I need to host a CMS website for an international company looking to expand into China.  The company has a registered entity in China, but we as the developer and support team responsible for provisioning and hosting the site, do not.  Our favored approach would be to host with Azure partners  azure.cn but there seems to be no registration or contact process for customers outside of China. Registration requires a Chinese phone number for verification.  Can anyone explain the registration process?
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I am hosting my Cloud Pages over HTTPS and I am having some issues due to Content builder assets being "http://"... What would be a correct way to ensure Content Builder uses "HTTPS" instead of "HTTP"  I have to host some of my content externally.
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I'm having trouble figuring out how to have a registration in different phases. This is what I would like to do:   A user registers with a name and an email or register with facebook. He will receive an email to set his password. The user can now bookmark nodes. But when he would like to create a node of content type Proposal he needs to complete a full registration (I'm using  module). An email will be send to the administrator who needs to check the data and give the user a new role.   For now I have the second step. A user register with a complete form. But how can I add the facebook register or name/email register before it?
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At the moment I have example.com that my colleague bought from GoDaddy which was first purchased via Google Work. The purchase did not include a hosting plan. We do not plan to host our website on GoDaddy since we have a less expensive option using another host.  We still want to keep the Google Work services, and the domain in GoDaddy. However, we are trying to point the address to the new hosting. I have minimal understanding of DNS &amp; its records, so please correct me if I am wrong.  At the moment the A record for example.com has the following records: 1. 50.xx.xx.xx 2. 216.239.32-38.21 which is from Google.  These are the following actions that I have taken to address this: 1. Add the hosting's IP to the A record 2. Edit CNAME record for www to example.com (it was previously @)  Now, the changes do not seem to do anything, when I try to access example.com it still redirects to Google's 404 page (the same as before the changes). I realize DNS changes may take up to 12-48 hours, but since I am not 100% confident in what I am doing I might as well ask the community if this is correct.  Question: 1. Am I doing this right? What additional steps do I need to do? Is it okay to keep those Google A records? Do I need to remove anything? 2. Is @ the same thing as example.com?
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I'm a web developer from Myanmar (Burma). Google delivers a ccTLD  to the people searching from our country.   I have a website which is a single language site (English) and it targets the global audience. I have also Facebook page and Twitter page related to my website. When I search my website using some related keywords in  (without ), my site including Facebook and Twitter pages are listed in the first SERP. However, when I search it with the same keywords in , I could not entirely find the site.  So far I have learned about Google SEO, there is an option  which can be enabled/flagged from Google Webmasters Tool. And I know that it is only for geographic data and it is not suitable for my case.     This setting is only for geographic data. If you're targeting users in   different locations—for example, if you have a site in French that you   want users in France, Canada, and Mali to read—don't use this tool to   set France as a geographic target. A good example of where it would be   useful is for a restaurant website: if the restaurant is in Canada,   it's probably not of interest to folks in France. But if your content   is in French and is of interest to people in multiple   countries/regions, it's probably better not to restrict it.   What are the best possible ways to solve this issue to list my site in google.com.mm as well?
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Trying out Google Container Engine, and in my 'billing' section I see some traffic 'egress' charges for data from America to China.  I have a web portal up. Does 'egress' traffic means anything that's coming out (i.e. even web traffic not just ssh/ftp or others) ?  is there a way to monitor where this traffic is going / coming from, besides the web server logs? I mean Google has a way to measure that so is there a place to look up these connections?   If that's not so obvious, what are the recommended tools to setup to log all this traffic.
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The first site using internationalization, , is now online for over 7 months.   What are the plans for other sites like this waiting to be launched at ? Will this be happening soon?
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After changing my IP, my site no longer works in China. What can I do to test that more thoroughly? Is there a way to do so?  I do not want to block Chinese visitors. I want the block removed by using an IP that is not blocked in China.
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I have always payed a company to host on dedicated servers which is really expensive, 1 of my sites has 2 servers right now, a web/http server and a seperate mysql server.    What would it take for me to do this from home?  I would need a LAMP setup.  1 benefit I can see is I could add as much ram and stuff as I wanted  I only have a cable internet connection, would that be bad on a high traffic site?
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There are certain countries which in order to be granted a visa you must submit your intended itinerary. My friend tells me that he thinks China is one of those countries.  What do independent travellers do? We're thinking of hitch-hiking across China without a precise plan. But if we have to submit an itinerary for the visa does then lock us in to a planned route after all?  Is it just bureaucracy where they make it look complicated but in practice it turns out to be easy?  (If it makes a difference we will have Australia or UK passports.)
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I'd like to move all my media files to a CDN (Windows Azure is my best choice for now).   Two questions :   How can I avoid SEO and redirections issues for the previously uploaded media files ? For the next media files I'll upload, isn't using a CDN bad for SEO and search engine ranking ?
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We already have a wildcard certificate for *.mycompany.com. Our network has hosts that are only reachable internally. All of them belong to the internal.mycompany.com subdomain. There is a private server with the host name server.internal.mycompany.com on which I deployed our wildcard certificate.  When I visit the web server I get a host name mismatch error. Do I really have to get another wildcard certificate for *.internal.mycompany.com or is there another (free!?) way to use our wildcard certificate for all of our subdomains and its subdomains without getting an error in the browser?
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I'm trying to submit the following question:   I have an application hosted on Azure and accessed through a web page. Authentication to the application is handled by signing in through Facebook. The application is not a Facebook canvas application, though it can share some activity to a user's Facebook stream.  I have two URLs to access my service; one http://projectgreenwich.cloudapp.net/ points to the site in the cloud (on Azure) while the other http://projectgreenwich.research.microsoft.com relies on DNS to give the application a more official looking URL. My problem is that in the Facebook application set-up () I can only give one "App Domain" for the Facebook authentication to pass back to. I can fork from that domain, e.g. having projectgreenwich.cloudapp.net, projectgreenwichlocal.cloudapp.net, projectgreenwichtest.cloudapp.net, etc. But if I try to add a different domain (e.g. projectgreenwich.research.microsoft.com) I get an error when I save the Facebook app settings.  My solution has been to add http://projectgreenwich.research.microsoft.com as what Facebook term the "Mobile Web URL" for the app. This fixes my immediate problem (authentication on Facebook from http://projectgreenwich.research.microsoft.com works) but it leaves me uncomfortable about two things:   1. It's a hack. The http://projectgreenwich.research.microsoft.com URL     is no more a "Mobile Web URL" than the     http://projectgreenwich.cloudapp.net/ is.  2. If I add other DNS entries     resolving to http://projectgreenwich.cloudapp.net/ there's no     further place to add them.  There are a couple of related answers on Stack Overflow that suggest this is not possible and that Facebook’s blog-post to the contrary is misleadingly worded, but I’m hoping things have changed:   - [Zachary    Kestenbaum](http://stackoverflow.com/users/988990/zachary-kestenbaum)'s    answer to [ginja](http://stackoverflow.com/users/628372/ginja)'s    question "[Is it possible to configure a Facebook app to be used    across multiple domains?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/7553607/575530)"    here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7722584/575530  - [Ross](http://stackoverflow.com/users/539394/ross)' answer to    [Winaji](http://stackoverflow.com/users/540834/winaji)'s question    "[Facebook Connect for one application with multiple    domains?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/4431574/575530)" here:      What’s the correct/best approach to have multiple unrelated App Domains associated to a Facebook application?   But I cannot, since Stack Overflow presents the error message:     "Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:   Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. Please indent all code by 4 spaces using the code toolbar button or the CTRL+K keyboard shortcut. For more editing help, click the [?] toolbar icon."   My post does not contain any code. Why does the Stack Overflow formatting engine (or whatever is throwing the error) think there's code in the question I'd like to post and how do I persuade Stack Overflow that there is no code present?
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Imagine my competitor is getting 1000s of views a day and is established in Google search engine.  I plan to launch my website in a weeks time but will have to work hard to get into google search results  If my competitor has the domain www.example.com , can I buy the domain www.example.co.uk and then redirect that to my website?  I figure some people may accidentally put .co.uk instead of .com  Would this me illegal in any way , or is it fair game as they haven't bought the domain, meaning I could possibly look to selling it to them?
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Will transferring a domain name to a new host cause downtime at all on the domain?  It's the highest traffic time of the year for us but we really want to keep things moving and need to migrate hosts because our current host charges per subdomain. It's imortant we get this subdomain up and running in the next few weeks, so I'm wondering what kind of down time (if any) we should expect migrating the registrar.  It doesn't seem like it would...
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I'm planning on releasing an iOS app that downloads video from my server. If hundreds of people on the launch day try to do this, then my website and the services that my server provides will clearly go down. How do you host a website on multiple servers? When someone tries to access my site, how is their request passed to an available server? How do Apple and Google do it? Thanks for your help.
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I bought a new VPS from Softlayer and I'm having some issues configuring it. I haven't pointed the name servers to it yet.  The problem I'm having is, through WHM, I added a new account and it was setup properly. But when I access it with the IP address I get a 404 error. I uploaded a test.html file through cPanel to home/safepath.  Below is how I access it:  my.ip.address/~safepath/test.html   Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here?