Dedicated Server Support

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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Script Installation Service

I have started new web site for script installation service.

http://www.ScriptInstallation.in

Plan is to offer various scripts for sales through this web site and provide installation service.

The site will contain a directory of free and paid scripts like hotscripts.com

Anyway all this is just my plan, now the site have only one page :-(

Wait and see...

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Qmail/HiveMail Installation

Today installed Qmail + HiveMail on a CentOS server.

HiveMail is a script that allow you to run Free Email Service like HotMail, Yahoo Mail, etc... HiveMail works on any shared Hosting account or dedicated server. It can work with mail servers like qmail, exim or sendmail.

HiveMail need a catchall email account or a pipe to collect emails from mail server. In this installation i used qmail as its more stable, easy to manage and can handle large number of emails with less server load.

You can see the HiveMail installation at

http://mail.xogger.com

You will get yourname @ xogger.com email account from this site. Since the HiveMail installation is on dedicated server, it will be able to handle more than 20,000 users.

Monday, January 23, 2006

phpBB Search Engine Indexer MOD

Default installation of phpBB forum is not search engine friendly. Each post of phpBB forum is accessed with url like

http://dinnerandamurder.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

phpBB also add sid (session id) to track the user, this will make the url difficult to get listed in search engines.

With phpBB Search Engine Indexer MOD, you can make your phpBB threads look like HTML pages. Having each thread as HTML with keywords in it make the page get indexed by search engine.

You can see phpBB Search Engine Indexer mod with forcetype installed at

http://dinnerandamurder.com/forum/archive/

Discus Professional Installation

Discus from http://www.discusware.com is a message board written in Perl.

One of the advantage of the script is it store threads in HTML page, no MySQL or other type of database is required. Having each thread available in HTML page will allow Search Engines to index the page, also reduce server load as there is no processing is required to view the pages.

Installation of Discus can be done with FTP or through command prompt (SSH). Discuss will generate packages that is specially build for your site, with paths set in the perl script, so installing is easy, just follow the instructions, your forum will be up and running.

You can see discuss professional installation at

http://www.jerrylabella.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi

My First Ebay.com Listing

I have had by ebay account years back. Once i bid on an auction for a dedicated server, but i don't buy it as i doubt how the service will be after i get a server at special rate. After that i never used ebay.

Today i listed script installation service in ebay. It cost Rs. 16 to get listed in ebay for 7 days. My First list i accidently closed, i think i lost Rs. 16/-, so i listed again.

You can find the list at Ebay Script Installation Service Listing.

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Free Linux Web Hosting Control Panel

GNU Hosting Helper is a Free Open Source Control Panel for Linux Servers.

You can find more details at

http://hostingsoftware.net/


I have downloaded source code, want to try when i get time.

Apache Allow Folder Browsing

In Apache, you can enable Folder browsing with

Options All MultiViews

This can be specified in httpd.conf or in .htaccess file

With this, any folder with out index file (specified in DirectoryIndex) will show the file listing in the folder.