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Silent Overwrites on Upload: Three File Copying Traps
Upload two files with the same name together, and the second silently overwrites the first. No error, no failing exit code, and every page still returns 200. The English page just becomes a Thai page. These are three traps that let file copying cause damage without any warning.
A 26-Page Bilingual Site: Why .php Broke Every Link
The production page displayed PHP tags as raw text because the web server served .html as static files. Changing all 26 pages to .php broke links across the site. Then, after adding clean URLs, subpages bounced back to .php because the rewrite and 301 setup was only half done. This article includes the full .htaccess, eight cases for $base, and scripts that handle the whole site in one pass.
route:cache Turns Every GET into 405 — The Sub-path Trap
Deployment finished, I ran optimize as the guides suggested, and every page returned 405 Method Not Allowed even though route:list confirmed the routes were correct — a route cache that breaks only on certain servers, how to isolate it in 30 seconds, and three other issues I found while deploying an app under a sub-path.
Static on DirectAdmin: GET Returns 404 but HEAD Returns 200
I uploaded a static site to public_html and could not open it. Small files worked, large files returned 404, but HEAD returned 200 for every file. The cause was Laravel's .htaccess at the docroot, funneling everything into the front controller. This article covers the diagnosis and three ways out.