Tutorials

Change RDP port on a Windows Server

Windows servers are remotely accessible with Remote Desktop via the TCP 3389 port (default port). In some situations, when a more secure environment is needed, changing the remote access port can be useful. This article explains how to change the RDP port on a Windows Hosting Server. Note: Make sure you have opened remote access […]

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Preview a Website on a cPanel Server

The cPanel control panel allows you to preview a website using the IP address of the server. This feature is useful to preview the website before changing the DNS records for the domain. Process Confirm that the website preview option is not disabled. To confirm this, login to the WHM control panel and go to […]

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Install an SSL Certificate on a cPanel Server

Once an SSL certificate is issued, you can install it on your domain using the WHM control panel installed on your Web24 server. Note:  For cPanel versions up to 11.38, you will need to assign a dedicated IP address to your website to install an SSL certificate. From cPanel 11.38+ onwards, SSL certificates can be […]

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DNS error while adding a Parked domain in WHM

A parked domain is used to display the same website as a primary domain on WHM. If the domain you are adding as parked domain does not use your cPanel/WHM VPS as its nameservers, you may see the following error: Sorry, the domain is already pointed to an IP address that does not appear to […]

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Enabling Alternate SMTP Port in MailEnable

Issue If you are unable to send email using your Web24 server as outgoing mail sever. This is possible if your ISP is blocking the default SMTP port (25) used to send emails. This issue can be bypassed by enabling Alternate SMTP port (587) on your mail server configuration. Process Login to the server via Remote […]

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How to SSH to the server using PuTTY

PuTTY is an open source utility that allows you to SSH to your Linux server (remote) from a Windows machine. You can download PuTTY from the following link:http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe How to use PuTTY: Download the PuTTY from the above link and double-click the file. If a box appears asking if you want to run it, select […]

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Identify Disk Space Usage on a Linux Machine using Command Line

f your server runs out of disk space, critical services such as Apache and MySQL would crash. To identify what is using most of the disk, use following steps: Process Connecttoyourserverusing an ssh client such as PuTTY. Run the following command to find out current disk usage on the server df –h In the output, […]

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