January28
To set an alternate SMTP port in Microsoft Outlook Express:
- In Microsoft Outlook Express go to Tools > Accounts
- Click the Mail tab.
- Click the account and then click Properties.
- Click the Advanced tab
- Change “Outgoing mail (SMTP)“. The alternate port will be provided to you by your host, which is generally 25 or 587
- Click Apply and then OK.
To set an alternate SMTP port in Mozilla Thunderbird:
- In Mozilla Thunderbird go to Tools > Account Settings
- Now, select “Outgoing Server (SMTP)” at the bottom of the list that you see in the left panel.
- Select the account and click Edit
- Change Port from 25. The alternate port will be provided to you by your host, which is generally 25 or 587.
- Click OK.
January27
Looking to create a website just like youtube.com , dailymotion.com?
I will highly recommend taking into consideration one of the popular video sharing script- PHPMotion.
PHPmotion is a free video sharing software that also has support for other types of media such as audio/mp3 sharing. PHPMotion- Content Managent System or (media cms application) will allow you to create and run your very own Video Sharing website, Music Sharing Site, Picture Sharing Site.
- PHPmotion is 100% free to download and to use
- Template based design of PHPmotion means you change the look and feel.
- A growing user base of over 100 000 webmastes have already downloaded PHPmotion
- PHPmotion also has a fully featured admin area to manage your site
- Full support for mp3 audio (can be disabled)
- Supports playlists
- Fully CSS based template for easy editing
System Requirements:
Servers - Linux/Unix server
- PHP 4.3 and above (including support of CLI)
- MySQL database server
- LAME MP3 Encoder
- Libogg + Libvorbis
- Mencoder and also Mplayer
- FFMpeg-PHP
- GD Library 2 or higher
- CGI-BIN
- Be able to run background processes
PHP Settings
- open_basedir = (no value)
- upload_max_filesize = 100M
- post_max_size = 100M
- max_execution_time = 1500
- session.gc_maxlifetime = 14000
- safe_mode = off
- Thread saftery = disabled
- enable_dl = On
January20
You can use the following commands to uninstall Tomcat on a cPanel server:
cd /usr/sbin/stoptomcat
rm -f /usr/sbin/starttomcat
rm -f /usr/sbin/startomcat
rm -f /usr/sbin/stoptomcat
It is important that you remove all mod_jk lines from httpd.conf, including addmodule, loadmodule, and include line.
January20
The most possible cause of this error is an incorrect password. You can usually find the correct password in this file: /root/.my.cnf.
The file will contain the first root password the server was given once cPanel is installed. If it still does not work, you will need to reset the mysqld root password. To do so you can follow the below steps:
1. Stop mysqld - /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql stop
2. Stop chkservd to keep it from interfering with mysqld - /etc/rc.d/init.d/chkservd stop
3. Start mysqld without the grant tables - mysqld –skip-grant-tables -u mysql &
4. Now change the pass.
mysql -u root mysql UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD(’new_password’) WHERE user=’root’; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Now you just killall -9 mysqld and start it up normally with it’s safe_mysqld script.
January19
In case if you have ever wondered the difference between Addon Domain and a Parked Domain when adding them from within cPanel, here is what will help you understand:
| Characteristic |
Addon Domains |
Parked Domains |
| Main domain appears in the address bar |
Yes |
No |
| Separate stats |
Yes |
No |
| Apache directive used |
VirtualHost |
ServerAlias |
| Separate logs |
Yes |
No |
| Ideal for multiple domains sharing the same address |
No |
Yes |
| Treated as a subdomain (other than URL) |
Yes |
No |
January18
While doing a mysql start you may sometimes get the following error:
Starting MySQLCouldn’t find MySQL manager (/var/lib/bin/mysql) or server (/var/lib/bin/mysqld_safe)
To fix this you need to comment out or remove the basedir directive line from /etc/my.cnf file
[mysql.server ]
server=mysql
#basedir=/var/lib
Now restart mysql
# service mysql restart
January17
To run cgi/perl file outside cgi-bin in cPanel server you will need to add following lines in .htaccess files so it executes cgi scripts in any folder outside cgi-bin folder.
AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi
Options Includes ExecCGI
January17
To set a folder as enabled for application in IIS:
Open the IIS (Start -> Administrative Tools -> IIS Manager)
Navigate to the site container. Select the specific website from- Web Sites -> site)
Now locate the folder you wish to add the application.
Right click on that folder and choose “Properties”
Here under “Application Settings” click the “Create” button.
Click “OK” and you are done 
January17
You can find the location of the Qmail log file by viewing the syslog configuration file:
cat /etc/syslog.conf
generally the path to it on a Plesk based CentOS VPS will be:
/usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog
Please note a different control panel may have the logfile in a different location.
January17
Log into your VPS using Remote Desktop.
1. Click the start menu and select “Run”
2. Enter the following command:
“C:\SWsoft\Plesk\admin\bin\plesksrvclient.exe” –get
