Unanswered Questions
289 questions with no answers
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Ubuntu 14.04 can't enable .htaccess
I'm developing a website local and just switched from Windows to Ubuntu 16.04 - Sadly my .htaccess doesn't seems to work since rewrite rules don't apply and sources can't be found.
I activated:
sudo ...
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Can I use a reverse proxy service to route web requests to some other port than 80 on my home server to avoid breaking my ISP's ToS?
Is there a way to route all requests thru a proxy service, like Amazon Gateway, to specific ports on my home internet?
This will increase security at my home and will allow me to operate with the ...
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Redirected to www, but Google is indexing no-www without snippets, should I use noindex instead?
I started my blog a month ago and was using non www version for my website.
Then, I recently decided to stick to www.example.com version. So I changed it and Google has indexed the www version ...
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Why are my HTML resources re-downloading despite having an expiration date a month in the future?
I have set the expiration information for my resources in the .htaccess file as shown below:
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
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Matrix URL vs query string URL
Matrix URL is a way to pass data in URL to the program, it's like a query string, but a bit nicer.
Matrix URL notation is an idea first introduced in a 1996 proposal by
the founder of the web, ...
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ExpiresByType not working for PNG images when set in .htaccess for a WordPress site
In my website I have the expires headers settings reported below. When I use Google's PageSpeed Insights test I get the message: XYZ.png expire headers not set, which I'm getting for all the PNG files ...
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How CDN Relates to DNS Resolution and Content Fetching
I was trying to do a deeper dive on CDN and DNS
I understood the concepts around ISP, resolver cache, Root nameserver, TLD Nameserver, Authoritative Nameserver etc. i.e. a website (e.g. www.google....
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Does Google crawl domains with dynamic IP addresses?
Does Google crawl web sites with dynamic IP addresses and dynamic DNS entries?
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Removed AMP for WordPress Plugin and now "/amp" and "?nonamp=1" URLs have infinite self-redirect
Google Search Console(GSC) shows "Page with redirect" errors on my website. According to GSC, these posts are not indexed. That is fine. But look like the URLs with "/amp" and &...
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Automatic display of WebP images instead of JPG images via Htaccess
I use Wordpress, the plugin "EWWW Image Optimizer" creates from JPG images automatically also WebP versions (example: From the image image.jpg is also an image image.jpg.webp created). The ...
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Redirect URL if Only if Query String is Present with .htaccess Rule
I would like to redirect example.com/image.png?example, only if the ?example query string is present, to example.com/folder/folder/folder/new-image.png, and then for ?example to be removed from the ...
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PHP file triggers on every page load?
I've got a WordPress website that has a script which seems to be triggering every time any user loads a page. This PHP script is very simple (less than 25 lines) and is meant to be an API endpoint, so ...
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Can I have a generic rule to map subdomains to directories?
I have these rulesets which are working.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.city$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.city/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
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After changing URLs, how do I clear the old URLs out of Google Search Console?
I've recently changed the url structure of my site for SEO purposes from...
example.com/this_is_the_page
...to...
example.com/this-is-the-page
The sitemap.xml is up to date and Google Search Console ...
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I used a permanent 301 redirect and now want to use old domain again, is this bad SEO wise?
I have a blog that I wanted to professionalize it a bit more and moved from a personalized domain name (DomainA/subfolder) to a more professional domain name (DomainB).
The blog is from 2015 and I ...
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