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Free Web Hosting – Hints and tips on getting free hosting
If you have a small site that you’ll be using for non critical data etc then free hosting might be your solution. You can use your own domain name (etc www.yourwebsitename.com or similar or sometimes you even get a domain name included. This is normally in the format of http://yourusername.thefreesitename.com One thing to keep in mind is that free hosting companies can come and go very quickly so it’s best to stick with an established one. You can find links to them on this page. Personally, I have used the free hosting services in the past which have been stable, easy to use but not always straight forward to set up. Therefore I offer the following advice if you are going down the free host route. 1. Make sure you sign up with … Read entire article »
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Create search engine friendly WordPress links in Plesk and Webmin
It takes a little messing about but its easy to create wordpress links that the likes of Google, MSN and Yahoo etc can find easily in the search engines. Firstly you need to set the WordPress options to show the post names rather than the page id. This is done in the Settings > Permalinks option of Worpress. Once in, you will receive a message about Worpress not being able to modify your .htaccess file and so you will need to do this yourself. It works a little differently in Plesk and if you have a number of domains to manage you will find this easier to complete in Webmin. To select your domain, go to Servers > Apache Webserver and choose the relevant domain. Then pick Per Directory Options by clicking on … Read entire article »
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Useful command line tools to find MAC addresses and vice versa
nbtstat -a hostname This will return the machine name and MAC address of the computer. nbtstat -a ipaddress will return the MAC address corresponding to an IP address. Useful if you have conflicting IP addresses and machine names. … Read entire article »
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Moving a WordPress site from one domain to another
It came about that I needed to move a WordPress website from one domain to another last week. To do this it had to be completed in 3 stages. 1 – Download the files locally of the server and FTP up to the new location 2 – Export the SQL DB and re-create on the new domain with the same details (kep the same name for ease – however you can rename in your WordPress config file). Then import the SQL file you created earlier into this new DB. 3 – Run a couple of updates on your WordPress tables to update the domain names. Step 1 and 2 should be easy enough to do (if you have installed WordPress already you’ll have the knowledge to do them). Step 3 is a little … Read entire article »
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Error installing Office 2007 finding PV561401.CAB
I came across this error recently where I could not continue my upgrade of Office 2003 to 2007 due to the install getting approx 75% complete and then giving the error message Error 1335 – Cannot copy cab file PV561401.CAB. The file may be corrupt. or something similar. I found this to be looking for an office 2003 folder so two ways to sort this. First, if you have your old Office 2003 disk, remove the Office 2007 CD and insert the 2003 CD and click ok. This will sort it. Secondly, if you don’t have the CD to hand, cancel the 2007 install then uninstall Office 2003 completely. Then reboot and reattempt the Office 2007 install. … Read entire article »
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Install Webmin on Ubuntu
For the latest version visit www.webmin.com and amend the shortcut in step 2 to the relevant version. Get logged into your server via SSH and use the following 3 commands: Step 1: cd /usr/src Step 2: wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.500_all.deb Step 3: rpm -i webmin-1.500-1.noarch.deb This will install Webmin to https://youripaddressordomain:10000 You may need to do the following steps if not successful: Run the following as some modules may not be installed: sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl If you get errors about it not finding these packages, then enable the universe repositories: sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list remove the # from the universe and multiverse lines and save. Then update the repository settings: sudo apt-get update Run the following to unpack & install: sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.500_all.deb … Read entire article »
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Install Webmin on CentOS
For the latest version visit www.webmin.com and amend the shortcut in step 2 to the relevant version. Get logged into your server via SSH and use the following 3 commands: Step 1: cd /usr/src Step 2: wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.470-1.noarch.rpm Step 3: rpm -i webmin-1.470-1.noarch.rpm This will install Webmin to https://youripaddressordomain:10000 … Read entire article »
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