Search Engine Marketing / Orange County Web Developer Questions
Q: What are the fundamentals of Domain SEO Package?
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Q: How to view your Non Internet Protocol website before Domain Name Server has been propagated on a IIS Server. (IPless Hosting Test)
A: Edit your HOSTS file with Notepad or Textpad (client side / hard drive)
Note: These instructions should only be performed by a professional computer technician for a Website that is IPLess.
- Locate at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
- After all the # comment lines insert your Host Information
- Insert 2 new lines, depending upon on your server platform and settings
- Insert These Two Lines
- oo.oo.oo.oo www.example.com
- 00.00.00.00 example.com
IMPORTANT:
change the 'example.com' to your domain name.
change '00.00.00.00' to the IP given to you by the hosting service.
By forcing your computer system to temporarily resolve the domain to the hosting server without checking DNS. This is useful when trying to view a website before DNS change be moved over to our name servers.
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Q: How to create custom error pages for Apache Servers
A: There are at least three common ways to have Custom Error Pages
IMPORTANT:
These changes should only be performed if you understand .HTACCESS. IF you get it wrong your website will not render properly or at all!
- Most high end hosting providers "preset" your error handling from the server side. All you have to do is create the file and name it with their preset naming convention.
Example for 1 and 1 Server Designation of ErrorDocument Redirection:
- error400.html
- error403.html
- error404.html
- error500.html
- .HTACCESS Coding add these to your .HTACCESS File
- ErrorDocument 400 http://www.your_domain.com/400.html
- ErrorDocument 403 http://www.your_domain.com/403.html
- ErrorDocument 404 http://www.your_domain.com/404.html
- ErrorDocument 500 http://www.your_domain.com/500.html
- Mod Rewrite
- Add the following code to your .htaccess file: (cut and paste to notepad. should be four complete lines when you have exported to your .htaccess file)
- RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /errordocument.html
Note: If you feel that you have done all the steps correctly; check the following:
- Did you FTP the .htaccess file to the server?
- Did you FTP the HTML error files to the server that you created?
- Do you have a Apache Server? (are you sure you are on the right platform - IIS or Apache)