Category: Web

  • DNS – How a website is found on the internet

    DNS – How a website is found on the internet

    DNS stands for Domain Name System. A domain name is the unique name that is assigned to a website. DNS is the system that enables this to work. When you build a website, you also register a domain name. Then, you point the domain name to your website. Reference: https://howdns.works

  • NodeJS – Setup a Simple HTTP Server / Local Web Server

    NodeJS – Setup a Simple HTTP Server / Local Web Server

    This is a quick post to show you how to setup a simple HTTP web server on your local machine using NodeJS. The web server runs on the http-server npm package, a simple zero-configuration http server for serving static files to the browser, it’s started from the command line and doesn’t require a server.js file. Download and Install…

  • WordPress SSL Offloading

    Understanding what’s happening When your page is accessed over HTTPS, but the Load Balancer is performing SSL offloading and actually requesting your content on the non-SSL port 80, the webserver, PHP, or anything else for that matter, does not understand or see that it’s being accessed over https://. The fix for this, is that Load…