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Running a Website

Tutorials and tips for managing your website. Topics include WordPress tutorials, website hosting guides, how to use FTP, and how to manage and control your web server.

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  • Using FTP
  • Apache
  • UNIX and Linux
  • WordPress

Password Protecting Your Pages with htaccess

3 October 2005 / 35 Comments

Introduction

You may have visited a web page that pops up a dialog box similar to this one:

Password protection dialog

If you don’t know the username and password to enter, then you can’t access the page or site – it’s “password protected”. It’s sometimes handy to be able to password protect your pages like this – for example:

  • You’re building a new site, but you only want yourself (and maybe a select few) to be able to view the work-in-progress.
  • You have an area of your site that you never want the general public to have access to – for example, your web stats or private pages.
  • You have some paid (subscription) content on your site that only subscribers should be able to access.

Apache lets you password protect individual files, folders, or your entire site fairly easily. Read on to find out how it’s done.

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Useful Unix Commands

29 June 2001 / 2 Comments

In this article we’re going to look at some useful things you can do with your Web server using UNIX commands and SSH. If you’ve never used SSH or UNIX commands, try reading my SSH and basic commands tutorial first, then come back here and carry on reading!

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Understanding File Permissions

24 April 2001 / 30 Comments

One of the hardest things for the beginner webmaster to get to grips with is how to use chmod correctly to set permissions on files on UNIX and Linux web servers. You need to set the correct permissions on CGI scripts when you install them, to stop those dreaded “500 Server Error” messages.

In this tutorial, I’m going to explain the concept of permissions, and show you how to set permissions using your FTP program or via SSH.

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Using CuteFTP

12 May 1998 / Leave a Comment

This tutorial covers the basics of uploading your website using GlobalSCAPE’s CuteFTP for Windows. It was written using CuteFTP 4, but the tutorial should also be useful for users of later versions.

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Introduction to FTP

24 February 1998 / 1 Comment

FTP is the most popular way to get your web pages from your PC to your Web server. This process is known as uploading, and FTP is the usual way to to it. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you what FTP does and how it does it.

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