Hi,

This is a question about a problem for anyone who is hoping their site will get viewers in China

I have tried hosting my website in China but I have had to transfer to the US (bluehost) because host companies in China are just too limited (no permission to use htaccess, no permission to alter php.ini, very little space and so on).

But for anyone who wants their website to be found by Chinese internet users, you must figure in Baidu.com search results (Google comes a poor second). However Baidu gives huge preference to websites hosted in China. If your site is not hosted in China you will not figure well in their search and will never get good viewing figures from the world's biggest market.

I've come to the conclusion my site must be hosted outside of China for the performance of the site but I must have a DNS located in China for the sake of traffic.

Can anyone tell me if there is a possible solution to this as I'm not an expert on the technicalities of hosting.

In my case my site has a Chinese version which is hosted as a subdomain of my url.

Is it possible to have a subdomain registered with a DNS/host located in China and yet for that to just act as a mirror (not sure if that is the right word) that will access my files and database from the server in the US.

In other words, is there any way I can have a Chinese DNS/host which simply loads pages from a server in the USA.

Hope this makes sense. It may seem like a fairly random question but I think it has relevance for anyone interested in the China market, even if you site has no Chinese version. By the way, I'm not talking about the problem of site's hosted outside China being blocked for viewers inside the country.

Thanks an awful lot for any suggestions!!!

Hi there

I really need to have this great autocompleter working on the main search.php page as well as on the isearch block - can anyone tell me how to do this, i tried but can't do it

thank you!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH TRABIS

Can anyone advise me on how to add a count and pagination to the main XOOPS search?

So for the main search of the website, I would like results to show total number of results and to have pagination (rather than just next and previous).

Thanks a lot

Hi there

My server host tells me that as my server is IIS it cannot use rewrite and htaccess files.

Firstly, is that correct and secondly if so how can I rewrite my URL's to make them more search engine friendly?

The host tells me it should be possible to achieve the same results as htacess rewrite by using ordinary programming but they can't tell me how.

Can anyone help me change this:

www.website/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topicid=635&forum_id=8

to like this

www.website/fashion/help/how-to-tie-a-tie.html

Without using htaccess?

Thank you very much!

I really appreciate your guidance

Here's what the command gave

Hi avtx30

I asked my webhost about updating packages and they say

You were not update via RMP package. You should download a higher RPM package and install it.
You installed by source code so you should compiler the database first, then you can do the update.

Does this make sense to you?

thanks again!

It gives:

0. debug No
1. useRhn Yes
2. rhnuuid afb4c960-8be0-11db-97fd-e4f86ba71d0d
3. isatty Yes
4. showAvailablePacka No
5. retrieveOnly No
6. enableRollbacks No
7. noSSLServerURLhttp://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
8. pkgSkipList ['kernel*']
9. storageDir /var/spool/up2date
10. adminAddress ['root@localhost']
11. noBootLoader No
12. serverURLhttps://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
13. fileSkipList []
14. versionOverride
15. sslCACert /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT
16. noReplaceConfig Yes
17. useNoSSLForPackage No
18. systemIdPath /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid
19. enableProxyAuth No
20. retrieveSource No
21. disallowConfChange ['noReboot', 'sslCACert', 'useNoSSLForPackages', 'noSSLSe
22. headerFetchCount 10
23. networkRetries 5
24. pkgsToInstallNotUp ['kernel', 'kernel-modules']
25. enableProxy No
26. proxyPassword
27. updateUp2date Yes
28. keepAfterInstall No
29. proxyUser
30. removeSkipList ['kernel*']
31. useGPG Yes
32. gpgKeyRing /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-keyring.gpg
33. httpProxy
34. headerCacheSize 40
35. forceInstall No
36. noReboot No


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so does that mean my server host are as clueless as I am?

I tried the yum -help command (in root) but it gives 'command not found'

thanks

It gives:

# uname -a
Linux njud2008 2.4.21-32.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 15 21:17:59 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

thanks!