October 31st, 2008 by SwaraTech

Subdomains - through this feature you can add subdomains for your primary, parked and addon domains.

Addon Domain - through this feature you can add addon domains to your account.
Through the Addon Domains feature you can add addon domains to your account. An addon domain allows you to reach a domain when entering the name of the addon domain into a browser. This means that you can host additional domains in your account.

• Step 1: To access the Addon Domains tool, click on the corresponding icon located on the main screen of your cPanel interface.
  

• Step 2: Enter the name of the addon domain in the blank field next to New Domain Name.

• Step 3: Enter the name of the directory which contains the subdomain that the addon domain will point to in the blank field next to Subdomain/FTP Username: (This directory will be the location for the addon domain’s files, just as public_html is the location for your primary domain’s files.)

• Step 4: Type in the password for the new addon domain, and click on Add Domain!You can upload files directly to this addon domain using the username and password for the addon domain to log in through FTP.

In order to use a domain name as an addon you need an addon slot. Addon slot is considered an upgrade and costs $30 per year. It can be ordered from your Customer’s area.

Addon domains will need to be registered with a valid domain name registrar before they can be added. Make sure that your account has the ability to use Addon domains before attempting to add one.

Please note that Addon slots price does not include the domain name itself. If you need domain names, please order them separately from your Customer area.

Remove an Addon Domain Detailed Tutorial

The Addon Domains allows you to remove addon domains from your account.

• Step 1: To access the Addon Domains tool, click on the corresponding icon located on the main screen of your cPanel interface.

• Step 2: To remove an addon domain, click on the Remove link next to it.

You can also redirect the parked domain to another URL using the Manage Redirection link.

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October 29th, 2008 by SwaraTech

If you’re about to install MySQL on MS Windows Server 2008
Since MySQL 6 is still in alpha stage, we’re going to get MySQL 5.0.
Note: I couldn’t get passed these 1045 and 1146 errors when trying to install MySQL 5.1 so we’re going to use 5.0.

Head over to http://www.mysql.com and click on the Developer Zone tab at the top. Now click on Downloads and the on MySQL Community Server. Select version 5.0.

This should have brought you here.

Now scroll down the page and click on Pick a mirror next to Windows ZIP/Setup.EXE (x86) in the Windows downloads section.

On the next page, you’re invited to register but click on the link at the bottom that says “No thanks, just take me to the downloads!”. Then simply select the mirror from which you want to download MySQL.

Once the download is complete, follow this procedure:

1. Extract the content from the MySQL zip file and launch Setup.exe.
2. Choose the Custom setup type and click Next.
3. Select MySQL Server at the top of the list and click on the Change button to modify the server’s installation path. Set it to c:\MySQL (or on any drive you want as long as you install it at the root).
4. Click on Next. The installation may take a few minutes depending on your computer’s performance.
5. Click Next a couple of times until you see the screen with a checkbox that says “Configure the MySQL Server Now”. Check this box and click on Finish.
6. When the MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard comes up, select the Detailed Configuration type and click Next.
7. In my case, since I’m installing this as a development environment, I’m going to select Developer Machine but feel free to select the server type that suits your needs.
8. As for the database usage parameter, select Multifunctional Database and hit Next.
9. On the InnoDB Table Settings screen, set the path to the same folder you’ve set the MySQL Server path. Click on Next.
10. Leave Decision Support (DSS)/OLAP selected by default on the next screen and hit Next.
11. On the networking options screen, uncheck the box that says “Add firewall exception for this port” (otherwise you might get the installation error 1045). Add a firewall exception entry manually instead. Leave other options by default.
12. On the next screen, choose Standard Character Set and click on Next.
13. On the Windows Options screen, check all the boxes (yes, all three) and click on Next.
14. When the security options screen comes up, check Modify Security Settings and choose a root password. Click Next.
15. Finally, click on Execute to complete the MySQL configuration.

You should now have a working MySQL instance running as a system service!

To manage your database server, you might want to get the MySQL GUI Tools 5.0 but I’ll come back on this later.

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October 24th, 2008 by SwaraTech

Start by getting yourself a copy of Apache’s HTTP Server 2.0.x by clicking here. At the time of this writing, the latest version from the 2.0.x series is Apache 2.0.63 with OpenSSL 0.9.7 (msi file).

Execute the .MSI file in order to launch the installation. Hit the “Next” button until you see this screen and fill in the information as below (except for the email address of course!):

On the next screen, select the custom installation type and hit next once again. Next select the installation path for Apache’s HTTP server. I prefer using C:\ since the installer will automatically create a folder named “Apache2″ anyway (this isn’t true for Apache 2.2.x though). Leave all other default settings.

Click the Next button and then the Install button. Go get a coffee, this could take a few minutes.
Once the installation is completed, click the Finish button.
Now open your web browser to http://127.0.0.1 and if everything went correctly you should see this page:

Once the download is complete, follow this procedure:

1. Extract the content from the MySQL zip file and launch Setup.exe.
2. Choose the Custom setup type and click Next.
3. Select MySQL Server at the top of the list and click on the Change button to modify the server’s installation path. Set it to c:\MySQL (or on any drive you want as long as you install it at the root).

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October 24th, 2008 by SwaraTech

A friend recently asked me how to move his blog, which is on /blog/ on his domain, to a new domain on it’s own. The steps are easy, but have to be taken in the right order to make sure you’re not annoying your users and the search engines:

1. Put up a robots.txt on the new domain with the following contents:

   User-agent: *
   Disallow: /

2. Copy the database and files to the new domain.
3. Edit wp-config.php to have the right database settings, and add the following lines, replacing sample.com with the right domain:

   define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://www.sample.com/');
   define('WP_HOME', 'http://www.sample.com/');

4. Now set up your blog install, with the same settings as on the old domain (if you have a caching plugin installed, delete your cache files).
5. Install the Search and Replace plugin, and do a search and replace for your old URL’s and change them with your new URL’s.
6. Once you’re done, and you’ve checked everything works twice:
7. Remove the robots.txt file.
8. On your old blog, add the following line to your apache .htaccess or vhost-config:

   Redirect 301 /blog/ http://www.newdomain.com/

9. Remove the old blog code and database.
10. Change your FeedBurner account, if you have one, to pick up the correct feed.

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