JVF Consulting takes great pride in making sure all of our websites are secure when they’re deployed. Visitors to your website should not be able to browse or download files they’re not supposed to. For those of you with Apache servers who haven’t disabled index browsing these steps will help protect your files from being exposed to the public. When you deploy a website on an Apache server, it can be vulnerable unless you protect it by applying the most basic security feature, disabling directory browsing. To disable directory browsing in apache web server you need to edit the .htaccess file located in the root directory.
JVF Consulting believes in social networking and uses it as a tool to receive feedback from our customers. In order for us to share links with our Twitter followers and Facebook fans we use a web service tool called Bit.ly. Bit.ly is URL shortener which reduces the URL length and allows us to track the amount of clicks each link has received in order us to calculate our analytics and conversation rates. As of recently bit.ly has not been displaying the number of clicks in Firefox browsers on Windows computers. Apple computers running Firefox render the page just fine and the amount of clicks are visible.