Learn Web Servers

Learn how to use web servers to host your applications successfully. These tutorials cover a wide range of techniques for making effective use of web servers.
  1. .htaccess Files for the Rest of Us

    .htaccess Files for the Rest of Us

    Tutorial Beginner

    .htaccess files are used to configure Apache, as well a range of other web servers. Despite the .htaccess file type extension, they are simply text files...

  2. Using Timthumb with Custom URLs for Site Optimization

    Using Timthumb with Custom URLs for Site Optimization

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this article, I will share on how to get a better page speed score even when you are using TimThumb as your thumbnail resizer for your site. On my...

  3. How to Set Up a WordPress Development Environment for Windows

    How to Set Up a WordPress Development Environment for Windows

    Tutorial Beginner

    Having a local WordPress test environment is essential for developing themes, plugins, and updating sites. The last thing you want to do is update a live...

  4. 11 Quick Tips: Securing Your WordPress Site

    11 Quick Tips: Securing Your WordPress Site

    Tutorial Beginner

    WordPress is the most used open-source platform nowadays for any type of websites: whether it is blog, CMS or any other custom solution. WordPress is...

  5. 10 Steps to Securing Your WordPress Installation

    10 Steps to Securing Your WordPress Installation

    Tutorial Beginner

    WordPress is open source which means that everyone, including hackers with a malicious intent, can scour the source code looking for holes in its security....

  6. Migrating a WordPress Site From a Local Server to Production

    Migrating a WordPress Site From a Local Server to Production

    Tutorial Beginner

    Integral to any WordPress developer's arsenal is the local server. In this tutorial, I want to walk you all the way from installing a local server to...

  7. An In-Depth Guide to mod_rewrite for Apache

    An In-Depth Guide to mod_rewrite for Apache

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published last September. ...

  8. 20 Steps to a Flexible and Secure WordPress Installation

    20 Steps to a Flexible and Secure WordPress Installation

    Tutorial Beginner

    A comprehensive WordPress installation, albeit simple to produce, often requires multiple steps -- many of which can easily be omitted accidentally. How many...

  9. CodeIgniter from Scratch: File Uploading and Image Manipulation

    CodeIgniter from Scratch: File Uploading and Image Manipulation

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In lesson nine of our CodeIgniter series, we'll build a small image gallery that allows you to upload files, and automatically create thumbnails.

  10. Supercharge Your CSS with PHP Under the Hood

    Supercharge Your CSS with PHP Under the Hood

    Tutorial Beginner

    Cascading Style Sheets is a presentational style sheet language. In that sense, it does not have a lot of the functionality that many developers want to...

  11. 5 Fun and Practical Htaccess Solutions

    5 Fun and Practical Htaccess Solutions

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Today we will go over some practical uses of htaccess files that you can use in your web applications.

  12. The Ultimate Guide to .htaccess Files

    The Ultimate Guide to .htaccess Files

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Apache's .htaccess configuration files have baffled countless developers. This tutorial aims to break through this confusion by focusing on examples and...