Website is a very broad category for organizing the many main topics that are involved when working on creating, managing, or troubleshooting websites for the internet. This page divides the articles into 7 major sections: Website Creation and Management, Website Troubleshooting, SSL Certificates, Domain Names, Databases, Login Support, Security.
Website Creation and Management
There are many tools or applications that can facilitate website creation, website design, and server management. Here you can find familiar software applications and some great guides for beginners looking into building a website.
- Getting Started Guide: Website
- What software are you using?
- How do I upload / edit my files?
- How to publish a website
Website Troubleshooting
Working on a website will eventually cause you to become familiar with error messages and techniques to troubleshoot problems you might encounter. You can see the articles for website errors in the Website Errors category.
- Is your website down?
- Are you getting an error message?
403 – 404 – 406 – 500 - Has your website been suspended?
- Need files restored from backup?
- Think your website has been hacked?
- Common Website Issues
SSL Certificates
If you’ll be accepting credit cards or other sensitive data on your website, you will want to secure it with SSL. You will want to provide secure connections between you and a customer. SSL certificates provide trust and can also help with your search engine rankings.
Domain Names
You can point your domains, add domains or create subdomains in your cPanel. Domain names are important because they are what identifies your website and what people will use to get to your internet location.
- DNS Changes: A – CNAME – Nameservers
- Main Domain Changes
- Adding a new domain
- Creating a Subdomain in cPanel
Databases
There are many things you can do with databases. You will see links to common database procedures. You will also be able to see the guides on many different types and topics databases.
Login Support
There are several ways to get logged into the cPanel interface that is used to manage your website with InMotion Hosting accounts. You will also become familiar with how to recover passwords from the different application interfaces.
Security
Security is extremely important when working on a website. You will need to become familiar with the different ways to secure your website and how privacy laws operate in different parts of the world. There are also guides for security in applications you may have used in the creation of your site.
- Find PHP Version and Options of Your Server
- How do I comment my HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP code?
- No form of database caching to reduce duplicate database queries.
- How to Compress a File Using 7-Zip
- How to Connect to a Database with MySQL Workbench
- How to Upload a Database That’s Larger Than 50MB
- Using Multiple PHP Versions
- How Do I Delete a File on My Server?
- How to reset / wipe clean the files on My Account?
- Cross Browser Compatibility Problems
- Identify and block bad robots from website
- Allow access to specific file types in a protected directory
- PHP files do not show the changes
- Finding the database name for your Zen Cart website
- How to perform a mass price increase for all products in Zen Cart.
- How to upgrade your PHP version
- How to enable html files to display php code
- How To Recover From a Website Hack
- Allow public access to a file in a protected directory using .htaccess
- HTML Tag Reference List
- Time zone reference list
- Language code list for PHP programs
- How to Manage Your Files on Your Server
- How Do I Move Files on My Server?
- How do I Upload a File to My Server?
- How to Create a New File
- Restrict public access to your php.ini
- Troubleshooting a Database connection error
- Enabling telnet on a Windows computer
- How to Prevent Image Hotlinking with .htaccess Rules
- Copying the php.ini from a different PHP version
- How to Display and Log PHP Errors
- Review recent website requests
- How to find program configuration files
- Find IP address of malicious user
- Block unwanted users from your site using .htaccess
- How to Change Your Default Timezone in .htaccess
- How to prevent access to multiple file types in htaccess
- How to prevent access to a specific file in htaccess