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1. What is the path to public html in php?
   The path to public html is: home/$cpusername/public_html/
2. Error: register_globals is disabled in your PHP configuration
   If you installed a new script and are getting the 500 error trying to load the page please see this document first as you might need to turn register globals on. The syntax generally follows this format: phpconfigValueToOverride = value. The most common PHP value you need to set for many of the ...
3. Can I set 'always populate raw post data' in the php.ini file?
   By default, this feature is off. You can email support@justhost.com and request this feature to be turned on for your account.
4. Do I get a Site Seal when I purchase an SSL Certificate?
   Yes you do receive a Site Seal when you purchase an SSL Certificate.
5. What is the meaning of owner, group, and everyone in the permissions panel?
   - Owner defines the permissions set for your main FTP account. - Group defines permissions valid to the users in the same group as your main FTP Account. - Everyone defines permissions set for all users registered on the same hosting server.
6. How do I limit what the search engines can index ?
   Various search engines such as Google have what are called 'spiders' or 'robots' continually crawling the web indexing content for inclusion in their search engine databases. While most users view inclusion in search engine listings in a positive light and high search engine rankings can transla ...
7. How do I make a subfolder the main folder for my main domain?
   The main domain on the hosting account uses the public_html folder for all of its website files. In order to also set up your main domain to use a subfolder on your hosting account you will need to set up a redirect in the .htaccess file in the public_html folder so that the server knows that an ...
8. How do I get different character sets to display in HTML?
   Many web browsers display Western Character Encoding (ISO-8859-1) by default. This means that pages with text in a non Western alphabet, like Cyrillic or Arabic, will often look garbled. Unicode, on the other hand, is capable of displaying several alphabets; the standard Unicode encoding is UTF- ...
9. How do I perform a trace route?
   Traceroute (tracert) works by sending a packet to an open UDP port on a destination machine. For the initial three packets, traceroute sets the TTL (see explanation of TTL) to 1 and releases the packet. The packet then gets transferred to the first router (completing the first hop), and the TTL ...
10. How to Stop A Directory Index From Being Shown
    Sometimes, for one reason or another, you will have no index file in your directory. This will, of course, mean that if someone types the directory name into their browser, a full listing of all the files in that directory will be shown, which could be a security risk for your site. To prevent a ...
11. I ordered an SSL or static IP and now my site is down.
    When you order a SSL we assign a static IP to your account. A static IP is required for securing the traffic between your website visitors and your website. The SSL encrypts the session between the visitor and your site. When we assign a static IP, the new information about where the site is lo ...
12. Can I add my own CGI scripts?
    Our LINUX web servers have the capability to run CGI scripts in your own 'cgi-bin' directory. Scripts may be written in Perl and CGI languages. Here are some helpful tips to follow when installing scripts: - Upload to your cgi-bin directory to ensure proper file permission settings. - All script ...
13. How do I reset my password for osCommerce?
    osCommerce uses .htaccess and .htpasswd format files to manage the protection on the admin section of your shop. If you want to change the password or username associated with the admin section, you need to create a new .htpasswd entry. This is an encrypted password oscommerce uses to protect th ...
14. CAPTCHA: Telling Humans and Computers Apart Automatically
    A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass, but current computer programs cannot. Humans can read distorted text, but current computer programs cannot. Please visit www.captcha.net for further information.
15. How do I setup custom php.ini settings?
    We have recently updated many of our shared hosting servers to php 5 with phpSuExec enabled. This update was essential for security and allows our customers to take advantages of all the new features of php 5. While the vast majority of our customers will not be affected by this update, you may ...
16. HTTP Error 500 - Internal server error
    If you installed a new script and are getting the 500 error trying to load the page please see this document first as you might need to turn register globals on. How do I setup custom php.ini settings? When you receive an error 'Internal server error 500' on your site, you have to check the erro ...
17. How do I activate SSL in osCommerce?
    In order to configure osCommerce to work with SSL please open the file public_html/catalog/includes/configure.php and make the following changes: define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.yourdomain.com'); // eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'htt ...
18. Is PHP compiled with 'enable-calendar'?
    Web Calendar is available to install under 'Other Services' in the 'Fantastico' feature under the 'Software/Service' menu in your cPanel account. Simply click on the name of the script and then 'New Installation' to install this feature. On our linux hosting servers enable-calendar is already in ...
19. Do I use localhost or remotemysqlhost for my mysql connection ?
    You can view whether your account is using localhost or remotemysql host in your cPanel account. Click on 'phpMyAdmin', in the 'Datebases' menu. Your database host will be displayed on the next screen after Server. It will be listed as localhost or remotemysql host.
20. How do I create a redirect for my site?
    These rules should be added to your .htaccess file located in your public_html folder. This rule will redirect all none SSL traffic to the SSL (https) portion of your site: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443 RewriteRule ^ https://yourdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [NS,R,L] In addition ...