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April 19, 2007 at 8:53 pm #16324XDCJuDgE-MenTaLParticipant
….such as this gem.
Easy to set up and host yourself or steer well clear unless you have intense knowledge of SQL?
April 20, 2007 at 8:58 am #50561xdc magickerParticipant** cough **
i can set you one up and host for a minor donation 😉
** cough **
but otherwise as long as you have hosting with at least 1 mysql database thats about all you need.
April 22, 2007 at 10:48 pm #50562XDCJuDgE-MenTaLParticipantCheers m8 I’ll ask him. I’m doing a kinda payback favour for a m8. He’s got the hosting sorted on his own box.
As I inderstand it I need to install MySQL or the like on his webserver and give it some php support (whatever that entails).
Whats a good FTP host proggy?
May 1, 2007 at 3:20 am #50563XDCJuDgE-MenTaLParticipantbueller?
Ok how about this one then…. Whats the easiest way to password lock a site away from prying eyes? I just want to set up a simple login entry page to it all, nothing overly clever like.
Also, why would the address, say http://blahblahblah.com work fine but if you were to enter http://www.blahblahblah.com would that not work??
I love being a web building n00b..not.
May 3, 2007 at 2:36 pm #50564xdc magickerParticipant@=XDC=JuDgE-MenTaL wrote:
bueller?
Ok how about this one then…. Whats the easiest way to password lock a site away from prying eyes? I just want to set up a simple login entry page to it all, nothing overly clever like.
Also, why would the address, say http://blahblahblah.com work fine but if you were to enter http://www.blahblahblah.com would that not work??
I love being a web building n00b..not.
lol
are you using apache?
iff so use a standard .htaccess file (instructions / tools here http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/password/)not sure if this works on IIS
again you just need to redirect users from http://www.xxx to .xxxxx.yyy
in your htaccess file add something like..
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} http://www.nameofsite.co.uk [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://nameofsite.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc]May 3, 2007 at 4:01 pm #50565RyzoParticipantforums like this r piss to set up (check http://www.sest-scitt.com/forum) same thing rlly just different colour scheme, this forum is a package u can download called PHPBB, really simple, google search it and read over the site,
May 3, 2007 at 7:27 pm #50566xdc magickerParticipantlol i think he has figured out that much – your right to say it is a piece of piss if you already have a webserver set up but it is a different matter if you have to install apache / php / mysql from scratch
May 3, 2007 at 8:07 pm #50567XDCJuDgE-MenTaLParticipant@=xdc= magicker wrote:
lol i think he has figured out that much – your right to say it is a piece of piss if you already have a webserver set up but it is a different matter if you have to install apache / php / mysql from scratch
nods, thanks Magicker I’ll look into getting Apache setup.
May 3, 2007 at 8:33 pm #50568RyzoParticipant@=xdc= magicker wrote:
lol i think he has figured out that much – your right to say it is a piece of piss if you already have a webserver set up but it is a different matter if you have to install apache / php / mysql from scratch
if you need a testing server on your machine use Xammp, its a handy tool that has all the apache php sql etc bundled into it, without going through the hassle of doing them individually, saves so much time!
May 3, 2007 at 8:50 pm #50569XDCJuDgE-MenTaLParticipantcool !!
May 3, 2007 at 8:52 pm #50570RyzoParticipantYour damn right it is! and if your after Php (and phpMyadmin) based sites (or forums) then easyPHP is another nice mini testing server, i use that for work on sites too,
May 7, 2007 at 1:49 pm #50571XDC Erratic-SpaceParticipantShall check some of this out. Cheers
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