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I am extracting the apache files right now.. on their website they say this:It is essential that you verify the integrity of the downloaded files using the PGP or MD5 signatureswhat do they mean by that? also where can I get mySQL to install and is it free?
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hey thanks for the reply.There is an area in phpMyAdmin to add users, the problem is my username does not have permission.. the only one with all permissions is the user 'yroot' which i cannot connect to.. even with the password they have in the mysql database 'users' tableI will try the things you said when I get home thanks!The blank page is probably because errors are disabled. You can try adding this to the top:ini_set("display_errors", 1);error_reporting(E_ALL);But, they might have PHP running in safe mode, and they might have the ini_set function disabled, which would mean you would not be able to enable error messages on screen. They still might be saved to a log. Create a blank PHP file and put this in it and run it:<?phpphpinfo();?>You can check the configuration settings, and see if safe mode is on, if display_errors is off, etc.If you want to change the permissions for your user, you should be able to do it through phpMyAdmin. Update the users table to give your user permissions for whatever you need, or there might also be another area where you can edit MySQL users with a GUI. Also, there is someone at Yahoo that knows exactly what is going on, you just didn't talk to them. It's hard to say though, I don't know anything about the hosting environment at Yahoo and what security settings they are using, so I can't really say what else the problem might be. I would imagine that they probably have things locked down pretty tightly, being as big as they are. If you can't get things worked out with them like you want, then you might consider going somewhere else. -
does anyone have any idea why I cannot connect as the yroot user?when i installed phpmyadmin I made a username "astralaaron" but when I look at my privlages it is only 'usage'and there is a user called 'yroot' with all privlages.I looked at the help files at yahoo (they are hosting my space) and it directed me to the table called mysql and the table userson this table it shows yroot user and a long password of numbers and letters. and it shows my "astralaaron" name also with a similar password which is not the password that I log into phpMyAdmin with. it also shows privilages there and yroot has Y for every one of them, and astralaaron has N for all of themI have been trying to connect to my database from a phpfile and everytime it turns up a blank page. I contacted yahoo on the phone and this guy had me on the phone for 30 minutes putting me on hold constantly and finnaly he told me he knew nothing about phpMyAdmin or MySQL and that no one there at yahoo could help me. does anyone know about the yroot user? and why I cannot connect as the yroot user.. and why it just turns up a blank page when I load the php program that is suposed to show a table from my database?
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sure enough, with ERROR_REPORTING(E_ALL); its still a blank page..thanks i will do that -
thanks i will do thatchances are yahoo has their databases on seperate servers form webpages and you get a blank page because they have errors turned off.Add this line to teh top of the page and rerun to see errorsERROR_REPORTING(E_ALL);
You will have to contact yahoo and find out the domain or ip of the mysql server and what username and password to use.Good luck.
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I am learning the basics of php and mySQL from a book called php and mySQL for the absolute beginner.at the end of the book he has you connect to a database you made from a php program.the program code is here:<html><head> <title>Show Adventure</title></head><body><?$conn = mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password");mysql_select_db("game", $conn);$sql = "SELECT * FROM ADVENTURE";$result = mysql_query($sql);while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){ foreach($row as $key=>$value){ print "$key: $value<br>\n"; } print "<hr>\n";}my question is since my webspace is hosted by yahoo what would I put in place of localhost?in phpMyAdmin it says this:MySQL 4.1.14 running on www.mywalkthrough.com as astralaaron@localhosti am using phpMyAdmin, and i am just assuming the username and password for mySQL is the same as phpmyadmin?i tried putting www.mywalkthrough.com , tried astralaaron, tried mywalkthrough.com, I emailed the writer of the book and he told me it sounds like localhost should be there because mysql is hosted on yahoo too..everytime I run the php file it just opened a blank page...any suggestions???></body></html>
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thanksa blog is essentially a CMS. If you want users to be able to comment then yes you need a database. If you are just going to post articles you could use a datbase with control pael for easy managment or you could manually add the articles to your html.sign up for a free account at wordpress.com and takea look around to get an idea of some of the things you may want in a blog. -
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thanks, I asked because someone told me to only put around 15 words or phrases... but it was an unreliable source.there isn't really a definate limit.Too many irrelevant keywords is considered spam.and too little relevant keywords wont get you as far as the right amount.If you put it only the keywords that are relevant to your site and what you want to be found for, then you shouldn't have any problems.
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haha pretty much what I thought.. had to ask anywayonly if you link back to them or you pay them some money.Thats about it really...and ask nicely :)If there are more tricksfor this then i'd like to know too:) -
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How many meta keywords / phrases are too much?
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anyone have any strategy for getting other relevant sites to yours that rank high want to link to you site?
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thanks againThe search engines don't take text alignment into account, I doubt it affects it either way. -
what does a webcrawler think about people that use stuff like this to help them align things<p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p>I myself do not use that, but someone I know who claims to be a search engine guru uses them all over his page
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nice, thanksThey reportedly prefer CSS layouts over Tables. More content relative to structural code for them to see the content faster and therefore, less structural code to wade through to get to the content. -
thank you.Probably not. But the only person who can answer that is the guy who programmed the robot. -
Do search engines like or dislike the use of CSS to lay out a website ?
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Will haveing a sitemap on both top and bottom of my pages of my website be considerd spam by webrobots and mark me down in ranking?
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ah okay, I am at school so I cannot upgrade the computers here haha. it works fine at my house.. I use IE thoughI have had that problem but I upgraded to firefox 2 and it worked for me -
has anyone else had trouble with phpMyAdmin and firefox? when I goto phpMyAdmin the username / password field comes up.but when I log in it is a blank screen.
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Thanks.Don't rely on Flash for something like navigation. Have a non-Flash alternative menu so that everyone without Flash, including search engines, can find all of your pages. You could put a second text menu on the bottom of the page, in the footer. If you only want one menu, then have the menu start as an HTML menu, and use Javascript to replace the menu with your Flash movie. If a search engine visits, it will not execute the javascript to replace the HTML, and will instead just follow the HTML links. People with Javascript and Flash will see the Flash navigation.Google is working on being able to properly index Flash movies, but they aren't able to just yet. They can read text from the movie, but that's about it. It doesn't add a lot to put URLs or keywords inside comments or meta tags, most search engines now ignore meta tags, and most of them probably ignore comments also. The reason why they ignore those things is because you can write anything you want in there, and it doesn't make it true. I can write in meta tags that my site is all about how to breed German Shepherds, but that doesn't mean that the content on the page is about that. Google looks at page content, not meta tags or comments.
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After unzipping the apache server files... what do i do next? how do i get started?