question: is contacting other websites for cross-linking considered as spamming?
answer: no, not if it's done properly, please read below

my customer have noticed that since we're on the new server they get more spam than when we were on teh shared

are there some settings from the shared servers that we ought to implement in server.rootshosting.net and server.securehotelbooking.net in order to make them more spam proof... at least like the shared?

hi,

all subdomains under this account seem ok to me in dns zone but they don't resolve

hi,

I just purchased a VPS, we're now going to set it up in order to make joomla 1.5 completely secure:

I'm not sure what you can see from where you are, but from here all url display "fail to connect message"

it was all good yesterday and I didn't make any modification since last time i saw it all good

Hi,

I'm going through "edit dns zone" in whm and eventhough I'm not clever with dns settings, I can see that there are many unusual things that should be corrected, I'd like to do it myself so i stop to bother you with it but dont want to make a mess of things:

hi,

I got a customer complaining that his mailbox  is not functionning properly anymore

it was ok 3 or 4 days ago...

now the mail forms dont' work and I tried to go online and send a mail with the HORDE system and got the following message:

I did that operation several times to make sure and here is what happens:

brand new installation of application joomla 1.5. all is ok

i run command through ssh (from inside public_html): chmod -R 755 *

after I do that all the files in folder /public_html/includes/js/jscalendar-1.0/ go with ownership 0000 and become unwritable/undeletable/

hi,

I'm working with a developper and he's installed some ajax calendar which work fine on local but not at all on the server

he's been trying all day to fix it from script side but ... nothing...

Hi,

I hope somebody can bear with me for final VPS setup to have my websites work 100% as they were on shared.

1st and main problem I have is: eventhough suexec is installed

(if I understood you properly suexec allow me to work joomla with folder755 file644),

I still have many scripts that can't function properly with folder755 file644, most of them require 777 still...

I appears that this issue affects mainly galleries but other scripts as well.

hi,

several days ago i had problems with subdomains on website bookhostelbook.com and that problem was solved

but today some of the subdomains that I re-created are down (at least one traveldirectory.bookhostelbook.com)

I re-entered redirection / deleted and re-created it sveral times, with or without trailing "/"... but it's not working whatever setting I try and I think I tried all possibilities

hi,

I'm trying to get familiar with VPS and right now I'm working on trying to setup passwords for some critical directories

in order to do that I'm trying to understand about the function htpasswd which seems to be a basic but I keep on getting

Posted On: 24 Oct 2007 12:48 AM
Hi,

I installed a component on a software and my whole website went down, even the main url. before i work on it, i'd like to know if it's coming from my software (in which case it's not ur problem :) or if something went wrong on the hosting server side

 
    Posted On: 23 Nov 2007 10:33 PM
Hi,
website is hotel-a-to-z.com, i have a directory there, and categories of this directory jos_jvse_categories in the db has been emptied all of a sudden... I dont know exactly when because i saw it yesterday and had not looked at it for a week.
I've talked with the component's developper and he guaranteed that such a deletion is impossible from the interface (front or backend coz the soft cant' delete categories if not empty and they are not) and that it must come from the database's server.
So I'm turning to you... I had some problems recently with the server writing some corrupt script, could that be the same problem?

hi, I'm thinking about upgrading to vp from my reseller's account, but before i do that i got some questions for you...
1/I understood that with my reseller's account i can send max 500 emails per hour, what is the maximum with VP?

2/Is there an outside body upstream of HFW taht monitors mail traffic and could block it if I'm sending say 20.000 emails in a couple of hours? (I dont intend to spam, my mailing list is well targetted... but i might have 25 % that dont exist anymore.... can taht become a problem for my accout / for your server / for a third party that would brand me as spammer....) well... really that question means "what's the best way to make my mailing and stay in the norms?"

Hi,
I'm working on a sofware on this url and I'm getting problems with php pages not reloading properly on submits.
Support for the software is asking me to check the logs:
"Check your apache/php error log, it might give you a clue as to which file has a bug in it in there"
I went on the Cpanel to find something but can't because I guess I don't have access to that kind of report.

Hi,
domain with problem is hotel-a-to-z.com
I've been on a problem for many hours now: I can't save, update, rename, move, delete, change authorisation, edit and save the file component/com_jvlinx/lang/user_english.php, whether i try from file manager, legacy file manager, ftp...
I have even re-installed the whole joomla pack...

problem is with email address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

hi, sorry to bother you but this is an emergency, I have a user online that can't get his mails through outlook since yesterday... he's using all correct settings apparently but not sure... I just upgraded to VPS and I thought maybe settings have changed

Hi,

Here is what I found about server setup to run joomla, some are instructions, some are questions that I will let you dedice upon for me and action if you want:

A/

.HTACCESS:

I don't know if htat should be in the server's .htaccess or at account level but that's how it should be I guess:

This is something i can do myself for account level but you're welcome to comment on this part:

1/

#Prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Attacksphp_flag allow_url_fopen off

#Prevent Code Injection Attacksphp_flag magic_quotes_gpc on#Note that although the magic_quotes_gpc directive adds a layer of security, for performance reasons it is not considered a best practice. If you have verified that your site correctly filters and validates all user data (and every production site really should), then there is no need to add this directive. If you have any doubt, add it.

2/

########## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits## Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URLRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]# Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URLRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]# Block out any script that includes a tag in URLRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\|%3E) [NC,OR]# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URLRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URLRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})# Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]########### End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits

3/

###Block hot linking:RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?securehotelbooking\.com/ [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/no_hot_link.jpe [L]

4/#### APACHE: How do I block directory scans with .htaccess?

RewriteRule ^/*.*$ /index.php

B/

PHP.INI

1/

register_globals = 0

2/

disable_functions = show_source, system, shell_exec, passthru, exec, phpinfo, popen, proc_open

3/

allow_url_fopen = 0

4/

magic_quotes_gpc = 1

5/

safe_mode = 1

6/

open_basedir = /dir/to/include/change/me

C/

MODULES:

1/

modsecurity 2.5.x ... no sure what settings

2/

use safeMode... ??? what will that bring??? if use, how can I turn it on or off?

3/

Follow the "Least Privilege" principle for running PHP using tools such as PHPsuExec, php_suexec or suPHPbut I'm nt sure about settings... how can I access settings fro that?

4/

Configure Apache mod_security and mod_rewrite filters to block PHP attacksplease tell me how to access settings for this too

5/

Be sure MySQL accounts are set with limited access. The initial install of MySQL is insecure; careful configuration is required

6/

TripWire or SAMHAIN or other

D/

QUESTIONS:

1/

Should PHP run as a CGI script or as an Apache module?There are two ways to configure Apache to use PHP:a. Configure Apache to load the PHP interpreter as an Apache module.b. Configure Apache to run the PHP interpreter as a CGI binary.What should I do? knowing that apparently I can't use .htaccess in the second case... but can replace with

php.ini settingsMy aim is maximum security...

2/

Edit the Apache user.conf file and tell apache to run under the FTP accountis that related / compatible / incompatible with suphp???

3/

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;would these lines work on the ssl of my vps?

4/

What is Nix shell? do I have that on my VPS?