Dedicated Server Hosting

ImageMagick is one of the widely used image editing software which is freely available. if you want to use it on your cPanel dedicated server then just follow the steps mentioned below for installing ImageMagick on your server.

• Login to your server as root.
• Create a new directory as below :
• mkdir /home/cpimins
• cd /home/cpimins
• wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/magick.tar.gz
• tar zxvf magick.tar.gz
• cd magick
• /scripts/installrpm ImageMagick
• /scripts/installrpm ImageMagick-devel
• sh ./install

That’s it, your UK Dedicated server will have ImageMagick installed and you can use it for all your graphics

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cPanel control panel seems to be the most popular and widely used control pane.
If you want to install latest cPanel version on your linux server then you can follow the steps :-

• Login through SSH to your server and download cPanel installer script using following :-
  http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest
  
• Give executable permission to downloaded file :
  chmod +x latest
• Then simply run the script :
  ./latest

Usually installation takes approximately 1 hour to complete so back and relax !!!!

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If you are looking for freeing up your cPanel servers logs then just use following commands

Login to your linux server as root

root@harry[#]vi logs

echo > /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
echo > /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
echo > /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
echo > /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
echo > /usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log
echo > /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log
echo > /var/log/exim_mainlog
echo > /var/log/exim_rejectlog
echo > /var/log/maillog
echo > /var/log/messages
echo > /var/log/messages.1
echo > /var/log/maillog.1
:wq!

root@harary[#]chmod 755 logs
root@harry[#]./logs

that’s all using above commands will empty all logs present on your server.

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You may want to install new cPanel theme for your linux cPanel  server, you need to have root login details and you will have to login to your server as root user and will have to follow the steps :-

cd /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/
mkdir -p cpanelappinstall
cd cpanelappinstall
wget -q http://www.cpanelskindepot.com/skindownload/cpanelappinstall.tar
tar -xf cpanelappinstall.tar
rm -f cpanelappinstall.tar

Then run http://server.hostname.com:2086/cpanelappinstall/install.php
and follow the steps… that’s all you have successfully installed new cPanel theme for your server.

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WHM/cPanel is of great help when it comes for website hosting account management. You can add domains, email accounts, FTP accounts etc using few clicks.. You can also upgrade MySQL and PHP versions of your server easily.. You can follow the steps given below for the same : -

Upgrade PHP MySQL version on Linux server using WHM/cPanel

• Login to your WHM as root;
• Go to WHM >> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings, scroll down to “MySQL” section, switch radio button to “5.0″ and click “Save” at the bottom of the screen;
• Open root level ssh session to your VPS/dedicated server  and run the “/scripts/mysqlup” command, wait until installation will be completed;
• Login to WHM as root;
• Go to WHM >> Main >> Software >> Apache Update
• Click on the “Load Previous Config” button (if exists);
• Select required PHP version and PHP options that your applications may need;
• Uncheck the “Skip Apache Build if up to date” option;
• Click “Start build” button at the bottom of the screen and wait 15-30 minutes.

that’s all you have latest version of PHP MySQL on your linux  dedicated server

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If you want to add domains on your Windows Server manually without using control panel then you can follow the instruction given below :
Firstly you will have to login to your Windows Dedicated server using RDP details which your webhost have provided you in your Welcome email.
You can add domains using IIS. Use inetmgr at command prompt which will open IIS and follow the steps given below

• Open IIS Manager.
• In the Connections pane, right-click the Sites node in the tree, and then click Add Web Site.
• In the Add Web Site dialog box, type a friendly name for your Web site in the Web site name box.
• Click Select if you want to select a different application pool than the one listed in the Application Pool box. In the Select Application Pool  dialog box, select an application pool from the Application Pool list and then click OK.
• In the Physical path box, type the physical path of the Web site’s folder, or click the browse button (…) to navigate the file system to find the folder. Use c:\inetpub\wwwroot where you will have to upload all web files for your domains.
• The default value in the IP address box is All Unassigned. If you must specify a static IP address for the Web site, type the IP address in the IP address box.
• Type a port number in the Port text box.
• Optionally, type a host header name for the Web site in the Host Header box.
• If you do not have to make any changes to the site, and you want the Web site to be immediately available, select the Start Web site immediately check box.
• Click OK.

Once you add  domain in IIS you will have to install DNS server after which you will have to setup mail server for managing mail accounts.
You will have to manually install mail servers likes mailenable, smartermail etc.. using which you can add required email accounts on your server.

Managing Windows Dedicated server without using control panel is a bit cumbersome task hence its always suggested to have a control panel with your server which will help you to manage your server efficiently.

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