Information all about how pages are served and how page content is negotiated.
Overview A subdomain is an extension of your primary domain or an addon domain that can serve as both an e-mail domain and website location. Creating a subdomain Configuration parameters A subdomain may be added within the control panel under Web > Subdomains. A subdomain may exist in a few flavors and likewise function differently: Subdomain…
Overview An addon domain is a domain in addition to your primary domain. Every package supports an unlimited number of addon domains, limited only by the amount of storage and bandwidth allotted to your account. Adding a new domain A new domain may be added within the control panel under DNS > Addon Domains. There are…
Overview During certain situations you may become confused with what is wrong with your site. For example, moving WordPress or Drupal to another location or even misplacing files on your web site may lead to an erroneous conclusion that the web server must be “restarted” to clean its cache or memory usage. When is a manual…
Overview Rewrite rules remap a URL to another location or resource accessible on a web site. These rules are located in .htaccess files. A common snippet looks similar to: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ! -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA, L] When located anywhere else besides the document root of the primary domain name, rewrite rules will…
Site statistics can be viewed, in raw form, through access logs available via /var/log/httpd/access_log. Likewise, errors that may arise from improperly-configured PHP scripts or general diagnostics are available in error logs via /var/log/httpd/error_log. These errors are typically manifested as 550, 500, 403, or status codes also more commonly referred to as “Internal Server Error”. Java…
Overview Subdomains created within the control panel via Web > Subdomains will map to corresponding document roots. Subdomains not explicitly defined under Web > Subdomains, called a fall-through, will always serve content from your primary domain located under /var/www/html. Example: assume web.mydomain.com maps to /var/www/web, and mydomain.com is the main domain that serves content from /var/www/html. “web” is the only subdomain associated with…
Overview An index page is the page a Web server pulls up for a given directory if a filename is not specified. For example, http://hostineer.com/ will scan the document root sequentially looking for the first file match. If found, that page will be displayed. By default, the directory index order of precedence is (in decreasing…
mod_speling may be used to correct typos in URLs. Spelling rules only allow one character translation (i.e. character capitalization, transposition, or omission) and ignores extensions such as .html. To enable spell-checking, add the following line to your .htaccess file: CheckSpelling On
If you would like for the Web server to generate a listing of all contents in a given directory, then create a file named .htaccess with the following line: Options +Indexes You will also need to remove all directory index files (e.g. index.html, index.php, index.htm, index.*) from the target directory. The directory index files will…
Site content for a given domain or subdomain is served from its document root. A document root is the base folder from which all content is served. All accounts have a document root for the primary domain under /var/www/html. mainwebsite_html/ is a link to this location. Sample Home Directory $ ls ~ drwx—— Aug 21 12:15 Mail…