What the .well-known folder is used for

Inside your ~/public folder you might find a .well-known directory. This is a directory commonly used as a web-based protocol to fetch your “site-wide metadata” about a host before making a request. If you don’t see that folder that doesn’t mean something is wrong, it just means it hasn’t been […]

1014 CNAME Cross User Banned Error

When you experience the 1014 CNAME Cross User Banned error, it’s most likely because the domain you are requesting is set up with DNS records pointing to the Accelerated Domains endpoints, but the domain (hostname) is not set up in Accelerated Domains. Fixing this is simple, be sure of which domain(s) is […]

Search Console Crawl Stats Report

The Crawl Stats Report in Google Search Console aggregates data from Google’s experience while crawling your website. This report is a hidden gem, only available from the site’s Settings page in Google Search Console. Not using Google Search Console yet? Just start here – it’s easy to get up and […]

Google Search Console

Google’s Search Console (previously Google Webmaster Tools) gives you continuous feedback from Googlebot, their search engine crawler. Googlebot regularly visits your website and collects extensive amounts of information. This data is processed and aggregated in the Google Search Console dashboard. If you haven’t used the Search Console before, there’s nothing […]

Common errors found in the Error Logs

Your site comes with a /logs folder where you can view the ErrorLog and the AccessLog of your site. The following are commonly found errors in the ErrorLog: Allowed Memory Size Exhausted PHP: Fatal Error: Allowed Memory Size of [some number] Bytes Exhausted This happens when your code try to […]

How to Fix the Too Many Redirects Error Message

You might have come over this error: AH00124: Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary. Use ‘LogLevel debug’ to get a backtrace. Or maybe noticed this in the browser: This happens because the site redirects you […]

Can you restart the database server for me?

Restarting the database service is hardly ever necessary, and is not the way to resolve database issues. The most common cause for questions about database restarts are stuck queries. Stuck and long running database queries Stalled queries, or long-running queries can be managed in PhpMyAdmin by selecting the database, then […]