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Apache Web Server configuration for Redhat 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 with Dynamic ip to router. This section is designed to detail the steps you may need to go through to setup a server on an ISP that only gives out a dynamic IP address. You will need to edit network configuration on your server by set it to statically and taking the ip number you've been assigned by your router (eg) - (192.168.0.2), subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and gateway 192.168.0.1, and use your isp nameservers ip's. The general approach is to use a dynamic ip address yet access your server via a domain name. This allows you and others to always reach your website from the outside even if the ip address changes regularly. Basically what needs to be done is to configure the apache configuration file httpd.conf for your dynamic IP. You could access you site via your current ip address but since you have a dynamic ip, it may change every few days, weeks or months and you would have to tell everybody every time it changes....

'You will talk to the Web... and the Web will talk back,' predicts IBM in its latest list of innovations that "have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years". The IT giant, however, wants this web to work on cellphones rather than a personal computer (PC), since mobile devices dramatically outnumber PCs -- over 335 million cellphones versus below 30 million PCs in India alone. Moreover, IBM's Institute for Business Value predicts the number of mobile web users worldwide will reach one billion by 2011. The concept is gathering steam with a project named "Spoken Web" that is being led by IBM's India Research Laboratory (IRL) team, and also being incubated in IBM's eight global labs in six countries. In fact, the corporation recently completed a pilot in Andhra Pradesh to implement the concept. "The project was very successful. It started out with around 100 villagers but many hundreds joined later aft...

So you may have come across the term of cloaking URLs, this usually sounds evil and bad, like cloaked pages, which is something entirely different. Cloaking pages is presenting pages based on certain conditions, usually presenting a specific page to Google, for example. Doing this will get you banned and removed from Google's index. Not good. Cloaking URLs is a slightly different concept. It's showing a URL that usually points to something in your own domain. Once you click on the link you'll be redirected to the 'real' destination URL. For example a CJ link for eBay would look like this: http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-1751-2978-328/1?aid=10366506&pid=123456 But to cloak it you would make it look like this: http://www.money-code.com/ebay For this example we'll use Apache's module called mod_rewrite. Almost all installs of Apache have this installed, but some may not, so you'll need to verify this. Also, this will need to be managed via a .htaccess...

This is software that retrieves a web page and then displays it in the browser. PHP or SSI (in conjunction with a CGI program) can be used. Other programming languages can be used, also, like ASP. With PHP, the program code is generally right in the web page source code. With SSI, the SSI tag calls an external program to fetch the web page. The code on the PHP/SSI web page retrieves the remote web page, inserts a base URL tag into the retrieved web page source code, then displays the contents of the retrieved web page. The URL in the browser's address bar does not change. You end up with the contents of a web page in the browser window that is located at a URL different than the URL in the browser's address bar. The web page originally loaded into the browser and the web page retrieved from elsewhere may be on different domains. There are no visual clues that the web page being displayed is not at the URL in the browser's address bar unless the web page being dis...

Rewriting URLs in a certain way with the .htaccess file can display web pages from a URL different than the URL in the browser's address bar. However, both the URL in the address bar and the web page being viewed must be located on the same domain as the .htaccess file. There are no visual clues that the web page being displayed is not at the URL in the browser's address bar unless the web page being displayed itself contains clues. There are many nuances to consider when writing URL redirect lines for the .htaccess file. Consider testing with an .htaccess file in an otherwise unused subdirectory before going live. Here is a simple directive that will rewrite all URLs for any documents in the /free directory so the /paid/index.html will display, instead. The URL in the browser's address bar will be the original URL to a document in the /free directory. Yet, web page /paid/index.html is being viewed. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/free($|/) RewriteR...

Here are the PHP stats for October 2008. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 35.1 millions servers hosted on 2.1 millions IP were surveyed during October, and 12.7 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered. This map represents PHP market share for each country. Green countries are the one using most PHP, red countries the least and yellow countries are in the world average (32,84 %). The table below show the exact figures for each country. Some countries may no show on the map, and will require the larger map (click on the graphic). Some countries may not be represented at all. Bahamas (.bs) 96.23 % Cote d'Ivoire (.ci) 69.03 % Vanuatu (.vu) 68.40 % Tajikistan (.tj) 67.39 % Korea, Republic of (.kr) 64.67 % Ukraine (.ua) 62.65 % Georgia (.ge) 61.80 % Tokelau (.tk) 60.44 % Netherlands Antilles (.an) 58.06 % Indonesia (.id) 56.84 % Panama (.pa) 55.79 % Uzbekistan (.uz...

Cloud computing will fuel growth in open source software as companies try to manage costs, according to database heavyweight Ingres. Tom Berquist, former managing director of financial powerhouses Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and now CFO of open source database firm Ingres, made the prediction last week. Ingres, the second largest open source company, counts the likes of BAE Systems, Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa among its customers. Berquist said the cloud computing model --of companies' serving applications over the Internet--requires vendors to spend large amounts of cash buying and maintaining servers, telecoms infrastructure and software such as operating systems, Web, application and database servers to support their software as a service (SaaS) operation. He added because SaaS vendors needed to invest in more hardware and software than traditional software vendors--where applications are sold to customers to install on their own ma...