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I find a problem with DA's backup of my non-English WordPress MySQL database. Basically the backup corrupted the non-English characters - in my case it is the Chinese Simplified characters. I have to use phpMyAdmin to manually do both the backup and restore. Click here to see the details of my...

I am running Jack's formmail.php - by the way, that is a very good script that won't expose recipient(s) email address(es). However, after rebuilding apache following instructions given here: http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=441 (I need to rebuild apache this way because the earlier...

This morning a customer reported he expected some emails and never received them. I checked indeed I could not receive any test emails sent to some of my email accounts for sites hosted on this dedicated server. Have tried all things I can think of, eventually I had to cold-reboot the server...

I used the update script to add freetype and then used smtalk's customapache to rebuild php. But I typed the wrong command. Instead of typing: ./rebuild php I typed... ./rebuild all Now the process is complete but I cannot start httpd. The error I have is: Syntax error on line 17 of...

I set the default email account ([email protected]) as catch-all email in the past. Having received so many email spams, I set the catch-all to bounce all unrouted emails. Today I login to see I have about 100 MB space used for this default email account. Since I no longer use this default...

I have a client who lives in Africa most of the times. He told me recenly that while he can see his own site there, he cannot see my main site there at all. My main site is... www.selfwebhosting.ws Why this? I use DynDNS's Secondary DNS service for my nameserver. See here...

I receive a lot of junk mails that are sent to my catch-all email at [email protected] where username is the account username. So I have turned the catch-all function off. Now I no long receive junk mails sent to [email protected] but I continue to receive junk emails that are sent...

I need to install a SSL Certificate for my client's following site: http://davesdelights.com So I assigned this static IP 82.103.130.48 to the site using DA's "Set IP To" function. However, after doing this I cannot access the website. The error message I get is this: I double checked the...

I just got a notice from my datacenter saying that the NetBus worm has been found somewhere on my dedicated server using the following ports: 12345/tcp filtered NetBus 12346/tcp filtered NetBus Just wonder if there is a way to detect which hosting account is having the NetBus worm. Does anyone...

I recently move most of my clients from a cPanel server to DriectAdmin server. Before the move, the WordPress script worked fine. But after moving (and upgrading the script), I start to see some problems, some of them very serious: Here is the blog in problem (it is installed in the document...

Almost a year ago, I found a script that allows website owners to buy website templates and at the same time allows a web designer to submit/upload/display his/her own templates for the system to sell. I even contacted the script author about pricing and server requirements. But after that my...