Deepweb’s new video series
To answer questions that pop up regularly in our hands on SEO workshops and also from other clients in our discussions with them, we have decided to put together a video series on YouTube.
Each question is given it’s own short video to provide an answer and examples.
If you have a question you want answered, leave a comment here or on the video
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You can find the YouTube Channel here.
Hands on SEO Workshop
Learn Stuff! Have Fun! Make a Difference!
Tuesday 14th of May, 2019 – 9:30am to 1:30pm
Get your chance to help your site improve in search rankings by understanding how they work and how you can make changes to your website to do this.
It is a 4 hour workshop that covers a whole range of topics relating to SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) including:
- The Important Meta tags
- The myth about keywords
- Writing Content
- Doing Your Research
Bring your laptop (or we can provide one) so we can work on your site during the session so you get started straight away
Cost is $99+gst per person
We provide coffee and yummy food 🙂
Book your space, we are limited to 6 spaces so you get the most out of the session
Tomcat Not Starting
We are doing some work with a Java based application (Alfresco) that we have deployed using a Windows installer.
Recently, we had an issue where the starting of the services (Tomcat and Postgres) both failed, they would say “Starting” for about 5 seconds and then stop.
The log in the Application Log showed
Starting Tomcat Server… Exit code: 1 Stdout: Stderr: Unknown error starting tomcat
No logs were written to the application log files to find out what the problem was.
We tried reinstalling the services to see if there was an issue with the service itself, but that did not fix the problem either.
Many of the posts online mention upgraded versions of Java (7 to 8 typically) but again, not in this instance.
Digging further into the Windows Error Log, we found that the service was throwing an error like:
The service terminated with the following service-specific error: Incorrect function.
Again it seemed like a version or missing component issue
What appears to have happened, and coincidentally a Windows update happened at the same time, was that the Java Virtual Machine details and the Classpath details had been cleared.
By adding these back in, we were able to get the services back up and running
Best SSL Plugin for WordPress
As the internet moves toward a more secure web and Chrome and Firefox start to increasingly make insecure websites more and more obvious, it makes it more and more important to make sure your website is on the right side of the SSL line.
We have turned to Really Simple SSL
It is really simple and it takes care of the redirects and also the mixed content issues (when you have content that is both SSL and non SSL)
What does it do?
- It handles most issues that WordPress has with SSL, like when you’re behind a reverse proxy/loadbalancer, or when no headers are passed which WordPress can use to detect SSL.
- All incoming requests redirected to https. It defaults with an internal redirect, but can be done as a .htaccess redirect.
- Both site url & home url are changed to https.
- Insecure content is fixed by replacing all non ssl http:// urls with https://, except links to other domains. It’s done on the fly, so no database changes are made (except for the siteurl and homeurl).
With AutoSSL now on most hosts, it makes sense to do this final step to make you site secure
Where have my Outlook Settings Gone?
Do you need to change a port number in Outlook for your email? Looking for some other mail account settings that you were sure were there before?
Join plenty of others who seem to be having the same issue.
If you are running the latest version of Outlook (Office 365 subscription users like me are upgrade to the latest version automatically) then a change to the way Microsoft displays account settings has hidden the more advanced settings with no clear way to get to them.
In the past you would go into your Account Settings and look for the “More Settings” button, this would give you a popup window with port numbers, SSL choices and the ability to save emails on the server.
Now you get the following:
As you can see it provides a very limited set of options.
So if you see the above screen, don’t worry, the real settings are a few keystrokes away.
Where are they Hidden?
To get to the settings, press Ctrl+Alt+S to open the Send/Receive Groups settings
Ckick on Edit to take you to pleace where you can choose the account you want to edit eg:
Highlight the email account on the left and click on the Account Properties button at the top right and low and behold, our friendly settings screen of olde appears:
Now you can make you changes as before and save/apply when finished