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CPanel Server Shared IP and Default Page

Posted on February 22, 2006 by flashweb

In Cpanel server, if you access the main shared IP in browser, you will see default Cpanel Page.   If you change the main shared IP to a new one and host a web site with that IP, you will find

Installing FreeBSD 6 on Local Web Server

Posted on February 22, 2006 by flashweb

Today i am install FreeBSD 6 on local developement web server.   I was using FreeBSd 5.2 on local server. Today take backup of home directory and mysql data and installed FreeBSD 6. After installation home directory and MySQL restored.

Free Web Hosting From Microsoft.com

Posted on February 20, 2006 by flashweb

After Yahoo, Google, now its time for Microsoft.com to offer Free Web Hosting. Microsoft announced beta version of Free Web Hosting to Microsoft Office Live Basic users. http://officelive.microsoft.com Easy-to-use Web site design tool Get started fast with our easy-to-use Site

Installing newsgroup server – INN

Posted on February 19, 2006 by flashweb

I have subscribed to few newsgroups and reading them with Outlook express. I was using Free News server provided by Aioe.org for reading news. For last several days, it stoped working. There is no message at all.   I made a

SYN_RECV DDoS attack on CentOS Server

Posted on February 19, 2006 by flashweb

Last few days a server is getting too many SYN_RECV attacks.   I tried to stop it with APF antidos and mod_evasive.   It stoped the attack. But today it started again, may be with more strength, there was more than

GUI-less Windows Server

Posted on February 19, 2006 by flashweb

Microsoft is going to introduce new version of GUI Less Windows for Web Servers. This will save memory and cpu time used by GUI, that never get used in a web server. Many love Linux servers as it is easy

Chating with Gmail

Posted on February 18, 2006 by flashweb

Gmail is popular email service provided by www.google.com   Recently Gmail.com added chat feature to Gmail. That is you can chat with any one with a Gmail account instantly with out any additional software like Yahoo Messenger or MSN Messenger.

Plesk Server open_basedir Restriction Error

Posted on February 18, 2006 by flashweb

On a Plesk server, when client run a PHP script that need pear, got following error   Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect.File(/usr/share/ pear/DB.php) is not within the allowed path(s):(/var/www/vhosts/ gstacks.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in/var/www/vhosts/ gstacks.com/httpdocs/ cpadmin/db_connect.php on line 9   The problem

Creating Favicon with PhotoShop

Posted on February 16, 2006 by flashweb

Photoshop by default do not allow saving files with .ico extension.   With “ICO (Windows Icon) Format” plug in, you will be able to save images with .ico extension.   You can download the plugin from   http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/   After

Bind init script in FreeBSD Cpanel Server

Posted on February 16, 2006 by flashweb

On FreeBSD 5.4 Cpanel Server, i found the BIND init scripts are not working properly. There was two init scripts at /etc/init.d/named/usr/local/etc/rc.d/020named.sh Both the scripts are not able to start or stop bind. Both have same content, it seems these