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Password protect diretories using cPanel

MATIC Actuators — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:23:28 +0000

To password protect a folder/directory, follow these steps in cPanel :

For some reason you want to password protect few folders which you may have on your hosting account. If you are using cpanel as your web hosting control panel then you can simply protect them using few clicks.

Follow the steps mention below :-
1. Login to your cpanel control panel
2. Click on “Password Protection” icon under Services section
3. Browse to the folder which you want to password protect.
4. Click on required folder name.
5. You will get a form which will have two parts and you have to submit then separately:

a) Allow access only to authorized users
[ ] Directory requires a password to access
Check the above box.
and Protected Resource Name:- [ ] (enter a generic name of the protection such as “My Protected Folder”)
Submit and it will protect it.
Now step (b) for adding username/password :- Browse to the same form and
b) Add/modify authorized user and enter the username/password and save it.
That’s all… you have successfully protected required directory from unauthorized access.

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Exec-php wordpress plugin : Godgift for PHP programmers

MATIC Actuators — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:54:18 +0000

Wordpress is the most popular and widely used CMS which allows you to setup your blog. You will get thousands of FREE themes and plugins which are very helpful for developing your blog in very professional manner. Plugins are vital for any wordpress blog. They help you to manage your blog at ease & make your work easy. There are thousands of FREE plugins like
# All in One SEO Pack
# Google XML Sitemaps
# Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
# SEO Friendly Images
# WP-Mail-SMTP
# Ajax Comment Posting
# Social Bookmarking RELOADED
# PHPExec etc…
Exec-php is one of those Wordpress plugins that if you have a use for it, it will be a godgift.
This plugin allows you insert a block of php code into a post, and have it execute correctly. It’s a plug and play plugin which execute its code in the background, and doesn’t require any initial configuration settings. Exec-PHP executes code inside of tags by simply wrapping your entire post into tags and then pass it to the PHP eval() function. This way, there is never a need to parse the code within, or by, the actual plugin itself.
Thus if you are planning to execute PHP code inside your Wordpress post then just install Exec-php wordpress plugin and insert the required PHP code within your blog post. There are many other similar plugins which offers you the same functionality like RunPHP or EZStatic and many other but Exec-php plugin does what a PHP programmer needs in easy manner and is more reliable.

Installing Exec-PHP is pretty simple. Download the plugin, put it into your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it… that’s all.
Whenever you want to execute PHP codes, enclose the code with …
Don’t forget to host your Wordpress blog with reliable website hosting company like Webhosting UK
You can download this wonderful Plugin from here : - EXEC-Php http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/

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VPS hosting… for better website hosting

MATIC Actuators — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:06:34 +0000

VPSs are high performance web hosting packages which are widely used by webmasters for hosting their websites. There are many advantages of using VPS as compare to other lower hosting packages like shared or reseller hosting plans.
Following are few advantages of using VPS for your website hosting needs :-

You will get root access to your linux VPS and Adminstrative RDP access to your Windows VPS.
You will have access to manage your OS and applications, softwares installed on your server and can upgrade them as and when required for your server.
Usually VPSs are setup in no time.. ie instant setups & upgrades are possible.
Migrate VPSs in the time of network data transfer, nearly eliminating planned downtime and enabling fast reaction to unplanned downtime situations
You can automate all the routine tasks such as software versions upgrades and all application updates can be performed.
Using VPS hosting you can reduce the number of required physical server hardware and thus the corresponding technical support.
On a single hardware you can setup multiple VPSs which will minimize software licensing cost and thus all support related issues.
Increase server utilization and maximize server potential.Make sure you go with reliable webhost who is available round the clock to serve you with best quality hosting services.

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Joomla + Wordpress :- Excellent combination for Websites

MATIC Actuators — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:41:01 +0000

Wordpress is known for the easy to use blogging feature and Joomla for website development though both are popular CMSs but have different taste and feel. Hence if you manage to combine them and use with your website then you can have a great professional website having better SEO effect.
You can use Joomla for developing main website, you can even use joomla templates which are freely available or can also customize them as per your requirements if you are good at web-programming. Once you are completed with main website then you can install Wordpress blog as a sub-folder or sub-domain which you can use as a blogging platform for promoting your main website. You can have very SE friendly blog if you are using wordpress, as it comes with many useful plugins which can help you to improve search engine ranking for targeted keywords.
Managing such dual CMS based websites is easy and doesn’t requires much technical knowledge… using Wordpress you can add fresh content to your blog as and when required, you can enrich it with your targeted keywords so that your main website can rank top for all required targeted keywords. As both CMSs are Open source hence you don’t need to pay anything for using them for your website. Both Joomla & wordpress are secure and hence you can rely on them. Both CMSs always comes with newer version with updated patches as often as possible hence you can have a attractive, professional looking and a search engine friendly website using Joomla & Wordpress.Make sure you host your website with some reliable website hosting service provider for better uptime guarantee.

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Beware of Web Hosting Overseller

MATIC Actuators — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:17:50 +0000

Webhosting industry is getting over populated and you can see many webhost offering you hosting services are ridiculously low prices, which we can’t expect to get reliable hosting services at such dirt cheap prices. Such webhost who offer very cheap hosting services are likely to be engaged in Overselling webhosting business. Its a lame marketing policy just to attract newbie webmasters who are looking for getting more server resources at dirt cheap prices. You can consider Overselling as webhosting business policy when a hosting company sells more disk space and bandwidth on a server than actually exists. For example, say the server is oversold by only 50GB of storage/bandwidth. Overselling is not really an issue here since the amount is small and most sites on the server aren’t using all of their allocated resources. However, say the server is oversold by 1000GB of storage/bandwidth. In this situation server performance will degrade and will start facing issues and even go offline if enough sites are using their allocated resources.

Its always suggested to be away from such Oversellers, you should research for potential hosting companies at few popular webhosting forums like Web Hosting Talk or Freewebforums, Digitalpoint etc… webmaster over such website hosting forums have good experience in webhosting world and will help you to choose one who is reliable and honest webhost. You should also stay away from webhost who claim to offer you 50GB diskspace + 100GB bandwidth just for $1 / month then such webhost are into Overselling business and you should overlook such untrustworthy host, they usually offer you such features just to lure in new innocent customers.
Thus you should do your research and avoid such webhosting overseller before signing up for web hosting services else you may end up paying more for getting better services from such overseller webhost.

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WHM/cPanel Hosting

MATIC Actuators — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:36:28 +0000

Reseller website hosting business is getting more and more popularity, usually webmaster opt for reseller hosting packages to start with their own hosting business. With Linux reseller hosting you would be getting WHM/cpanel as hosting control panel and with windows you would get Plesk. if you are more incline towards Linux hosting and have operated cPanel then you can easily use WHM and can manage your hosting package and can create hosting accounts, allow permissions, set features for all hosting accounts you create on your hosting account.
Managing WHM website hosting control panel is very easy. Using WHM you can administer your VPS/Reseller account and all of its accounts, if you want to create a new account under your VPS/reseller hosting accounts then you can follow the steps give :-

Login to WHM >> Account Functions >> Create Account.
* Make sure before you create an account on the server, you need to create a “package”.
A “package” will specify how much web space, bandwidth, mailboxes etc are to be allowed for that particular package so that you can assign it to your customer. You can create as many packages are you want using WHM. Usually you create a set of different hosting packages which you can sell to your customers. define them in better way, have difference in features…To create a package you will need to login to WHM, then from the menu on the left click on ” Add Packages ” under “packages” section….

Once you define all your packages you can create new account and can select suitable package for it. once an account is created you can login to cPanel for that particular using serverIP:2082 or by domainname:2082 .All accounts created under your WHM will have cPanel for managing it. cPanel is widely used website hosting control panel which is very popular and have many good features for website management like creating FTP accounts, email accounts, setting up password protected directories, adding new domains etc…

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Domain redirection using PHP

MATIC Actuators — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:35:30 +0000

For some reason we may need to redirect few domains or a domain name for some other domain for getting benefit of traffic for that particular domain then you can use following PHP script for setting up domain redirection facility. You will have put small PHP code in index file of the domain name for which you want to redirect.
For example, we will consider master domain as “maindomain.com” and domain which is to be redirected as “destination-domainname.com”
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header(”Location: http://destination-domainname.com/”);
exit();
?>
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Thus using above code we can redirect http://maindomain.com/index.php to destination-domianname.com

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Dealing with Iframe virus infected websites.

MATIC Actuators — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:01:31 +0000

Sometime your website may get infected by virus or may get hacked which may result for injection of HTML : Iframe virus. Well, even if you check your php files and the source code from the browser you may not get any iframe embedded in your source code.
Solution for this problem is to get in touch with your webhosting service provider as they can remove the ‘iframe’ injected code from the files under the account.
Such code can be injected for your account due to following reasons :
1. mod_security disabled on the server.
2. the files were downloaded through ftp, code was injected and uploaded on the server again.

If files are ioncube encrypted then it’s not possible to verify if the files are still injected and affected hence its better to verify the files with the backup you have at your end also before removing the iframe from your site you should clean your pc first. scan it with an anti-virus. And then change FTP password, this is very important before removing iframe. If you don’t clean your pc and change your FTP account password it will keep coming back.

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Domain ID protect / Hide Whois information

MATIC Actuators — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:49:13 +0000

Many webhosting service provider and domain registrar offers you with an excellent feature using which you can hide your personal information for the domain which you own. Using this feature you can avoid unwanted emails or messages from spammers which they can easily get from the domain whois registry database, if you have activated ” Whois Privacy Protect ” or ” Domain ID Protect ” feature for your domain then your correct personal information like address, telephone number, etc….. will not be show for WHOIS searches that mean using such Whois Privacy option will shields your Private Information which cant be explored by hackers and can’t be missed used by anyone still you retain full legal ownership and control over your domain name. even you can resell, renew, transfer and change settings for such ID protected domains as if you using normal domains. Your domain control panel provides you real-time access to easily manage your domain name. Recently most webhosting service provider and domain registrar offer this feature for free as a special deal and to attract more customers, make sure you crosscheck if there’s any catch against such special deal. Not all domain extensions can be protected like “ Domain ID Protect “ is not available for .US names

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Website hosting using Drupal

MATIC Actuators — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:23:39 +0000

Well, CMS are getting more and more popular day by day among them Drupal is trying very hard to get into heart of webmasters. Basically Drupal is one of the best widely used content management system after wordpress which is freely available and can be installed using control panel via cpanel [ Fantastico ] for just by downloading it from their website. Its very easy to use and many thousands of people and orginazation use it for developing their websites, community web portals, discussion forums, ecommerce websites etc… making it more popular.
Before we proceed we should choose or should have suitable domain name which can be used for your Drupal based website. You should try to search good easy to remember domain name, can try to get keyword rich domain name which will help you in SEO.

now its time to get hosting… try to get a webhosting service provider who is available round the clock and will offer you excellent uptime. Depending on your website makeup and traffic you need to choose most suitable hosting package like shared hosting, VPS hosting or finally a Dedicated server if your budget permits you. Drupal websites can be hosted on both Linux or Windows Hosting Platforms.

Drupal is an application developed by php, and run against MySQL or PostgreSQL. So, a support for php with database MySQL or PostgreSQL is the basic requirement for using Drupal. Its always suggested to go with a Linux web hosting package considering it is the perfect platform to run php and MySQL as compare to windows

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