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This is a simple script you can use to test the functionality of the php mail() function on your server: ?php $to = “your@emailaddress.here“; // <– replace with your address here $subject = “Test mail”; $message = “Hello! This is a simple test email message.”; $from = “sender@emailaddress.here“; $headers = “From:” . $from; mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers); echo […]

SSL 3.0 is an old protocol for securing connections over the internet, its successors currently used are TLS 1.1  and TLS 1.2. However, for compatibility reasons, most servers still support SSL 3.0 and default back to it if a connection via TLS cannot be established. To disable SSL 3.0 and thus protect yourself from POODLE, you […]

A simple and very straight forward way to force redirect http requests to https without amending your website code in environments where the server hosting your website is behind a load balancer (such as for most shared hosting/cloud platforms) is by using this piece of code in your .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{ENV:SSL} !1 […]

Usually when needed to force redirect requests to https a simple rule is added in a htaccess file to take care of this, but not all hosts support that especially when a proxy or load balancer is used. What you need to to is to simply download and manually install this plugin.