While lot of people are stuggling getting into this new social network, I was among the lucky one who got very early access, thanks to a friend working with Google.I loved Google+. After so many failures in Social domain, Google has finally unleashed a product that can definitely take Facebook head on. While I follow ...
Recently a serious security flaw was discovered on one of my webpage where a folder which was intended to be accessed just by admin was open for access to anyone. I somehow ignored that folder as it was lying there for years.Fortunately before those sensitive information could compromised, one of the site follower sent me an email describing the serious flaw in security. I ...
Lot of times it happen that we get some weird error in PHP. One of such errors is a Fatal Error that usually occurs when Uploading big files in PHP.This error has to do something with the Maximum timeout setting. When we upload a large file it may happen that the timeout occurs and result in ...
Image Hotlinking is a common cause of increase in Bandwidth utilization of a website.Bandwidth theft or "hotlinking" is direct linking to a web site's files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an <img> tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else's web page so it will appear on your own ...
Apache web servers have a great way to manipulate information using .htaccess files. .htaccess (hypertext access) is the default name of a directory-level configuration file that allows for decentralized management of web server configuration. The .htaccess file is placed inside the web tree, and is able to override a subset of the server's global configuration; the ...
When a web browser is pointed to a directory on your web site which does not have an index.html file (or any other index file) in it, the files in that directory can be listed on a web page. Let us see few snippets that can be added in htaccess file to allow or avoid directory listing in apache server. Enable / Disable directory Listing To allow a ...
Since few days we have been registering heavy traffic spikes on our website. This lead to performance issues. As this site is currently hosted on a shared hosting server, it is very difficult to optimize the performance of the site.We are using
Wordpress as CMS for this blog, hence we decided to ...
