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301 redirects when you change a page or a domain

You changed a page’s address, deleted an article or switched domain. Anyone holding the old address (in a bookmark, a search result, a link on another site) now lands on…

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Automatic daily backup or your own copy: which one saves you, and when

Short answer: they are not alternatives, they cover different problems. The automatic daily backup handles most everyday disasters (a deleted file, a plugin that broke the site). Your own copy,…

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Connecting to MySQL from PHP: mysqli and PDO, with a working example

PHP has two ways of talking to the database: mysqli (MySQL and MariaDB only) and PDO (which also serves PostgreSQL and others). For a new project PDO is the safe…

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Password protecting a folder with Directory Privacy

To make sure only people with a username and password can open a folder of the site (a private area, a test site, a folder of files for a customer),…

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How to remove a page from Google results: noindex, removal tool or password

It depends on what you want. For the page to stop existing, delete it and make it return 404 (or 410). For the page to stay but be out of…

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The scan says clean but the site still redirects: where an infection hides

The short answer: a scan only sees what it knows how to recognise. A modern infection hides outside the files you look at first (in the database, in an .htaccess,…

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Leaving a hosting provider: how to take everything with you before you cancel

Before you cancel, take five things: the site files, the databases, the e-mail, the list of DNS records, and the list of settings that are not in the files (PHP…

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Someone is sending e-mail in the name of your domain: what SPF, DKIM and DMARC do about it

The short answer: sending an e-mail that looks as if it comes from [email protected] is trivial: the sender address is written freely, like the return address on a letter. To…

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Sending e-mail from PHP: mail() or SMTP

Use SMTP with a real mailbox on your domain. The mail() function is fine for a quick test, but it returns “sent” only because the local mail program accepted the…

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Composer on shared hosting: installing it and running it

Composer is not installed as a command on the server, but you do not need it that way. You download a single file, composer.phar, into your account and run it…