This article contains information about setting your permissions to 777. No, setting permissions to 777 allows other users on the server, as well as anyone who may find a security hole in their scripts, to write to that file. It is a huge security ...

Can I Set Permissions To 777

Ever set up a site and got the following error? Database Error: Unable to connect to the database: Could not connect to MySQL Well, there are a few common things you can do to test this and find the cause of the problem. If you are using a CMS(or ...

Database Troubleshooting 101

This article contains information about the control panel for our shared Linux servers with a demo. The control panel we use is called cPanel. A demo of cPanel can be found here Username: x3demob Password: x3demob

Does Midphase Have A Control Panel That I Can Demo

This article contains information about supporting Aax. Unfortunately, we do not support Aax on our shared servers.

Does Midphase Support Aax On Your Linux Shared Hosting Plans

HOW TO MOVE A WORDPRESS SITE FROM WORDPRESS.ORG TO A SHARED SERVER Login to your account at Wordpress.org. Once logged in, you will see an icon at the top called ‘My Blogs’. Once this is selected, it will list all of the blogs you currently have on ...

How To Transfer A Website From WordPress

This page includes information on what to do when your site appears to be offline. If your website is not loading, there are a couple of reasons why this might be happening. To troubleshoot the problem, please follow these steps: 1. Check your ...

My Site Appears To Be Offline Or Down

Apache Handlers are how Apache knows how to handle a particular file, such as handling a CGI script. You can create your own handler, such as forcing the PHP processor to parse all HTML files. Although this is not recommended, it is possible.

What Are Apache Handlers

FrontPage Extensions are the Server Extensions for the Microsoft FrontPage application. These are a set of server-side applications that allow you to incorporate advanced features without having to write the complex server-side programs typically ...

What Are FrontPage Extensions

Permissions refers to a set of authorizations associated with every file and directory that determine who can read it, write to it, or execute it. Only the owner of the file (or the super-user) can change these permissions.

What Are Permissions

Raw Logs are access data that is updated by the server and can be downloaded and interpreted by statistic programs.

What Are Raw Logs

Symbolic Links are shortcuts to folders or files. Symbolic Links enable the same file to be accessed from different locations. The www folder in your account is a symbolic link to public_html folder. Deleting a file in the www folder will delete the ...

What Are Symbolic Links

Q - I've purchased the SSH service and was hoping to use the text editor "emacs." Is that possible and if not, what are my text editor options? Thanks. A - Some may find Pico or Nano easier to use. However, VI is arguably more powerful than the ...

What Does Midphase Suggest - Emacs VI or Nano

Cron Job is a command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is used to schedule commands to be executed periodically. CPanel has a nice interface to allows you to set up cron jobs. You can have a script run at all kinds of intervals from every ...

What Is A Cron Job

A Maillist is a (usually automated) system that allows people to send e-mail to one address, whereupon their message is copied and sent to all of the other subscribers to the maillist. Using this application, people who have many different kinds of ...

What Is A Maillist

The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to simply as Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server ...

What Is Apache

A Terminal is a device that allows you to send commands to a computer somewhere else. At a minimum, this usually means a keyboard a display screen, and some simple circuitry. Usually, you will use terminal software in a personal computer - the ...

What Is A Terminal

BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) is commonly known as the free Unix-like OS FreeBSD. This is another OS based on Unix much like Mac OSX and Linux.

What Is BSD

CHMOD is the change mode command, which is only used on UNIX systems. It changes or sets the permission of a file or a directory. You can change permissions on a file through an FTP program or you can also make these changes with our File Manager ...

What Is CHMOD

Linux is an open-source operating system that is often used for web servers. It is probably the most common web server. We currently run CentOS 5.

What Is Linux

Sendmail is an SMTP-based message transfer agent (MTA) that runs under Unix. Sendmail stores and forwards more mail than any other MTA on the Internet.

What Is Sendmail

Strut is another project from The Apache Software Foundation. Struts uses a special servlet as a switchboard to route requests from Web browsers to the appropriate server page. Strut makes web applications much easier to design, create, and maintain.

What Is Strut

The Root Directory is the section of the Master Domain (Primary Domain) on an account in the public_html/ directory. This is where you can publish files to be viewed online. The root directory can sometimes also refer to the server. Normally with a ...

What Is The Root Directory

UNIX/LINUX is a computer operating system (the basic software running on a computer, underneath things like word processors and spreadsheets). UNIX is designed to be used by many people at the same time (it is multi-user) and has TCP/IP built-in. It ...

What Is UNIX - LINUX

This article contains information about versions of PHP and Mysql on our shared Linux servers. PHP is currently version 7.0.26 and MySQL is currently version 10.1.29-MariaDB

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