BootBlock.co.uk

Okay, I’ve now pointed the TNK-BootBlock.co.uk domain so it points at this one in an effort to get this site established as my main.

Rather than using standard MetaRefresh redirects, I did it all using .htaccess located in the root of the domain. I’ve never used the RewriteEngine before, so it was all new to me – I robbed most of the directives from sites giving examples of how to use them. It seems it makes use of Regular Expressions, which is a pig at the best of times.

There are a couple more things that need sorting and then I can start dismantling the old site. Then I’ll need to take the biggy …

Email.

This is going to suck. I’ve got 68 email forwarders set up and routing mail to specified in-boxes to help with working out which crappy company decided to sell a list of their customers email addresses off to spammers so I can easily block that respective forward. I can’t really utilise the mail forwarding method for various tedious reasons with this domain, so I’m going to have to get creative.

Once that’s done - it’s going to take a while, maybe even a few weeks - it’s time for me to update any of my apps that make use of services from the previous site – mainly update checking and the like. Speaking of which, I’m going to do a proper update checking service that doesn’t end up launching a browser from the app to perform a simple version check via PHP. I only really did that to send a little more traffic to the site, but either way it wasn’t very good. Only a few apps utilised a proper version checking mechanism, which I’m going to fully expand to all of my progs.

After that, I’d like to continue working on BlockBox (previously called WhiteBox) while also sorting its site out. I’ve got a domain for it (which is in fact the parent domain for this and all of my future sites) which is ready to roll with a fresh Joomla! installation.

Anyway, I’m hoping this is the last of the boring site updates and things’ll start getting more interesting around here. Possibly.