Hosting your website on multiple domain names can cause a duplicate content penalty. Many of us have variations of our domain names (such as domain.com and domain.co.uk or domain-name.com and domainname.com) so we need to let the search engines know which one is the primary (canonical) domain using 301 redirects via an apache rewrite rule. more…

When you are deploying a new site to the same IP as an existing site you need to keep the public away while you are uploading the files and ironing out any problems.

One way to do this is to create a new document root directory and edit your vhosts configuration, but when you’re using a control panel like Plesk you are asking for trouble if you start messing around with the file system. more…