To change your control panel [and customer login] password, click on ‘PASSWORD’ at the top of the screen. You enter your current password and then your new password twice. Click “Submit” to confirm and then “save”. The control panel will reject your password if it is too short or contains invalid characters. Important Note: This […]
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To check disk space and bandwidth, click on the “Statistics” icon from the control panel menu. At the top of your screen, you’ll see these lists: The numbers in the lists represent megabytes, 1000 megabytes is about 1 gigabyte. You will be provided with two different disk space/bandwidth measurements. The first list is used by […]
At the beginning of your account are these folders: /backups /domains /mail /public_html /backups The /backups folder contains all backups created by the control panel. You will not have a /backup folder until you create a backup in the control panel. /domains The /domains folder contains the files related to your hosting account(s). Each domain […]
The default file for each web folder is index.html. This means that visitors who have access to http://www.uwdomeinnaam.com are actually redirected by the server to http://www.uwdomeinnaam.com/index.html. This works for every publicly accessible folder on your system, including the subdomains. When you want to upload the main website, don’t forget to place a index.html in each […]
Certain files can be changed within the file manager. To edit a file, click the “Edit” link in the “Action” column next to the file. In this example, we edit dns.html. To save the file click the “Save As” button. The “Preview HTML” button will open the document in a new window, to show you […]
Since version 1.5, DirectAdmin has added Let’s Encrypt to their control panel. With Let’s Enrypt you can add SSL Certificates to your website completely free of charge. To set up Let’s Encrypt on DirectAdmin, you must first have version 1.5 installed. # /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin v Version: DirectAdmin v.1.50.0 By default, Let’s Encrypt is disabled within DirectAdmin, […]
CustomBuild 1.x If you are using php 5.2 on a CLI or CGI (SUPHP) and prefer to use PHP 5.6, you can do so with the following commados: cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild ./build set php5_ver 5.6 ./build update ./build php n ./build rewrite_confs NOTE: It is possible that by changing your PHP version, scripts on your server […]
A list of all databases is present in the MySQL databases menu. To delete a database, check the box next to the database name you want to delete and then click on the “Delete Selected” key. In the picture above, we remove the database name username_data1.
The current permission level is listed under the “Permian” column (second column). To change the permission level of a file or folder: 1. Check the checkbox (last column) next to the file(s) and/or folder(s) you want to change. 2. Type the permission number in the text box. 3. Click on the “Set Permission” button. The […]
To log out, click on the logout button. You will see a screen confirming that you have logged out. Important note: Many browsers keep your control panel data in the temporary memory of that browser, even after you log out. If you’re not the only one using your computer, make sure to close all active […]