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A 500 Internal Server Error can be caused by many things, including
but not limited to invalid permissions, invalid ownership, bad lines
in your php.ini or .htaccess file, invalid requests in the script, and
others not mentioned here.
Typically this is ...
The .htaccess file is a configuration file read by the server. It is
able to override many server configuration settings and can be used
for authorization, cache control, website optimization, and URL
rewriting.
In WordPress, the .htaccess file is used ...
BACKLINK is a link one website gets from another website. Backlinks
make a huge impact on a website's prominence in search engine results.
This is why they are considered very useful for improving a website's
SEO ranking. Search engines calculate rankings...
A database is a structured, organized set of data. In computing
terminology a database refers to a software used to store and organize
data. Think of it as a file cabinet where you store data in different
sections called tables. When you need a particular...
A DOMAIN NAME is a name used to identify a website on the internet.
Beneath the surface, websites are associated with IP addresses. These
are basically numerical addresses that tell your browser where to find
the website on the internet. To make things si...
The term HOME OR HOME PAGE is used in web development to refer to the
the main page of a web site. It is often used in the navigation menus
and other user interface elements of the website to direct users to
the main page. By default, a WordPress website ...
There are two types of TEXT EDITORS we refer to on WPBeginner. The
first type is a computer program used for editing code. You can use
these text editors to write plugins or modify your functions.php file.
Example of text editors that people use are Notep...
The term TLD stands for Top Level Domain, and refers to the last
portion of a domain name. For example, the domain name EXAMPLE.COM is
part of the .COM Top Level Domain and the domain EXAMPLE.ORG is part
of the .ORG Top Level Domain. Different TLDs are of...
Sometimes referred to as the file path or full path, the absolute path
is the location of a directory or file in a computer. It contains the
root directory as well as all other sub directories that contain the
file or directory. Paths are used extensively...
An IFRAME is an inline frame used inside a webpage to load another
HTML document inside it. This HTML document may also contain
JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is
parsed by the user's browser.
WordPress users often come...
APACHE OR APACHE SERVER is the most widely used web server software.
Developed and maintained by Apache Software Foundation, Apache is an
open source software available for free. It runs on 67% of all
webservers in the world. It is fast, reliable, and sec...
chmod is a Linux/Unix shell command which is used to change
permissions of files and directories. chmod is an abbreviation of
change mode. Under some web hosting environments, a user may need to
use this command to change some file or directory permission...
CPANEL is a web based hosting control panel provided by many hosting
providers to website owners allowing them to manage their websites
from a web based interface. This program gives users a graphical
interface from which they can control their portion of...
CSS OR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS is a style sheet language used to define
visual appearance and formatting of HTML documents. WordPress themes
use CSS and HTML to output the data generated by WordPress. Every
WordPress theme contains a style.css file which h...
DEDICATED HOSTING is a term used to describe web hosting packages that
provide a dedicated server with dedicated resources to a single
client. Dedicated hosting plans are ideal for WordPress websites with
very large number of visitors. Many WordPress host...
DNS OR DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM is a system that points a domain name to
physical IP address. For example, when a user types in www.example.com
in their browser and hits enter, the DNS servers resolve it to the IP
address where the website is hosted.
The purp...
FREE SOFTWARE is a term coined and promoted by the GNU project and
Free Software Foundation. It is used for open source software which
allows users to freely look at the source of the software, modify it,
distribute it, and use it without any restriction....
JAVASCRIPT is a programming language implemented in browsers to allow
client side scripting on the user end. In plain English, it allows
theme developers to add dynamic elements to your websites such as a
slider, display alerts, buttons, popups, etc.
Wo...
In computer networking localhost literally means _"this computer"_.
When you type a URL into your browser, you are essentially connecting
to a "host" computer somewhere else in the world. This computer serves
you the web page that you requested. If you ty...
MEMORY USAGE in WordPress refers to the amount of memory used by a PHP
script. This script could be a theme, a plugin or a core WordPress
file. A well written WordPress plugin or theme will attempt to reduce
its own memory usage and not cause heavy load o...
MYSQL is a database management system that is used by WordPress to
store and retrieve all your blog information. Think of it this way. If
your database is a filing cabinet that WordPress uses to organize and
store all the important data from your website ...
Open source is a term used to describe computer programs with their
source code available for everyone to study. WordPress is an open
source software and any one can use, study, change and redistribute
its source code.
The open source software developme...
PHP is a programming and scripting language to create dynamic
interactive websites. WordPress is written using PHP as the scripting
language. Just like WordPress, PHP is also an Open Source.
PHP is a server side programming language. When a user request...
ROBOTS.TXT is a text file which allows a website to provide
instructions to web crawling bots.
Search engines like Google use these web crawlers, sometimes called
web robots, to archive and categorize websites. Mosts bots are
configured to search for a ...
RSS, standing for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, uses
several standard web feed formats to publish content in a structured
XML file for syndication. An XML file in this format is called an RSS
Feed. This format allows automatic syndicatio...
SEO OR SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is a term used to describe practice
and methods to optimize a web site for better representation in search
results. These practices and methods are usually based on the rules
and best practices provided by the major searc...
SHARED HOSTING is a term used for web hosting service plans where
multiple websites share the resources of a large web server. Many
WordPress web hosting providers offer shared hosting plans at
extremely affordable rates ranging anywhere from $3.95 per mo...
SSL is an abbreviation used for Secure Sockets Layers
[http://www.rfehosting.com/geotrust-ssl-certificates], which are
encryption protocols used on the internet to secure information
exchange and provide certificate information.
These certificates provi...
VPS HOSTING is an abbreviation for Virtual Private Server hosting
[http://www.rfehosting.com/vps-hosting]. Virtual Private Server
hosting plans offer virtual machines to clients. The concept of
virtualization is similar to shared hosting where one server ...
WAMP is sometimes used as an abbreviated name for the software stack
Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP. It is derived from LAMP which stands for
Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. As the name implies, while LAMP is used
on Linux servers, WAMP is used on Windows ser...
WordPress is an open source (free) content management system (CMS)
that is very dynamic and used more often for publishing blogs. It is
used by about 15% of the one million biggest websites. Released 2003,
it has been downloaded over 32 million times sinc...
