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How to create MYSQL database using PhpMyAdmin in localhost

Posted on June 9, 2018 by ramesh xavier

I was planning to develop a tourism website on WordPress. As a first step, I installed LAMP on my PC in which I am using Ubuntu 16.04. Then I installed PhpMyAdmin on my computer by following this tutorial. Then started

How to Change your cPanel Password

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Annie

Changing password is an important step for securing your website. Many people use 123456 as their password and there is chance to get hacked easily. cPanel provides a Password Generator feature to generates secure passwords, which are difficult for malicious

How to import the existing SSH Key in cPanel

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Sibi Antony

Login to cPanel and click SSH Access Click on Manage SSH Keys Click on Import Key In the field, Choose a name for this key type in: id_rsa Leave the fields blank – Paste the Private Key in this box

How to convert IP Range To CIDR

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Sibi Antony

Our Technical Support specialist Vineesh Mohan already posted on What is Network CIDR and how to find it? As per his post, by going through below link, it will provide Network CIDR http://www.webdnstools.com/dnstools/my-ip-address Here we can check the another method

ClipBucket Requirements and Installation in Centos Server

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Sibi Antony

Two days before Annie successfully installed YouTube Clone Requirements for our new client. He contacted me through http://installffmpeg.com and this website we created in the year 2013 for providing ffmpeg installation and ffmpeg Webhosting. Today I got another e-mail from

How to install Apache MySQL and PHP on Cent OS 6.6

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Vineesh Mohan

Following tutorial describes how to install Apache MySQL and PHP on a Cent OS based server. First we need to identify the version of OS using on the server. For that, login to the server as root user and run

Locate files owned by nobody and delete

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Annie

This is very useful for locating files that have been uploaded using an exploit and are still owned by the nobody user. The below command will search all user document root for files owned by nobody and display them on

How to change my document root folder using an .htaccess file?

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Annie

By default website is loaded from the public_html folder of hosting account. The public_html directory is also called document root folder. If you’ve created a test website under a sub-folder and you want it to be displayed when you type

How to Clear current session history (bash)

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Annie

To clear the history, type the following command: Type the following command to remove a certain line (e.g. 890) from the Bash history file : Don’t save commands in bash history Unsetting HISTFILE will cause any commands that you have

How to Install GD Library module on cPanel/WHM Server

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Annie

1. Login to your WHM as root 2. Click on Software & then click on EasyApache (Apache Update) 3. Click on ‘start customising based on profile‘ & go further with default apache & PHP configuration 4. First you will be