Late last night I realized that the traffic for Question-Defense.com was way down for the day and thought it was related to some recent updates I had performed on the site. I spent probably an hour or so last night verifying that nothing was out of the ordinary with the site and wasn’t able to…
I have been on vacation for the past few weeks and every country I go to, when I open my home page which is Google, it goes to the Google page of that particular country. I have found this to be really annoying. The browser I am using is Google Chrome however I experienced the…
I have been using a WordPress plugin for awhile called Pretty Link Pro which provides a ton of awesome features including a link shortener such as tinyurl.com. When using the URL shortener you can actually configure Pretty Link Pro to use a different domain which would be a benefit if your URL is long similar…
One of my favorite plugins for WordPress is the Google Analyticator plugin that provides an easy way for you to interface your WordPress site with Google Analytics. There have been a couple times after upgrades that I wanted to verify that Google Analyticator was functioning properly and wasn’t exactly sure of the best method. After…
I recently developed a web site for a client on a temporary domain which was clientname.mydomain.com. After launching the site and modifying the recipients of the contact forms on the site I happened to get a contact form to my email address. I finally realized that the issue was not with the site I had…
Tonight we are launching a new portiong of Question-Defense.com called Engage. This new section allows anyone to write questions and allows the community to respond to those questions. Now people can become more involved and more questions will be answered because the possibilities of who can respond are endless.
This seems to be the week of the Rewrite Engine for me as this is the second semi unique modification I have needed to make to one of our servers rewrite rule sets. This time we have a site where all traffic destined for HTTP is redirected to HTTPS via the LiteSpeed Rewrite Engine. Currently…
After purchasing a wildcard SSL certificate I was hoping to be able to redirect all traffic from http://example.com to https://www.example.com. There were two main goals which were to redirect all traffic to www.example.com and to require HTTPS. There is one flaw with this plan as it requires two valid certificates to work 100% of the…
The below explains the steps necessary to redirect all Litespeed HTTP (port 80) traffic to HTTPS (port 443).