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This is an Apache directives file. It is used to modify the way Apache behaves for a specific directory. Examples of how .htaccess is used: password protected directories IP denying to...

To maximise the security of your account create unique passwords containing at least eight random alphanumeric characters or symbols, and alternate between upper and lower case letters (eg....

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. This is an application protocol which is used to transfer data from one computer to another. Using FTP you can upload or download programmes and files from an...

Fantastico is an autoinstaller for cPanel servers. Fantastico gives even novice users the ability to quickly install Mambo and dozens of other open source web content scripts into their web space...

A domain name is the unique name of a computer on the Web that distinguishes it from the other systems on the network. They are sometimes colloquially (and incorrectly) referred to by marketers...

A Uniform Resource Locator, URL, or Web address, is a standardised address name layout for some resource (such as a document or image) on the Internet. It provides the address for locating...

An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique number, and is the standard way of identifying a computer that is connected to the Internet, much the way a telephone number identifies a...

A subdomain is a "domain within a domain", it is essentially a subdivision of a larger domain. Subdomains are individual web addresses built upon a pre-existing domain name, for...

Republished with permission, from by Pete Freitag. Here are 20 things you can do to make your Apache configuration more secure. Disclaimer: The thing about security is that there are no...

.htaccess files are "distributed configuration files" and provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. What you can put in .htaccess files is determined by the...