Date: 12/03/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: browser, html, hosting

OK, this has been doing my head in and despite trawling the code for some sites that do it (eg. RackSpace) I cannot figure out how to get a page to refresh/reload without having the browser reload all the images too.

In other words, how do I reload a page and force the browser to use the images in its cache?

The reason I want to do it is so that I can gently rotate the front images on my own site (Memset dedicated hosting as they do already if you refresh the page but without all the other images reloading and making it look untidy to the user. (yes I could do it with DHTML but that's a mild PITA).

Any tips appreciated - this surely should be simple!

Kate.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/373951.html

Date: 12/05/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, java, web, hosting, shopping

I'm designing a website for a friend. I have a pretty basic knowledge of html but that's about it. I'm good at simple sites. My friend wants a shopping cart, and would prefer not paypal since it can't calculate shipping. Her hosting plan comes with AgoraCart but I can't figure out how in the heck to integrate it seemlessly into my web design. From what I see it only lets you put in a header and/or footer and you can make no changes to the body. This site isn't just pictures and buy now so that's a problem.

So the impossible dream questions. Does anyone know of a shopping cart that is: Free, can be integrated into the body and let you add things around it, doesn't require extensive knowledge of perl, java, etc, and works with Dreamweaver would be nice but not required (i can use other html editors).

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1192352.html

Date: 12/12/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: hosting

Site hosting complete oeuvre of the classical composer, backed by Packard Humanities Institute, is being flooded with traffic.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6142845.html

Date: 12/14/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql, hosting

DreamHost seem to get recommended every time anyone asks for a good host, but, has anyone had any problems?

My current host (square1hosting.com) are sucking harder than something that sucks very hard, and have been for some time.

I need a PHP5 host with MySQL and email for multiple domains at a reasonable price, dreamhost seems to be unbelievably good, which suggests to me they may be overloaded and therefore performance/availability might be dire.

Anyone have any problems?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/521140.html

Date: 12/17/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, hosting, apache

I have just changed hosting providers and am having a minor problem with files matching before my mod_rewrite rules get to rewrite.

www.mydomain.com/foobar/stuff

is matching and executing foobar.php and I don't want it to.

I've tried changing DefaultType to text/plain so it wouldn't execute as php.
I've tried turning off ModSpeling in case that had an effect.

Other info: I'm using apache 2.x and php 5.2 as a fast cgi

* * * *

Another question I have is what type of encoding do I need to set to get degree (°) symbols and copyright (©) to display properly. At this new host they display as '?'.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/522671.html

Date: 12/26/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: java, web, linux, hosting

Install Sun’s Java Virtual Machine ( J2SE(TM) Development Kit 5.0 Update 9 ) on Fedora Core / Linux platform in 5 simple steps. The procedure is geared for users having access to Linux box from ssh / telnet only as in a vpn / dedicated web hosting. However it can be used by anyone. Step 1: Login [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-sun-jvm-jdk-15x-on-linux-fedora-core-in-5-simple-steps/

Date: 01/04/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: templates, web, hosting

Hi guys,

I've had my friend's website (the Book Brothel - a book reviews site, very cool) hosted on Netrillium for the past three years.

Last year, Movable Type exploded. I don't have internet at home and couldn't really do anything in the way of fixing it. I asked for help from Netrillium, because googling the problem led me to believe it was the result of a change on their end which messed up my install. They tried a little, said it was fixed, I said it wasn't, they ignored me for a year (not that I was e-mailing daily.. but still.) My long-suffering friend trudged bravely on with her half-working install.

The last straw has come, though: as she approached her space limit, the MT install was garbled again. We asked for a backup. We asked to be moved to a higher plan. They said 'we'll look for a backup and let you know' over a week ago. Since then, the domain renewal came up, I missed it due to work holidays, and they never sent me any sort of notice. The domain (bookbrothel.com) is not currently ours.

I am, understandably I hope, fed up with Netrillium. I think that the owner, Ermina, is a saint, but she hires idiots. My long-winded question is this: where do I go?

I am getting the internet at home within a week, so I will be able to keep my own eye on my next Movable Type (or possibly Textpattern) installation, so support needs to be polite and quick, but they don't have to hold my hand. All I want is responses to my queries!

I want a place which will register a domain for roughly $10US or under, and give me ~200MB of disk space, 300 would be better. I've just been away from the design world for so long I have lost touch with hosting companies, registrars and all its related ilk.

I'm pretty sad about my Netrillium breakup. I used to have a reseller account, hosted all sorts of freebie templates, design collectives... *sigh*

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1202920.html

Date: 01/05/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: hosting

taragana.com domains (including this site - blog.taragana.com) was using ZoneEdit as DNS Servers. I started using their service while transitioning from VPS hosting to the current dedicated hosting. The service was good and so I didn’t prioritize the effort to move the DNS to my server. After all they had two different servers, what could [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-experience-in-setting-up-dns-servers-on-linux-and-free-dns-server-zoneedit/

Date: 01/16/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web, linux, hosting, apache

1) Can anyone recommend any reliable and not too expensive UK based webhosting companies?
(only hosting, no domain name registration needed)


Necessary features:
- Linux/Apache server
- at least 150MB webspace
- bandwith/traffic on a normal scale, the more the better *g*
- PHP (version 4 okay, 5 better)
- at least one MySQL database
- FTP access and several email accounts should be a given

A plus, but not really neccessary:
- .htaccess
- cgi/perl
- shell access

2) DreamHost as a webhost for a small business website?
I do have a DreamHost account, mostly for dabbling around and trying out stuff, and love all their features (and low prices). But although I've never had any problems so far, hearing every now and then about down times or bad customer service makes me a bit reluctant to recommend them to a client for hosting their small business website. Opinions, anyone?

Thanks! :-)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1208737.html

Date: 01/16/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web, linux, hosting, apache

Can anyone recommend any reliable and not too expensive UK based webhosting companies?
(only hosting, no domain name registration needed)

Necessary features:
- Linux/Apache server
- at least 150MB webspace
- bandwith/traffic on a normal scale, the more the better *g*
- PHP (version 4 okay, 5 better)
- at least one MySQL database
- FTP access and several email accounts should be a given

A plus, but not really neccessary:
- .htaccess
- cgi/perl
- shell access

ETA: Is DreamHost a recommendable webhost for a small business website?
I do have a DreamHost account, mostly for dabbling around and trying out stuff, and love all their features (and low prices). But although I've never had any problems so far, hearing every now and then about down times or bad customer service makes me a bit reluctant to recommend them to a client for hosting their small business website. Opinions, anyone?

Thanks! :-)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/530162.html

Date: 01/16/07 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web, linux, hosting, apache

Can anyone recommend any reliable and not too expensive UK based webhosting companies?
(only hosting, no domain name registration needed)

Necessary features:
- Linux/Apache server
- at least 150MB webspace
- bandwith/traffic on a normal scale, the more the better *g*
- PHP (version 4 okay, 5 better)
- at least one MySQL database
- FTP access and several email accounts should be a given

A plus, but not really neccessary:
- .htaccess
- cgi/perl
- shell access

Addendum:I just saw that in this comm's user info DreamHost is recommended as a webhost.
I do have a DreamHost account, mostly for dabbling around and trying out stuff, and love all their features (and low prices). But although I've never had any problems so far, hearing every now and then about down times or bad customer service makes me a bit reluctant to recommend them to a client for hosting their small business website.
Opinions, anyone?

Thanks! :-)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/383671.html

Date: 01/18/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, web, hosting

Yeah, Y!SB is getting on my last nerve.

Along with spiking from an average of 4,000 403 errors to 100,000+ 403 errors last month (and I have no idea what caused this), the site I run is getting constant 500 errors now anytime someone tries to post a news article via Movable Type

Does anyone know of a good business-oriented web hosting service that can easily support a site that generally has 150k pageviews/10-15GB of traffic (and this will most likely be increasing).

The things I'm running that I would like to continue using are:
Movable Type
awstats
phpAdsNew

As far as I'm aware, any hosting company should be able to let those work without a hitch, yet Y!SB is giving me a lot of shit the last two months and I'm getting pretty sick of them.

A good number of POP-capable email addresses would be nice, too, since if we leave Y!SB for web hosting we may want new email hosting as well.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1210240.html

Date: 01/19/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web, hosting

Hi guys,

I design and manage a site for my best friend, the Book Brothel*, which had been running for the last two years on Movable Type. Our installation messed up, we couldn't fix it, and our webhosting company was pretty much useless and we've now signed up with another host and have our eye on recreating the site in Textpattern.

I've played around with Textpattern some, and can be pretty creative with content management systems, but I was wondering if anyone out there has examples they can link me to of brilliant implementation of TxP sites?

The only site I know of offhand which is run on Textpattern is the website of a long lost friend, at Erisfree.com, and it's pretty wicked - but I thought asking around here may yield some suprises!

Thanks in advance! I'll be sure to come back here for suggestions when I get something up and running. :)

*The site itself is blank right now, but Archive.org can give you a pretty good idea of what the site used to look like, if you're curious!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1211684.html

Date: 01/30/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, programming, web, hosting

Hello everybody,

I am still new at PHP programming and have already picked up some tips by watching this community. This is my first time posting and I hope to solve my problem this way. Thanks in advance!

Ok, here is what I'm trying to do. I have installed the email package 'Roundcubemail' on the hosting server and website and am trying to modify the code so that I can add a fixed message to each email that will be sent out. Something like a disclaimer at the bottom of business emails.

File 1 -------->
In the following directory, I found this file...

/mysite/roundcubemail/config/main.inc.php

171> // path to a text file which will be added to each sent message
172> // paths are relative to the RoundCube root folder
173> $rcmail_config['generic_message_footer'] = '';

/mysite/roundcubemail/program/steps/mail/sendmail.inc

163> // append generic footer to all messages
164> if (!empty($CONFIG['generic_message_footer']))
165>   {
166>   $file = realpath($CONFIG['generic_message_footer']);
167>   if($fp = fopen($file, 'r'))
168>     {
169>     $content = fread($fp, filesize($file));
170>     fclose($fp);
171>     $message_body .= "\r\n" . rcube_charset_convert($content, 'UTF-8', $message_charset);
172>     }
173>   }

_____________________________________
email footer
_____________________________________

173> $rcmail_config['generic_message_footer'] = '../footer/footer.txt';

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/535188.html

Date: 02/05/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, css, html, hosting

I need help. A lot of help.

I have been designing (using the term very loosely) for nearly a decade now but it seems that I can't wrap my head around more than just basic HTML and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in tutoring and helping me learn effective CSS and PHP (I've been using CSS for years but mostly just eyeballing things, copying and pasting, trial and error; a lot of my code is messy, redundant, or useless and I can't seem to get the hang of styling outside of iframes). I know there are many, many layout journals and sites but not many of them offer personal help. In return I can offer you hosting on an amazing server, or I could even pay you if we can't work anything else out. I have a lot of ideas for designs and sites, I just can't seem to get them into code.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1217227.html

Date: 02/18/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web, hosting, apache

I have Dreamhost for my mail and hosting package, but I abhore Squirrelmail. So I'm researching other PHP webmail systems that I can install without too much trouble, because I'm not very familiar with installing things from the source.

I loved Horde when I had them on my previous host, so I'm trying to install that. I haven't quite gotten to the install part yet - I'm on the Prerequisites part! I've been starting to install PHP5 (with these and these instructions) and I'm trying to make sure I get all the extra packages downloaded and whatnot before I start with the configure script. But I'm confused at a few things.

1. Dreamhost says they like PHP to run as CGI but the Horde instructions say to configure it with --with=apache or -apxs or -apxs2. Neither of the install steps tutorials have it listed; would something bad happen if I ran it with -apxs?

2. The tutorials also have --without-pear in the configuring, but I think I need it for Horde. Would I need to download additional packages before installing or can I just wait and install it afterwards?

3. The Horde instructions say I need PECL modules but I absolutely cannot get fileinfo to install. It's late and I lost the error message, but since I'm doing everything from scratch, can someone tell me what I should be setting up beforehand and seeing (or not seeing) during installation?

Thanks all.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/542333.html

Date: 02/19/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: hosting

Okay, after a plethora of problems in the last month, my hosting company has decided to up the price. I got almost two years free out of them (mates rates), but when you combine two moves of server hosts and numerous problems with a rate increase -- and to really uncompetitive rates, it's time to move on, mate or not.

So I'm looking for recommendations: I've heard about Dreamhost but I'm looking for your experiences with them.

Anyone else you guys would recommend? I have until the end of this month to decide.


Hit me with your best shots!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/543280.html

Date: 02/21/07 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: mysql, database, sql, postgresql, web, hosting

I used to work in web hosting and domain registration and the like. But I've been out of it for the last 2 and half years focusing on backup and disaster recovery. Anyway, does anyone know of a "good" hosting and domain registration service? I know from experience that a lot of these companies will milk you for every dollar they can and you need to have a company that is on the up and up. Has anyone had good experience with a particular company?
The site will be a small specialty site. No commerce or what have you, but we will need email, and about 10 MB of space. This will be a business but should not have a lot of traffic. 10 hits per day average. If possibly, I would like to have the ability to do database (MySQL or PostgreSQL) and shell access but that is not a requirement.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/52421.html

Date: 02/28/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: hosting

How do you folks keep yourselves organized when it comes to domains, hosting, etc..

I'm soon going to be tasked with somehow organizing and compiling records of all our different domains and all associated information into a way that makes it easy for us to find passwords, double check expiring domains, etc.

Do you keep it all digital or keep hard copies?

If you have a hard copy suggestion that would be very handy as well because that's what my boss would prefer.

thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1226021.html

Date: 03/03/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: asp, web, hosting

Hey, can someone tell me why after submitting an email form on my website, it will reload my website in a different window? You can test it all you want, go ahead submit to see....

Heres my the script in the action layer:
set(mailuser, "wendy922@gmail.com");
set(targetpage, "none");
stop();


and heres the script on the SUBMIT button:
on (release) {
getURL("gdform.asp", "lower", "GET");
}
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(75);
}



It maybe just be my control panel with my hosting service. I'll check.
The Website: http://www.staaadesigns.com

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1227346.html