WordPress is an open-source content management system. It is more popular due to versatility and the community contribution towards wordpress to make it a multipurpose platform. In some cases, WordPress might get affected by malicious code/plugin leading to a whole cPanel compromise; in that case, we always recommend removing the affected plugins, themes and the […]
We mostly use standard SSL, which covers the single domain name, and we have the second type that covers the unlimited domain names SSLs. In the cPanel, we can configure the free installation of wildcard SSLs with just a few steps. Let’s learn How To Install Free Wildcard SSLs in cPanel? Setup Wildcard Sub Domain […]
There are a lot of commercial and freemium email clients available in the market, but going with completely free, we will have one name in mind: Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Here in this article, you will learn how to set up your email in Mozilla Thunderbird? 1. Open Thunderbird → Click on the Local Folders → Click on Email. If you have opened the […]
The following instructions have you logging in as admin initially just in case you need to enable the DSN Control option for the user. If the user’s account doesn’t have the MX Records menu in DirectAdmin, you will need to enable this option. Learn, How To Configure Your DirectAdmin Server To Use a Remote Mailserver […]
Gzip compresses the content before serving it to the requested client. Due to the compression of the files, its effectiveness accelerates the website performance to the next level. Learn, How to Enable Apache Gzip Compression (mod_deflate) in DirectAdmin ? How to check Gzip Compression status? Just like for every other apache server, you can use […]
We often have questions about testing for Gzip compression after someone tests their landing page. Gzip is most likely working. The issue is that the landing page comprises several types of data, and .htaccess rules may have only defined certain data to be compressed. If not everything on that landing page is compressed, it may […]
Enabling Gzip compression is one of the starting points of optimizing web pages’ delivery optimally. It also increases website performance and may land your website in the green zone of google page speed insight. Let’s learn, How to Enable Apache Gzip Compression (mod_deflate) in cPanel ? How to check Gzip Compression status? By default, Gzip […]
You might have default restrictions on many factors in a shared hosting environment. You can modify the Max Request / Upload Size limit of DirectAdmin through administrator settings. Let us learn, How to Increase the DirectAdmin File Manager Max Request / Upload Size Limit? 1. First, to login into DirectAdmin control panel visit, https://your-domain.com:2222 or https://IP-address:2222 or https://server-hostname:2222. 2. […]
With the recent influx of cPanel to DirectAdmin migrations, one area of confusion has resulted in PHPMyAdmin access. Let’s clarify the cause of the confusion and a resolution to resolve/prevent it.Until recently with DirectAdmin, PHPMyAdmin access would require a login. This login would require the database user’s credentials (typically found within the site’s configuration file). […]
Let’s say that you have four versions of PHP installed, and you only want to update the default PHP version or php1_release. You know that if you do, recompiling all versions of PHP is going to take a while, so you may be deterred to update because of this. In the following example, we have […]