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whatsmydns.net is a free online tool that lets you quickly and easily perform a DNS lookup to check DNS propagation and see information of any domain from DNS servers located in many countries all around the world. You can test changes made to new or existing domains and see if they have been updated correctly … Read more
Plesk is a hosting control panel with simple and secure web server, website and web apps management tools. It is specially designed to help web professionals manage web, DNS, mail and other services through a comprehensive and user-friendly GUI. Plesk is about intelligently managing servers, apps, websites and hosting businesses, on both traditional and cloud hosting. Plesk Obsidian: Plesk … Read more
WAMP is sometimes used as an abbreviated name for the software stack Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP. It is derived from LAMP which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. As the name implies, while LAMP is used on Linux servers, WAMP is used on Windows servers. Because WordPress isn’t usually installed on Windows Servers, WAMP … Read more
XAMPP is a completely free, easy to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. The XAMPP open source package has been set up to be incredibly easy to install and to use. XAMPP Download About Apache Friends Apache Friends is a non-profit project to promote the Apache web server and is home to the … Read more
XAMPP (/ˈzæmp/ or /ˈɛks.æmp/) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages. Since most actual web server deployments use the same components as XAMPP, it makes transitioning … Read more
WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache2, PHP and a MySQL database. Alongside, PhpMyAdmin allows you to manage easily your databases
JWTs versus Sessions Why are sessions not such a good thing? Well, there are three key reasons: Data is stored in plain text on the server. Even though the data is usually not stored in a public folder, anyone with sufficient access to the server can read the contents of session files. They involve filesystem read/write … Read more
The Apache module mod_rewrite is a very powerful and sophisticated module which provides a way to do URL manipulations. With it, you can do nearly all types of URL rewriting that you may need. It is, however, somewhat complex, and may be intimidating to the beginner. There is also a tendency to treat rewrite rules … Read more
Get that .htaccess file generated quick!
htaccess is a very ancient configuration file that controls the Web Server running your website, and is one of the most powerful configuration files you will ever come across. .htaccess has the ability to control access/settings for the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) using Password Protection, 301 Redirects, rewrites, and much much more. This is because this … Read more