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 […]
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In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install phpMyAdmin. This tutorial assumes you have already connected your server to ServerPilot and that you have created at least one app on the server. Follow these steps to install phpMyAdmin: Upload and extract the phpMyAdmin archive. Rename and edit the configuration file. Log in to phpMyAdmin. […]
There are a number of measures you can take to prevent your website or VPS from being hacked: Keep your website(s) up-to-date. Remove plugins, themes, or modules that you no longer use. Use passwords that are not easy to guess. Change your passwords regularly. Never use the username ‘admin’ or ‘root’. Make regular backups. Make […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]