpage.html");
exit();
?>This will cause the user who visits the web page with this code, to be redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/newpage.html (or any other page you specify).
That’s all fine, and works well. But what if Google indexed your old web page, and still directs traffic to it? What if search-results in Google only display the old page, instead of the new one? What if, one day, you decide to take the old page offline? Read more…
Matti PHP, Seo 404, header, PHP, redirect
If you’re using Plesk on a Windows Server, you might get to see the following error:
Unable to create MailManager object: mailmng failed: MEAOPO.Mailbox.AddMailbox failed
You’ll get this error, probably because you’re trying to create a new mailbox for an e-mail address that was once an alias to another mailbox, but was removed. Read more…
Matti Plesk mailenable, Plesk, Windows
What if you’re happy with how Windows Vista works and looks, but are frustrated with the slow performance and instability? Well here’s a crazy idea: transform a Windows Server 2008 to your very own Vista Workstation! This’ll give you the advantage of a stable computer (after all, it’s a server OS), with the ease and comfort of windows Vista. Read more…
Matti Windows vista, windows server 2008
If you’re looking for an easy way to highlight different types of source code in PHP, there’s a very simple class to help you: GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter. It can display over 50 various coding languages in the appropriate syntax highlighting, with very easy options to manage it. Read more…
Matti PHP geshi, PHP, syntax highlighting
Linux has a powerful DNS tool available through dig, which can be used to query for a specific nameserver-record (A, AAAA, MX, … ) and ask your query to a specific nameserver. What most people don’t realize is, that you can also do this on a normal windows installation, using nslookup. Read more…
Matti Windows dns, nameserver, nslookup, nsrecord
A systems administrator for the San Fransisco Computer Network, who goes by the name of Terry Childs, got a bit more attention than we originally wanted. He was (note the pasted tense) one of the key engineers to the SanFran Computer Network, but abused his powers for evil. Read more…
Matti Tech disgruntled, powers, sysadmin, underdog
It’s amazing how many good things are achieved on daily basis through IT. Perhaps more importantly, through the millions of people that give up their social lives in order to fix software bugs, recover broken servers and do midnight-interventions just to please a customer. Yet if something goes wrong, which more than often is not our fault _whatsoever_, we’re still the first ones to get blamed. We’re the first ones to get called names if some IT system isn’t working as expected. Yet, if it all works perfectly, there isn’t a soul on earth to congratulate us. We’re the underdog of society. Read more…
Matti Tech rant, underdog, yet-again
In case you were wondering, yes it is possible to install SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 (even the free Express version) on the same server, without conflicts. This article assumes you already have SQL 2000 installed, and want to install SQL 2005 Express next to it. Read more…
Matti Tech side-by-side, sql, sql2000, sql2005
As domain names keep growing in numbers, so do their thefts. More and more domain names are being stolen, or hijacked. Read more…
Matti Domains domain, Domains, domaintheft, stealing
Telenet, one of the biggest ISPs in Belgium, has finally increased their monthly traffic limits for everyone who uses cable to connect to the internet. They did this without making a big fuzz about it, there’s no press-release yet. Belgacom, one the biggest competitors for Telenet, also raised their limits a few weeks back. Read more…
Matti Tech bandwidth, isp, telenet, traffic
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