mattgadient.com

Finding it again wasn’t fun :p In any case, if you’ve got the default Great Success ! Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ Server message, you can simply rename the index.html file and place your own at: /usr/local/apache/htdocs I did this using SSH and creating an index.html using nano. I’m not sure if [...]

So… switched a site from one host to another. Installed Joomla, restored the database, restored the template folder, and then started installing Extensions. First up was JCE. I downloaded the lastest version, tried uploading/installing it from within Joomla’s Admin Panel, and then got the following message: JFolder::create: Path not in open_basedir paths Oh boy! Not [...]

I’ve touched on this a couple of times, but I’ll go into a little more detail here. Assuming youv’e got a VPS (or dedicated server), should you host your own DNS servers, use DNS servers provided by your hosting company, use specific DNS services, or use the DNS provided by your domain name provider? There [...]

I recently attempted a domain transfer from GoDaddy to Namecheap. I did all the steps – I unlocked the domain from GoDaddy’s control panel, then placed the order through Namecheap. Namecheap needed the EPP code – I used the GoDaddy control panel to email it to myself, and entered it on Namecheap’s site. All seemed [...]

PREFACE: Back up your database before removing anything!!! My WordPress database was getting pretty big, despite not having all that many posts all things considered. I figured the biggest issue was drafts wasting space, although it turned out to be “revisions” which make up over half the “post” size of my database. If you make [...]

My last week’s been comprised of a lot of reading, a lot of brain-storming, and a lot of planning. Here’s a scenerio: Step 1: One of the sites on my VPS gets slashdotted, dugg, or picked up on by a major news site. It has actually happened a few times already although fortunately it’s been [...]

Check out Part 1 before going any further. Tiny issue – after you do it, you may find that your wrapped version is full of “noindex” on all the pages. Well actually, it’ll have Joomla’s “index,follow”, but keep reading down the meta tags and you’ll find a “nofollow”. This is assuming you’ve told SJSB to [...]

I use a wrapper (SJSB) to show my SMF forums on my Joomla site. Tiny issue is that the text shows up quite small on the Joomla site. It’s alright for me, but if anyone’s got poor eyes, a tiny screen, or a high resolution, it’d be brutal. I could have changed the CSS to [...]

Here’s the issue. For the EGRR site, I have forums.eyeglassretailerreviews.com . I decided to install SJSB (Simple Joomla! 1.5.x / SMF 2.x Bridge) so that I could display the forums in-line (wrapped) on the www.eyeglassretailerreviews.com site as well. It works very well aside from the initial broken CSS, but I’ll give tips for formatting the [...]

A huge concern I had back when I first started my sites a few years ago was getting my sites indexed quickly. Really, I had spent hours making an excellent Eyeglass Review site, digging up piles of information and providing it to others. I went so far as to later buy glasses to review for [...]