Server Management

Morning All, Can someone please try to point me in the right direction, I have a Photography and print site up the web at the moment, www.iconic-images.com I would like the visitor to be able to "upload" there own image on to the site with contact details so it can be made into a canvas print and delivered. I guess I will need a form of some kind linked to PayPal this I'm ok with but how do I get my hands on a simple upload script? If anyone is interested in throwing a quote for the above mentioned work pls let me know...

Hey everyone, I've got a little problem at the moment and I really need some help... I've got a client who has his current website/domain with Easyspace. He's told me he's got a number of domains on Easyspace (.co.uk - .tv - .eu - .me). Anyway - I normally use UK2 for my domains/hosting and their business package would be great for what I need. The only problem is that my client's main marketed website [and email address] is the .tv domain and UK2 don't support these. I've also looked on Easyspace and it looks like they charge to release domains. Can someone please help me with this as I don't know what to do (e.g. transfer 3 across and leave .tv/find a comple…

I hope you can help, I have just put up a new website. The files in my old website were a bit of a mess with all the html,jpegs,gifs in the root file. I thought I would make it tidy with my new site and put everything in folders. This worked fine, so instead of my htm files being in the root they are now in a folder 'html' the 'index' htm being the only file in the root. A problem has arisen when I do a 'Google ' search for my site, when I click on it I get page not found, the reason being that it is looking for my products page as /products.htm when my new site this is/html/products.htm so the search is not finding it. I thought this would simply be a case of re…

Hi All, I am trying to tidy up my dynamic URL's using http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/ (Online Rewrite Wizard) but for some reason when i create a .htaccess file and place the code given into it, nothing happens, not even any errors are displayed. I want to rewrite: http://www.ukfishersonline.com/page.php?id=137 to http://www.ukfishersonline.com/137.php and i believe the following code should so this. RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.php$ /page.php?id=$1 [L] I have tested my .htaccess so i know it works. but the code above does nothing Any help would be greate

Okay, first the obligatory background. I've got a reseller package, administered via cPanel/WHM, all working nicely. I have a client's web site hosted, and that's working. I have a contact form on the site, which allows people to send messages to people, but that's not working. The problem, as far as I can tell, is to do with the email delivery route. The domain's DNS is handled by another company, so I don't have access to that, but basically the only traffic that comes to my server is for the web site, I have no reference to the mail server at all. When the web site tries to send an e-mail the server recognises that it's on the same domain and tries to deliver …

I need help with disabling read access to files stored in specific directory in IIS 7.0 (Windows 2008). In Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6.0) it was simple: Properties->Home directory and simply uncheck the "Read" check box. I tried to disable read access in IIS 7.0 using "Edit permissions" but then my application also can not access files located in that directory. Thank you! BR Faik

what ftp software is best? cheers

Hi, I am currently converting my 150+ page static website to be dynamic via a CMS that i have built. due to rankings on search engines, i would like to keep the same URL's (not sure if this is possible) At the moment when i create a page via my CMS it gives it the following URL "page.php?=[iD]" would it be possible to create a page and give it a URL i want.... for example if my static site has a page called "press-releases.html" can my dynamic site have the same URL? Thanks in advance

I wanted to use Uniserver 3.5 for SQL server in Vista 32. But while creating new drive 'W', two messages appear which say windows firewall is restricting few files. Then when the index file opens in the browser, it says it can't locate local host. Would appreciate if someone can help me out.

Hi guys, im working on a website for a mate, and have been trying to upload an mp3 (it is his, not a copyrighted piece) but i am hitting a problem. the file is called states.mp3 and i am using filezilla,and it says that it has transfferred successfully, but i cant actually get to it, and its not listed in any of my directories. any help is appreciated. Reaper

Hi guys. I wold like to know more about DNS. Gimme examples how use-it. And: if a have an account for host, example. test123.110mb.com , and an domain example.com , how I can put the files hosted in test123.110mb.com , acessible in test123.example.com? Regards

I maintain a website for a youth club (8-12yrs) which contains several photo galleries of children (mainly participating in sports activities). I have complete editorial control over the content and I am very careful not to include photos which could be remotely suggestive or of interest to paedophiles etc. However, on checking my web statistics I realise that a referrers url has linked to us several times and it's clearly a porn site - what 'type' I don't know but having Google'd it, it warns of explicit adult content etc. I'm not inclined to visit to check where or how they are linking as it may conytain child pornography and you'll understand that's the last t…

Not sure if this is in the right section but here goes. I have a website that was hosted 1&1, after a few issues I decided to move to another host. I have now noticed that the internal links on our site no longer work so they can no longer be accessed via www.examplesite.com/sub-page, they have to be accessed via www.examplesite.com/sub-page.html. Does anyone know how to enable rewrites to enable me to fix them again? Thanks in advance.

I mean seriously. Why. I know PHP and .net and asp and bla bla bla developers and they are happy to code with those languages, but when it comes to the frontend stuff they just dont give a damn. So how do you get straight into the server side stuff? Do you have overdeveloped brains in that area, or what?

Hello! I thought i'd post the problem here on the forum, as it's been niggling me for a little bit. I'm normally pretty good with .htaccess, but can't seem to put my finger on the following: I'm looking to re-direct requests for www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/index.php to just www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/ I only want it to work for requests ONLY for index.php not with anything else e.g. I would not want redirect anything like the following index.php?showtopic=100 or index.php?act=Reg&CODE=00 etc etc... The following code I wrote does this, but unfortunately, people can't register because once they click submit registration - they are redirected to the ho…

Hey ppl I need to 'flush' my DNS cache in order to be able to view my website i have recently put up for testing. With support from my host providers we have deduced this; it can be viewed on two other comps in the house no prob. I have two questions then; Can someone explain to me exactly what this means? Also then are there any mac users that use terminal here that can explain the process? I have found out what the commands are i need to run; dnscacheutil -flushcache I think I just need to type that straight into the window but is there anything else I should know? I do have the missing manual and do plan on learning how to use it prope…

Hi there. i have been given some mx records to change, i am in my domain control panel but have no idea which part goes where, could someone please direct me? the mx records look like this, how to i implement them into this form? mx10.simplymail.com. mx20.simplymail.com. thanks mark

Someone I am helping out has come across something that I haven't tried before and so hadn't found the error until they asked me the cure. Basically, we both use Filezilla to upload files but they have also been using the right click > View/Edit option which opens HTML and PHP files in notepad. Yet, under advice from me, they installed Firefox and now when they right click on an HTML file an error about file association comes up. I get the same error. I have checked file associations under control panel and the file types are set to IE. Yet this is not unusual since I want web pages to open in a browser. But how do I set the edit option? Hope this makes…

I hope I have posted this query in the right area. Trouble is I am not sure what the exact problem I am facing is based upon but I thought it could be server related in a way... A friend of a friend of mine (who I will call bob) asked me to update a very old website which has not been touched for maybe 10 years. It was setup for a company when he was one two of the co. directors and he did not have much dealings with it. Since then his partner left the company and he now wants to update the website. After a couple of weeks research he has managed to provide me with some details concerning the website setup. He gave me a BT Connect administration user name and …

When I set up my directories and save my files, I usually use lowercase. Is this normal practice for everyone else, or is it a convention? What problems could you get if you use uppercase?

Hi Guys just recently started to learn XHTML & CSS and have started to put a few web pages together. I have been asked by a friend if i could make a few changes to his existing website, it was designed and is hosted by somebody else whats the best way to go about getting hold of the existing files. thanks in advance

Hi, I was hoping someone could help me. Back when I first started building websites I used a host called Homestead. They had their own WYSIWYG editor (which I now see is a disgrace to HTML) and ftp access built in. I'm hosting about 7 websites with this Homestead and have been for about 3 years. I pay a lot of money each month to host these sites and now I have my own (proper) webserver with namesco I'd like to host them on there. The one problem I have is that I have no direct access via FTP to the server so I can't get to the files. I looked into the program files of their 'sitebuilder' software and found the sites but they're all in their own propietary format …

Hi people Im having trouble, when i put my website live the images are not showing and also one of the links dont work but the others do, why is this any ideas get back to me if anyone knows Cheers

Hello, Just wondered if anyone may be able to assist. I am currently building an e-commerce site, where files (all different types) that I create can be downloaded. I was wondering if it is possible to protect my files from being copied (after they have been downloaded) and distributed elsewhere without my consent. Is it possible to make my files read only, so they can be used but not copied after they have been downloaded? Of is there another route that I may take to protect my files. Any help appreciated. Thanks

Hi, I am trying to get SEO friendly URLS to work with my directory. However, when I try to upload my HTACCESS file I get the following: I have narrowed this down to the two following lines (when I comment them out, I can see the site again): Options -Indexes Options +FollowSymLinks Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.2 - If you need anything else then please let me know, I'd be really greatful if anybody could lend a hand as to why this is going on? Many Thanks Charlie

When I go to my site I get something that shouldn't be there. Why is that happened? http://www.forestictservices.co.uk/

Hi all One of the charity websites I look after is having some issues with regard to the .htaccess file... 301 redirects don't seem to be working, for the main domain, OR the subdomain(s). I know the .htaccess file is right, because it's pretty much identical to the one I use for my own site, save for the domain specific bits in the 301. According to the host, there is nothing wrong with the servers settings, but I find this hard to believe quite frankly. Anyone got any ideas as to what settings on the server could be causing the .htaccess files to be ignored etc? Regards Scott

is there a way to link my pc to my server with 2 cat6'es? im sure iv seen it somewere were the pc has the main internet connection then there is another wire going from pc to another pc and it provides internet without the need of a internet switch? thanks,

hi all just a couple of quick questions to fire out here, as you may or may not know i have got hold of a my first dedicated server, ive setup mysql, php etc and have virtual hosts running, im looking at maybe hosting 10 different websites on here, now the next thing that im thinking of setting up a mail server with it, as im only going to be handling a limited amount of emails i think it should be ok. the reson for this i hear you ask is because on my own website i have a contact form, and the form is meant to be emailed to my email address when submitted, the form works fine i know this, but the email doesnt send using the mail() php function, but the contact fo…

Hi Im Sean, I started learning HTML and CSS around to years ago, my next goal is to start learning PHP and MySQL. Ive bought myself Larry Ullman's "PHP and MySQL for Dynamic web sites", in there it suggests downloading Apache version 1.3.33 which doesnt seem to be available for windows 2000 anymore (not that I can see anyway). Can someone please advise me on which version to download to help me with my goals. Thank you in advance. regards Sean

I have a section of my website that I do not want visible in google etc. whats the best way to do this? Really i only need to hide the Default.aspx file, i tried using a robot.txt file once before but this didnt seem to work as the page poped up in a search result some time later, unless i created this txt file incorrectly?!.... any ideas?

Hi everyone. I have a hosting account with a bandwith usage limit of 100GB. For testing reasons i want to max this out fairly quickly (within a couple of days). Does anybody have any suggestions on how to do this without making my homepage loading times to long? Many thanks.

Hi, I need some guides to help in configurating back up for my server. At the moment, I set it in WHM for the server to perform daily back up. However, would it be possible for me to set it in a way that it could have 2 copy of back up?? Eg :- 1. Monday, Wednesday, Friday will be back up in folder1 , 2. Tuesday, Thursday, saturday will be back up in folder 2 . Could this be possible ?

ok all ive just been assigned my second ip address for my server. and know i would like to setup a subdomain from my main domain sub.dansdomain.co.uk and have this sub domain point to the second ip address, so im using freeparking, ive gone into managing my dns and added the subdomain sub and the ip address for it is the ip address that i was supplied. is there anything else i need to do? so from here i have gone into webmin and told it to only listen on the port i want and to only that new ip address so when typing in sub.dansdomain.co.uk:portnumber it should take me to webmin, but it doesnt seem to work it just locks me out of webmin i can change the …

Sorry if this is in the wrong place. if I have a folder on a site where I store all of my Audio/Video. I embedd audio and video on my using some player which users can view but not download. Now, a lot of people will just look at the source and find the location of the audio/video and download them all (and kill my bandwidth). If i use .htaccess to redirect the folder to the homepage, will the internal embedded audio/video's sill work? Thanks. (It would be a 301 redirect...)

I live in a flat and most of us share a wireless internet connection with the bloke downstairs as it's quite expensive getting a new landline connected. I'm running an apache server locally and I obviously share the same IP as everyone else on the network. Is there any way to make my work accessible remotely? I haven't even come up with a method on how to do this so any help is appreciated! I'm running Linux Ubuntu and OpenSUSE if that helps. Thank you

If I know the IP address of a visitor, is it possible to determine what part of the world (roughly) that visitor is accessing from?

Hi, Is there any software in the market to help web hosting administrator's managing and controlling their day to day tasks with hosting companies like registration, billing, DNS configration etc.

I got this problem. When I try to preview the asp vb site in IE with server behaviour (Log in), it fails to load. When I remove the behaviour, it works. What is the problem? I am using dreamweaver cs3, IIS 5.1 / xampp. Thanks for any sugguestion.

Fortunately I have got a mega offer to setup an own server for an office . They have given IBM System x3650 type 7979 model server with 128MB speed broadband connection. I have some experience on installing testing server (local host) on my PC on windows XP OS platform . But this is a first time to setup a server for web host. But I have many doubts (Most of them are basic server management. Because I didn’t learn server management under a teacher. I learned it my self with some books help) 128MB speed broadband connection is enough to setup an own web server? Normally I use APACHE server on windows platform for my local host. But I think using APACHE on a Wind…

I am trying to change: http://www.url.com/page.php?category=123?url=abc to: http://www.url.com/123/abc using .htaccess. My current best attempt is: RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ page.php?category=$1?url=$2 [L] I've spent ages trying to find the answer online with no success. Any help would be much appreciated, Mike

I've not really looked in .htaccess i just know how to make your own custom error pages and make the file display a page as your default page when someone loads your site nothing more.... Help and explain a few things please(continued from another thread which was going off topic) Ben

I am having a trouble installing a script to my server, I have been re-reading the install instructions and I have found this: I have never heard of the term intermetdiate URL, does this mean like www.mysite.com instead of www.mysite.com/index.html or the other way around or something like that?

I moved an entire site from godaddy to united hosting for SEO reasons. On browsing the site I had several 404s because of file naming. My internal links were written without the .html, like this http://www.boilerreplacement.net/about The files names were written with the .html like http://www.boilerreplacement.net/about.html This didn't cause a problem on go daddy hosting . It was somehow able to resolve the file names. On finding out that I was getting 404s I wrote .htaccess file with 301 redirects. This didn't resolve the problem and was giving me a 500 error. In the end I had to rename my links. I've been told that I want a mod rewrite…

Well I was thinking about changing my os it Ubuntu. And I was thinking if I should. I am going to use it in the servers side programs because I might change my servers php version. All I want to know is the benifists and the disadvantages. My os at the moment is Windows Vista Home Premuim. Thx all! Alexander PS Dizi / Ben if this in the wrong topic can you move it, thx.

I am using Joomla 1.5 and am having difficulty getting my customers there own email for there site. In my Cpanel I can create them an email account such as info@example.com but how do i give them access to only there mail. i.e. if they type in mail@example.com they will be able to read there mail and reply to it from james@example.com. Please help Thanks for your time

if anyone here has setup sendmail let me know n i'll post water data you need to help me... my problem is i have setup it can send/recieve fine but from outlook it can't send to non server domain (can recieve from anywhere) thanks

Hello, I am really hoping someone can help me with the following as I am running out of different things to try.... For about a year i have had a redirect setup within cpanel for one of my subdomain which points toward a certain directory mydomain.co.uk points towards mydomain.co.uk/directory This has been working fine until recently when i noticed that it now does redirect - if you type my domain name into your browser it just stays in the root directory (mydomain.co.uk) Now I removed the redirect, tried setting it up again, tried writing it different incase i had done it wrong and then after several live chat session with my host have had to raise a …

Ok I have built sites but never actually uploaded them to a server, I have always just built them and passed them on, I have my host and they are using "vista panel", I have my domain name regestered, I relise I need to upload my site to the file manager, (I think) pretty much all I want to do at the moment is add a "coming soon page" which is built, but thats where im stuck scratching my head

Hello, I need a htaccess expert I think because I am slowly going insane. :-) I am trying to redirect some product pages from the old site to the new site to benefit page rank. The actual domain has not changed, just the structure. For example, redirect from: www.example.co.uk/itemdetails.php?itemId=48 To: www.example.co.uk/category/item1.html Here is the code I am trying to use but I think I am missing something as it is not working: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^itemId=48 [NC] RewriteRule /itemdetails\.php$ /category/item1.html [R=301,QSA,L] Can anyone see where I am going wrong. Thanks in advance.