The change of method to GET after redirect from POST, PURGE, BAN whatever, is perfectly legal and been there, and will be without WordPress (it has nothing to do with it, really). Welcome to the World Wide Web: Note: For historical reasons, a user agent MAY change the request method from POST to GET for … Read more
You need to have a lot of traffic for naive protocol based optimizations to be effective, and even then it is not obvious that you can gain much even when it does kick in. Most people will be first time users of your site, and browser have only a limited space to store information about … Read more
An understanding of how WP stores content is important. Pages/posts’ content is stored in the database. Media files are stored in the uploads folder, and the pointers to the media (their URLs) are stored in the database. (Media files are just another type of post/page.) The base URL for your site is stored in the … Read more
To list apache loaded modules use: apachectl -M or: apachectl -t -D DUMP_MODULES or on RHEL,CentoS, Fedora: httpd -M For more options man apachectl. All these answers can be found just by little google search.
Yes, you can location / { return 200 ‘gangnam style!’; # because default content-type is application/octet-stream, # browser will offer to “save the file”… # if you want to see reply in browser, uncomment next line # add_header Content-Type text/plain; }
It is indeed not possible to pass the username and password via query parameters in standard HTTP auth. Instead, you use a special URL format, like this: http://username:[email protected]/ — this sends the credentials in the standard HTTP “Authorization” header. It’s possible that whoever you were speaking to was thinking of a custom module or code … Read more
The [R] flag on its own is a 302 redirection (Moved Temporarily). If you really want people using the HTTPS version of your site (hint: you do), then you should be using [R=301] for a permanent redirect: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [NC,R=301,L] A 301 keeps all your google-fu and hard-earned pageranks … Read more
One of the reasons why you need www or some other subdomain has to do with a quirk of DNS and the CNAME record. Suppose for the purposes of this example that you are running a big site and contract out hosting to a CDN (Content Distribution Network) such as Akamai. What you typically do … Read more
Your rewrite conditions, line 4 to 6 in your code, apply when https is active, so you are redirecting from https to https. Consquently you should change the conditions to check, if https is not active, ergo !on and !^443$ and !https. Additionally I’m not sure about the rule RewriteRule .* – [E=WPR_SSL:-https], probably something … Read more
@Ooker It’s the Jetpack that is serving you the images on https. If you’d turn off the Photon add-on from Jetpack you should be able to get images served over http from your own server. Also if you turn off Photon, images won’t be served from CDN anymore, so you might have to figure that … Read more