Web Hosting, cPanel, Plesk, cPanel Help, Plesk Help, Tutorials, Articles » Others http://www.totallytech.com Web Hosting Articles, Web hosting FAQ's, Control Panel Help & Updates. Thu, 27 May 2010 03:48:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 How to change SMTP port number http://www.totallytech.com/how-to-change-smtp-port-number/ http://www.totallytech.com/how-to-change-smtp-port-number/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:08:17 +0000 Admin http://www.totallytech.com/how-to-change-smtp-port-number/ To set an alternate SMTP port in Microsoft Outlook Express:

  1. In Microsoft Outlook Express  go to Tools > Accounts
  2. Click the Mail tab.
  3. Click the account and then click Properties.
  4. Click the Advanced tab
  5. Change “Outgoing mail (SMTP)“. The alternate port will be provided to you by your host, which is generally 25 or 587
  6. Click Apply and then OK.

To set an alternate SMTP port in Mozilla Thunderbird:

  1. In Mozilla Thunderbird go to Tools > Account Settings
  2. Now, select “Outgoing Server (SMTP)” at the bottom of the list that you see in the left panel.
  3. Select the account and click Edit
  4. Change Port from 25. The alternate port will be provided to you by your host, which is generally 25 or 587.
  5. Click OK.
]]> http://www.totallytech.com/how-to-change-smtp-port-number/feed/ 1 PHPMotion- Free Video Sharing Script, Youtube Clone, media sharing script, social networking script http://www.totallytech.com/phpmotion-free-video-sharing-script-youtube-clone-media-sharing-script-social-networking-script/ http://www.totallytech.com/phpmotion-free-video-sharing-script-youtube-clone-media-sharing-script-social-networking-script/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:04:08 +0000 Admin http://www.totallytech.com/phpmotion-free-video-sharing-script-youtube-clone-media-sharing-script-social-networking-script/ 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
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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.

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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

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Modify /etc/proftpd.conf

Add RootLogin off

Restart ProFTP

/sbin/service proftpd stop
/sbin/service proftpd start

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Download the source
wget http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/mod_evasive/mod_evasive_1.10.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf mod_evasive_1.10.1.tar.gz
cd mod_evasive

Compile in the mod_evasive apache module using apxs
For Apache 2
/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -i -a -c mod_evasive20.c

For Apache 1.3
/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -i -a -c mod_evasive.c

If the apxs path is not /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs replace it with the appropriate path

Edit your httpd.conf /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

Add the below lines:
======================
DOSHashTableSize 3097
DOSPageCount 2
DOSSiteCount 50
DOSPageInterval 1
DOSSiteInterval 1
DOSBlockingPeriod 10
DOSEmailNotify user@yourdomain.com
======================
Restart apcahe:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

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At the command line prompt type:

exim -qff

If you need to turn on debugging for a more detailed picture when flushing the mail queue then use the following command:

exim -qff -d9

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MySQL has built-in functionality to capture slow query log or identify queries that take a long time to execute. You can enable the full SQL queries logs to a file or only slow running queries log.

To enable you just need to add some lines to your my.cnf file, and restart. Add the following:

* To enable slow Query Log only

log-slow-queries = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
long_query_time = 1

After enabling slow query, mysqld writes a statement to the slow query log file and it consists of all SQL statements that took more than long_query_time seconds to execute. The time to acquire the initial table locks is not counted as execution time. mysqld only log after SQL statements has been executed and after all locks have been released, so log order might be different from execution order. The minimum and default values of long_query_time are 1 and 10, respectively.

  * To enable full Log Query

log=/var/log/mysqldquery.log

The above will log all queries to the log file.

Restart MySql after making the changes.

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Then first please check the permissions of your folder and .htaccess file because folder permission are most likely 755 and .htaccess permission 644. Permissions can be changed via FTP or SSH.

In case you still are getting the same problem, then it might be the Frontpage Extensions causing the problem. To fix:

* Login into your CPanel account
* Click on Frontpage Extensions icon
* Click on Reinstall extensions button beside your problem domain.
* Done.

(make sure to have a backup copy of your data before reinstalling Frontpage)

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TELNET server listens for incoming messages on port 23, and sends outgoing messages to port 23.

1. Login to your server through SSH and su to root.

2. Type pico /etc/xinetd.d/telnet

3. Look for the line: disable = no and replace with disable = yes

4. Now restart the inetd service: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

5. Turn off it through chkconfig as well because it can still start through that.
/sbin/chkconfig telnet off

6. Scan your server to ensure port 23 is closed.
nmap -sT -O localhost
Also run ps -aux | grep telnet and if you find anything other than “grep telnet” you may kill the process.

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