HostOnNet Blog

Disable DNS Recursion on Windiows Server

Posted on February 3, 2016 by admin

To disable DNS Recursion on Windows Server, login to server via Remote Desktop Connection. Start Microsoft DNS Manager. Right click server name, take property. In Properties panel, go to Advanced tab check Disable recursion and click OK. Now you need

EasyApache 4 talk sides from Dallas cPanel Conference

Posted on January 23, 2016 by admin

EasyApache 4 is available in Cpanel servers to install and manage Apache and PHP. EasyApache 3 used to compile Apache/PHP from source. This is time consuming process. With EasyApache 4, Apache and PHP installed with yum. Some of the features

OpenSSH client Vulnerability CVE-2016-0777

Posted on January 15, 2016 by admin

OpenSSH client have a critical vlunerability, this allow compromised servers steal your private key. This is because an expeirmental feature in SSH Client, UseRoaming is enabled by default. You can find more about this bug at http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.1p2 With latest version,

Sending mail from command line

Posted on January 14, 2016 by admin

Mail API – Transaction Email Service providers. Free Email Hosting YourDomain.com Spam Filter Solutions Installing Scrollout F1 Email Gateway MailScanner Check Mail Server mail-tester.com – check if your mail server settings. Mail using sendmail command To debug email servers, you

Create MySQL User

Posted on January 13, 2016 by admin

To create a MySQL user, run Allow Access to all databases If you want to allow new user to have access to all database, run Allow access from Remote Host To allow access from remote host, create user with If

Install Composer

Posted on January 12, 2016 by admin

Composer is PHP package manager. Something like npm, pip etc.. used by other languages. To install composer, run Install dependency using composer List Installed Packages Update Packages

ansible

Posted on January 8, 2016 by admin

Ansible is a DevOps tool, used for managing servers. Ansible allow you to manage multiple servers easily. With ansible playbook, you can automate complex server administration and deployment tasks. Installing Ansible To install Ansible on Ubuntu, run Quick Start We

lftp using active mode for file transfer

Posted on January 4, 2016 by admin

By default lftp and ftp use Passive Mode. I had to FTP a file from a server to remote server. Due to firewall settings, i was not able to upload file as FTP session get stuck on This is because

Zoho Mail Logo

How to Setup Custom URL for Zoho Mail in cPanel

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Melbin Solomon

You can create your own custom url to access Zoho mail very easily. Configure custom URL as mail.yourdomain.com For that you need to add a CNAME record as mail.yourdomain.com and point it to business.zoho.com. Follow the steps to do this

GIT fatal: Unable to find remote helper for ‘https’

Posted on December 30, 2015 by admin

On a CentOS 6 server, when cloning repo from GIT, i got following error root@server48 [~]# git clone https://github.com/gmarik/vundle ~/.vim/bundle/vundle Cloning into /root/.vim/bundle/vundle… fatal: Unable to find remote helper for ‘https’ root@server48 [~]# This is because git was installed from