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Support of the day: Software Management System yum

yum is software installation tool for Red Hat Linux and Fedora Linux. yum commands are typically run as yum <command> <package name/s>. By default, yum will automatically attempt to check all configured repositories to resolve all package dependencies during an installation/upgrade. Here is a list of the most common and used yum commands: yum list all To list all packages that are available to use the yum command. yum install <package name/s> Used to install the latest version of ... More

March 18th, 2011

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Support of the day: Establish connection for FTP daemon

Here are three steps that are necessary for the FTP daemon to allow connections: A non-root user must be created. The vsftp daemon must be started, you can do this with "/etc/init.d/vsftpd start". The firewall must allow port 21. You can add the firewall run in webmin or by editing /etc/sysconfig/iptables, then restarting the firewall with "/etc/init.d/iptables restart" The ftp user will have permission in their home directory. In order for the ftp user to have permission to upload, create any folder or ... More

March 14th, 2011

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1. mammann | March 18th, 2011 at 11:45 am

Dear Ms. Ealy,

we, profusely, apologize for the inconvenience.

But we are not able to verify your account with the email address you posted. Please open up a refund ticket in our ticketing system and we will take care of your request.

Thank you,
ServerPronto

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Support of the day: Configure WHM/cPANEL with a SSL Certificate

If you try to access CPanel WHM via https://server.domain.com:2087/ and the error “There is a problem with this website's security certificate” comes up it can be because it uses a default SSL certificate loaded during the automated install and you need to update it with your personalized certificate. To have a non-self-signed certificate you will need to create a certificate request using the domain and credentials you intend to connect with. Then upload that cert request to an SSL ... More

March 10th, 2011

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Support of the day: Change configuration settings in Apache with .htaccess files

When changing configuration settings in Apache using directives in .htaccess files make sure: - The full directory content is listed with: ls -a to view hidden file that start with "." - ensure Apache can use .htaccess, it is necessary to verify that option is enabled - enabled .htaccess in httpd.conf How-To-Do: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html

March 9th, 2011

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Support of the day: Setup FTP Server

If you have problems setting up an FTP server or issues accessing your FTP site, here are two basic tips that have helped our customers before to make their FTP server work properly. Check if the FTP daemon your are using is installed correctly and is running Verify the software firewall rules The FTP server should be allowed to accept TCP connections to port 21, and to make TCP connections from port 20 to any port ... More

March 7th, 2011

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Support of the day: Check installed hardware in Linux

At ServerPronto we build our customer’s orders precisely and accurately. We do double duty on quality control during the provisioning process, still we encourage our customers to check the hardware settings of the server you ordered. Linux commands to check hardware: Harddrive fdisk –l Memory cat /proc/meminfo CPU cat /proc/cpuinfo

March 6th, 2011

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Support of the day: Manage slave drives and partitions in Linux and Win

Managing the hard drive on a server, meaning creating/ removing partitions and formatting/ activating slave drives is a vital step in setting up a server that we usually do for our customers. But sometimes users want to manage their storage by themselves; here is how to do it: Linux: to get an overview of your hard drives and to see partitions such as /dev/hda and /dev/hdb fdisk –l to manage the slave drive fdisk /dev/hdb p - to ... More

March 4th, 2011

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Support of the day: Open/Close Ports on Ubuntu distributions

IPTables is an application program that allows to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IP packet filter rules provided by the Linux kernel. All IPTables rules are stored on /etc/iptables.rules You can open/close any port from it and then restart the network by running "etc/init.d/networking restart" Before opening or closing ports, we recommend to first verify if the port is open or closed and who is using the port. There a number of different commands: Commands to verify ports: nmap IP#... More

March 2nd, 2011

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1. demogar | March 2nd, 2011 at 3:50 pm

There’s an easier way to do the same under Ubuntu: you may use ufw.

Check it out:
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/firewall.html

Regards.

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