What is SSL

SSL is a protocol using different cryptographic algorithms to implement security using authentication with certificates, session key exchange algorithms, encryption and integrity check. It is a common protocol, often used to ensure that the communication between WWW-server and WWW-client is safe and encrypted.

What is HTTPS ?

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What is Proxy Server?

A proxy server is a machine that sits between the proxy users and the servers that they need access to. When a proxy user requests a certain remote resource using a URL, the proxy server receives this request and fetches the resource to fulfill the client’s request. This process enables the proxy server to store the requested content in a cache. Any new request that asks for information already in the cache no longer needs to be serviced by fetching it from the remote server. Instead, the new request is serviced from the cached data. In typical proxy scenarios, the purpose of a proxy server is to fetch the requested resource from the remote server, return it to the requesting user, and cache it in local drives.

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After set your nameservers in your domain registrar, you can access your Cpanel account with:

http://yourdomain.com:2082 or http://yourdomain.com/cpanel

After that it will ask for username and password, enter your username and password. Now you’re ready to start your Cpanel.

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Before people can open your website, you have to set nameservers in your domain panel. Here’s some example how to set nameservers.

1. Log in to your domain panel

2. Look at the menu and find edit or change nameserver for your domain account

3. Fill the nameserver field with your webhosting’s nameservers

4. Your domain will resolve about 10 minutes – 24 hours depending on your ISP

tips: don’t open your website / domain before you set the nameserver to the new one

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