Archive for February, 2006
It can’t be true
Netfirms have finally enabled mod_rewrite on their servers? Let me say that again. Netfirms have FINALLY enabled mod_rewrite on their servers?
Okay so your probably wondering why is that some kind of big deal? It’s just mod_rewrite, yeah you should expect to see that on every host but even so, you can live without it. Well, actually, thats not exactly true. Usayd Corp. moved their main website, Usayd Networks, to a different web host because frankly a WordPress site without structured permalinks (and other things) just looks unprofessional. I have literally requested Netfirms many many times to enable the rewrite engine and they always ignore me.
At the moment, we do not offer mod_rewrite. It has been added to our list of client requested features and may be included in a future service upgrade. Thank-you for your suggestion.
Funnily enough we just enabled the permalinks here on Younis Server Enterprise and guess what, it didn’t work. Strangely enough I did a simple mod rewrite test and that worked, so I emailed the wp-testers mailing list to see if they have any ideas.
Update
Yeah, got my hopes up - Netfirms are hopless. After a few emails and convincing that mod_rewrite doesn’t actually WORK (and explaining in detail why thanks to davidhouse) they responded:
Netfirms is aware of some issues with PHP variables as they are reported by our servers and are working on a way to have those issues resolved as soon as possible; however we do not have a time frame at this time.
Will keep you updated.
Update 27th July 06
Wow finally Netfirms updated their rubbish support pages to explain what you need to do to make permalinks work. After all that and it was just the /index.php/ rule!
January Review
YSE have decided to start doing a monthly progress report to help compile the month’s accomplishment.
This Month
- New website
- Projects
- Downloads
The Younis Server Enterprise releases the new website running on platforms WordPress for the major part of the site and Olate download for the download page. The website has been upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1 as of today.
We have been working on offering services for people running websites, blogs or alike. One thing that we have been focusing on is enabling access to people using online services such as ‘Blogger’. The first service that has been released is the Hijri Date project which gives people the opportunity to easily include the Hijri Date on their websites. We have also added a link database to the Projects page so that users can test demonstrations of a variety of scripts, mainly PHP/AJAX.
Usayd Networks are now using YSE for their downloads which will enable us to keep track of how many downloads are taking place as well as making use of the new download section of YSE. There is quite a major factor for YSE which has seen an increase in visitors this year, but more importantly, a huge increase in bandwidth usage:
Amazingly January 06 for YSE witnessed a total Bandwidth for Month of 36 453.14 MB (36.5GB) which is more then the whole year for 2005. As far as we are concerned, that is a good sign!
Next Month
February will be quite a busy time for YSE, we are hoping on developing further scripts for the projects page as well as improving the existing ones. We are also working on improving the colour scheme for the website, a date has been scheduled for this.
