Server and Hosting Tips
Practical System Administration Guides, Fixes, and Configuration Notes
Practical guides and troubleshooting notes for hosting, servers, SSL, DNS, and common admin tools, written in a clear, step by step way.
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What you will find on Mos Mos Tech
Mos Mos Tech is a place for the kind of fixes you end up needing at 2 AM. A lot of posts focus on cPanel and hosting work, things like changing docroots, fixing SSL installs, working with wildcard certs, and dealing with Cloudflare settings when validation fails. You will also see .htaccess rules, Apache paths, and simple command examples you can copy and adapt. The goal is not to tell a big story. It is to keep the steps clear so you can get the job done and move on.
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AutoSSl with Cloudflare
With cPanel offering autossl to provide any site with DNS that points to the server with a free SSL this has been great for many domains, however many people use CloudFlare as a caching service and the proxy aspect of…
CPanel Change the ip of an add-on domain or subdomain
In cPanel by default any addon domain or subdomain will share the IP of the main domain / account it was made under. But what if you wanted a dedicated IP? This can be done but not within cPanel and…
htacess rewrite rule to remove a subfolder from a url
Using .htaccess you can do many things. This small tidbit will focus on removing and rewriting (mask, hide) the subfolder aspect on a URL to only have the base domain present. You will want to create a .htaccess file if…
Change cpanel document root (docroot)
How to change a document root ( docroot / webroot / where you put your files so they can be seen online) for a cPanel account is something that pops up from time to time. Or in my case a…
Wild card ssl certs and cpanel
Using cPanel? Great it helps with a lot of things for a non linux admin to be up and running. But SSLs it is cPanel’s way or the highway! But if you have a wildcard SSL cert you can use…
creating test files in linux
So you want to test an upload in linux and need a file to test with? That test also needs to be 20megs in size? Well good news everybody this can easily be done in linux. Using the command “dd”…
