chuckmalani

Lianna no question.... she helped me before i even signed up by giving me a dummy email address on her account so i could test the webmail from behind my office's firewall... thanks for making TCH a easier place to be chuck

check out this post... http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...=ST&f=26&t=1678 chuck

bill- are all servers going to have phpNuke installed? i'm on 12, and i don't see it in the cPanel... of course, i could be looking in the wrong place. thanks, Chuck

OK- i will admit before this, i had no clue what SSL means besides "secure socket layer". I knew its a means of encryption for transmitting data, and i think its what make the "s" on the end of "https" when i log into my bank or other secure area. I also notice that I can log into my webmail "securely", and it moves me to port 2096 and throws the s on the http for me. Ok, I'm asking this because I need a "Digital ID" to use as a "Digital Signiture" to securely sign my emails. According to Verisign, a Dig ID includes the Your public key Your name and e-mail address Expiration date of the public key Name of the company (the Certification Authority (CA)) who issued your Digital ID Serial number of the Digital ID Digital signature of the CA It goes on to say that when you send a "Digitally Signed" email, it sends the public portion of your Digital ID and the message into a hash function which spits out a Message Digest. Then it takes your private key from the digital ID and ecrypts the digest. Then it sends the email with 2 things, the message text and the Digital ID and encrypted message digest as attachments... When someone gets the email, it uses my public ID to decrypt the digest. Then the recipient's email program will run the same hash function on the message text and come up with their digest. if the 2 digests are identical, that means that your email was unaltered. so... now i understand more about Digital ID's. What I still don't get is what SSL is, and how it relates to this. From whatis.com: Does that mean that if I click "Click for Secure Site" on the webmail page, that I am using webmail via SSL, so that would include a digital certificate? I'm thinking that by clicking the Secure site link, I'm enabling my own Digital ID (not exactly the same as VeriSign's, but similiar?) If so, how can i prove that I'm using it, in case we get audited? Thanks in advance, chuck

put your php and sql statements in here along w/ any errors you are getting... chuck

glad it worked out for ya chuck

type "date" on the command line and it will tell you the current time on the server. chuck

you can use the mySQL dump function to create a SQL which will re-create and populate the DB the way it is. then FTP that SQL to your TCH server, and run the SQL in phpMyAdmin. here is mySQL documentation on dump() http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/mysqldump.html hope this helps, chuck

log into your old server and do an >ls -lrt in the dir with the tar file, and post the results here. you can AIM me at FSUchucky3 if you want to... chuck

only the people that know your password will have access to your DB, so be careful where you code your password and yes you will need to save each file w/ a .php extension. if you are doing it locally, just right click on it and rename it. or you could use wordpad, which lets you keep extensions.

at what point are you getting that error? chuck

open 2 SSH shells, 1 for your old host, 1 for TCH. first you will have to tar the files on the old server. >> cd public_html/ > tar -cvf mywebsitearchive.tar * then, while logged into TCH SSH, you need to do the following: >> cd public_html/ > ftp your.old.webserver.com Connected to your.old.webserver.com (111.222.333.444). Name (your.old.webserver.com:TCHusername): here_put_your_old_username Password: here_put_your_old_password you now have an ftp connection to your old remote site. then all you need to do is do this: >ftp> cd public_html/ ftp> binary ftp> get mywebsitearchive.tar ftp> bye and it will put the file in your directory on TCH from where you called the ftp program - now back to the TCH server. >> ls -lrt and you will see the tar file. untar it >>tar -xvf mywebsitearchive.tar and you should be good to go. hope that helps, chuck

oh i forgot, you can have comments, but i hacked it so you cant because people were abusing it (and my grandma looks at the site)

knucklehead, that looks cool... if you wanna see coppermine in action, check out chuckandmelissa.com/pics chuck

yeah you can do it. i assume you know how to code php. you need to point your www.yoursite.com/form.html page to run www.yoursite.com/script.php on submit. the form will pass the name, email, other contents to the php script. then the php script will do 2 things. 1) connect to your mySQL db, insert the user info to your mailing list DB table, and 2) use the php mail() function to send your user a mail with your message. then when you want to send an email, you can make a little form processing script that will do the following. 1) recieve your message from a form. 2) select all the emails from the mailing list DB table 3) use the mail() function to email those users. TCH supports PHP and mySQL. It also has CPanel, so you can upload files from your PC to your remote server. Easy as pie. the last thing to keep in mind is that SPAM SUCKS. check the TOS before you start up a mailing list. not saying you are a spammer, but people might read this later and i don't want bill getting mad at me. hope this helps, chuck

the absolute best programmer I know once taught me that you can only solve one problem at a time...

or you could DL a trial version to see if you actually like it. If you are creating your sites for commercial use, I would not recommend "borrowing" a $1000 suite of software from KaZaA

oh here is the TCH Help page link for cuteSite

some people on here swear by cutesite builder. its inexpensive and has a following here, so people could help you with it. I use dreamweaver, but thats an expensive program, and if all you need is text to html, it might be overkill. if you have MS word, you can open a document, type in your text, and then "Save As Webpage" or something like that. It will automatically produce the HTML tags for you. But.... MSWord HTML tags are ugly! Don't say i didn't warn you. I think that would be the fastest way though... check out sites like this sitepoint.com or webmonkey.com for all kinds of tutorials and articles. sitepoint has good forums too (but remember to stay loyal to TCH forums!)

webpage is fine here... what is a cigarette tax stamping hand iron?

well i cant figure out what version it is, but i know its installed, because its used in my photo gallery script. good luck, let us know if you have any more pre-sales questions... chuck

yes its installed. i'll try and figure out what version..... chuck

ya know what i can do, i can try and see how the cpanel BBS addon scripts authenticate users and integrate that....... ill let you know how it works.. chuck

I have 2 different needs for a user authentication system. the first is for i would call a web intranet. i don't know if there is a more proper name for it, but basically it will be used to have "employee access" to scheduling, BBS, etc. The employees will also need to access a central customer database with records based on appointments and other pertinent customer data. I know we have the individual schedule function in the webmail, but it potentially needs to be public to each of employees, not restricted to each specific user when they login. For instance, employee A needs to see if employee B, C, or D is covering a certain client - A logs in to website, checks the calendar, and sees who has availablity, etc. There also needs to be an admin user, superuser, whatever who maintains these employees. Each employee will have attributes like phone number, fax number, email, mailing address, employee id, blah blah which can be accessed by other employees also. the 2nd is more fun. its a fantasy sports website. I need to restrict a user to access his team and leagues only. again, each user needs to have their own info, defaults, etc... here's the thing. i can design and code the database stuff, the fantasy sports stuff, the employee stuff, because i know what system requirements i need to fulfill. however, i am not a php security guru, nor do i have the time to learn the ins and outs of sessions, cookies, and i don't want a half assed, hackable system out there. specifically what i need the user auth script to manage is (1) registration, (2) login, (3) access to protected pages. i am checking out amember, it looks like a lot more than what i actually need (which may not be a bad thing), and i will install it and play with it.... thanks in advance

Thanks for the reply, I guess you missed the point of my post. I HAVE searched all over the web (yes, believe it or not, including google) for a user auth script. But the dozen or so that I have attempted to install/use/integrate into my site, have not been so great. As this project is for fun, I don't have the luxury of hours of development time either because its ending up on the back burner in most cases. Im not looking for an "enterprise ecommerce solution", thats why im looking for something on the cheap. I was merely soliciting advice from TCH users who have, in fact, installed a publicly available php user auth script for their site... Thanks, Chuck