Questions tagged [website]

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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IIS 7 Cannot Access Website

We can access our website from other systems, but when logged into the local machine where the site is hosted it does not resolve to the site... for example: http://mysite.com/folder/page.aspx gets a 404.... from the local machine we also cannot…
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When Should I Stop/Start an IIS Application Pool?

I was told that every time I refresh our web site, either individual pages or the entire site, I should first stop the application pool, update my website file or files, then start the application pool. My web site files consists, of HTML, JS, ASPX,…
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Recommended website performance monitoring services?

I'm looking for a good performance monitoring service for websites. I know about some of the available general monitoring services that check for uptime and notify you about unavailable services. But I'm specifically looking for a service with an…
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Adding multiple websites with different SSL certificates in IIS 7

I'm having troubles using SSL for 2 different websites on my IIS 7 server. Please see my setup below: website1: my.corporate.portal.com SSL certificate for website1: *.corporate.portal.com https/443 binded to my.corporate.portal.com website2:…
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How to throttle your own internet connection?

I am writing a website and want to test its speed on slower internet connections. I have the unfortunate first world problem of downloading at 100mbps, how can I throttle my own computer's internet connection to 56kbps or 5mbps to give myself an…
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Procedure to renew ssl certificate

I recently got a mail from my hosting server that the SSL certificate for one of my Wordpress website is about to expire in 5 days. It says the certificate needs to be renewed; this can be done using the 'genkey' program. I'm not sure how to do…
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Determining if a bot is scraping utility bill content and how to block it

I work for a local government that bills for water usage and garbage collection. I received a call today from a customer that a "New York company" called him asking for his customer number and pin to give them access to his online account so they…
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Website diff testing tool

Our CEO wants us to check all of our 100+ hosted/partner websites. Not only does she want to check if they are up and running, but she would like a diff analysis on the websites so that we can keep a log of any changes that may have occurred from…
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What steps to take when trying to resolve unresponsive/hung/broken IIS web site?

What steps do you take when you find an IIS web site is not responding? I might try to first telnet to the specified port, then check web site binding and authentication, and at last restart it. I think knowing what an experienced admin would…
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DNS configuration for external/internal resolution

HI, We have an internal web server which is available through Internet and from local network. The server is located in the local network. The current configuration is the following: To access through Internet you use http://webexample.com To…
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Our web-developers have a project that requires accepting file-uploads. What should I ensure is covered?

A recent project requires one of our websites to accept file uploads from (logged in) users (primarily images and possibly some video). What are some (generic) things we need to take into account, check for, ensure, or calculate, as we bring this…
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What is a 'best practice' backup plan for a website?

I have a website which is very large and has a large user-base. I am trying to think of a 'best practice' way to create a back up or mirror website, so if something happens on example.com, I can quickly point the site to backup.example.com via 401…
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How can I render html at high resolution?

I want to create high-quality prints of a website, for a publication. Screenshots can get very gritty when printed out, for no good reason. Embedded bitmap images can't be improved of course, but there is no reason why the fonts can't be rendered at…
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Our website is not resolving from our LAN because of LAN DNS configuration

We have a LAN/WAN network with a Windows domain name (ourcompanyweb.org) that matches our website url (http://ourcompanyweb.org) which is hosted externally. When I ping our website (of the same name) it returns the IP address of the local domain…
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Is it possible to make apache print http parameters in access log?

Apache prints the request to access log. The line will tell you which page is access, say test.php but is it possible to ask it to log the HTTP post parameters as well? Ideally, a specific parameter?
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