Gary Eckstein Internet 0 apache, Apache HTTP Server, hosting, how to, htaccess, Redirect, script, URL
I recently had the need to move a WordPress Website from a subfolder on Godaddy hosting to a subdomain on Hostgator hosting. I used Backupbuddy to move the Site but the Site wasn’t displaying correctly i.e. it looked like the style.css files wasn’t being read. I installed the Search and Replace Plugin to change any [...]
Gary Eckstein WordPress 0 apache, cpanel, hosting, Linux, Microsoft, requirements, Software, websites, WordPress, wordpress.org
The minimum requirements for a self-hosted WordPress Blog or Website are: PHP version 5.2.4 or greater MySQL version 5.0 or greater WordPress.org adds that they ‘recommend Apache or Nginx as the most robust and featureful server for running WordPress, but any server that supports PHP and MySQL will do. That said, we can’t test every possible environment …’. In theory these [...]
Gary Eckstein WordPress 0 cpanel, hosting, mysql, mysql database, phpmyadmin, WordPress
WordPress, by default, uses the awesome MySQL Database Management System to manage it’s underlying database and tables. Most popular Webhosts such as Godaddy, Hostgator, Bluehost, Justhost and so on provide a tool called phpMyAdmin which makes managing MySQL databases far more simple than it would be otherwise. Why Repair and Optimize WordPress Database? For any number [...]
Gary Eckstein WordPress 2 apache, hosting, how to, htaccess, instructions, Internet, permalinks, websites, WordPress, wordpress.org
So you’ve installed WordPress in a folder on your Webhost. Your URL now probably looks something like http://example.com/wordpress. This doesn’t look great and also you probably want people to see your WordPress Site at your domain name e.g. http://example.com. How do you do this? Although there are some complicated ways of achieving this redirect with [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 2 dns, godaddy, hosting, Internet, nameservers
Many of my customers host their Sites with Godaddy. Generally Godaddy is a great host, is inexpensive and WordPress works well on their Linux hosting. Support from Godaddy too is good and the poor service of the past has mostly gone. I however came across a problem with nameservers a few days back; I required [...]
