by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Oct 6, 2011 | cPanel, MySQL, Server Administration
Managing a database and its user is a simple task, when done from within cpanel. Creating a Database, assigning the DB user, and associated privileges.. all are covered in this quick...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 22, 2011 | cPanel, Server Administration
When troubleshooting mail or attempting to discover the source of spam originating from your server, it is often useful to enable extended Exim logging. It is a fairly easy task, and can be performed in a matter of minutes…
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 16, 2011 | cPanel, Server Administration
PHP open_basedir directive is used to limit the files that can be opened by PHP to a specific directory-tree. What does that mean? With the open_basedir directive, you can tell the PHP scripts on a domain, which folders they have access to. Once specified, the PHP...
by admin | Jun 6, 2011 | cPanel, Server Management
What could be better than celebrating World Environment Day in God’s Own Country, Kerala? Like any other day during the monsoons, it was drizzling on the morning of 5th June 2011. The entire Cochin unit of Bobcares was highly excited with a sense of...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Mar 4, 2011 | cPanel, Server Administration
Of the various support requests I have received recently, a few have been from customers wanting to upgrade OpenSSL on a cPanel server. The reason being the latest PCI compliance tests are reporting a vulnerability in the version of OpenSSL installed on their server....
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 22, 2010 | cPanel, Server Administration, Server Management
How many times have we seen a server getting hacked and thus being of no use to all its users. Among web-hosts, the most used control panel is WHM/cPanel and there has been numerous incidents where a single account of cPanel server getting hacked has resulted in loss...
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