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How to Back Up Your Drupal Website

August 5, 2015 Ashish Kale Database, Drupal, How to, Website

Back Up Your Drupal Website

Drupal Website backing up involves backing up both the site’s database and its files. Just for taking file backup doesn’t help. Always take database and files backup whenever you take Drupal Website backup.

Step 1. To Back Up Your Files

1) Download all files pertaining to your Drupal website using an FTP client.

2) The illustration below shows a Drupal website installed in a sub-directory called “drupal”

2) The FTP client FileZilla is used to download the files.

Step 2. To Back Up Your Database

1) Log in to your hosting account’s cPanel

2) Click on “phpMyAdmin” in the Databases section

3) Then click on Databases

4) Select your Drupal website’s database

5) Then click Export

6) In the following page, click Go

7) Save the file to your desired location.

Congratulations! You have now backed up your Drupal website.

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How to Export Database using PHPMyAdmin

August 4, 2015 Ashish Kale Database, How to, Website

phpMyAdmin makes the task of managing your MySQL databases easier and more efficient, and it allows you to manage those available databases from anywhere. With phpMyAdmin, you can create, edit, back up, Import, export, and delete databases, as well as manage database tables. When you export a database, you are creating a backup file of the database. This backup file is usually a .sql file (a text file), and can be used to copy and import the database onto another server.

Export Database using PHPMyAdmin

1) Log into phpMyAdmin

2) Click the database you are working with.

3) Click Export Button

4) Under the Export heading, Selected SQL option

5) Under the Options heading, ensure that you have selected, Add DROP TABLE / VIEW / PROCEDURE / FUNCTION

6) Ensure the Save as file option is checked.

7) Click Go Button

8) You will be prompted to either open or save the file. Select the option to save the file and then save the somewhere you’ll remember.

Congratulations, you have just exported a copy of your database!

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How to Import Database using PHPMyAdmin

August 3, 2015 Ashish Kale How to, PHPMyAdmin, Website

Import Database using PHPMyAdmin

1) Login to cPanel

2) Open phpMyAdmin and click the phpMyAdmin icon

3) Select the database that you need to Import

4) Click Import Button

5) Under File to Import, click Browse Button

6) Select the backup file you previously created (it will be either a .sql .zip or .tar.gz file).

7) Click Go Button

8) When the database has been imported successfully, you will see the message to: Import has been successfully finished, ## queries executed.

Congratulations, you have just imported a database!

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Install Easy Hosting Control Panel

August 1, 2015 Ashish Kale Easy Hosting Control Panel, How to, Installation, Installation, Ubuntu, Website

Easy Hosting Control Panel

EHCP (Easy Hosting Control Panel) is an open source hosting control panel for administrators who want to sell hosting or set up hosting servers. EHCP is compatible with a server running a Debian-based system such as Debian Squeeze, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc. Ehcp is a Hosting Control Panel (hcp). hcp is a tool in a server to facilate the process of hosting domains, emails, adding domains, ftp users and so on.

EHCP Features:

EHCP has many unique features compared to other control panels.

General Features:

* Full php, full opensource, easily modifiable, customazible, ehcp templates
* Unlimited “resellers, panel users, domains, ftp users, emails, mysqls”
* Domains, subdomains, ftp, mysql, dns (automatic), email etc. management
* password protected domains,
* Email forwarding, autoreply, catch-all emails
* Web-stats (webalizer)
* web-ftp (net2ftp)
* Easy Install Scripts (scripts easily downloaded and copied by means of server)
* Disk quota control,
* Custom http, custom dns, domain aliases, domain redirect,
* Ssl support
* Different languages, templates support, a few lang/templates included,
* Different Menus/pages for Server Admin, Reseller, domain admin, email user (4 level)
* server backup/restore (files+db)
* domain transfer to another ehcp user
* simple, light, fast, host hundreds of domains in it.
* supports Ubuntu 6-9.10, debian 4,5, all debian based linux’es
* Any server related program may be installed with Ubuntu’s apt-get command
* Almost all programs are always up-to-date when you update your server, with Ubuntu’s: apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
* Opensource, GPL, free, full php, object oriented, modular, easily modifiable/extendable design..
* More features that I forgot to write..

New with 0.29.12:

* Customizable, templates
* add domain to my ftp
* add ftp with any directory under home
* add ftp with subdomain
* add ftp with subdirectory under domainname
* list related/similar functions in ehcp
* edit dns/apache template for a domain
* domain aliases
* email forwardings
* catch all email
* default domain settable for ehcp gui
* “fix apache configuration” link in options
* “fix email (postfix) configuration” link in options
* apache ssl support
* new default theme: xp5-z7
* more “easy install scripts”, a total of 30 scripts
* disk quota support
* smtp auth support
* more options for ehcp
* bulk add domain feature
* multi server intro: separate mysql server support
* improved installer

How to Install Easy Hosting Control Panel (EHCP) In Ubuntu 14.04 ?

1) Login as root user using ssh and download the EHCP installation script using the following command:

# wget http://www.ehcp.net/ehcp_latest.tgz

2) Extract the downloaded file using tar command:

# tar -zxvf ehcp_latest.tgz

3) Switch to the extracted folder and run the installation script using the following commands:

# cd ehcp
# ./install.sh

Follow installation wizard and read the instructions carefully, the install script will install all required packages including Apache, MySql and Postfix. You will need to provide some information to configure the services and set the admin passwords.

When the installer is finished. you will be provided with the ehcp login page in your Web browser window, if you are on your local machine, otherwise, you need to connect to your new web Server by entering the IP address of you server.

http://hostripples.com/vhosts/ehcp

Your default admin username: admin
Default admin pass: 1234

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How to install and configure Nginx on cPanel servers

July 30, 2015 Ashish Kale cPanel/WHM, How to, Installation, Installation, Nginx, Website

Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server.

How to set up Nginx?

Follow the steps to install nginx as reverse proxy in a cPanel server:

1) SSH to server as root.
2) Change the directory to “/usr/local/src”

# cd /usr/local/src

Download & Install Nginx on cPanel servers

#wget http://nginxcp.com/latest/nginxadmin.tar
#tar xf nginxadmin.tar
#cd publicnginx
#./nginxinstaller install

In WHM, now Nginx Admin plugin will be available under plugins section. After installing make sure Nginx process is running on the server

1) You can chcek this by using the following command.

# ps aux | grep nginx

2) If it is not showing any process, then kill httpd and restart httpd

#killall -9 httpd
#/etc/init.d/httpd restart

3) Nginx Admin Uninstall instruction:

#cd /usr/local/src
#wget http://nginxcp.com/latest/nginxadmin.tar
#tar xf nginxadmin.tar
#cd publicnginx
#./nginxinstaller uninstall

Make sure that the Nginx is running on port 80 and Apache on different port (like 8080).

Also open the new port the server firewall.

That’s it!

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How to Install Zamfoo

July 29, 2015 Ashish Kale How to, Installation, Installation, Website, Zamfoo

What is Zamfoo ?

Zamfoo is a plugin which provides additional features to a Reseller and makes his work a bit easy. Zamfoo plugin needs to be installed on the server and can be integrated with Reseller center. The OS recommended for Zamfoo is Cent OS, as its the most compatible OS for cPanel/WHM. Altough there are few limitations to use the this with WHM reseller.

To Install Zamfoo

Run the following commands in SSH:

cd/

Use of this commands : This will take you to the root directory of your server.

wget http://www.zamfoo.com/downloads/zamfoo_installer.tar

Use of this commands : This command will download zafoo on your server.

tar -xvf zamfoo_installer.tar

Use of this commands : This command will extract contents on the server.

chmod 755 runme.cgi

Use of this commands : This command will modify the permissions to make it executable.

./runme.cgi

Use of this commands : This command will run the installer.

After firing all these commands,

You will have to enter the license key here:-

$license=”License key”

Once enter the License key
press CTRL + X

then Save it.

Zamfoo will be installed on your Linux server.

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Installing LAMP On Linux Mint

July 28, 2015 Ashish Kale Apache, How to, Installation, Installation, Linux, Mysql, PHP, Website

Installing LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) On Linux Mint.

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. How to install Linux the L of LAMP.

Install Apache

To start off we will install Apache.

1) Open up the Terminal

(Applications > Accessories > Terminal)

2) Copy/Paste the following line of code into Terminal and then press enter

sudo apt-get install apache2

3) Type you’re password, and then press enter.

The page should display the words

“It works!”

Testing Apache

To make sure everything installed correctly we will now test Apache to ensure it is working properly.

1) Open up any web browser and then enter the following line.

http://localhost/

2) You should see a folder entitled apache2-default/.

3) Open it and you will see a message saying

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“It works!”, congrats to you!

Install PHP

PHP is an open source web scripting language that is widely use to build dynamic webpages.

To install PHP

1) Open up the Terminal

(Applications > Accessories > Terminal)

2) Type in this command

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

After you answer yes to the prompt twice, PHP will install itself.

3) It may also be useful to add php to the directory index, to serve the relevant php index files

sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

Test PHP

To ensure there are no issues with PHP let’s give it a quick test run.

1) Open up the Terminal

(Applications > Accessories > Terminal)

2) Type in this command

sudo gedit /var/www/testphp.php

This will open up a file called phptest.php.

3) Copy/Paste this line into the phptest file:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

4) Save and close the file.

5) Now open you’re web browser and type the following into the web address:

http://localhost/testphp.php

The page should look
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Congrats you have now installed both Apache and PHP!

Install MySQL

To finish this guide up we will install MySQL. MySQL is a powerful database management system used for organizing and retrieving data

To install MySQL,

1) Open terminal and type in these commands

sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

During the installation, MySQL will ask you to set a root password. If you miss the chance to set the password while the program is installing, it is very easy to set the password later from within the MySQL shell.

2) Once you have installed MySQL, we should activate it with this command

sudo mysql_install_db

3) Finish up by running the MySQL set up script

sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

4) The prompt will ask you for your current root password.

Type it in.

5) Enter current password for root (enter for none)

OK,

successfully used password, moving on…

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How To Install Apache Solr In Ubuntu

July 25, 2015 Ashish Kale Apache Solr, How to, Installation, Installation, Website

Apache Solr

Solr is a search engine platform based on Apache Lucene. It is written in Java and uses the Lucene library to implement indexing.

If you want to install Solr the easy way, you should use this steps. Solr doesn’t work alone; it needs a Java servlet container such as Tomcat or Jetty.

To Install Apache Solr In Ubuntu

Step 1. To Installing Java

Installing Java from the command line.

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7

Step 2. To Installing Tomcat

Install Tomcat from the command line.

sudo apt-get install tomcat7

Step 3. To Installing Solr

1) Download the latest version of Solr 4.8.1 from

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

2) Expand the archive, and copy Solr’s Java libraries to the Tomcat library directory

sudo cp solr-4.8.1/dist/solrj-lib/* /usr/share/tomcat7/lib/

3) Copy Solr’s logging configuration file to the Tomcat configuration directory

sudo cp solr-4.8.1/example/resources/log4j.properties /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/

4) Copy the Solr webapp to the Tomcat webapps directory.

sudo cp solr-4.8.1/dist/solr-4.8.1.war /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/solr.war

5) Define the Solr context by modifying the solr.xml file.

sudo vim /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml

6) Context fragment pointing to the webapp file from above and to the Solr home directory.

<Context docBase=”/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/solr.war” debug=”0″ crossContext=”true”>
<Environment name=”solr/home” type=”java.lang.String” value=”/usr/share/tomcat7/solr” override=”true” />
</Context>

Step 5. Configuring Solr

1) Create the Solr home directory.