by admin | Nov 8, 2014 | Servers
Suppose you have a folder /home within your domain ‘example.com’ and would like to have your domain visiting users get redirected to example.com/home when they hit example.com, you can use the following short .htaccess snipnet : <IfModule...
by admin | Nov 8, 2014 | cPanel/WHM, Servers
Are you seeing weird kthread processes being executed from user’s home directory ? For example, if you are on cPanel, are you seeing something like the file /home/user/.lesshts/kthread running and consuming the server resources ? This looks suspicious as a...
by admin | Nov 4, 2014 | cPanel/WHM
Under normal situations, when you add a sub-domain or an addon domain, it uses the shared IP or the dedicated IP of the main domain. This post will cover on how to use a dedicated IP for an addon domain or even a sub-domain. This can be for a scenario when you require...
by admin | Oct 30, 2014 | cPanel/WHM, OpenSource
When you have a live server, there might be situations in which you or your clients would need to have a list of files which have been created. This can be very helpful for example when you have a backdoor to your server and to track and close any vulnerabilities...
by admin | Oct 23, 2014 | Mail service, Plesk
When trying to restart Qmail are you getting the failure message ? Check for the mailogs to see if you can spot something. If you are on a plesk server, you can find the logs at /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog Do you find an error like : ================== Date host...
by admin | Oct 23, 2014 | OpenSource
LAMP is a group of open source which is deployed usually to host websites. In LAMP ‘L’ stands for Linux, the OS which provides the platform, ‘A’ stands for Apache, the webserver, ‘M’ stands for MySQL, the database server and...
by admin | Oct 16, 2014 | cPanel/WHM, OpenSource, Servers
It looks like opensource is constantly being hit with vulnerabilities these days ! but yea, as a wise man once said, the more people use and learn on a stuff, the more loopholes you get to find and fix. So the recent vulnerability is with the SSLv3 protocol which has...
by admin | Oct 16, 2014 | Servers
With the recent openSSL vulnerabilities, upgrading openssl to a more latest and stable version, openssl-1.0.1g can be done using the following easy steps. Applicable for CentOS server’s ! # wget ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz # tar -zxf...
by admin | Oct 13, 2014 | cPanel/WHM
Under normal circumstances, the process involving recompilation of Apache and PHP would take around 15-30 mins. However the httpd service would not stay down for this long. In a usual scenario if things are going well, it would be down for less than a minute. This is...
by admin | Oct 13, 2014 | Apache
mod_gzip is an external extension module for Apache, which uses Gzip compression method for a significant reduction of the volume of web page content served. Disabling mod_gzip has advantages as well as disadvantages. Among the advantages are that you can save up...
