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Help Desk Menu and widgets Search for: Awesome Linux Hosting and VPS's Categories Advanced Topics apache bash Linux + Unix billing CGI crontab Database + MySQL DNS Do you support… Domain E-commerce + Shopping Carts FTP General Getting Started Hosting htaccess mail imap spam mod_rewrite My Site Is Down! mysql passwords perl php Python review needed ruby + rails Sales Questions Security servers shell Specific Applications git joomla silverstripe Thunderbird ssh SSL (HTTPS) to expand upon to review Uncategorized upgrades VPS webmin wordpress Question: Can I add a wiki to my site? Answer: Yes, you can set up a wiki. We recommend dokuwiki https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki as it seems to perform better than media wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Though we have plenty of clients running each. Posted on February 15, 2023 February 15, 2023 Author sblogadmin Categories Uncategorized Leave a comment on Question: Can I add a wiki to my site? www doesn’t work for my site Question: www.mydomain.com no longer resolves. I believe it did in the past. What changed? Answer: In most cases both still work but you’ll notice that the www version immediately redirects to the non-www version. This was probably done when your SSL was installed. Many search engine experts believe that google likes it best (and therefor ranks you higher) when your content is all under a single url and not duplicated on both. For most new SSL installs we force redirect all requests to the SSL version of your non-www domain. We can undo this if you prefer and make both work. Just contact support and we’ll make it happen! Posted on August 21, 2020 August 21, 2020 Author sblogadmin Categories Uncategorized Leave a comment on www doesn’t work for my site Can my users change their own email password? Can my users change their own email password? Yes, to do so, copy the link for your email control panel. It will look like: https://SOME_PHPWEBHOSTING_SERVER_HERE.phpwebhosting.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin/ Have them login as their username (instead of postmaster) and then click: Edit existing address: pop3” and it will allow them to change their own password. Posted on September 3, 2019 Author sblogadmin Categories mail Leave a comment on Can my users change their own email password? Webmin not allowing database creation, user creation Q: Inside webmin I cannot create new databases or users, I get the error: DBI connect failed : Access denied for user ‘my_user_nam_here’@’%’ to database ‘mysql’ How can I fix this? A: You need to login to mysql as the mysql admin user (usually called root). Normally if you login to webmin as root it will login you into MySQL as root too. If this does not work, fix it with: Inside webmin: Click servers” Click MySQL Databaseservers” Click Module Config” on the MySQL screen (top left) Change Administration login” to either automatic (should work) or root” Posted on November 16, 2017 Author sblogadmin Categories mysql , VPS , webmin Leave a comment on Webmin not allowing database creation, user creation yum fails on my VPS / the RPM database on my VPS is corrupt Under certain conditions the RPM database used by yum will become corrupt. Here is how to resolve this issue. You may see an error such as Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum” or error: rpmdbNextIterator” 1. Take a backup FIRST, before trying to have rpm repair the database. cd /var/lib tar zcvf /var/preserve/rpmdb-[today's date].tar.gz rpm Verify integrity with cd /var/lib/rpm rm -f __db* # to avoid stale locks /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Packages Next run the following: mv Packages Packages.orig /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_dump Packages.orig | /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_load Packages /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Packages rpm -qa Finally rebuild the database: rpm -vv rebuilddb for the error : error: rpmdbNextIterator run: mv /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys.backup rpm rebuilddb -vv to recreate the index. from : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=108915 reference : http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-6904# Posted on January 14, 2015 January 14, 2015 Author sblogadmin Categories VPS Tags rpm , vps , yum Leave a comment on yum fails on my VPS / the RPM database on my VPS is corrupt Quickly test various services using telnet If you are attempting to diagnose mail on your server or VPS, you can quickly test POP3 without setting up an account in a mail program using telnet : telnet server-name.com 110 USER email_address@domain.com PASS unencrypted-password here LIST where email_address@domain.com is the pop3 login your are testing. Usually this is the same as the email address. List should return the messages number or a single period if no messages are available Note that in this test the password is unencrypted. You should set a temporary test password during the test. Posted on June 19, 2014 June 19, 2014 Author sblogadmin Categories Advanced Topics Leave a comment on Quickly test various services using telnet What is the quickest way to add development tools (compilers, etc.) to my VPS? Assuming you are using CentOS/Fedora/RedHat , as root type : preyum -y groupinstall ‘Development Tools'/pre If you are using a debian-based distribution, as root type : preapt-get -y install build-essential/pre Posted on June 4, 2014 Author sblogadmin Categories VPS Leave a comment on What is the quickest way to add development tools (compilers, etc.) to my VPS? Install newer python version Depending upon your server OS, you may find the Python version to be out-of-date. This is often due to the OS relying on a particular version for system scripts, etc. On some servers we have installed additional python versions and named them python3, python2, etc. If your server does not have these you can request and install or you can make a private python install to your shell account. It is quick and easy to install your own python version to your shared hosting shell account. 1. Download python (change this to the version you need) wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.0/Python-3.4.0.tgz 2. configure to use your local dirs: ./configure prefix=$HOME/python make make install Posted on May 12, 2014 Author sblogadmin Categories Python , shell Leave a comment on Install newer python version php-cgi does not give proper 404 errors When using php-cgi via .htaccess you will find that missing files give No input file specified” instead of a proper 404 error. To fix this, add : RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f RewriteRule ^.+\.php$ /file_name_that_does_not_exist to your .htaccess replace file_name_that_does_not_exist” with any file name that does not exist – ie. something that will trigger a 404 error. Posted on May 8, 2014 Author sblogadmin Categories CGI , php Leave a comment on php-cgi does not give proper 404 errors How can I reset my email master password I’ve lost my master email password – how can I retrieve it? Due to the encryption, your passwords cannot be retrieved. However you can reset the master password : postmaster@your-domain.com in your control panel. You can then use the new password to administer/change/view/etc. all your other email accounts. When you first login to the control panel, choose the link: Password: change this will bring you to a page to set a new password. It will set the new password for several parts of you account – including the postmaster@your-domain.com password. After you change the password, go to the Email section and select Configure your email accounts” Posted on December 14, 2013 Author sblogadmin Categories mail , passwords Leave a comment on How can I reset my email master password Posts navigation Page 1 Page 2 … Page 17 Next page Proudly powered by...