The easiest way to test these kinds of things is to use curl. I made a request in the Mac terminal for your site like this: $ curl -I http://www.servermeister.nl curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to www.servermeister.com:-9838 The “-I” flag means to just show the header response. This tells me it couldn’t […]
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ServerAvatar is a cloud service for hosting WordPress and other PHP websites on servers at ServerMeister, Linode, Rackspace, or anywhere else. You can think of ServerAvatar as a modern, centralized hosting control panel. ServerAvatar does not provide servers, ServerMeister does. Instead, we make it easy to host PHP sites on your own servers. Those servers […]
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, […]
ServerAvatar installs various packages on your server. Some of these packages are from Ubuntu’s repositories. Packages provided by us are designed to not conflict with packages from Ubuntu. However, if you install another webserver that runs on port 80, 81, or 443, your website’s may no longer work. Apache 2.4 Apache listens only on localhost […]
ServerAvatar is an automated service for managing your WordPress sites and other PHP apps hosted with cloud servers on ServerMeister and other hosting providers. This series will discuss how ServerAvatar manages your server’s web stack along with how to add and remove servers to your ServerAvatar account. Server Requirements What kind of server can be […]
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 […]
ServerAvatar configures a LAMPstack on your server. LAMP stands for Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP. ServerAvatar configures Apache as the public-facing web server because it is the mainly used webserver.