MikeJ

I can make a couple suggestions at the concept level... You could set it up as a cron job to run once a day, and check your list of events in the database. If any show up as X days away, then generate the notification. As for emailing the recipients, you could again have the list of recipients in your database (if you want it somewhere you can easily maintain it) and have the notification script generate a separate email per individual (if the number of individuals isn't huge). Another way it to include all of the individuals as BCC recipients, but that can tend to get caught in spam filters.

If you need something for your contact to forward to his provider. The fact it changed to all positive now I don't believe is exactly known, but they shouldn't be using that list anymore anyway.

The host that you are sending email to is using a blackhole list that was shutdown several months ago. They shouldn't be using that list. monkeys.com recently reverted to an "all positive" state where anyone still querying their blackhole list will always get a positive for blocking. If you can contact that person via other means, I would recommend you tell him to complain to his email provider.

If there are certain spiders that are "abusive" you can disallow individual spiders. Particularly if they are spiders you don't care about. Unfortunately, there's no magic button, though, for spiders.

I don't believe 300 lines will be a significant performance issue. If your site was rather high volume, then it might not be the best to them all in there, but for a typical site I imagine it would be just fine. All of those rules are operating on the request so they aren't "expensive" operations (that is, they are not resource intensive).

SSI ... SSL ... easy mistake. <_< (do they even read their emails?)

Use a robots.txt file to disallow spiders from going through your heavy stuff that you don't really need indexed, and won't affect your ranking (like images). For example: >User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /images/ Disallow: /gallery/ (if you have cgi-bin generated content pages you'd probably want to remove that line). It might cut down on the bandwidth usage.

Oh...btw, I should have mentioned this is done via DNS lookups, not WHOIS lookups. That means it will display information as it's retrieved from the DNS server that it queries. Why that's important is because when a domain account is created on TCH servers, the nameservers will show as TCH's when this script is run on those servers even if your domain really has them somewhere else. To get nameservers from Whois information is considerably more complex because different domain types return records in different formats.

PHP5 will make this easier, but that's still beta so... If you get the Pear Net_DNS library that Raul recommended above, put it into the directory you want to create a script to use it, then extract the contents using File Manager, and rename the directory it creates to "Net" (the latest package will create a directory called "Net_DNS-1.00b2", that's what you need to rename). You can delete the compressed file after that. Then here's a script that would do what you want: ><?php if ($d) { require_once("Net/DNS.php"); $res = new Net_DNS_Resolver(); $res->debug = 0; $result = $res->search($d, "NS"); foreach ($result->answer as $rec) print($rec->nsdname."<br />"); } else echo "You didn't give me anything to lookup."; ?> For an example of the output: http://biggorilla.com/tools/ns.php?d=google.com My recommendation would be to use the script just like above, and include it wherever you need the results. Just change the value of "d" accordingly. So, if you had the script in the directory "tools" under public_html, then whever you wanted the nameservers to output in a page: ><?php include("http://yoursite.com/tools/ns.php?d=domain.com"); ?> Just do not link to my site for that include (I'll eventually remove my installed script). I leave any further customization for your needs as an exercise for you.

Jacob

Best I can tell is cPanel did some security updates to their Control Panel in the last week and may have broken that one feature. I imagine a fix for it will come pretty soon.

The cpanel.net's demo is currently down. From their website: As for streaming, TCH does not provide any services for streaming, so the only streaming you could do on a shared server would be strictly what is possible through standard HTTP. TCH's preferred method of handling support is through the Help Desk which gets responded to very quickly, or if you need live support, through AIM or Yahoo Instant Messenger (see this page for details.) There is no setup fee for any of the webhosting plans.

It looks like you just recently changed the DNS server entries for your domain. Those changes appear to still be taking effect, so you may just have to wait another day or so for everything to straighten itself out.

Excellent information, and thanks for sharing it. Thumbs Up I'm sure others will benefit from it.

No. That documentation should really say "Installing dtSearch Web on non-Microsoft Web Servers on Microsoft Windows" It still requires Windows operating system. I did some research a year ago on PDF indexing search engines, but most of the ones I ended up looking at in any detail were commercial packages. If I find any notes about free ones, I'll let you know.

Saw your post as I was previewing this one. Good to see they are taking care of you. Hope it all works out. Since I typed it all, I'll include this here anyway in case it helps you or someone else. I'm sorry you are having such a rough time with this. I know you and I have chatted about it previously. If you have your administrative contact set properly now on your domain (that is, if your verizon email address is one you can receive and send email on) you should be able to now reinitiate a transfer by going to the new domain registrar (TCH's) and requesting a reinitiation of the transfer. I found a document that explains the process fairly well here - just select the "Insider's Guide to Domain Transfers" PDF. Other resources that should help is their email support and their transfer concierge at 1-480-505-8866 (I'm not sure if you are in the US or not, so the latter could be an expensive option). They should hopefully be able to help assist with whatever problem you are dealing with at Domain Direct. However, if you did actually cancel your transfer that you had in place, you will probably have to create a new transfer request, and I'm not sure you'll be able to get a refund on your previous charge, as it states on the screen where you cancel the request: "NOTE: Cancellation of the domain transfer does not entitle you to a refund of any fees that you may have paid. If you cancel the transfer now, you may re-purchase at a later time for additional registration fees." Apparantly they are at least somewhat flexible, according to your last post though.

What URL are you using to attempt to view the archives? It should be something like this: http://******/pipermail/listname_yourdomain.com/ If that's what you are using, and your archives are definitely enabled, I'd suggest submitting a support ticket (Click on Help Desk at top of any forums page) so someone can look at the configuration on your server and account. As for customizing the look of archive pages and subscriber list... other than framing those pages, I'm not sure what customization you can do (I haven't tried to customize them). Those pages are dynamically generated by the program which is why you don't see any files in your account. If I run across something, though, I'll let you know.

Moving this post out of the middle of the road. (Wouldn't want it to get run over).

There's a Help Desk link at the top of these forum pages. There's also a Help Desk link on the TotalChoice Hosting home page, under Web Hosting Support.

If you want to turn it off, just put the following line in your .htaccess file: >php_value session.use_trans_sid Off

JohnQM, you are correct.

You probably just aren't seeing your changes yet. For example, from my home: >[snowdog:~] mike% host www.o55.net www.o55.net has address 63.251.83.54 [snowdog:~] mike% host www.o55.net dns1.name-services.com Using domain server: Name: dns1.name-services.com Address: 63.251.163.102#53 Aliases: www.o55.net has address 69.93.215.165 Note if I lookup www.o55.net, I'm still getting cached information, but if I query your nameserver, I get the correct updated info. You will just have to wait awhile for DNS caches to expire and renew.

There are various ways to do that... PHP (requires .php extension, and path is relative to location of page on the file system): <?php include("includedir/header.html"); ?> Server Side Includes (require .shtml extension) Virtual (path a browser uses to access file): <!--#include virtual="/includedir/header.html"--> Those are just a couple ways. You can do a google search for php include or server side includes for more detail info. Or ask here. Hope that helps.