how-to
Magento upgrade to 1.5.x or 1.6.x
Posted Sat, 07/09/2011 - 3:26am
UPDATED: 2011-10-07
As many magento users will know, Magento is no fun to work with-- mainly due to poor community support (the developers help paying customers; i.e. Magento Enterprise ... Only payed support there... Great for business but bad for the average or beginning user...)
Anyhow...
So here's how we do it.
MAKE A BACKUP!
You can skip this step all together, however, please make a backup of everything prior to beginning the upgrade.
Create a test environment somewhere on your server (preferably away from your production installation)
How to automatically sync date and time on *nix server
Posted Tue, 01/23/2007 - 11:26am
Here's how we do it on RHEL:
Logged in as root:
* Create file at /etc/cron.hourly/clockset
* with these two lines only:
rdate -s time-a.nist.gov > /dev/null
hwclock --systohc > /dev/null
How to upgrade to PHP5.x and Apache 2.X
Posted Thu, 01/18/2007 - 5:19pm
http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=70864a5c335e7705f268e661e0a6d78f&threadid=14285
Exim with SSL POP/SMTP/IMAP (using stunnel)
Posted Thu, 09/21/2006 - 10:01pm
SSL help
Posted Thu, 09/14/2006 - 3:04pm
SSL Location:
SSH to the old server and go to /usr/share/ssl/certs/, here you find the www.domain.com.crt (SSL Certificate) and the www.domain.com.cabundle (Cabundle), You will find the key www.domain.com.key at /usr/share/ssl/private/ path.
Linux: User Commands
Posted Mon, 09/04/2006 - 6:42pm
Close Open DNS Servers
Posted Mon, 08/21/2006 - 4:08pm
Source: http://www.webhostgear.com/321.html
For those of you who check your nameservers and other DNS related issues using the popular site dnsreport you're probbaly seeing Fail Open DNS Servers. We'll show you have to fixed named to close open dns servers.
How-to: Secure tmp directories on linux
Posted Sun, 08/20/2006 - 3:12pm
source: www.eth0.us: How-To: Secure your temp directories
Every system needs temporary folders that any user is able to read and write BUT these directories should not be able to execute programs or scripts. Though this will only protect you from somebody running the script directly it will help with a large portion of the automated rootkits and trojans that script kiddies use. They will still be able to put the files on the system but they will be unable to execute them and create the back door. One of the biggest problems is php injection via apache in which people will have apache download and then run an exploit. Securing the temp directories is probably the single biggest thing you can do towards securing your server.
