Litespeed - A drop-in replacement for Apache?

Our webhosts recently switched to Litespeed, a "drop-in" replacement for Apache httpd (webserver).

Except, it isn't. In theory, Litespeed follows the same syntax as Apache for the configuration files - except for the directives they don't support! And they don't document which ones they support, and which ones they don't.

So when you try something, you don't know if its not working because:

• its not supported, or,
• it is supported, but you didn't configure it correctly

Apache httpd does seem a little moribund of late, so a newcomer has to be good. But Litespeed is let down, seriously let down, by its documentation.

Windows Print Screen - The PrntScr Key

Capture the screen, or a window, and paste it into a document.

In brief

Print-Screen (may be PrtScr, or some similar abbreviation)

• this copies the screen. Then paste into MS Word, Picasa, Gimp, etc.

ALT, then Print-Screen together.

• this copies the active window. Paste as above.

Windows-Key, then Print-Screen together.

• this copies the screen (takes a screenshot) and save it to a file in My Pictures/Screenshots

Details here

Favicons, Apple-Touch-Icons, and MS-Tiles

Once upon a time, a website had one "favicon" (a picture bookmark), and it was called favicon.ico, and life was good.

Then Apple came along, in the best Microsoft traditions of taking something simple, and making it labyrinthine, obfuscated and over-complicated, introduced a whole suite of favicons. Then Microsoft got in on the game. And Android. So now a website need loads of favicons in different sizes.

This website does it all. Upload an image, and it generates all the favicons you could ever dream of, and the HTML you need to go with them.

http://realfavicongenerator.net/

Top tip.

The favicons ideally need to be at the top level to work, e.g. www.website.com/favicon.ico - but having all these files there makes you website untidy. Solution - place them in a directory, e.g. /icons, and use .htaccess to take care of the links

##favicon pollution
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^favicon(.*)            /icons/favicon$1
RewriteRule ^apple-touch-icon(.*)   /icons/apple-touch-icon$1
RewriteRule ^mstile(.*)             /icons/mstile$1
RewriteRule ^browserconfig.xml      /icons/browserconfig.xml

Our favicons - 1 is no longer enough!

apple-touch-icon-114x114.png
apple-touch-icon-120x120.png
apple-touch-icon-144x144.png
apple-touch-icon-152x152.png
apple-touch-icon-57x57.png
apple-touch-icon-60x60.png
apple-touch-icon-72x72.png
apple-touch-icon-76x76.png
apple-touch-icon.png
apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
browserconfig.xml
favicon-160x160.png
favicon-16x16.png
favicon-196x196.png
favicon-32x32.png
favicon-96x96.png
favicon.ico
mstile-144x144.png
mstile-150x150.png
mstile-310x150.png
mstile-310x310.png
mstile-70x70.png