Author Archives: Jay Jay

About Jay Jay

Hi there. My name is John Elliot V. My friends call me Jay Jay. I talk about technology on my blog at blog.jj5.net and make videos about electronics on my YouTube channel @InTheLabWithJayJay.

Online advertising and website popularity

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I was doing some research into online advertising and found… nothing… swear!

Also I used alexa.com for the first time to get some reports on my domains, for example jsphp.co which is ranked 5,148,442 in the world.

I’d like to know what the average number of monthly visitors to all websites is (so I could know if my sites were more or less popular than the average website), but my search didn’t turn up any answers.

I bumped into this MLM scam guy too. He did mention one useful thing though: authorize.net, an online payment system.

Apache configuration error: couldn’t check user. No user file?

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I was trying to configure Digest authentication in Apache and I was getting Internal Server Error 500 when trying to access my site. The Apache error log reported: “configuration error: couldn’t check user. No user file?”

Turned out the problem was that I hadn’t installed the Digest auth module. So the fix was:

 # a2enmod auth_digest
 # apache2ctl graceful