Evolving PlanetMike.com: Introduction
For years I’ve been using PlanetMike.com as my primary web site, and I post everything on it. The site started as a bunch of static web pages, then used (and still does in many places) server side...
View ArticleEvolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 1 – What do I currently have?
So the first thing to do is figure out exactly what content I have to work with. For the WordPress portion of the site, that’s simple. I installed the Dagon Design Sitemap Plugin (warning – lots of...
View ArticleEvolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 2 – Where will it go?
I’ve said the personal posts and content from PlanetMike.com will be moved to another site. What site would that be? I’m thinking now it will be MichaelClark.name. I also have registered both...
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Usage Statistics for PlanetMike.com: 2007
Summary by Month Month Daily Avg Monthly Totals Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits Dec 2007 15,151 13,329 8,748 2,681 42,654 7,180,572 83,124 271,191 413,207 469,697 Nov 2007...
View ArticleEvolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 3 – Moving Content Between Domains
I’ve made a good start on splitting out personal stuff from PlanetMike.com, and moving it to MichaelClark.name. Jokes, photo galleries, and a handful of categories from WordPress have been moved. I’m...
View ArticleEvolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 4 – Copying the Database and Redirecting
Ok, I’ve moved a whole bunch of posts from PlanetMike.com over to my personal site, MichaelClark.name. While tedious, it was a pretty straightforward process. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57 Install...
View ArticleEvolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 5 – New Name
Currently most, and soon all, of the content at PlanetMike.com is related to technology and web design. So I took this opportunity to rename the site from “Michael Boyd Clark Journal/Blog” to...
View ArticleFighting Bots Via Their Bad Requests
Last week I started looking through my “page not found” (404) errors. It’s been interesting to say the least, with nearly 800 bad requests since then, most of which have been various attacks in trying...
View ArticleUsing 301 vs. RewriteRule
A few weeks ago, I wrote out a series of steps aimed at Fighting Bots Via Their Bad Requests. After watching my logs since then, I’ve noticed I made an incredibly stupid mistake. Bad bots do not follow...
View ArticleNo Advertising on PlanetMike.com
What the heck is wrong with the idiots out there that may think I want to run advertising on this web site? Do you see any advertising on the site already? I realize they’re just sending spam, and are...
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