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Qmail/HiveMail Installation

Posted on January 25, 2006 by flashweb

Today installed Qmail + HiveMail on a CentOS server. HiveMail is a script that allow you to run Free Email Service like HotMail, Yahoo Mail, etc… HiveMail works on any shared Hosting account or dedicated server. It can work with

phpBB Search Engine Indexer MOD

Posted on January 23, 2006 by flashweb

Default installation of phpBB forum is not search engine friendly. Each post of phpBB forum is accessed with url like http://dinnerandamurder.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2 phpBB also add sid (session id) to track the user, this will make the url difficult to get listed

Discus Professional Installation

Posted on January 23, 2006 by flashweb

Discus from http://www.discusware.com is a message board written in Perl. One of the advantage of the script is it store threads in HTML page, no MySQL or other type of database is required. Having each thread available in HTML page

My First Ebay.com Listing

Posted on January 23, 2006 by flashweb

I have had by ebay account years back. Once i bid on an auction for a dedicated server, but i don’t buy it as i doubt how the service will be after i get a server at special rate. After

Cpanel Error – Can’t locate DBD/mysql.pm

Posted on January 7, 2006 by flashweb

On restoring a site on cpanel server, got following error Error while connecting to MySQL. Failover enacted. install_driver(mysql) failed: Can’t locate DBD/mysql.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686- linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5 /site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ 5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /site_perl/5.8.0

/var/log/audit.d taking up too much space

Posted on January 5, 2006 by flashweb

On a Linux server, /var/log/audit.d is taking up more than 40 GB space. The folder contains lot of files with name save.* You can delete these files root@server1 [/var/log/audit.d]# rm -f save.* Now you may disable audit service. To do

Securing MySQL database on Cpanel Servers

Posted on January 1, 2006 by flashweb

After you setup Cpanel, you have to do few things to secure MySQL on Cpanel server. 1. Delete the test database This can be done with command mysqladmin drop test 2. Change MySQL root Password This can be done through

Cpanel phpMyAdmin shows “test” database

Posted on January 1, 2006 by flashweb

On Cpanel Server, test database shows on all users phpMyAdmin. This create problem as some new users create their tables on this “test” database and some other users delete these tables. To correct this problem, just delete this default database

Free Linux Web Hosting Control Panel

Posted on January 1, 2006 by flashweb

GNU Hosting Helper is a Free Open Source Control Panel for Linux Servers. You can find more details at http://hostingsoftware.net/ I have downloaded source code, want to try when i get time.

Apache Allow Folder Browsing

Posted on January 1, 2006 by flashweb

In Apache, you can enable Folder browsing with Options All MultiViews This can be specified in httpd.conf or in .htaccess file With this, any folder with out index file (specified in DirectoryIndex) will show the file listing in the folder.