When I have time a more detailed description of this will be written up for the site. That being said, most of these are options that an advanced website owner will use, so making them understandable to a fifth grader might be a stretch
Off the top of my head:
AccessControl: lets you specify hosts (ip addresses, domains) which are allowed OR are forbidden to access content in the specified directory. Error Documents: allows you to specify the document to be loaded when a particular apache webserver error occurs. (e.g. Error 404 can have something like 404.html ) MIME Types: not sure off hand – anyone have a good description? Handlers: ditto Default Character Set: allows you to specify a text character set other than the system default of ASCII (useful mostly to non English speakers) PHP Variables: Allows you to override some of the variables in php.ini (e.g safe mode status, memory usage) on a directory by directory basis Redirects: is used to have a particular url point to a page on your site, for examble interworx.com/install will forward the user to: interworx.com/support/docs/iworx-cp/install/script-install it can be used to shorten long url’s like this or to make “nice” url’s for specific pages on your site when for example you want to print the url somewhere and what it to be easy and memorable for someone to manually type it into your browser, businesses often use this to load a page in their shopping cart system with a featured product. Index Management: allows you to specify the default page loaded in a particular site, or directory within a site. This is what automatically loads mysite.com/index.htm when you type mysite.com. It could be configured to load index,php index,shtnl default.htm or even something like start.htm Hotlink protection: prevents someone from putting an image from your site on their own by linking to yoursite,com/image/myimage.gif instead of copying it to their own site and thus steeling your bandwidth.
so making them understandable to a fifth grader might be a stretch ;-)[/quote] Actually your work has been made easier, I requested understandable to a 6thgrader.
What I am looking for is everyday practical uses for these that the average “joe webmaster” could use them, if show, say a “How To Video”. I am making up some how to videos and would like to use some practical everyday uses that the average webmaster would find useful.
These are the ones, that I am having a issue with. Anyone have some good useful examples that the average non-server admin could use to enhance their web site in some way?
I am looking for good examples of use that I could show in the video.
I have some good ideas as demos for this, but always looking for better ideas.
That is good, and pretty straight forward
[quote=IWorx-Tim;15015]Hotlink protection: prevents someone from putting an image from your site on their own by linking to yoursite,com/image/myimage.gif instead of copying it to their own site and thus steeling your bandwidth.
[/quote]I have a good example in mind to show how to use this effectively on the video.
So I guess its the, MIME Types, Handlers, Default Character Set, PHP Variables that I need assistance on in making up my How To video as for as examples of use.
I had some redirects setup in the .htaccess file and it was working fine after I moved back to iworx host (from cpanel) as I just transfered files using a tar.gz file. But, (I guess I remember correctly) after I clicked on the Directory Options (I just wanted to see what and how are the features), I came to realize that the redirects were not working.
Luckily, I had a backup of the .htaccess as a txt file on the same folder and I restored it and didn’t go to the ‘Directory Options’ page till now. (don’t want to do any experimenting now, may be later I can do that)
Is that a bug?
(I guess iworx is designed as config file friendly panel, so it shouldn’t affect with the existing settings, or it should have atleast taken a backup of .htaccess, or notified beforehand that so and so features may not work when we visit to that page first time)
[quote=tiger;15021]I had some redirects setup in the .htaccess file and it was working fine after I moved back to iworx host (from cpanel) as I just transfered files using a tar.gz file. But, (I guess I remember correctly) after I clicked on the Directory Options (I just wanted to see what and how are the features), I came to realize that the redirects were not working.
Luckily, I had a backup of the .htaccess as a txt file on the same folder and I restored it and didn’t go to the ‘Directory Options’ page till now. (don’t want to do any experimenting now, may be later I can do that)
Is that a bug?
(I guess iworx is designed as config file friendly panel, so it shouldn’t affect with the existing settings, or it should have atleast taken a backup of .htaccess, or notified beforehand that so and so features may not work when we visit to that page first time)[/quote]
Actually, unless there have been changes I don’t know about this is the expected behavior (I’m assuming you enabled a .htaccess file and made some edits), Directory Options does sometimes mangle existing .htaccess files unless you put special characters around them. Any custom content MUST be above the iworx content.
Here’s an example of a .htaccess file edited by Directory Options:
cat .htaccess
ALL CUSTOM ENTRIES SHOULD GO ABOVE THIS LINE
BEGIN IWORX header
This file was created by InterWorx-CP
You may modify this file, but any changes made between
BEGIN IWORX and END IWORX tags may be lost on future
updates. Additionally, changes NOT made between these
tags will not be recognized in the SiteWorx interface.
So I guess its the, MIME Types, Handlers, Default Character Set, PHP Variables that I need assistance on in making up my How To video as for as examples of use.
Thanks guys for the input.[/quote]
Most of these are probably not going to be used by Joe Webmaster
I think the best way to understand these things is to just play around with them. What I do when I want to experiment with something in iworx and not damage an existing account is to create a separate siteworx account with a name like dummysite.com or whatever and just play around freely. It does not have to be a real domain.
In taking a closer look at the interface it seems the only php varialbles you can edit in the interface are:
Magic Quotes GPC: On Off
Register Globals: On Off
Include Path:
Display Errors:On Off
Error Reporting: [?] Errors Warnings Parse Errors Notices Core Errors Core Warnings Compile Errors Compile Warnings User Errors User Warnings User Notices
These would mostly be used to override the system default on one of these settings when you install a cms or other script and the sysadmin can’t/wont change the system wide settings.