Archive for June, 2007

Reboot httpd apache server

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Your server is currently online and responding to SSH. If you are in need to reboot your server, you may do so by using the command “shutdown -rf now” from the SSH prompt.

Restart Service - linux server httpd

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Use Putty login the root

Restart Service: “service httpd restart” or “/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart”

HTTP/APACHE Optimization

Monday, June 25th, 2007

HTTP/APACHE Optimization / service httpd restart :

BACKUP:
cp /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf.backup

Use Pico (pico /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf) or Download via WinSCP for editing,
Change the following settings in your httpd.conf…

Set “Timeout” value to “Timeout 60″
Set “KeepAlive” to “KeepAlive on”
Set “KeepAliveTimeout” to “KeepAliveTimeout 3″
Set “MinSpareServers” to “MinSpareServers 16″
Set “MaxSpareServers” to “MaxSpareServers 32″
Set “MaxRequestsPerChild” to “MaxRequestsPerChild 256″
Set “HostnameLookups” to “HostnameLookups Off”

Note:
These settings will not work under all server environments its recommended that you tweak around with the numbers until your web server is running 100% please read Apache documentation before changing any settings so you know what you are changing http://httpd.apache.org/docs/

To Save: CTRL-X
Restart Service: “service httpd restart” or “/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart”

Does Ask.com support sitemaps?

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Google.com Sitemaps can share with Ask.com sitemaps.

Ask.com supports the open-format Sitemaps protocol. Once you have prepared the sitemap, add the sitemap auto-discovery directive to robots.txt as follows:

SITEMAP: http://www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml

The sitemap location should be the full sitemap URL. Alternatively, you can also submit your sitemap through the ping URL:

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml

Example: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.malaxi.com/sitemap.xml

Please note that sitemap submissions do not guarantee the indexing of URLs. To learn more about the protocol, please visit the Sitemaps web site at http://www.sitemaps.org.