URL uniformity is important for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) reasons because to a search engine, http://www.artofsimplicity.co.uk, is not necessarily the same website as http://artofsimplicity.co.uk and often they can be treated differently and attain different rankings. Where this becomes a problem is if you are engaged in SEO practices to improve your overall Search Engine Ranking [...]
Tag Archives: apache
Switching to PHP5 on 1and1 Linux Hosting
February 8, 2009 – 1:55 am
I recently upgraded a client to a 1and1 Linux Business Pro hosting package and so far I have found no major obstacles. The previous environment was a dedicated Windows 2003 server in which there was free reign to modify any of the core files, including the PHP installation and any other similar files.
Simple Joomla! SEF fix v2
February 6, 2009 – 11:44 pm
A few days ago I made a post relating to an issue I came across with Joomla! during a move from running it in basic SEF mode, which utilises the aliases given when creating categories and articles in the Joomla administration/back-end, to the full/advanced SEF mode which utilises both the aliases and Apache’s mod_rewrite to [...]
Joomla! SEF/SEO and URL 404 Fix
February 4, 2009 – 6:56 pm
I recently moved a clients distribution of Joomla! from a Windows 2003 enivornment running IIS6, a Microsoft Web Server. As some of you may know IIS and Joomla! do not play nice together, in particular all the SEF (Search Engine Friendly) and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) settings do not work out of the box as [...]