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Configuring and Administering Your Server >>
Setting Up / Moving Servers - A New Server Checklist
It probably seems logical that you should avoid moving servers if you can. Unfortunately, sometimes you just can't avoid it. In that case, or in the case that you are setting up your server for the first time, there are some things you can do to make your experience more trouble-free.
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| Email Accounts setup (individual accts, catch all, bounce, postmaster) | |
| Customized 404 page(s) | |
| php.ini file modifications if necessary (timeout, default index, magic_quotes, etc.); if moving servers, download copy of old server php.ini file as reference | |
| Web analytics setup (may need to move log files from old server if moving servers) | |
| FTP / Secure Shell accounts | |
| Password protect relevant directories | |
| Apache settings (no viewing directories, etc.); if moving servers, download copy of old server http.conf file as reference | |
| Test code for CSS, HTML integrity via W3C | |
| cron jobs | |
| Verify IP address not blacklisted; attempt to whitelist if appropriate (http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx) | |
| SSL certificate | |
| Database(s) setup, including maintaining same username/passwords or changing any scripts that access DBs if username/password changes | |
| Relevant 3rd party scripts installed (e.g. phpMyAdmin, openads, AWStats) | |
| Run a complete DNS report (http://intodns.com/, http://www.iptools.com/, http://www.pweb.cz/en/dns-test/ http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheckdomainf.aspx) and a reverse DNS check (http://postmaster-us.aol.com/tools/rdns.html) | |
| Run SPF / SenderID test (http://www.openspf.org/Tools, http://www.vamsoft.com/spfcheck.asp, http://senderid.returnpath.net/how.php; or simply send an email from the domain with SPF to test to check-auth@verifier.port25.com. An Authentication Report will be sent back to the email account inbox after a few minutes with complete details and results of summary, SPF check, DomainKeys check, DKIM check, and Sender-ID check. |
"For people who make websites" - A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen in the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page.
The extension is based on Tidy and OpenSP. Both algorithms were originally developed by the Web Consortium W3C. Both algorithms are embedded inside Mozilla/Firefox and makes the validation locally on your machine, without sending HTML to a third party server.
The extension is based on Tidy and OpenSP. Both algorithms were originally developed by the Web Consortium W3C. Both algorithms are embedded inside Mozilla/Firefox and makes the validation locally on your machine, without sending HTML to a third party server.
This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used.
Starting at the beginning, this reference explains everything you need to know about using core JavaScript. It assumes you have the following basic background: a general understanding of the Internet and the World Wide Web and a good working knowledge of HTML. An excellent resource.
This site features online text and html changing, modifying, converting tools designed to save you time making web pages or preparing text for web publication. If you've ever needed to capitalize sentences or convert line breaks to <p> or <br /> then this site can save you needless manual labor. There are other useful tools as well, like the one to uncompress html to make it readable and the ones to uppercase or lowercase text. Basically, the most common tasks that someone who works in an office or does freelance web development might encounter. Most of the tools have been created using javascript so you should be able to change large amounts of text as the processing is done on your computer instead of being limited by a server script.
Edit your images on the fly online with Splashup, a web-based image editor that integrates with Flickr, Facebook, and Picasa. Splashup offers up a surprising array of image editing tools, far beyond the usual crop of resize and contrast-- you can also edit multiple images, play with filters and layers, use a variety of brushes, and more. Splashup is one of the best image editors in a long line of image editors; i.e., Picnik, Pixoh, and Resizr, to name just a few.[Lifehacker Annotation]
This website will let you:
- Create an XML sitemap format that can be submitted to Google to help them crawl your website better.
- Create a Text sitemap to submit to Yahoo.
- Create a ROR sitemap, which is an independant XML format for any search engine.
- Generate an HTML site map to allow human visitors to easily navigate on your site.
Clearspring's free Launchpad widget builder lets you easily turn your website's content into a widget which site visitors can use to place your content on all the major social media sites (MySpace, FaceBook, Google, hi5, Live, Yahoo, Wordpress, Blogger, etc.). The service also provides tracking and analysis.
You've downloaded and configured your Apache server and are ready to move on to the next project. Can it really be left to fend for itself in a darkened room?
Yes. To some degree, anyway. On the other hand, completely ignoring your Apache installation would be foolhardy.
Yes. To some degree, anyway. On the other hand, completely ignoring your Apache installation would be foolhardy.
The Wikipedia entry for Sender Policy Framework (SPF).
The Wikipedia entry for DomainKeys.
Useful Resources
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- A List Apart
- HTML Validator Firefox Plugin
- Open Clip Art Library
- Core JavaScript Guide: Version 1.5
- Text Fixer
- Splashup
- XML Sitemaps Generator
- Clearspring Launchpad
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