The best way to quickly turn off the PHP safe mode for a particular virtual hosting service is to have php_admin_flag safe_mode Off within VirtualHost directive. Quick and easy.Remember that some security checks will be automatically disabled if you define Safe_Mode off, but there are situations when some very specific scripts will break and can’t [...]
Sorry, almost forgot the previous night when I was posting about slowing down Yahoo Slurp, that the same technique applies to MSNBot as well. The only difference is a different name (bot name) User-agent definition. User-Agent: msnbot Crawl-Delay: 10 The above 2 lines in robots.txt file will instruct MSN Bot to delay new request by [...]
Some people are screaming that Yahoo Slurp is overloading their web site and eating too much resources, including bandwidth. In order to back off Slurp bot with custom delay between each requests (frequency), you can use robots.txt file and place it in your web site root directory, for example http://www.httpblog.com/robots.txt The following robots.txt setup will [...]
Today, I was a bit bored and figured that I could post some information about domain names as well. I was particulary interested in com and net TLD registration statistics and here is the breakdown: Registered .COM domain names: 59329934 Registered .NET domain names: 8610974 We will process more statistics in the future, but I [...]
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