I want to start talking about the Cr-48 with a review, but unlike a huge number of other bloggers and writers who spend time talking about the hardware, I want to talk about proof of the cloud concept. The primary reason, after all, that I received this notebook from Google is to prove whether or not I (or anyone else) can successfully live in the cloud; not to see isf the machine could be cracked open and loaded with Ubuntu.
There is a simple way to resolve your site URLs to include the www in each address. Or drop the www from each address. Why is this important? “Redirecting requests from a non-preferred hostname is important because search engines consider URLs with and without “www” as two different websites” (woorank.com). So, if you don’t resolve your www, you are harming your SEO performance.
Getting Apache to recognize .htaccess files is a pretty easy task. All you need to do is look for where your root web directory is defined in your Apache configuration files. On Ubuntu, this location is /etc/apache/sites-enabled. Once you have located the file, just add the line “AllowOverride All” (instead of AllowOverride None) to the root directory configuration detectives.
Recently I had a problem that, in spite of many “support leads” on other sites, was hard to figure out. All I wanted to do was reference as GET parameter in a URL as a variable in Typoscript. After many failed attempts, I found a solution to my problem. So, for future reference, and for all others who may be struggling with this problem, here is a solution.
Sometimes it is helpful, mainly to avoid broken links, to make sure your html files (with a .htm or .html extension) can parse PHP. On GoDaddy hosting, this threw me for a loop.
