June 2009 - InstaCarma Outsourced Web Hosting Support

HostingCon Discount Coupons

by Aromal Rajagopal | Jun 29, 2009 | Company Updates | 0 comments

InstaCarma is excited about exhibiting at HostingCon 2009 (booth #418) this August (10th – 12th) in Washington, DC. Our Director, Arun Narayanan is a speaker at the event, so we’re doubly excited about it! The organizers of the event (iNet Interactive,...

Changing MySQL user password via shell

by Aromal Rajagopal | Jun 24, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : To list the mysql users and change the password for a particular user via shell. Solution : You need to be logged in as ‘root’ in order to do this. To list the users: # mysql -u root -p mysql> SELECT User from mysql.user; To change the password : #...

Fantastico is not installed at the default location

by Aromal Rajagopal | Jun 23, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : Fantastico is not installed at the default location /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico. Either move the Fantastico directory from it’s current location to /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico OR enable ioncube loaders in WHM -> Tweak settings....

Migration from LxAdmin/Kloxo to cPanel

by Aromal Rajagopal | Jun 22, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : Migration from LxAdmin/Kloxo to cPanel . Databases are of great importance. Solution : You or your host will have to do the migration manually as cPanel does not have any 3rd party script that allows this sort of migration from LxAdmin. The best way to go...

Disabling FTP access for a particular cPanel account

by Aromal Rajagopal | Jun 22, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue: FTP access for specific cPanel accounts needs to be disabled. There is no native way in cPanel/WHM to achieve this. Solution : Assuming that you are using pure-ftpd, go to /usr/sbin/pureauth . There would be a section in the code as follows : # Create ftpusers...