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Good tool to crawl my site and help me find dead link and unlinked files
I have a pretty big legacy site with literally thousands of PDFs that are sometimes accounting for in a database, but often are just links on the page, and are stored in most every directory on the ...
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Open Source website backup tool suggestions
I'm looking for an Open Source website backup tool. I'm more interested in Open Source so I can make changes if need be and possibly contribute to the software.
Automatic scheduled FTP backups ...
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Using WordPress for large collaborative site
I work for a government agency, and we're thinking about creating a new, fairly large site using WordPress as the platform. It would involve allowing quite a few people around the state access to the ...
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Deploying websites with a 'Maintenance Mode' switch
I'm working on a site where I need to add a 'maintenance mode' and became curious to see what methods people use to deploy their sites to live, when there is a required downtime.
Some ideas that come ...
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How to charge for web maintenance services [closed]
Over the years we have developed many websites for clients.
The issue we currently deal with is having individual clients wanting minor changes or enhancements to their site. Each client doesn't ...
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How much time do you spend for SEO?
There are basic rules to follow for SEO, and then there are labor intensive site promotion activities that you can do on a daily basis that add tiny increments that over time eventually add up to a ...
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Migrate user accounts out of system with hashed passwords
I have a system with a few thousand user accounts that I need to migrate to a new platform. The system stores a hashed password, not encrypted or (thank goodness) plain text. Also, I don't have the ...
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Any solutions for managing all properties from one system?
I'm looking for a solution to manage/keep track of the different domains and sites I maintain. I manage multiple domains with numerous sites, subdomains, many instances of CMS and other web apps, and ...
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How can I redirect any kind of access to my site to somewhere else, except for me?
My site, www.example.com has a MyBB forum installation, and has many users constantly checking it out. I would like to make a major change to it - basically, I want to delete everything it has and ...
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Website signaled as containing malware
I've got a nasty problem with one of our websites. It has been signaled to us by Google and other agencies that it contains malware. We weren't able to understand how to cope with the problem.
Could ...
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Should users be deleted after inactivity on a website?
When you have a social website or a website where you can register, would you eventually delete them after a certain time (after a year of inactivity) or would you rather keep their account records ...
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Using Extension:Maintenance to generate sitemap MediaWiki
I'm using MediaWiki 1.19.2. I want to generate a sitemap.xml. Here's the documentation.
We have to use a maintenance script to generate the sitemap.xml. So I use the extension Maintenance but I ...
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Upgrading Shopping Cart Software and SERPS
I operate a fairly large (45,000+ pages) ecommerce site that runs on an older ASP.NET 1.1 shopping cart that is a pain to administer and maintain but ranks really well. I'd like to upgrade to a .NET ...
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Is it good to have a separate search results page for a website?
In terms of SEO and maintainability.
My website is based on WordPress, it's currently using WordPress search and it's using the same URL as the home page to return search results i.e. say my website ...
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SEO Sitemap questions about a site that changes all the time
I have a website that changes hourly, new contents are added from different feeds, so no original contents at all,
I have details pages where they show the details of every item,
Then I have pages ...
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Redirect all access requests to a domain and subdomain(s) except from specific IP address? [closed]
This is a self-answered question... After much wrangling I found the magic combination of mod_rewrite rules so I'm posting here.
My scenario is that I have two domains - domain1.com and domain2.com - ...
