Many users without computer knowledge copy contents from a Word document, paste them into an HTML form () and expect to retain formatting as well as special characters such as smart quotes and emdashes. When copying and pasting con...]

The Oracle export (exp) and import (imp) utilities are used to perform logical database backup and recovery, which allow you to write data into an operating system file and read it back into the Oracle database. They are also used ...]

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) provides secure connections by allowing two applications connecting over a network connection to authenticate the other's identity and by encrypting the data exchanged between the applications. A server i...]

htpasswd is used to create and update the flat files used to store usernames and passwords for basic authentication of HTTP users. Resources available from the Apache HTTP server can be restricted to just the users listed in the fi...]

Setting up an e-commerce website is a little more involved than setting up a personal homepage. The basic domain and web hosting setup are identical, but the e-commerce website requires a few additional components to offer credit c...]

As described on URL Canonicalization article we published in March, having a unique URL for each webpage is important in improving your "Pagerank". Canonicalization is accomplished by redirecting non-standard web pages to a preferr...]

One of the first things discussed when beginning an SEO project is URL canonicalization. You may argue that the impact of having multiple URLs resolving to the same page may not have a huge effect on SEO (if you use it consistently...]