Allowing Whm Installed And Use In Share Hosting Account
Apr 20, 2009
This is one of my thoughts and a valid one based on my own experience.
One of the problems with shared hosting account that comes with multiple domain/web hosting, is that all the hosted domains shared one single cpanel and one root directory where all the addon domains directories and files are all jammed up together with the maindomain's directories and files.
Notably is some php scripted sites running on addon domains were unable to function effectively. One such example is using imagevue - a photo slideshow/gallery script. The problem of no photos or photos unable to load/show when the site is called directly from the addon domain [url]
However, when accessed through the maindomain [url] it has no such problem and the photos showed up.
With the above incident and having tried on three other different webhosts, it's clear that something has to be done or otherwise, having multiple domain hosting has no real benefits if you consider the above matters.
As such, the only solution I can think of is to install whm on our shared hosting account so that we can have each added domain to have its own independent cpanel.
So long as we are not doing any reselling activities, there is no reason for the webhost to object or refused.
If your webhost is genuinely care about you and truly to provide an enhanced and efficient webhosting experience, then whm is one way to overcome any shortcomings from existing facility of using a single cpanel for all your multiple addon domains.
Of course, another alternative is to use subdomains from the main domain and redirect all your addon domain sites to the subdomains. That would really defeat the purpose of having addon domains in the first place. Also, why should we? since the hosting account is for multiple domain hosting.
Webhosts offering so-called unlimited domain hosting or limited multiple domain hosting on a single cpanel, should review the existing known issues such as the one mentioned above, and consider using whm to overcome such issues, thus truly provide a pleasant and effective multiple domain web hosting experience to its customers.
Webhosts should tweak and enhance its existing features/softwares/hardwares to improve the overall webhosting services.
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I am a application/systems developer looking for a VPS hosting provider that would allow me upload a customized xen image that I could use as a template for additional VPSs.
Does anyone know of a hosting provider that could do this type of thing?
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I know nothing of server management, nothing about how to manage my VPS Can't even install a simple software and do not know how to secure my VPS on the other hand I am so busy I can't learn at least for a few months have trouble
I have about 5 sites all hosted on my same hosting account. One of those domains is attached to the hosting account. I place my other domains in a folder of a sub-directory of my main domain. This has been working fine, up until today when i noticed a weird error. I give you a little example of how my sites are setup
my main domain: www.maindomain.com
My other sites hosted in a sub-directory of my main domain: www.maindomain.com/sites/site2/ www.maindomain.com/sites/site3/
How my other sites appear on the web: www.site2.com www.site3.com
This works fine for every page until i go to www.site2.com/index.php It redirects to www.maindomain.com/sites/site2/index.php for some reason
I'm selling downloads of music files. The zip files are quite large. I've had several people complain that they get a message that the server resets their connection before the download finishes.
I have a CentOS server running WHM/cPanel and have just had a recent problem pop up:
My SMTP server will only accept connections if the client has their SMTP settings set to use SSL. It won't accept regular, non-SSL connections. Ordinarily I'd welcome the added encryption, however, most of my users who rely on the SMTP server have their mail clients set not to use SSL.
Is this a setting somewhere? If so, can someone direct me as to where it would be, because I've been looking for hours and can't find a thing!
we've been with Softlayer for a little over a year. The service has been good but their support has been a nightmare for us. There was a time that we were under a dos attack and they refused to do anything about it which is what forced us to switch.
But that's not the reason I'm here. My billing ends on the 12th, their terms require you cancel the server 3 days before billing ends. I pay manually each month by pay pal. I tried to cancel the server today, what I assumed was 3 days before the 12th and they told me I couldn't do it. That I had to pay for another full month. So I told them I just won't pay and they threatened me with a late fee. Is there anything legally these people can actually do to me if I don't pay? All they have is my contact information, I don't think they could submit to collections over that without my social security number.
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This is what the current package looks like:
* Directadmin control panel * Apache web server * Exim smtp server * PHP5 scripting language * PHPMyAdmin database control * Unlimited subdomains * SSI server side includes * Centos linux OS * Great uptime * Squirrelmail web mail * MySQL 5 database server * PERL private CGI-BIN * Unlimited domain pointers * Webalizer statistics * 1,000 megabytes of space * 5,000 megabytes of transfer * Unlimited POP3 and FTP * Unlimited mySQL databases * Unlimited sub domains
I ran a shell server on FreeBSD 4.x and was able through (if I recall...) a kernel option to allow users to only see their own processes. For example, if a user ran top it only showed their processes and no others.
I'm racking my brain trying to remember what I did to make that happen and I'm not having much luck with google.
Any other FreeBSD folks here that are familiar with this and care to remind me?
We're running a departmental intranet site on Apache 2.2 (on Windows Server 2003, if that matters). I'm trying to figure out how to post exe files on the web site so I can create a link and users can download the programs.trying various changes to my httpd.conf file, but no matter what I tried I get a 403 Forbidden error and the error.log file shows an error "Options ExecCGI is off in this directory:...".
1) I've tried putting the EXE in various folders. 2) I don't have a .htaccess file and I don't see anything in the httpd.conf file that seems to specifically relate to access for this file type. 3) If I put a zip file in the same folders, I am able to download or open it. 4) The httpd.conf file should be whatever was created when we installed Apache.
When trying to make a subdomain on my main cpanel domain, through cpanel, it acts like it is making it, and adds the dns entry, but it does not work. All other domains work fine.
I submitted a ticket to buycpanel, they asked for the login information this morning, and have not heard back from them. This has happened every since they installed cpanel.
I am hoping its something simple that one of you knowledgeable people may know how to fix.
I am going to buy a godaddy wildcard subdomain SSL certificate. Basically I want the ability to enable and disable ssl on certain subdomains from cpanel. Basically I am going to charge customers extra for an SSL enabled subdomain.
Can I create an .htaccess file in the home folder of the subdomain which forces SSL or unforces/disables SSL? Maybe also do mod_rewrite so for example if they paid extra for ssl support:
[url] WOULD AUTO-REDIRECT TO [url] Also if they didnt pay for SSL
On a new server we have running CPanel, we have manually created a user account and when i try and log into mydomain.com/whm with that username/password it doesn't let me.
Now my second thought is that I should be logging into mydomain.com/cpanel rather than mydomain.com/whm but I get a 404 for /cpanel.
If i'm logged in as root, i cannot transfer into the user account cpanel either...
Recently I've upgraded my MySQL server. I connect to it via a conection from NIC to NIC (Internal IP addresses). Since the upgrade/format, I've managed to get everything back to the way it was. Everything works fine for 15-20 minutes. Then the PHP server can no longer access the MySQL server.
I tried logging in from the PHP server, I get access denied. I then tried logging in locally, on the MySQL server and I get in fine...
It's not like it's a firewall issue though, it's strange...
I tried updating PHP/MySQL to a few releases, even the RC's to no avail...
Something to note is that when I try restarting MySQL it can take 4-5 minutes, sometimes not even complete.
Very often the firewall automatically ban some of my customers IP who has fix IP to access to their webmail and website, because they have over 100 staffs, maybe that is why the IP was banned automatically for having too many connections to the server.
Everytime I unban the IP, it keeps being banned again. I have to stop / restart iptables to flush it.
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So this is what I think I need, please feel free to make suggestions on hosts or other considerations.
I am trying to determine the best design approach for this business need.
There are multiple URLs:
[url] [url] [url]
The URLs are going to be specific to a topic but the displaying of the pages is template based. For example, there is 1 JSP page that will display the content for a topic based on an ID.
[url]is ID 1 in my database table. [url]is ID 2 in my database table. [url]is ID 3 in my database table.
So I could do a form post to display the specific content for a topic.
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Here is my question.
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Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")
I am looking for feedback on the best approach so if there is an option that I have not listed that is better, please let me know.
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