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Recently, we’ve been hooking the Patreon API to our blog, so that we can set up a page for our Patrons properly. Along the way, we ran into a snag that has not been properly-documented online. If you’ve found this article, I hope this helps save you some time.
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Recently, while putting together the site for our annual Kong Game challenge, I ran into a problem when trying to set up the page metadata and Open Graph tags. Specifically, the Facebook Sharing Debugger was failing to retrieve any metadata on my page!
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If you are running XAMPP on macOS, you may run into a variety of problems that may prevent you from starting the program. One of these problems is an error that says “cannot calculate MAC address” when you try to start the program.
If your error message says something else, you may want to check out the other articles on XAMPP for macOS:
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When working on a website, it is not uncommon for developers to locally host websites on their own computers first, as it is often a good idea to run and test your website before you publish it online, so that you avoid having your live website run into errors and bugs.
If you are a Windows user, one of the several local web hosting softwares you have available to you is WampServer, which normally runs on the localhost URL when it is started up.
Fun fact: Wamp stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP. It is a play on the term LAMP (where L stands for Linux, and the rest of the letters mean the same as those in Wamp), as almost all web servers in the early days of the web ran on such a set-up. Today, LAMP stacks are still widely used to host many websites.
While running on localhost gives us the benefit of using root-relative URL paths, it still has a distinct drawback — it is a hassle to run multiple websites off the localhost URL, as it will still cause the aforementioned root-relative URL paths to break.
Fortunately for us, it is possible to set up what I call “local domains” on WampServer, so that you can use URLs outside of localhost to access your websites on WampServer.
If you’re just starting your foray into the world of web development, you’re probably wondering what kind of code editor or Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to use. In most other branches of coding, like application or games development, you’re probably only going to deal with 1 or 2 programming languages concurrently. In web development, however, you’re almost always going to be dealing with at least 3 languages concurrently, so it’s going to feel very different from almost any other branch of coding.
Especially if you’re new to web development, having to deal with so many languages in one go (and having to be familiar with the native libraries of each of the languages) can be rather overwhelming, and the developers of CodeLobster IDE seem to understand this very well.
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If you are new to working with CSS, you may find that the language comes with its fair share of quirks that can be frustrating, such as the text-align attribute not always working at horizontally-aligning your content. In a similar way to text-align, the vertical-align attribute doesn’t always work at aligning your content vertically. Take the following HTML code for example:
<div style="width:100%;height:140px;background:#ddd;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"> <img src="http://placekitten.com/75/75"/> </div>
Even with the vertical-align:middle style assigned to it, the image doesn’t align itself vertically! What’s going on? Here’s a quick breakdown of how to do it, with lots of examples, without having to do too much reading (great for if you’re rushing out a school assignment).
If you have a WordPress site that was built before August 2020 (when WordPress 5.5 decided to stop supporting jQuery Migrate), or if you manage a site that recently weaned off jQuery Migrate, you might run into errors where the parts of your site that run on Javascript stop working.
When you open the Developer tools of your browser (that’s the F12 key for most browsers), you might also see an error message that looks something like this.
Uncaught TypeError: e.indexOf is not a function
at S.fn.load (jquery.min.js?ver=3.6.0:2:84932)
at headings.min.js?ver=3.19.4:1:2579
at headings.min.js?ver=3.19.4:1:2706
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XAMPP is a great tool for web developers who need to host websites locally on their own computers. Unfortunately, because it uses ports and services that are commonly used by other applications, conflicts can happen, causing certain applications on XAMPP to be unable to run.
In this article, we will be exploring what you can do if XAMPP’s Apache service does not run on Windows.
In a previous article, we explored how to troubleshoot situations where XAMPP MySQL does not work on macOS. You may also be looking for solutions to troubleshoot XAMPP Apache for Windows instead too.
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In a previous article, we’ve explored the issue of Apache being unable to start on macOS devices. In this article, we will be exploring the same thing, but for the Windows version of XAMPP.
What should you do if XAMPP’s Apache service does not run on your Windows machine? Read on to find out.
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