How to set up url redirect in Apache on a linux server
There may be a need to change a url that people previously used and redirect it to a new url to access your web application.
On a linux server this can be done by modifying some apache configuration files in the Apache/conf directory
In httpd.conf (or ssl.conf if you have ssl enabled on your server) add the following line to include the mod_rewrite libraries:
include "../../Apache/Apache/conf/mod_rewrite.so"
Also include the mod_rewrite.conf file in httpd.conf (or ssl.conf if ssl is enabled):
include "../../Apache/Apache/conf/mod_rewrite.conf"
Create a new file in the Apache/conf directory with the name mod_rewrite.conf and add the following:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog /../../Apache/Apache/logs/rewrite.log
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldurl:portNum$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ newurl:portNum$1 [R=301,L]
If there are multiple urls you want to redirect to the new url add the following into a file called mod_rewrite.conf:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog /../../Apache/Apache/logs/rewrite.log
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(url1|url2|url3|...urln):portNum$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ url-to-redirect-to:portNum$1 [R=301,L]
Once you have made the config changes restart the apache HTTP server. In oracle application server you do this by:
opmnctl stopproc ias-component=HTTP_Server
opmnctl startproc ias-component=HTTP_Server
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Monday, 21 October 2013
The Big Decision - Establishing roots in London
Its been over 6 years since I made the move to London from sunny Sheffield, and after years of renting a room in a shared house in East London, I felt it was high time I planted roots in London and let go of my emotional ties with the North.
My main reason for this was I have always been uncomfortable about having to pay out rent for a room costing more than the mortgage for my entire house in Sheffield. Its just dead money. Even more disturbing was the amount of money I was wasting by keeping my Sheffield house as a weekend retreat (like I could afford it, NOT!! (no wonder I was running out of funds each month)). When I finally sat down and worked out how much rental income I had missed out on and how much I was paying out to maintain a property I wasn't even living in, it was shocking beyond belief. And this had been going on for over 5 years. Wake up girl!
So I had to make a decision... Do I get my own place in London and establish roots for the long term, or go back to Sheffield, to my lovely little house, and build a life there again?
In January 2013, after months of deliberating, I finally decided to give London a proper go, get my own place and establish a life here in the big city. I never really felt like I'd experienced London properly since I was going back up north to my "country retreat" once or twice a month, and felt like I'd lived out of a suitcase in a room you couldn't swing a cat in, so this would give me a really taste of the big city for years to come, at least until I'm ready to claim my pension.
If only that was the only decision I had to make... Ohhhh Nooooo.
So London it is... but what do I do?
Rent a larger room in another house share? Rent a flat all to myself? or Buy a property outright?
And which part of London?
I've lived in East London for the majority of my time in London (the initially 6 months in crazy arse South London is really nothing to waste my time reporting on), so East was the natural choice, but its is such a damn big place. Stratford, Leytonstone, Leyton, Chingford were all areas I knew well.
To keep costs low renting a larger room in another shared house would be the cheapest option, but after nearly 6 years of sharing I wasn't sure my sanity could take a fresh round. Research proved that there was actually a lot of larger rooms out there for the same price as what I'd been paying for 6 years, and most included bills :-). So I went to view a few rooms.
Room 1: House share in Leyton - What I thought was a 2/3 bed house owned and shared with (what sounded like) an Eastern European lady and her family, turned out the be a 7 bed house owned and shared with a nice Asian lady and her family, plus 2 other tenants. The house felt too cramped with it being a mid-terrace, and the amount of people living there. The shared bathroom was so tiny I wondered if I could get my legs in at the same time as my upper body. Hell no. Had a walk around the area though, and to my surprise Leyton is actually ok. There were a few streets off Leyton High Rd I could see myself settling in... Very desirable indeed.
Room 2: House share in Leytonstone (my favourite out of the house shares) - The owner sounded like an old caribbean lady. The room was enormous, had a double bed, two double wardrobes, chest of drawers, and dining table and 2 chairs. The shared bathroom was tiny, but there was a seperate kitchen for tenants. All seemed appealing until she dropped the bombshells. 1) There is to be no-one but me staying in the room, no men staying or visiting at all, just me. 2) I cannot use her washing machine, if I want to clean my clothes I have to walk up the hill to the laundrette. That was the last straw for me. I don't care how cheap the place is, I ain't living like I was in my student days.
The one bed flat in Stratford: A friend suggested I rent a flat to myself as he felt I deserved it, and knew a friend who had a flat standing empty for months because he was too lazy to get it ready for renting out (or he was avoiding making the big commitment of moving in properly with his girlfriend). It sounded like a good opportunity and my friend offered to negotiate a good price for me, so I wouldn't have to pay out too much more than I was already.
One thing I learnt from this is you should always go and view a property before negotiating/agreeing on a price. When I finally got to see the flat, it was an absolute shit tip, and the owner was oblivious to the state of the place, adament that his flat still looked good after 10 years of owning it. WTF!! But I couldn't complain because the price my friend had negotiated for me was so cheap (for a 1 bed flat in London), but the thought of moving into a dirty, grimey, smoke fume filled flat didn't fill me with happy thoughts.But as the Leytonstone room rental seemed to be very restrictive, this super low priced 1 bed flat looked like the best option.
So on the 15th April 2013, after 5.5 years renting a room in the same house I plucked up the courage and handed in my notice to the landlady. Sent her an email, and texted her to tell her I sent her an email. lol. It was the quickest way to make it official. Unfortunately my house mate was away on hoilday, and as I wanted to let her know face to face, I didn't get to tell her for a whole week. Oh well. She didn't seem best pleased (which was surprising as I never really felt she liked me that much in the whole time I lived there), but then I realised she wasn't happy because it caught her off guard and didn't quite fit in with her plans to escape the shared house in the near future. Oh well! you snooze, you loose. After overhearing her slagging me off to someone on the phone, and saying she wasn't going to miss me, I knew I'd made the right decision. Goodluck and god bless.
On the 15th May finally got the keys to the one bed flat, ironically just a few streets away from where I'd been living for years. Which was lucky because the amount of stuff I had to move would have been a nightmare if I had to travel any further away. It took 3 weeks to pack in preparation for this day, and all frigging day to empty one room and attic, drive round the corner and take everything up 2 flights of stairs to the new top floor flat.
So on to a new chapter in my life, and hopefully regain a little sanity back in the process.
My main reason for this was I have always been uncomfortable about having to pay out rent for a room costing more than the mortgage for my entire house in Sheffield. Its just dead money. Even more disturbing was the amount of money I was wasting by keeping my Sheffield house as a weekend retreat (like I could afford it, NOT!! (no wonder I was running out of funds each month)). When I finally sat down and worked out how much rental income I had missed out on and how much I was paying out to maintain a property I wasn't even living in, it was shocking beyond belief. And this had been going on for over 5 years. Wake up girl!
So I had to make a decision... Do I get my own place in London and establish roots for the long term, or go back to Sheffield, to my lovely little house, and build a life there again?
In January 2013, after months of deliberating, I finally decided to give London a proper go, get my own place and establish a life here in the big city. I never really felt like I'd experienced London properly since I was going back up north to my "country retreat" once or twice a month, and felt like I'd lived out of a suitcase in a room you couldn't swing a cat in, so this would give me a really taste of the big city for years to come, at least until I'm ready to claim my pension.
If only that was the only decision I had to make... Ohhhh Nooooo.
So London it is... but what do I do?
Rent a larger room in another house share? Rent a flat all to myself? or Buy a property outright?
And which part of London?
I've lived in East London for the majority of my time in London (the initially 6 months in crazy arse South London is really nothing to waste my time reporting on), so East was the natural choice, but its is such a damn big place. Stratford, Leytonstone, Leyton, Chingford were all areas I knew well.
To keep costs low renting a larger room in another shared house would be the cheapest option, but after nearly 6 years of sharing I wasn't sure my sanity could take a fresh round. Research proved that there was actually a lot of larger rooms out there for the same price as what I'd been paying for 6 years, and most included bills :-). So I went to view a few rooms.
Room 1: House share in Leyton - What I thought was a 2/3 bed house owned and shared with (what sounded like) an Eastern European lady and her family, turned out the be a 7 bed house owned and shared with a nice Asian lady and her family, plus 2 other tenants. The house felt too cramped with it being a mid-terrace, and the amount of people living there. The shared bathroom was so tiny I wondered if I could get my legs in at the same time as my upper body. Hell no. Had a walk around the area though, and to my surprise Leyton is actually ok. There were a few streets off Leyton High Rd I could see myself settling in... Very desirable indeed.
Room 2: House share in Leytonstone (my favourite out of the house shares) - The owner sounded like an old caribbean lady. The room was enormous, had a double bed, two double wardrobes, chest of drawers, and dining table and 2 chairs. The shared bathroom was tiny, but there was a seperate kitchen for tenants. All seemed appealing until she dropped the bombshells. 1) There is to be no-one but me staying in the room, no men staying or visiting at all, just me. 2) I cannot use her washing machine, if I want to clean my clothes I have to walk up the hill to the laundrette. That was the last straw for me. I don't care how cheap the place is, I ain't living like I was in my student days.
The one bed flat in Stratford: A friend suggested I rent a flat to myself as he felt I deserved it, and knew a friend who had a flat standing empty for months because he was too lazy to get it ready for renting out (or he was avoiding making the big commitment of moving in properly with his girlfriend). It sounded like a good opportunity and my friend offered to negotiate a good price for me, so I wouldn't have to pay out too much more than I was already.
One thing I learnt from this is you should always go and view a property before negotiating/agreeing on a price. When I finally got to see the flat, it was an absolute shit tip, and the owner was oblivious to the state of the place, adament that his flat still looked good after 10 years of owning it. WTF!! But I couldn't complain because the price my friend had negotiated for me was so cheap (for a 1 bed flat in London), but the thought of moving into a dirty, grimey, smoke fume filled flat didn't fill me with happy thoughts.But as the Leytonstone room rental seemed to be very restrictive, this super low priced 1 bed flat looked like the best option.
So on the 15th April 2013, after 5.5 years renting a room in the same house I plucked up the courage and handed in my notice to the landlady. Sent her an email, and texted her to tell her I sent her an email. lol. It was the quickest way to make it official. Unfortunately my house mate was away on hoilday, and as I wanted to let her know face to face, I didn't get to tell her for a whole week. Oh well. She didn't seem best pleased (which was surprising as I never really felt she liked me that much in the whole time I lived there), but then I realised she wasn't happy because it caught her off guard and didn't quite fit in with her plans to escape the shared house in the near future. Oh well! you snooze, you loose. After overhearing her slagging me off to someone on the phone, and saying she wasn't going to miss me, I knew I'd made the right decision. Goodluck and god bless.
On the 15th May finally got the keys to the one bed flat, ironically just a few streets away from where I'd been living for years. Which was lucky because the amount of stuff I had to move would have been a nightmare if I had to travel any further away. It took 3 weeks to pack in preparation for this day, and all frigging day to empty one room and attic, drive round the corner and take everything up 2 flights of stairs to the new top floor flat.
So on to a new chapter in my life, and hopefully regain a little sanity back in the process.
Friday, 1 July 2011
Migrating existing domain name to new host provider (GoDaddy)
I've been procrastinating too long on launching the new website for Silk Trends hair salon. Its high time this website was introduced to the world:
Steps taken:
1) If you haven't got a new hosting plan already, go purchase one. I chose GoDaddy.com Hosting Plans
because they allow you to host multiple domain names on one hosting plan (on their Deluxe Hosting Plan).
2) Login to your hosting plan and create a content folder for the site and upload the website files, or install wordpress from scratch using Godaddy's Hosting Connection quick install facility.
3) In the Domain Management screen, add the domain name you want to move to GoDaddy from another provider(e.g. mydomainname.co.uk).
4) At Domain Registrar (if different from your existing hosting provider (in my case this is LCN.com) change nameserver to new hosting provider (e.g. n01.domaincontrol.com, n02.domaincontrol.com). The nameservers may differ depending on when you bought your hosting plan. This information can be found in your new GoDaddy hosting dashboard when you login in.
5) At Domain Registrar add new A Record to point to IP address of your new hosting plan.
Wait about 48 hours for everything to propagate.
Smile, it should all be working now. :-).
Steps taken:
1) If you haven't got a new hosting plan already, go purchase one. I chose GoDaddy.com Hosting Plans
because they allow you to host multiple domain names on one hosting plan (on their Deluxe Hosting Plan).2) Login to your hosting plan and create a content folder for the site and upload the website files, or install wordpress from scratch using Godaddy's Hosting Connection quick install facility.
3) In the Domain Management screen, add the domain name you want to move to GoDaddy from another provider(e.g. mydomainname.co.uk).
4) At Domain Registrar (if different from your existing hosting provider (in my case this is LCN.com) change nameserver to new hosting provider (e.g. n01.domaincontrol.com, n02.domaincontrol.com). The nameservers may differ depending on when you bought your hosting plan. This information can be found in your new GoDaddy hosting dashboard when you login in.
5) At Domain Registrar add new A Record to point to IP address of your new hosting plan.
Wait about 48 hours for everything to propagate.
Smile, it should all be working now. :-).
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Migrating Website and Email hosting from one provider to another
I am gearing up to launch website redesign for Silk Trends Hair Design - A Hair Salon based in Chingford, East London.
As this it is a professional business I suggest that they move to a professional and reliable hosting service provider (including email). Website hosting will be move from Purplecloud hosting service to Godaddy Deluxe Hosting plan.
As Silk Trends is a small business costs savings can be made by utilitising the free business services provided by Google Apps. Email will be hosted on Google Apps and the company will also make use of Calendar, Docs as well as bespoke apps on the Google Apps Engine.
As their email service is critical to their business I decided to test the hosting migration in 2 stages.
Moving web hosting and email hosting at the same time to Godaddy (as you get 5 email accounts free with your Deluxe Hosting Plan), then moving email to Google Apps. I used a spare domain (example mydomainname.co.uk) to test the migration process:
If you are hosting a domain somewhere, the control over DNS settings is handle at Hosting provider, NOT Domain Registrar (if they are not the same). So any changes to CNAME, MX records, etc should be done at Hosting Provider.
If your domain does not have hosting yet, then DNS settings are handled by Domain Registrar.
Migrating Website and Email Hosting to Godaddy
Migrate email to the Google Apps platform (especially if you don't have free email accounts with your web hosting).
So overall the process was a bit painful, and I made a few mistakes along the way. Godaddy Support Team and Community was helpful, as was LCN.com email Support, but once you get the hang of it, its quite simple. Lol. Hoping to migrate Silk Trends website and email in the next week or so. I'll update how it goes. Wish me luck!
Hope this help you with your switch to new hosting. Happy Migrating!
As this it is a professional business I suggest that they move to a professional and reliable hosting service provider (including email). Website hosting will be move from Purplecloud hosting service to Godaddy Deluxe Hosting plan.
As Silk Trends is a small business costs savings can be made by utilitising the free business services provided by Google Apps. Email will be hosted on Google Apps and the company will also make use of Calendar, Docs as well as bespoke apps on the Google Apps Engine.
As their email service is critical to their business I decided to test the hosting migration in 2 stages.
Moving web hosting and email hosting at the same time to Godaddy (as you get 5 email accounts free with your Deluxe Hosting Plan), then moving email to Google Apps. I used a spare domain (example mydomainname.co.uk) to test the migration process:
If you are hosting a domain somewhere, the control over DNS settings is handle at Hosting provider, NOT Domain Registrar (if they are not the same). So any changes to CNAME, MX records, etc should be done at Hosting Provider.
If your domain does not have hosting yet, then DNS settings are handled by Domain Registrar.
Migrating Website and Email Hosting to Godaddy
- Reset DNS name servers to default Domain Registrar nameservers (LCN.com) - (You don't really need to do this, but it helped me to understand how it all works. Your old site will not be displayed anymore, and domain will be parked at Domain Registrar servers). This took around 2 hours for me, but you could be waiting up to 48 hours.
- At Godaddy, log into your Hosting Plan and go to Domain Management section, add mydomainname.co.uk to allocate folder for its content (or create a new folder).
- Go to My Account and Email Management section and created new Email account for mydomainname.co.uk. Set up X number of users (each one will have seperate access to mail box via Godaddy Webmail).
- Go to DNS Management section again and edit Domain Zone File records for the domain (add a new Domain Zone File for the new domain if not already listed), and add relevant CNAME entries for Godaddy Mail and MX records to point to Godaddy Mail Exchange.
- Back at your Domain Registrar DNS Management settings change DNS name servers to point to Godaddy and add an A record entry to point to your Godaddy Hosting plan IP address).
Migrate email to the Google Apps platform (especially if you don't have free email accounts with your web hosting).
- Set up Google Apps account for mydomainname.co.uk - Wait up to 48 hours for domain ownership verification.
- Create X users to match the email accounts you previously had.
- In Godaddy DNS Management section of hosting plan settings go to the Domain Zone File for 'yourdomain.co.uk'. Delete previously entered MX records and add the required ones for Google.
- Back to Google Apps administration and click Verify MX records - Wait up to 48 hours for this to complete.
- Delete previously entered CNAME entries and add CNAME entry for 'mail' and point to Google.
So overall the process was a bit painful, and I made a few mistakes along the way. Godaddy Support Team and Community was helpful, as was LCN.com email Support, but once you get the hang of it, its quite simple. Lol. Hoping to migrate Silk Trends website and email in the next week or so. I'll update how it goes. Wish me luck!
Hope this help you with your switch to new hosting. Happy Migrating!
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Transferring Domain Registration/Domain Management to new provider/registrars
After last reviewing just how many domain names I have, it dawned on me that they were all spread over at least 4 different registrars, and I couldn't work out why.
Looking back, I think I started out buying domains back in 2002, and chose GoDaddy as it just seemed the cheapest for .com domains at the time, plus I liked their adverts. However, when I decided to buy some .co.uk domains I decided to look for a company closer to home, as I don't think GoDaddy were offering .co.uks then.
So after a bit of researchng the net for decent registrars, my gut feeling told me to go with LCN.com (Low Cost Names) as for £8 for 2 years and a very user friendly admin interface I couldn't really grumble. I recently bought additional domains from Purplecloud.
Back in the day most of my domains weren't hosted and I had no hosted email account (purely because I was too cheap to pay for any :-) ), so I made full use of the email and web forwarding facilities to my free Yahoo email and free Webspace with my ISP. But as time went on, and as I started to move into the professional world of IT, I realised I needed to look and be a bit more professional. So the hunt for a hosted webspace and email provider was on.
In the end I've come full circle back to GoDaddy and nervously taken on their web hosting offering and I'm even considering moving my entire email to them too. I say nervously because even though they say they have a European data centre, one can't help but be a bit skeptical about hosting your prized websites and email with a foreign company. But on the other hand GoDaddy have been around for years, and there are a lot of UK companies/people hosting their websites on there, so it can't be bad at all.
As the setting up of my new hosting went well, most recently I started to wonder why on earth do I have so many domains with different companies. I have never experienced the process of transferring domains before, and was very worried about the safety of it (e.g. whether it would disappear during transit to the new provider), so I decided to try it on one of the .co.uk domains I wasn't that bothered about. To my surprise it transferred to new registrar with 5 mins. The .com transfer wasn't that straight forward though, and at one point I started to wish I'd never started. lol.
A lot of things at Purplecloud are not automatic, so I had to email their support team for an authorisation code, which took about 20 hours. Then I had to go back to GoDaddy, buy the domain transfer service, wait for an email that had a Transaction ID and a security code, enter that into my account and then wait up to 5 days for confirmation (which I think is way too long to be waiting around).
So now I have all my .com domains at registered at Godaddy and all .co.uk domains registered at LCN.com (only because you can't transfer .co.uk to Godaddy at present :-( ). As soon as Godaddy sort there game out to transfer .co.uk domains I'm transferring everything to them. One provider is just so much easier.
Domain name registration prices have come down a lot over the years, so it pays to shop around at renewal time. Don't just go for the lowest price one though. Consider things like access to DNS management, any transfer fees, email/web forwarding facilities, etc.
Looking back, I think I started out buying domains back in 2002, and chose GoDaddy as it just seemed the cheapest for .com domains at the time, plus I liked their adverts. However, when I decided to buy some .co.uk domains I decided to look for a company closer to home, as I don't think GoDaddy were offering .co.uks then.
So after a bit of researchng the net for decent registrars, my gut feeling told me to go with LCN.com (Low Cost Names) as for £8 for 2 years and a very user friendly admin interface I couldn't really grumble. I recently bought additional domains from Purplecloud.
Back in the day most of my domains weren't hosted and I had no hosted email account (purely because I was too cheap to pay for any :-) ), so I made full use of the email and web forwarding facilities to my free Yahoo email and free Webspace with my ISP. But as time went on, and as I started to move into the professional world of IT, I realised I needed to look and be a bit more professional. So the hunt for a hosted webspace and email provider was on.
In the end I've come full circle back to GoDaddy and nervously taken on their web hosting offering and I'm even considering moving my entire email to them too. I say nervously because even though they say they have a European data centre, one can't help but be a bit skeptical about hosting your prized websites and email with a foreign company. But on the other hand GoDaddy have been around for years, and there are a lot of UK companies/people hosting their websites on there, so it can't be bad at all.
As the setting up of my new hosting went well, most recently I started to wonder why on earth do I have so many domains with different companies. I have never experienced the process of transferring domains before, and was very worried about the safety of it (e.g. whether it would disappear during transit to the new provider), so I decided to try it on one of the .co.uk domains I wasn't that bothered about. To my surprise it transferred to new registrar with 5 mins. The .com transfer wasn't that straight forward though, and at one point I started to wish I'd never started. lol.
A lot of things at Purplecloud are not automatic, so I had to email their support team for an authorisation code, which took about 20 hours. Then I had to go back to GoDaddy, buy the domain transfer service, wait for an email that had a Transaction ID and a security code, enter that into my account and then wait up to 5 days for confirmation (which I think is way too long to be waiting around).
So now I have all my .com domains at registered at Godaddy and all .co.uk domains registered at LCN.com (only because you can't transfer .co.uk to Godaddy at present :-( ). As soon as Godaddy sort there game out to transfer .co.uk domains I'm transferring everything to them. One provider is just so much easier.
Domain name registration prices have come down a lot over the years, so it pays to shop around at renewal time. Don't just go for the lowest price one though. Consider things like access to DNS management, any transfer fees, email/web forwarding facilities, etc.
Friday, 24 September 2010
My virtual world... So much to do, so little time
3 months ago I embarked on a mammouth task to streamline all my online business and personal activities. I have so many domain names that I'd purchased in the past, but wasn't doing anything with them. Some how it felt like I was protecting the crown jewels by not giving them up. Lol. 'One day I might just do X, Y Z with that domain' I kept telling myself. But then I added them all up and realised I have 7 "SEVEN" domain names and only 2 of them are actually for something meaningful, plus 10 email accounts. You really have to question your own logical. Things just can't go on like this anymore. Lol.
So I gave myself an ultimatum. Come up with an viable idea for each domain and implement it in the next 9-12 months or loose the domain.
So here's my progress 3 months on:
Hosting:After much research, in June I purchased Deluxe Hosting plan at GoDaddy with the benefit of being able to host multiple domains in one hosting plan. I had used free basic hosting with various ISPs in the past, and had one paid-for hosting plan with Purple Cloud for the last 5 years. I think it was alright for personal websites and at £10 - £20 per year you can't really complain. But I felt I needed a much more stable and reliable service for hosting business websites. Here's hoping GoDaddy won't let me down. So far So Good. :-). Silly thing is I renewal on Purple cloud again just incase GoDaddy let me down (and because I didn't have enough time to migrate everything over to the new hosting service in time).
Domain 1 (My professional profile website) - This domain was lying around for years doing nothing apart from having an email account. Since I work in IT I thought it best to have a more professional profile of my skills and experiences. Plus it would give me more space to elaborate on things I have to keep short on my CV. I installed Word Press for this domain as it helps to keep my site clean and tidy. Hopefully this profile will get me a few job offers in the future too :-).
Domain 2 (silktrends.co.uk) - Already has a functioning website that I created 3 years ago for a Hair Salon business I jointly own, but the design is very basic (although professional) and isn't really that exciting. It at least does the job and provides key information about the salon and services available. Decided to redesign the site to make it a bit more user friendly, prettier and easier to maintain. Wordpress springs to mind again! :-). The new site will be re-launched soon.
Domain 3 and 4 (afrohairsalon.co.uk and .com): I purchased these domains as searchable domain names likely to be picked up by search engines for the hair salon business. Currently used for testing the new salon website I've designed (still under construction). Installed Word Press for this, with a few plugins, and designed a customised template for it. Will be released as the main Silk Trends website shortly.
Domain 5 (dcfhosting.co.uk) - This is purely used for development and testing of websites. Nothing much going on there at the moment.
Domain 6 (wheresithappening.com) - This was the first ever domain name I purchased back in 2002. Apart from assigning the domain to my hosting plan and pointing it my professional profile website (as something pretty to look at), not done much else. Lol.
Domain 7 (wheresithappening.co.uk)- Lord knows what happened to this one. Its currently parked even though I didn't request it to be :-(.
Emails:
Deleted a few mailboxes that were getting more spam than anything useful. Started to research the best place to host my business email, as need somewhere that has a decent web mail interface and includes pretty of storage space. Purplecloud's webmail just isn't doing it for me (very ugly interface and not that user friendly). Currently considering Google Apps or GoDaddy. But it really hurts me to have to pay for it to get decent size storage. Though as the saying goes 'you buy cheap, you buy twice'. Lol.
So there you have it, a little bit of progress but nothing to start popping the champagne about. Lol. There's just so much to do and so little time. If I'm going to beat my Ultimatum things really need to move on much quicker.
So I gave myself an ultimatum. Come up with an viable idea for each domain and implement it in the next 9-12 months or loose the domain.
So here's my progress 3 months on:
Hosting:After much research, in June I purchased Deluxe Hosting plan at GoDaddy with the benefit of being able to host multiple domains in one hosting plan. I had used free basic hosting with various ISPs in the past, and had one paid-for hosting plan with Purple Cloud for the last 5 years. I think it was alright for personal websites and at £10 - £20 per year you can't really complain. But I felt I needed a much more stable and reliable service for hosting business websites. Here's hoping GoDaddy won't let me down. So far So Good. :-). Silly thing is I renewal on Purple cloud again just incase GoDaddy let me down (and because I didn't have enough time to migrate everything over to the new hosting service in time).
Domain 1 (My professional profile website) - This domain was lying around for years doing nothing apart from having an email account. Since I work in IT I thought it best to have a more professional profile of my skills and experiences. Plus it would give me more space to elaborate on things I have to keep short on my CV. I installed Word Press for this domain as it helps to keep my site clean and tidy. Hopefully this profile will get me a few job offers in the future too :-).
Domain 2 (silktrends.co.uk) - Already has a functioning website that I created 3 years ago for a Hair Salon business I jointly own, but the design is very basic (although professional) and isn't really that exciting. It at least does the job and provides key information about the salon and services available. Decided to redesign the site to make it a bit more user friendly, prettier and easier to maintain. Wordpress springs to mind again! :-). The new site will be re-launched soon.
Domain 3 and 4 (afrohairsalon.co.uk and .com): I purchased these domains as searchable domain names likely to be picked up by search engines for the hair salon business. Currently used for testing the new salon website I've designed (still under construction). Installed Word Press for this, with a few plugins, and designed a customised template for it. Will be released as the main Silk Trends website shortly.
Domain 5 (dcfhosting.co.uk) - This is purely used for development and testing of websites. Nothing much going on there at the moment.
Domain 6 (wheresithappening.com) - This was the first ever domain name I purchased back in 2002. Apart from assigning the domain to my hosting plan and pointing it my professional profile website (as something pretty to look at), not done much else. Lol.
Domain 7 (wheresithappening.co.uk)- Lord knows what happened to this one. Its currently parked even though I didn't request it to be :-(.
Emails:
Deleted a few mailboxes that were getting more spam than anything useful. Started to research the best place to host my business email, as need somewhere that has a decent web mail interface and includes pretty of storage space. Purplecloud's webmail just isn't doing it for me (very ugly interface and not that user friendly). Currently considering Google Apps or GoDaddy. But it really hurts me to have to pay for it to get decent size storage. Though as the saying goes 'you buy cheap, you buy twice'. Lol.
So there you have it, a little bit of progress but nothing to start popping the champagne about. Lol. There's just so much to do and so little time. If I'm going to beat my Ultimatum things really need to move on much quicker.
Monday, 28 June 2010
Hosting other people's domains
Still working on migrating my various websites over to my new Deluxe hosting package at GoDaddy. So far so good with multiple domains that I own (both goDaddy registered domains and externally registered domains). As that went well, I thought it would be just as straight forward to host someone else's domain on my hosting account.
I simply asked the person who owned the domain to change their nameservers to goDaddy nameservers ns25.domaincontrol.com and ns26.domailcontrol.com. I then went into my hosting account and added a new folder and uploaded all their website files.
I then went to the Domain Management section within Hosting Control center and added the domain and selected the folder where the content was stored. Back at the list of domains I have hosted, this new domain is listed as pending.
After nearly 16 hours waiting, the list is still showin it at Pending. Surely it can't take that long.
I started to research to see how long it was taking other people. Up to 48 Hours :-(. But I realised I missed out step anyway, so it would have never of worked.
Since the domain is not owned by me (not in my GoDaddy Shopper acount) you have to get the owner to created/modify the domain's 'A' record to point to the IP address of your Hosting account.
The domain is still listed as Pending in Hosting Control Center, but I have more confidence that it will actually work once its finished transferring (or whatever it is its doing). lol.
This 48 hours waiting after each change is getting a bit too looonnng.
I simply asked the person who owned the domain to change their nameservers to goDaddy nameservers ns25.domaincontrol.com and ns26.domailcontrol.com. I then went into my hosting account and added a new folder and uploaded all their website files.
I then went to the Domain Management section within Hosting Control center and added the domain and selected the folder where the content was stored. Back at the list of domains I have hosted, this new domain is listed as pending.
After nearly 16 hours waiting, the list is still showin it at Pending. Surely it can't take that long.
I started to research to see how long it was taking other people. Up to 48 Hours :-(. But I realised I missed out step anyway, so it would have never of worked.
Since the domain is not owned by me (not in my GoDaddy Shopper acount) you have to get the owner to created/modify the domain's 'A' record to point to the IP address of your Hosting account.
The domain is still listed as Pending in Hosting Control Center, but I have more confidence that it will actually work once its finished transferring (or whatever it is its doing). lol.
This 48 hours waiting after each change is getting a bit too looonnng.
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