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 their service the IP of the site no longer points to the server and thus […]

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 allow it to be cPanel friendly!  This will require SSH access and some editing via

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 one is not present already in your public_html (or main doc root) for the site.

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 few times this week already, so I decided to write a quick little post on

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 in it a couple of ways!  One is easy if you are starting out fresh

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” does low level coping of data.  It can create a wide variety of files and

So you just updated your cPanel server to a new version of MYSQL or cPanel just decided to stop working properly.  And now when you made a user in cPanel for a MYSQL database it does not appear to work.  You are sure the password is correct and still getting access denied?  Good chance cPanel

If you are using Django and wish to check what version it is using you can issue the following from the command line in linux. python import django print django.VERSION This will launch python, and you should be at a prompt such as  >>> .  Enter the next 2 commands.  To exit python press CTRL-D.

(Update 6-12-2011:  Meego 1.2 was released on 5-19-2011, and nothing has changed in this setup, so this guide still applies to getting your broadcom wireless chipset to run.  Thus why it it named “.. and above” ) So you are running the newest Meego OS for your netbook, ( wait you are not?  Then you should! )