LOG INTO YOUR CPANEL ACCOUNT
Instructions on how to access your cPanel and Customer Area are
emailed to you when your account is provisioned. Follow the
instructions and get in touch [1] if you have any issues. If you have
lost the email with the inst...
Oh no! We hope your site hasn't been hacked, but if it has... no
fear. There are some things you can do to help re-secure your site and
get it up and rolling. Check out the selections below and follow the
most applicable directions to your case. If you...
When you see a 403 Forbidden error, that means that you don't have
permission to view the requested file or resource. While sometimes
this is intentional, other times it is due to misconfigured
permissions. The top reasons for this error are permission...
Internal server errors can be caused by a few different things. We're
going to go over the most common reasons you'll see a 500 error and
what to do about it.
TROUBLESHOOT
To find out what's causing the 500 error:
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Log into cPanel [1]
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If you receive a 503 Service Unavailable error message when trying to
go to your website, please review the information below. You can
always contact Support [1] via live chat regarding this issue.
WHAT IS A 503 ERROR?
A 503 error message indicates...
This guide is intended as a basic introduction of Advanced Policy
Firewall (APF) and Brute Force Detection (BFD). For more detailed
information, feel free to contact u [1]s and we'll be glad to help
you. See the end of the article for links to the deve...
A Secure Socket Layer (or SSL) Certificate [1] provides encrypted
data transfer between a server and a browser.
If you are transmitting sensitive information like credit card
numbers or personal information, you need to secure it with SSL
encryptio...
WHAT IS AN IP?
An IP address is the location of a computer on the internet.
50.22.14.98
We always provides static, public IPs on servers. We offer shared by
default and dedicated by request [1]. To have a dedicated IP, you must
also have an SSL cer...
A Wildcard SSL Certificate enables SSL encryption on multiple
subdomains using a single certificate. Subdomains on the certificate
must all share the same primary domain.
For instance, _example.com, www.example.com, blog.example.com,
store.example.com _...
When you visit a URL and get a 'browser not trusted' or similar error,
that may mean that the SSL certificate for this URL doesn't match the
actual URL. The certificate must match the URL you're visiting.
The certificate domain name must match the URL y...
AWSTATS CONFIG FILE LOCATION
The AWStats config file is located in the
'/home/_yourusername_/tmp/awstats/' directory (or just 'tmp/awstats'
from your home directory). It is called 'awstats._yoursitename_.conf',
where _yoursitename_ is the name of your...
There are two different ways to use CloudFlare: basic mode and
advanced mode.
Basic mode does not require you to change your nameserver or manage
your own DNS records, and is set up by our cPanel Install Plugin. This
is the simplest and easiest way to g...
JACKOL'S DEN
Great cheatsheet for .htaccess with a good range of examples for most
needs: http://www.thejackol.com/htaccess-cheatsheet/ [1]
APACHE
Official documentation here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html [2]
MOD_REWRITE ...
For basic protection CloudFlare is free. However some additional
features (SSL support for CloudFlare and Live Updating Statistics) may
require an additional payment. You can see more information about
CloudFlare Pro by visiting CloudFlare.com [1].
Links...
There are some limitations of the CloudFlare system:
* Currently, requests must be directed to www.$domain instead of
$domain (which means you may need to make some configuration changes).
* CloudFlare may affect internal statistic programs that read...
CLOUDFLARE, THE PRODUCT
CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your
website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is
routed through their intelligent global network. CloudFlare
automatically optimizes the deliver...
Secure Shell (SSH) provides secure access to the shell environment on
your account. Below we've outlined some common issues you may
encounter when using SSH, and how you can possibly resolve those
issues.
COMMON SSH ISSUES
\"TOO MANY AUTHENTICATION ...
Also known as a landing page or an under-construction page, a
one-page site is the perfect solution for a temporary place holder OR
as an efficient single page website. The site could tell visitors that
your real site is coming soon, and list any impor...
You can redirect your website's visitors from a source URL to a
target URL with any of three different commonly used methods. For
instance, if you want to direct your customers who would normally hit
'www.example.com' to 'www.examples.com', you would s...
WHAT ARE SITEMAPS?
Sitemaps are designed to provide search engines like Google, Yahoo!
and Bing with a list of a website's pages to include in search
results. The Google-developed XML Sitemap is the most commonly
recommended sitemap format. An XML Sit...
If you have VPS or Dedicated server hosting, you may want to disable
the TRACE or TRACK methods for the Apache web server. Disabling it is
also required for PCI Compliancy, if that's of interest to you. It's
super easy to disable tracing for Apache if ...
Using the basic mode (cPanel plugin), you can disable CloudFlare by
simply deactivating the service for any subdomain for which it is
active. This is done by clicking the orange cloud buttons so that they
become gray.
Processing stats and logs is resource-intensive. Sometimes, if the
processor load is high or if there is too much memory usage, the
virtualization software will kill off a running process to keep your
VPS within it's resource limits.
UPDATING MANUALL...
The commands below are run in Shell (Terminal,) so SSH access, which
is enabled on your account by default, is required to use them. In the
future this page may include compressing/archiving files using a
programming language such as PHP or Ruby.
GET...
Most operating systems and DNS clients will automatically cache IP
Addresses and other DNS results to speed up subsequent requests to the
same hostname. Sometimes bad results will be cached and therefore need
to be cleared from the cache in order for y...
_Note: you do NOT need to generate/use keys to access your account
via SSH._
This tutorial will show you how to generate a public/private SSH key
pair on a Windows operation system using PuTTYgen (PuTTY Key
Generator) and then install it on your SEO...
Do you need to share the power of root with other users, but you'd
rather not disclose the root password? This article will explain how
to share root access through SSH.
When a server is managed by multiple people, it may become practical
to provide...
As a web designer or developer, it is important to know how to use
the htaccess file to your advantage. It is a very powerful tool, and
can even work as a deterrent for bandwidth thieves, exploits, and
hackers. Below are some common examples of rules t...
You may have changed the hostname on your VPS or upgraded cPanel, and
now you see this error when attempting to use WHM or cPanel: "Invalid
License File".
You're seeing that error because your cPanel license is tied to the
hostname on your server. _...
A new SEO IP Manager is now available in WHM to replace the old IP
Manager! This new plugin has a much cleaner interface and better
control of the IP Pool. To use it...
* Log into WHM [1]
* Navigate to Plugins, then SEO IP Manager
The new interfa...
Here are some basic commands to help you get started with Linux Shell
commands. If you don't currently have Shell access, you can create a
ticket [1] requesting access.
Access Shell [2]
Log Into the Server [3]
View Directories [4]
Navigate Directori...
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Create a file called CLEANUP.PHP and add the following code to it
(where your specific info is subbed into the section below 'Magento
Maintenance Script')
global->resources->default_setup->connection->host; $db['name'] =
$xml->global->resources...
If you received a 'Error: SSL received a record that exceeded the
maximum permissible length' error, like the one shown below, when
trying to load SSL on your site, read on!
PRIVATE SSL
If you are encountering the error above when attempting to load SSL...
You can now modify the PHP version on your domain super easily, if
you're a current Shared hosting customer, with the PHP Selector module
in cPanel.
USE PHP SELECTOR
WHAT IS PHP SELECTOR?
PHP Selector resides in your cPanel dashboard. You can modify t...
The SEO Web Hostingor Acceleration stack is designed to provide
greater levels of scale for Dedicated and Cloud VPS servers that
receive high amounts of traffic or that require additional performance
through the features provided in the acceleration st...
OVERVIEW
The public_html folder is the web root for your primary domain name.
This means that public_html is the folder where you put all website
files which you want to appear when someone types your main domain
(the one you provided when you signed ...
To reset the file and directory permissions for Magento back to their
default and secure permissions, run the following commands from the
directory where Magento is installed:
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; find . -type d -exec chmod 755
{} \;...
THE BASICS
SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer.
It is a mechanism for encrypting data between your computer and
another, as well as verifying the identity of a server. One can
specify a special URL to tell a web browser that it needs to open a
se...
In order for people to find your website, you will need to configure
DNS and set nameservers. You can either use our nameservers, or you
can use third-party name servers. Either way, you would need to
configure them so your domain works with your SEO Web ...
SETTING UP KOKEN ON YOUR SHARED HOSTING
First download the latest version of Koken from the website at
http://www.koken.me [1]
Then log into your cPanel:
_Step 1_: Create A Database using MySQL® Database Wizard (be sure to
write down the DB na...
SOFTACULOUS is an auto-installer for cPanel that has 266+ scripts [1]
that auto-install quickly with one easy step. You must have a
Dedicated Server, VPS, or Cloud Plan with cPanel to use Softaculous.
Download: http://www.softaculous.com/softaculous...
SSH (secure shell) is available upon request. If you would like SSH
access on your account, please mail help@seowebhosting.net [1] or open
a support request [2] and it will be set up as soon as possible.
Please include your server IP address [3] and yo...
Stat programs generally analyze a server's log file, which stores
information on every single visitor, to gather information such as
unique views, hits from search engines, total bandwidth used when, and
more useful information. In cPanel, there's AWSt...
WHAT IS A VPS?
Virtualization, in computing, refers to the act of creating a virtual
(rather than actual) version of something, including but not limited
to a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS),
storage device, or computer netwo...
ENABLE GZIP COMPRESSION
To enable Gzip compression on your site file types in a Shared
Hosting plan:
_NOTE: shared servers all have mod_deflate enabled which will allow
for compression of your site content using Gzip encoding._
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Log into cPanel...
In the world of web design and programming, _script_ describes a
small non-compiled program written for a scripting language or command
interpreter. A _scripting language_, used by developers and web
designers, is a programming language that supports ...
FTP OVERVIEW
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is a commonly used protocol for
exchanging files over any network that supports the TCP/IP protocol
(such as the Internet or an intranet).
There are two computers involved in an FTP transfer: a server and a
...
HACKED FACTS
Are you getting hacked and you're not sure why? In this article we'll
explain some of the most common ways a website gets hacked and what
that means relative to a server's general security.
99% OF SUCCESSFUL WEB APPLICATION EXPLOITS AND ...
The document root is the folder where the website files for a domain
name, your website, are stored. Since cPanel allows for multiple
domain names (add-on domains [1] AND subdomains), you need to have a
unique folder for each domain.
Your primary do...
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