Part 5: Steps to take after submitting to search engines (from the web) Maintenance check All Web sites should be thoroughly tested using a site maintenance tool in order to catch errors in operation before customers are brought to the site. HTML errors can hinder a search engine spider's ability to index a site, it can also keep a search engine from reading a page or cause it to be viewed in a manner different from how it was intended. NetMechanic's HTML Toolbox or another site maintenance tool, must be used by the Webmaster, to avoid potential visitor disasters due to site errors. (more…)

SELinux is a feature that may be turned on certain servers and it can restrict access to certain ports. In order to gain access and make the ports work, you need to open those ports. To see if SELinux is set, type $ sestatus To list all port, try the semanage command $ semanage port -l To check for a specific port that is opened $ semanage port -l | grep 8085 To allow access to a specific port $ semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 8085

The above error message most likely occurs when users change password in one environment (via command line or phpmyadmin) and do not see the changes reflect in other OR if they have forgotten the password that is being set for the environment in question. Following command should help you set/change MySQL password $ mysql -u root -p (more…)

Part 4: Steps to take before submitting (from the web) Fine tune the TITLE tag to increase traffic to the site Improving the TITLE tag is one technique that applies to just about all the search engines. The appearance of key words within the page title is one of the biggest factors determining a Web site's score in many engines. Changing title of the web pages to include some site keywords which works well with each of the pages can greatly increase the chance of the page getting noticed by the search engines and can increase the page rank of the site as well. (more…)

In linux, following commands are used to start/stop/restart mysql $/etc/init.d/mysqld start $/etc/init.d/mysqld restart $/etc/init.d/mysqld stop In windows, mysql runs as a service. C:> net stop mysql C:> net start mysql

When transitioning MySQL database from Windows to Linux, users often encounter issues related to case-sensitiveness. Windows is case-insensitive and Linux is case-sensitive. In such scenarios when a database call is made after the application migration happens, users often run into errors which can send them in circles between the migration servers. Solution to this problem is to add a single line of text under my.cnf (MySQL configuration file) under [mysqld] (more…)