Error pages are web pages being served to the visitor when a problem occurs. These errors are identified by a numeric value usually from 400 to 500. The most well-known errors are probably “404 - Not Found” and “500 - Internal Server Error”.
Usually the default error pages simply display some basic information regarding the error [...]

SpamAssassin is one of the most popular open-source antispam out there. The best part is that it can be integrated into cPanel and managed easily from a web interface.
If you want to use SpamAssassin to filter your emails, the first thing you’ll have to do is enable it.
Assuming you’re already logged in cPanel, click on [...]

As you know, I’ve just signed up with BlueHost lately and so far so good! While they use cPanel, they’ve tweaked it a little to include some custom management modules. BlueHost allows you to host unlimited domains but how do you add an additional domain to your current hosting account?
Let’s see how to do this.
Of [...]

In the first part of this tutorial you’ve seen how to structure your folders and how to define a new site with Dreamweaver CS3. Now that we’ve got this part working, we’re now going to create a web page and upload it to our web server.
Before going any further, you must know that default web [...]

Usually I try not to get too much into web development through this blog, I rather try to focus on Web Hosting but today we’ll make an exception.
By popular demand, I will show you how to get started with Dreamweaver, a popular HTML editor. In fact, Dreamweaver is not just an HTML editor, it’s a [...]

Sometimes your website’s security (or your entire web server’s) can be at risk because of malicious people. And it’s not necessarily a user that’s attacking your system; it could be an automated script that just “found” your server.
Attacks are not always in the attempt of breaking in your system. It could be a DoS (Denial [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I’ve post a series of tutorials on How To Install Your Own Web Server on Windows with Apache, PHP and MySQL. Today I’m going to sort of pick up where these tutorials left by introducing you to Apache’s Directory Aliases.
While it may not be necessary for you to read all [...]

Summer is here and we finally get the chance to escape from the office! No cellphone, no pager and no emails.
If you’re not going to read your emails for awhile, the least you can do is to setup an auto responder. An auto responder will automatically reply to the emails sent to your inbox with [...]

When another website links directly to your files, it is called HotLinking. And when a website is hotlinking your files, it uses your bandwidth and storage space. Even worse, chances are the visitor downloading the file will never know about your website.
The good news is that you can prevent this using cPanel.
This tutorial assumes that [...]

How many times have you been asked by a customer or a supplier if you have an FTP server so they can transfer you some large files?
FTP is a protocol that allows a computer to transfer files from or to a remote server (called an FTP Server). Access to the FTP Server can either be [...]

A couple of months ago, I’ve made a post on how to find how much space a directory is using on Linux. This tutorial was meant for users who have a shell access though.
So how can you find out which directories are using disk space with cPanel?

SSI stands for Server Side Includes. You might have seen SSI as a web hosting feature on some web hosts.
Let’s see what it’s all about and what you can do with it.
Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple scripting language made mostly for the web. As its name implies, it consists of including the content [...]

Following up on my last post about SSH, I’ve found some Java SSH Clients I’d like to share with you. As opposed to SSH client softwares, a Java SSH Client doesn’t need to be installed on your computer. Instead you just need to access a web page from which the Java SSH client will be [...]

SSH stands for Secure Shell. You may have already seen SSH as a web hosting feature on some web hosts and wondered what it’s for.
SSH is a network protocol that allows two computer to communicate together through a secure channel. Data encryption is used to ensure security. SSH uses a public-key to authenticate the remote [...]

This is finally the last post of this series on How To Install Your Own Web Server. In my last post I’ve shown you how to setup a virtual host and now we’re going to use this to install phpMyAdmin.
Of course, the purpose of this tutorial is not really to install phpMyAdmin but it’s rather [...]