Is it neccesary to have root access on your web hosts?

Website masters have a ton of responsibility to maintain their website and the subsequent links to it. Primarily, they have to figure it if they prefer to have access to all of the websites on their company server or if they prefer not to. When a webmaster has root access, he can virtually control anything stored on his server. This means he can access security information, user groups, and any file on the server. One might wonder why a webmaster wouldn’t want this access. Read on for the benefits and drawbacks to having root access.

When a webmaster opts to use a virtual private server hosting service, he’s choosing the less expensive option. He doesn’t have the hassle of maintaining a server at his home or having to access a remote server from his computer. Additionally, his site is much more protected from the threat of hackers, and the server owners will make the server more reliable. Additionally, virtual private hosting services come with easy to use browsers.

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How to install IonCube, Zend Optimizer and eAccelerator on virtual private server or yout dedicated server ?

here’s how :

1. Install IonCube

# wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz
# tar zfx ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz
# cd ioncube
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# cp ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so /usr/local/lib/php/extensions

Add this line BEFORE any other zend_extension (e.g. Zend Optimizer or eAccelerator).
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ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications (or a web application firewall). Operating as an Apache Web server module or standalone, the purpose of ModSecurity is to increase web application security, protecting web applications from known and unknown attacks.

This’s how to install it :

# wget http://www.web4host.net/tools/modsecurity-apache2.sh
# chmod 755 modsecurity-apache2.sh
# sh modsecurity-apache2.sh

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on some apache web server, specially new installed one, htaccess isn’t working.

this is how to enable htaccesss on apache web server :

Find the following directive in httpd.conf :

and modify it to

and restart apache web server

to make linux system supports the encryption of passwords with the MD5 algorithm, u need to install Perl MD5 on your linux system.
this is how to install it on your system
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how to install and use unrar in your hosting, because default hosting doesn’t support rar n unrar
Login to your root via console
and then do this command in sequence

- # cd /tmp
- # wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz
- # tar -zxvf rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz
- # ./unrar
- # cd /tmp/rar
- # cp rar unrar /bin
- # su
- # unrar

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first, u need to install this dependencies :

# yum install gcc gcc-cpp gcc-c++
#yum install subversion
# yum install ruby
# yum install ncurses-devel

1. Create a directory to for source file compilations

cd /usr/local/src
mkdir ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg

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