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A website is a set of related web pages containing content (media).

A website is a set of related web pages containing content (media), including text, video, music, audio, images, etc. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet address known as a Uniform Resource Locator. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.

  • Static websites are primarily coded in HTML.
  • Dynamic websites can be coded using a wide range of web programming languages like JSP, PHP, Perl, Python, and others...

Source: Wikipedia.

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Using a CNAME record to redirect a subdomain to another website?

Under my current understanding, I am able to use CNAME records to redirect users to another domain. For example, I own 'mydomain.com'. When a user goes to 'keep.mydomain.com', they should be redirected to 'keep.google.com'. I currently have the…
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Unused domain name getting routed to double click

I have an unused domain name which is registered by Network Solutions and which I thought was turned off. However, entering the domain in a browser results in getting redirected to a double click generic advertising site. The name resolves to the ip…
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Successfully, permanently ban a user from a website?

I have a social networking website and I want to ban a user from the website. I've added his IP address to the ban list in the .htacess file and to the php level for banning that user, but he keeps coming back with different IPs. How can I…
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Troubleshooting Website problems within the local network

Have an external website which opens fine on some PC's, yet seems to time out (or symptoms of timing out, but never actually does) on others. Seems to only affect (some) of our newer HP Pro 3305 MT Workstations. All of which are running Win7 32bit…
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PHP + MYSQL site perfomance

I have to manage a site which wasn't developed by me. It is in PHP using a mysql database, which is located in the web server. The site, sometimes (when the visitors increase too much) stops responding, or respond too slow. I have developed some…
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SEO Consultant Wants System Credentials

An SEO consultant has asked (demanded) credentials to the web environment so he can do ... Whatever it is that they do. I'm new to the company but an experienced Systems Engineer. I've just now been brought into this situation, but my reaction to…
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Basic wiki engine to a personal site

I am building a site for some tutorial material. I intend to use a wiki platform. DokuWiki and MediaWiki are very heavy, I have shortlisted two platforms - Boltwire - LionWiki I basically would like to have a user management based access control,…
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How to create a self-signed SSL certificate with subject alternate names (SAN) for IIS websites

Does anyone know how to create a self-signed SSL certificate for use with IIS (7) that has subject alternative names (SAN)s? I need the certificate to be able to validate the hostname AND the IP address like this: CN=MyServerName IP SAN:…
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How to update a live webserver?

I'm in the process of setting up a webserver and I was wondering what the best practice method of updating the website it contains would be. I'm aware that I should have some sort of 'test' server running in parallel so that changes can be tried…
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Is Page-Loading Time Relevant?

Take this (ServerFault) page for instance. It has about 20 elements. When the last of these has loaded, the page is deemed "loaded"--but not before. This is certainly the protocol used by our testing service (which is among the small group of…
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How can I have a web site automatically open up at a certain time each day

We Have a web site that employees must check into at a specific time each day. How can I make the site automatically open on each users computer at a certain time each day. Thanks
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AWL ELB error message

I am hosting a website on AWS and want to disable traffic coming from any cipher other than TLS 1.2. This is easy to do on the ELB, but want to create a custom 'landing page' for those users who need to update their browser to visit the site. I…
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correct file system permissions for joomla installation on linux

My question is pretty general. Lets assume I have a linux distribution web server, with the /var/www/ is the web directory. I used my superuser account to upload and unzip the Joomla installation .zip folder. The linux system user for web users is…
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Server admin community on a blog platform?

I'm wondering if there is a site out there where server admins congregate and post useful bits and pieces. Server Fault for example is a great Q&A site and Slashdot Journal Entries could be useful if I was more a PFY than BOFH ;) The reason for my…
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Should I provide Favicon.ico for my website?

I don't have a favicon.ico. I noticed that many visitors repeatedly request it. Should I just put a blank GIF or ICO file? Thanks for the input. But I have one question that no one answered: should I use an animated favicon?
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