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After a lot of searching and tweaking I managed to create a command so that every time a new MySQL back-up is created, the old back up is preserved.

It is easy enough to create a Cron Job using cPanel to create a back-up,. Just use the following Cron Job Continue reading →

The short answer

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

It’s like this. I swapped my email from one IMAP server to another when changing the website hosting. I configure the email account on the new server and when I connect again, whoosh, all the email in my mail box gets deleted. Lost, gone…(sob)

But all is not lost! Outlook Continue reading →

How to remove a ban from WHMCS?

The first time I discovered there was an IP address ban facility in WHMCS was after three unsuccessful login attempts I made after I changed my password but I still had the old password stored in my browser.  Durh!

I found myself Continue reading →

I searched for hours trying to do this by .htaccess and then found I could do it by creating an html index page for the old domain and then adding the following code:

<iframe style='position:absolute;z-index:10;top:0;left:0;margin' 
width='100%' height='100%' scrolling='auto' marginwidth='0'
marginheight='0' align='top' frameborder='0' SRC='http://new-url-here.tld' />
</iframe>

The index page for Continue reading →

Website Hosting Packages come with a variety of features and scripts already installed on the server, so to a certain extent, you get what you pay for. The more features and services, the more disk space and the more bandwidth allowed, the more the website hosting package is likely to Continue reading →

My formmail script recently stopped working under several domains hosted on the 1and1 shared servers. Not all domains, just some.

The reason seemed to be that the  ”$postmaster =” email address in formmail.pl was set to an address that was not with 1&1 (i.e. a domain not hosted with Continue reading →

Create a file called test.pl

Add the following text:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
 print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
 print "test\n";

Upload it to your cgi-bin directory by ftp.

(If you do not have a cgi-bin directory create one on the server.)

Open your web browser and run:

yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/test.pl

The word test will be displayed.