After traversing directories and files it is easy to forget the exact path you may be working in. To see this in unix or Linux, use Continue Reading

If you use WhatCounts email marketing in behalf of your domain name, it is a good idea to add these to ensure email deliverability, as publishing these in your SPF record tells recipient email servers that WhatCounts is authorized to send email in behalf of your domain name. You will need Continue Reading

When setting up your own domain name for Google Apps or Google Hosted Email service, Google only provides you with 5 MX records and values. It turns out, they have 3 more for a total of 8.

Here are the MX records and their recommended Priority values to use for your domain name in the format of priority, and value. Make sure to include the Continue Reading

This guide is for how to automatically remove www from a domain name, or multiple domain names.
If you want to add WWW, read this guide titled Automatically redirect non-www requests to www for all URLs and All Domains.

The below code will enable you to remove WWW for one domain, multiple domains, or all domains. It is generic enough that you just install it in your domains root folder for a singular domain, or the parent folder above multiple domain names if you want it to apply to all domains hosted in child folders (for shared hosting scenarios).

Insert the below code into a text file. Save the file as htaccess.txt, and upload it to your domains folder. Once there, rename it to “.htaccess” without quotes. If you need help on this, read the applicable instructions in my other post Automatically redirect non-www requests to www for all URLs and All Domains.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

If you use Tarball or Gzip file archives for storing your data, occasionally you may need to extract only a few select files or directories, rather than the entire archive file’s contents. Many people waste time, CPU, and drive space extracting the entire archive only to get access to a few of the contents, then to discard the rest of the data.

Why should one wait on files to extract that will just be deleted immediately after, without being used? Thanks to the great minds behind the tar application for Unix and Linux; we have been privileged with a solution. A little-known time saving tip is that extracting only specified directories or files from a tar gzip file is possible. Continue Reading