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HTTP 500s on dreamhost shared hosting

I finally got to the bottom of the occasional HTTP 500 (internal server) errors on weathersupermarket. The apache error log simply contains “premature end of script headers”, which isn’t much help. It turns out on shared hosting servers a background … Continue reading

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HTTP caching

Often browsers cache when you do not wish them to do so. POST requests by forms are exempt according to RFC 2616, so we only need worry about GET requests. A default installation of apache by default will not serve … Continue reading

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