Recent content by OIL710

I have a brand new VPS with Centos and DA installed by my provider. There was no way to get to my Default Domain. DA would not let me add my default domain when logged in as Admin, and in User mode. The error was that the Domain Exists each time I tried. The online help did prompt me to delete...

Problem FIXED I tried editing the setup.txt file and put in a new password for admin. Then I ran /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin i I answered y to do you want to reinstall..... It now works, I can login at nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn:2222 as admin and the password I set in setup.txt Looking...

I fixed my OS type and ran setup.sh again. It seems to have got it working now, but I cannot login with the admin password I got from /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/setup.txt Using ssh as root I also tried passwd admin but that reports user 'admin' does not exist systemctl...

After doing a fresh Unbutu18.04 OS install on my VPS, running apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, I tried to install the free DA licence from my VPS provider. I ran the suggested pre installs for Debian-10 as suggested. No errors there. Next I ran the install.sh (with the auto parameter) which...

If I login as my Reseller, then List Users I am able to login as a user. Then I select File Manager and can navigate the Folders panel on the left of screen and expand the Domain tree. This works as expected. I see my domain folder for that user ad***.com. I then log out that ad*** user. Next...

I have created another Admin level user, and wonder now is it safe to delete the original admin user? Thanks

I am looking to buy DA lifetime for a VPS The DA specs page says that DA needs two IPs. Is this really needed as most bargain VPSs today come with just one IP I guess this is because they want to use different IPs for each nameserver record. But ns records do work on the same IP, but maybe not...

If I buy a lifetime license from DA for my VPS, bought from provider ABC and for whatever reason, six month later, I decide to re-establish my VPS at a different provider, can I move a DA lifetime license to the new VPS? If this is OK, is it very involved to actually do it. Oil

English IS my first language. I write software for a living. I have spent 5+ hours reading DA help, this forum and have googled DA extensively. I have FOUR DA VPSs each with multiple (in-house) web sites that do work using DA. My beef with DA is not how do you do something, but what to do...