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If you are NOT running cPanel on your VPS (for advanced users):


Create the following directories if they don't exist:
/etc/ssl/certs -- used to store the certificate files
/etc/ssl/private --...

If you are not running cPanel, to generate a CSR for a new SSL certificate follow these steps:

SSH into your server
Run the following command:
(note: replace domain.com with your domain name)...

If you have a .PFX file for your certificate, you'll need to convert it for it to be installed on a Linux server/VPS.


Copy your PFX file to /root.
SSH into your VPS/server
Next, we're going...

If you have our cPanel Linux VPS you could easily manager open ports on your VPS.


Login to your cPanel as root.
Under the Plugins section, click on "ConfigServer Security&Firewall...

If you're not ready for your domain name to be pointed to our servers, one of the things you could do to access your site on our server is to add a line to the hosts file on your computer.

When...

PHP has discontinued the MSSQL extension for PHP 5.3+.

Microsoft released an alternative driver, SqlSrv, for MS SQL support for PHP. We have it installed on our Windows PHP 5.3 servers.

For...

FormMail comes preinstalled on our cPanel servers.

Overview:
FormMail is a script that will email you the form input from any form that you use it with. To use it you need to the use the...

If you use WHMCS to handle your billing, you could integrate it with our WCP control panel which would allow you to automatically create, terminate, suspend and unsuspend accounts automatically for...

PHP PEAR:
We have PHP PEAR installed on our servers with common packages. PEAR (stands for The PHP Extension and Application Repository) gives you access to a library of modules that you could use...

Windows 7 has some problems working with the cPanel webdisk.

Microsoft released a hotfix that fixes it on some computers:...

Before connecting connecting to your database using MySQL Workbench, you'll have to first get the host name or the IP address of the Hostek MySQL server your database is on.

For customers using...

If you attempt to install or import an application with simple scripts and you get the following error:


Page Not Found
Your server responded with a "Page Not Found" error, which means we are...

With Coldfusion, this happens when pooling is enabled for the DSN and the pooling timeout is higher than the database server's connection time-out (usually this is an issues with MySQL).

This...

We would need more details to pinpoint this issue. Please open a support ticket with us by going to support.hostek.com or emailing [email protected]

Please include URL to the page that this...

NOTE: This only applies to our Linux/cPanel customers using IMAP.

If your mail client application gives you errors about the Root Path Folder such as root folder path "cannot be found or...

If you get Error – invalid maildirsize file when attempting to change the quota for an email account, here's a simple solution that will fix this problem.


Connect to your site via FTP.
...

Ron,
You can set the from email address in your scripts.
We have a forum post on how to include the from headers in PHP: http://forum.hostek.com/showthread.php?119-Using-PHP-to-Send-E-mail

PHP...

We have phpMyAdmin available for all of our database servers. You can get to phpMyAdmin through a link in your control panel or by going directly to this URL: http://phpmyadmin.ezhostingserver.com
...

Rob,
Its fine to include the path the way you have done it.

The way we generally do it is to create a php.ini file in the directory that you'll be using the PEAR extensions with the following...

Ron,
When you install the PEAR extensions in cPanel they are installed to php directory in your home directory. So the path would be /home/USERNAME/php.

You could always double check from cPanel,...

The primary method we recommend for securing database connection/configuration files for best security would be to store that file in a directory outside of the wwwroot folder (public_html for Linux...

At Hostek.com, we maintain security on our servers at an optimal level. If you are running Joomla, there are some additional things you can do to increase the security for your individual site.
...

Here at Hostek, we prefer MyISAM because it has some real nice advantages.
We do support InnoDB on our Linux servers, but MyISAM is generally our choice and recommendation.

InnoDB is great for...

This is a little tutorial/examples on how to send email using PHP.
PHP makes this very easy.

This will work on both our Windows and Linux servers.

The built-in function that does the job is:
...

lsof (List open files) is a very useful admin command
It will List open files and tell you what process and user has a file open.

Some useful examples with this command:

lsof +D /tmp
This...