rayners

Same here. I do everything but create databases with PhpMyAdmin, so I can understand where you're coming from. This was a discovery for me as well.

Okay, just looking at that right now, in CPanel, under backup, there is an option to Restore an SQL DB. Have you tried that? And if that doesn't work, after my quick perusal of the backup file I just generated from one of my DB's here, you should be able to just run the file through MySQL to restore everything.

Out of curiousity, how did you create the dump? I've always had phpMyAdmin on any MySQL DB I've used, so it was just a matter of exporting from one, and then running that SQL in the other.

What are you adding the tables for? Do you have a script to add them or do you have to create them manually? Either way, you can take care of that in phpMyAdmin, which you can reach through CPanel.

Copied and pasted from my terminal window: >stilgar% wget -c http://discussindia.com/test.zip --21:41:43-- http://discussindia.com/test.zip => `test.zip' Resolving discussindia.com... done. Connecting to discussindia.com[66.11.163.185]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,382,683 [application/zip] 100%[====================================>] 1,382,683 155.78K/s ETA 00:00 21:41:52 (155.78 KB/s) - `test.zip' saved [1382683/1382683]

Personally, I'd reccomend downloading the email and filtering it out on your own machine instead of automatically trashing it at the server. Mostly as a precaution for the one or two legit messages that get marked as spam every month or so. (Unfortunately, a good bit of that is because somebody sent spam out from an address near to ours, though completely unassociated with TCH, so every now and again, SA will catch a legit email to me and mark it as spam because of that idiot. Admittedly, that particular scenario hasn't shown up in a while, so the issue may have been resolved.) That's just my experience though.

Who needs a PHP book when there's http://www.php.net? Though I imagine the PHP Cookbook could come in handy.

I'm nothing if not a great idea man. Just ask my boss; he can't get me to do any work.

TCH's Behind The Post.

I concur. If you're buying tech/programming books, the best place to start is with O'Reilly.

Well, for PHP, the best place to start is almost always http://www.php.net. The online documentation cannot be beat.

All I really know about monitors is that ViewSonic makes darn good ones.

I'll admit, I was completely unaware of that. Running FreeBSD on my home machine, I don't get much chance to play around with OE, Eudora, etc. I'm not sure I follow your logic here. I just tested out SquirrelMail on my site, and it worked just fine. I also did a quick check on a number of the other servers here, and they all seem to be running an IMAP server. I can't argue with that, but it's far from my decision to make.

"Smart Host" is just a term used for a configuration like that, which seems to be somewhat default setting (though I can't speak for the ISP side of things). I have yet to find an ISP that doesn't do that (though, admittedly, I haven't tried it on Comcast since I run my own mailserver on my machine). It would seem to me that this should be part of the service an ISP should be providing, especially if they are blocking outbound port 25 connections. When sending a mail in that fashion, in the non-visible mail headers, it still contains data saying that you are a customer of theirs. But you can change the From: address to whatever you'd like. Either way, I cannot say for sure your ISP will support it. But I do suggest you give it a try. What can it hurt?

Just to clear a few things up, let me give you a quick rundown of how internet email works: Outgoing email is sent though WebMail, OE, etc. via SMTP on port 25 (always). That is not something that can be changed. Email Servers talk to each other via SMTP on port 25 (always). Change that, and email no longer works. Incoming email can be gathered a number of ways: WebMail (running on a webserver through any arbitrary port). Here it's 2065. POP3 (for OE, Eudora, etc) on port 110. You could also run something like SquirrelMail on your site. It uses PHP and IMAP to access your mail, and since it runs within your site, you can access it normally (i.e. through port 80). This would probably be a good solution to your firewall problem.

While it's one thing to have a website sitting on a port other than 80 (heck, I've run sites on my machines on 8000, 8888, and 8080), it's something completely different to have an SMTP server sitting on a port other than 25. All mail software out there assumes that SMTP is listening on port 25 (as per the definition of SMTP), so any change to that would effectively cut off your server from internet email. I can understand their reasoning to some degree. I imagine they could be taking steps to discourage spammers, who do so enjoy being able to get to mail servers other than their ISPs. I am unsure at the moment about steps you can take to still get your email out. Depending on your ISP, you may be able to use their mail server as a Smart Host. That is that their server will collect all the mail from their customers and then send it out for them. POP access should still be working though, since that runs on port 110. Any ISP that blocks that port would be losing customers hand over fist.

Here's a link I found on the Invision Board site: IBSkins.com

No, there's no way it can be changed. That's one of the side-effects of using shared hosting. With each account having their own public_ftp directory, the FTP server software needs to know which domain you're logging into.

I will second the Movable Type recommendation. Though I imagine I'm probably a little biased.

Well, the File Does Not Exist error is pretty self explanitoty. The script you are trying to run isn't where you seem to think it is. As for the other one, in my limited experience, that can be any number of things. What are that script's permissions at the moment? Is there any configuration that needs to be done for the script? Can it access all the external files it needs to access?

Actually, Lianna, I see GPG in CPanel. You can either generate and import keys. For future reference, PGP and GPG are effectively the same thing.

AWStats was just enabled for the following servers: 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10. It will take a few days for the stats to start showing up; sometimes as many as fifteen. Please stop sending help desk tickets about AWStats not being on as AWStats is now turned on for every server we have. Thank you for using our service.

I've got a couple running Invision Board (like this forum). http://forums.rayners.org http://forums.theplothooks.org Not a whole lot of traffic at the moment, but the board software itself is absolutely wonderful. I've tried phpBB and a few others, but I settled on Invision.

I suppose I may as well contribute to the discussion here. Operating Systems: FreeBSD (great OS for PCs, and running on my machines at home) Debian Linux (my favorite Linux distribution) NetBSD (find any machine, NetBSD will run on it) OpenBSD (one of the most secure out-of-the-box OSes out there) Email Related: Mutt (text based mail client, with versions available for Windows) Fetchmail (downloads email from POP and IMAP servers, no Windows version that I know of) Exim (easily configurable mail server, though only for Unixes I believe) Procmail (wonderful email filtering program, I use it extensively, Unix only again I believe) Usenet Related: Leafnode (great little local and offline NNTP server, pulls down articles from your ISPs NNTP server) Slrn (great text based news reader, a Windows version is available) Web Related: Mozilla (Best. Browser. Ever.) AmphetaDesk (great little RSS feed reader for web sites) MovableType (best bloging/cms program out there period) Other: Cygwin (most of the Unix only programs you may actually get working in Windows with this) Enjoy!

Just out of personal curiousity, is there any particular reason you need to send executables via email?