After reading the news that Google will start flagging HTTP sites as ‘not secure’ starting this July, it was time to look into getting a SSL certificate for my website. Naturally GoDaddy offers their own SSL certificate for 75 dollars a year. You can install your own SSL certificate but GoDaddy offers very little help. …
The ability to have multiple domains running on a local server can be accomplished with virtual hosts. Setting up a virtual host in the past was tedious and time-consuming. The process involved updating multiple files that were hard to find. One of the reasons why MAMP Pro has become so popular is it automates the …
In the process of migrating a SQL Server LocalDB database to MySQL, one of the steps involves restoring the database in SQL Server Management Studio. The LocalDB database was first created in Visual Studio and to migrate it over to MySQL the database had to be setup in SQL Server Management Studio beforehand. Initially I …
During the course of building a .NET MVC app I switched from using SQL Server to a MySQL. The hosting provider I use for my personal web projects, Godaddy, allows up to ten MySQL databases to be created, compared to just three SQL Server databases under the basic Windows hosting plan. I started in my …
I encountered issues publishing an ASP.NET MVC application to my personal website for the first time. The application stores code snippets in a database and displays the snippets in a text box using a dropdown menu. For some background, the working application was uploaded to a subfolder on my Godaddy-hosted site. I have a shared …