DreamHost Discussion Board

Mail down 24 hrs, no response from customer servic

daveh — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:00:14 -0800

I've been a customer almost 5 years. In the beginning, you could not beat the bang for the buck. Trouble tickets were answered quickly. Something has changed. Our email has been DOWN FOR OVER 24 HOURS! No response to multiple service requests. I think it is time to look for alternatives.

A quote from one of the service tags that sums up the current attitude.

"I think it is interesting that in the FAQ about moving from shell to a separate email service, they insult and belittle the customers that have been with them the longest. In my business, those are the ones we take care of.

It was not my choice to have mail in the shell account. That is how they did it when we joined. It was not my choice to have it screwed up by Dreamhost in the move to a separate server. I'm not an idiot for staying with shell email, the purpose of having a ISP is to not have to worry about the technology.

It would not have been that hard to address this long before the server crashed. All I would have needed was to backup the email directory in the shell before they tried to move it."

Amended URLS?

BG01 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:42:04 -0800

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Does somebody know why or how URLs / links in my htm and php are being amended with Dreamhost?
I have ONE simple page:

Untitled Document

another test bling

Just to prove it has nothing to do with code (javascript, etc.) on my part.

Now the above code should be a clean page with the words 'another test' hyperlinked to bling.com and opening in a new browser window... simple enough!

But, the hyperlink when hovered/pressed gives me this:
http://www.mydomain.com/test/http://www.bling.com

What gives?

purchase domain with godaddy and host with DH

datafiend — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:52:03 -0800

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Hi all,
I'm wondering if most ppl buy their domain with AND host with DH. I've been told that it's better to do them separately.

Any opinions?

good ideas for wikis?

Wikademia — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:05:02 -0800

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what would be good ideas for wikis to be implemented using mediawiki?

Wikademia

Joomla error after user change

bluewater — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:52:48 -0800

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I changed the user of a domain that has a old joomla 1.0 site on it.

I changed the configuation.php file to the new user and the site loaded ok.

But none of the sites internal links work now.
It comes up with an error:

"Not Found

The requested URL /component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

Any idea how to fix this?

Joomla in French

silexmultimedia — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:12:05 -0800

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I'd like to use the Joomla system, but I mostly speak French and so will the user of that site. Is there a way I can set it to French?

I tried to DL the language packs but they seem to contain the whole system... Do I simply replace the corresponding files via FTP ?

Formmail and GNUPG

kahyaki — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:52:41 -0800

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Hi,

We are planning to implement GnuPG to work with Formmail, however some setup is needed on the server side (GnuPG Installation via SSH). I was unable to find a good documentation regarding this specific section.

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks!

Effective method to complaint?

lau8899 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:52:37 -0800

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Hi

I found the my sites hosted by DreamHost are very slow and unstable. I sent request to CS for many times but every reply were not related and even nonsense.

Any guys also had such experience? Please give me some advise. I'm new to here and I don't wanted to give up my paid service charge and switch to another hosting company...

I don't think all of you guys have the same problem because my friend who also use dreamhost but his site up and running find (http://blog.hk). But my site (http://hkcollege.net) was unstable or even down for about 2 weeks...

Thanks and Regards.

Root Lau

18 domains down for 7 days, no end in sight

ludlow — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:33:24 -0800

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I have been a customer since 2004. I have referred many people to Dreamhost over the years. I have been paying for a VPS for a few years now.

Sometime last week (around Nov 12th), all of my sites went down. I only noticed this because I tried to access one and was taken to an empty root directory.

I am missing literally 100s of GB of data. I have gone back and forth with Dreamhost customer support for the past 7 days in an effort. Despite them telling me it is being fixed, there has been virtually no progress made. ALL of my dreamhost-hosted domains are down (both business and personal).

I am absolutely beyond words to describe this experience and despite making repeated requests for someone to call me, have yet to speak with a new rep.

Has anyone else experienced this - ever - with ANY company? This is unbelievably insane to me.

Password Protecting Wordpress Uploads

Proto — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:22:49 -0800

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Hi,

I need to password protect a range of files that will be managed by the Wordpress uploader. I don't know exactly where the file will be within the uploads folder, and I don't know in advance the exact filename.

I think .htaccess will suit my needs, though I'm open to alternative suggestions. My main consideration is that the end user not have to do anything technical or difficult to protect the uploaded file.

I've tried the following:

____ code _____

AuthName "Private File"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /mydomain.com/.htpasswd
require valid-user

____ end code _____

You can see I'm attempting to password protect any file that has the word private in the name. This isn't working though, and the file "http://www.mydomain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/private_mydoc.docx" is still able to be downloaded without a password.

Any suggestions on how I can better manage this?

Edited by proto on 11/19/09 02:33 PM (server time).

Forwarding pop3 sent mail

hijdotcom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:19:32 -0800

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I have a site that networks with other non-profit agencies and is involved in community projects.

There's a need for archiving our mail permanently for legal reasons.

I have my panel set to automatically forward a copy of all email 'inbound' to the server to an archive mailbox. My users access their mailboxes through Outlook, Windows Mail, etc.

I've used dreamhost going on two years, but I can't determine if or how to retain a copy of outbound mail of my users.

Any advice?

Limit the host storage

clicsoluciones — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:39:54 -0800

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Hello,
I've been trying to limit one of my hostings, but I don't know how to do it.
I just can see the storage, but I don't find anything about limiting it on dreamhost control panel.

Does anybody knows how to do it?

PromoCode

bzbee — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:28:41 -0800

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I was trying to sign with dreamhost using a coupon for 1.8$ per month hosting service.

However, I am led to the trial signup and there is noway I can input the promotion code. I do not want to pay $119.40 yearly ($9.95 per month). I am about to cancel the account... any sugessitions? thank you

splitting accounts

indywebguy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:58:28 -0800

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I'm a freelance web content manager and have a client who currently has his website hosted through an employee's personal DreamHost account.

He wants to split his website and everything that goes with it (hosting, domain, email, databases) off into his own account.

The employee has given me full admin privileges to his personal account, but I'm struggling to find a way to split the account without downloading my client's information to a local machine and then re-uploading it to a new account.

Since we're staying within DreamHost, I was hoping there would be an easy way to separate designated information from the original account to another without messing around with downloading and uploading content to a local machine.

I don't mind downloading and uploading the website and its associated database, but they have some decent sized email accounts that I prefer not to do this with.

The bottom line is that I want to create a new web and email hosting account for my client with as little downtime as possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

PHP and imap_search

jared314 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:52:15 -0800

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I am writing a php script to check my DH imap server in a DH cronjob and am getting a seg fault every time I use the imap_search function. The script works locally and follows the examples I have seen.

imap_search($mbox, 'SINCE "17 Nov 2008"');

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Auto refresh?

GEE — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:39:59 -0800

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Hi there,

I'm finding that as I update my website on a regular basis, when I go to look at it again the updated content does not show until I refresh the page. This is fine for me as I know that I should refresh, but it means that visitors to my site do not always see the updated content.

Does anyone know a solution to this problem? Perhaps a Meta tag that automatically refreshes the page as soon as it loads?

Thanks,
George

WordPress Installation Error

icmix — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:58:41 -0800

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Hi,

I just set up a new site, believe I set the 3 nameservers properly on GoDaddy, and I tried the WordPress installation. I got this error on Firfeox and no info on IE7:

The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

I don't think I installed it on my other account (Hostgator) so I can't think of a conflict.

Does anyone know what I must have done wrong? Thanks

php.ini and upload_max_filesize

Halpert — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:30:00 -0800

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So far I've read and followed the instructions at: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP.ini, but these continue to return a 500.

I'm using Notepad to create the .htaccess and php-wrapper.fcgi files and when I save them I'm selecting "All files" under 'Save as type:' and I'm using ANSI encoding. Is this the right encoding? Should I be using UTF-8? Please help!

I can provide screenshots or even capture of what I'm doing if that helps. All I'm trying to do is increase the upload_max_filesize from 7M to 50M. Any help, links, or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Gmail--is it better?

goldylamont — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:42:08 -0800

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Hi, I have been thinking of migrating my email hosting from DreamHost to Gmail setup. The reasons I have for doing this are 1) Gmail in my experience is much faster at receiving emails than my dreamhost account; and 2) I've grown tired of the unreliable dreamhost email servers. It's true they work great most of the time but it's too often I have issues sending/receiving (such as the issue this morning).

I am a tech consultant so I'm OK with the process (although I know it's a lot of work to migrate an account). I'm just wondering what other users think about using the Gmail option and/or Google Apps in general with DreamHost. Is it worth the trouble to migrate? Thanks!

Adding search to site

ummaleah — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:46:49 -0800

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Hi,

My old host used entrophy search which was automatically activated from the control panel.

Does dreamhost offer anything like this?

Can you please tell me what are my options for use. preferrably without advertising.

Many thanks

Ummaleah

domain mirroring not working

allrytie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:05:14 -0800

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Hi! I have 3 domains that I would like to mirror domain #1. The first one I setup works fine, but the 2nd one I asked to mirror domain #1 doesn't work - it gives me error id: "bad_httpd_conf" - I have it set up thru dreamhost the way the other one is and I can't find the problem. I just bought domain #4 and also want it to mirror #1, but I'm afraid I might have the same issue. Can someone help?

Thanks!

- Jill

tech-stumped

prettysullen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:27:53 -0800

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i know only basics. got an error id: "bad_httpd_conf" post and just CoNfusEd... Now, is it a prob with the IP? The IP is from dreamhost. My domain was bought elsewhere but the nameservers were changd. Just wonered... whats up with this?

Error in Postfix

trukulo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:18:57 -0800

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I'm having this problem in postfix:

Nov 17 21:01:50 servo2 postfix/smtp[25043]: F1E0530BBDA: to=, relay=mail.lluche.com[208.97.132.223]:587, delay=2.9, delays=0.06/0/1.6/1.3, dsn=4.3.5, status=deferred (host mail.lluche.com[208.97.132.223] said: 451 4.3.5 Server configuration problem (in reply to RCPT TO command))

Always says connection refused.

My main.cf in postfix is:

--- BEGIN ---

# line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
#myorigin = /etc/mailname

smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
biff = no

# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no

# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h

readme_directory = no

# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key
smtpd_use_tls = no
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache

# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.

myhostname = servo2.lluch
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = servo2.lluch, localhost.example.com, localhost.localdomain, localhost
relayhost = [mail.lluche.com]:587
mynetworks = 172.17.0.0/16, 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = all
smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ndn.ca.crt
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options =
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_pass
smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
smtp_use_tls = no
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom

--- END ---

My smtp_pass is

--- BEGIN ---
[mail.lluche.com]:587 inf@lluche.com:xxx
--- END ---

I read wiki, and i read everything i can. It just don't work.

May you help me?

Identifying awry processes

kgagne — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:37:06 -0800

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I have a PS on which I run multiple installations of WordPress. The memory usage (as determined by the line graphs on my admin panel's "Manage Resources" pane) is usually below 300 MB, but occasionally it spikes to 1500, bringing all my sites to a screeching halt. Even during such an occasion, my uptime is this:

06:34:21 up 17:34, 1 user, load average: 0.47, 0.87, 0.71

That doesn't seem accurate to me. Regardless, is there a way to determine what script is process is eating so much memory? If it's a single WP plugin gone awry, I'd like to know to disable it and prevent future such spikes.

forum game. funniest sentence

Wikademia — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:16:16 -0800

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post a sentence you find funny.....

find a way to vote on other's sentences.

here i go.... ok... be prepared... make sure you are sitting. this is going to be REALLy funny.

"teh walruses on the rocks cast lines for sharks so they can sell shark fins to those who would use them for medicine"

Wikademia

linking new domain to host

coloredsky — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:57:23 -0800

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Basically what I want to do is link a new domain name I purchased to my hosting account. In the webpanel, there is a link to add hosting to that domain. Well, I already have unlimited traffic and data so I don't need to purchase extra hosting.

My plan is to use the new domain name and not have it redirect to my main URL. Anyway I can keep the new domain in the URL while linking all the files to my hosting account?

Hope that makes sense. Thanks!

PHP version 5

dscoggins — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:02:13 -0800

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Hi all,
I am trying out Headway, but can't upgrade to v1.5 until my server, bishop, is running PHP v5. What is the best way to get dreamhost to update PHP? A support ticket?

Thanx for the feed back,
Dan
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joomla 1.0 front-end login not working

apedic — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:33:58 -0800

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HI, I've some old joomla 1.0 installation that I've migrated to dreamhost and seems that all is working but the front-end login. Can anyone help me?

A way to do an "Uptime" on the MySQL server?

wflanagan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:43:19 -0800

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It would be nice to be able to tell the load on the MYSQL servers. But, I haven't so far figured out how to SSH into my server.

Any ideas anyone how to get a terminal prompt on the MYSQL servers?

Drupal on PS?

jassent — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:06:34 -0800

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Hello-

I get 500 errors when accessing the Modules administrative task in Drupal when running on a Private Server. I have notified and been in contact with tech support. They advised me to run the "top -c" diagnostics and to increase the server resources. This did not stop the errors. The site worked when not running on a Private Server.

Is anyone successfully running Drupal on a Private Server?

Any suggestions?

Jassen

Edited by jassent on 11/16/09 01:07 PM (server time).

rsync to hanjin insanely slow

n715dp — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:43:05 -0800

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anyone else having issues with connecting to the hanjin backup server? I'm trying to do an rsync backup of my files and it usually flies through (I'm on a 20/5 FIOS connection) and it's stalled out at less than 1KB/sec.

500 Internal Server Error or very slow result

Fixer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:48:13 -0800

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Hi,

I have the next php script and, this always work very well (loading time before 1 second) but about two or three days to now, I get the 500 Internal Server Error or this simple function spend more than 20 seconds to load.

My dreamhost server is "Burke", I use mysqli to connect to the database.
In error.log I get: Premature end of script headers: menu.php...

Who can I put this working? Move to another webhost?
Please help me!!!

The php script is:
header("Content-Type: text/xml");

ini_set('display_errors','On');
ini_set('display_startup_errors','On');
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// db properties to mysqli class
define ("DB_SERVER", 'mysql.domain.com');
define ("DB_NAME", 'db_name');
define ("DB_USER", 'db_user');
define ("DB_PASSWORD", 'db_pass');

include_once 'library/mysql.php'; // simple mysqli class

function getRows ($sql){
$data = false;

$myDB = new MySQL();
$myDB->Query($sql);

if ($myDB->TotalRows() > 0) {
while( $row = $myDB->FetchArray() ) {
$data[] = $row;
}
}

$myDB->Close();

return $data;
}

function mostraMenuXML($pid=0, $isMulti=false) {
if ( $isMulti )
$menu = getRows("SELECT id, titulo FROM artigos WHERE menuid = $pid ORDER BY ordem, data");
else
$menu = getRows("SELECT id, nome, publicado, tipo FROM menu WHERE parentid = $pid ORDER BY ordem");

if ( !$menu )
return "";

if ($pid==0 )
$xml = "\n\n";
else
$xml = "";

if ( $isMulti ) {
foreach ($menu as $item) {
$xml .= "\n
$xml .= "name=\"". stripslashes(html_entity_decode($item['titulo'], ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8")) ."\" action=\"openPage\" m=\"".$pid."\" id=\"".$item['id']."\">";

$xml .= "\n";
}
} else {
foreach ($menu as $item){
$xml .= "\n switch ( $item['tipo'] ) {
case "GALLERY":
$accao = "";
$isMulti = true;
break;
case "MAIL":
$accao = "openMail";
break;
case "NEWS":
$accao = "openNews";
break;
default:
$accao = "openPage";
}

$xml .= "name=\"". $item['nome'] ."\" action=\"$accao\" m=\"".$item['id']."\" >";

if ( $item['id'] != $pid )
$xml .= mostraMenuXML($item['id'], $isMulti);

$xml .= "\n";
}
}

if ($pid==0 )
$xml .= "\n";

return $xml;
}

echo mostraMenuXML();
?>

ftp connect failed

jrosell — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:58:21 -0800

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I have an proftpd server where I connect from filezilla in our office.
I cannot connect to that specific ftp server when using ftp command ssh conection or ftp_connect php function from dreamhost .
I don't know what happens because it works when I try to connect from dreamhost to other ftp servers.
Any ideas?

MediaWiki Recent Changes into IRC?

Wikademia — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:08:45 -0800

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I want to find a script/bot/extension to post a recent changes feed to #Wikademia on Freenode... preferably open source and probably free. Any help appreciated.

Wikademia

Disk limits

fabian2ki — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:32:03 -0800

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Hello,

I have a full hosting account.

I can't find how to set the limit for each domain.

I hope somebody can help me.

Thanks in advance,
Fabian

PHP mod for my website's Script

diafiro — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:32:38 -0800

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Hello, everyone.

I have *no* experience or knowledge about this area of PHP at all. I can handle a tiny little bit of it on the 'design', html-ish side, but I have no idea how to do this one.

For a website script that I bought, I need several server configuration things.
I contacted DH, and they told me that everything seems alright, except for two settings.
The Script requires:

-session.gc_maxlifetime = 15000 (Recommended or higher)

{{but I have 1440}}

-magic_quotes_gpc = on

{{but mine is off}}

I don't have the slightest idea how to change these variables, or even if it's really worth changing (well, the script totally requires it, because I contacted their customer support, and they told me that it is, indeed, necessary).
I'm talking about this script: http://www.fmyscript.com/requirements.html

Here's their demo: http://demo.fmyscript.com/

Would someone please tell me how I could change these two things just for one of my domains??
Your help will be much appreciated!

Tony.-

Modify PHP Upload Limit

Yue_Hong — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:06:43 -0800

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Hi,

I want to increase the PHP upload limit for my site (www.fotobucks.com) and I have found a tutorial on wiki dreamhost (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP.ini). Here I want to ask, what are the risk of modification if modification failed? Will it cost data lost?

I am new to this and it also is my first time doing it. I tried to do the modification using putty.exe. After I run the putty.exe, I keyed in 'fotobucks.com' at the host name field and set to port 80. When I clicked on open button, putty open a new window with black color in it. The problem is that I cannot type and do anything with that window. What should I do in order to proceed?

From what I read from the tutorial (although I am not fully understand it), here I want to ask:
1. Is it possible to do the modification by uploading all those files needed without using putty.exe?
2. Where and how can I get the dreamhost original php.ini? So that later I can change the setting to increase the upload limit.

I will be very appreciate if you can provide detail steps by steps in the way to do the modification. Thanks.

Back to BASICS

unicare — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:05:01 -0800

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Hey everyone,

When I was younger, I used to build websites using html and javascript using free web hosting sites like xplorer, and geocities. I had no problem typing html into the editors to publish my websites.

I am so confused with this Dream Host though. I thought Id try to be professional about it, as I have that earlier experience. But I can even figure out where to type in the html and to start my website....

Can somebody please guide me to begin??? I really thought I had a handle on this, but apparently not!

Thanks so much!

Web ID password won't change

deepblerg — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:46:45 -0800

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Hi,

I've tried changing my password a couple of times at https://panel.dreamhost.com/id/ but it does not actually change the password. I always have to login with my old password. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Juggling Domains

crompton — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:35:46 -0800

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I'm sure these things have been covered elsewhere but I haven't been able to find them.
I have purchased one domain and one hosting plan with Dreamhost. I want to split these things up and use the domain name for my Tumblr account then associate another domain name [purchased elsewhere] with my hosting package. Is this possible? If so what are the steps to accomplish it? Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with this...

favicon

theMezz — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:57:36 -0800

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why do favicon.* files automatically appear ????????

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http://theMezz.com

Subdomain mapping

caseon3 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:09:48 -0800

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Hi,

We currently host on Dreamhost, and I had a question how to map a subdomain to a folder in the mail site.

I have subdomain.maindomain.com, and I want to link it to www.maindomain.com/folder. Someone told me that I can do this so that when they click the link to get to the folder (ie in the main navigation bar), it will redirect to the subdomain folder.

Ideally, I'd change the link in the main navbar, but this is a quick work-around until I can get my web guy back on the phone.

Is this possible? Help?

ioncube...yet again

j.b.dances — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:08:20 -0800

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i created a subdomain.
into the subdomain put a script locked by ioncube.
into the subdomain i put dh-phpion.php
that file "reads".
the install.php doesn't see it, and asks for ioncuve loader etc...
i put the dh-phpion.php into the subdomain figuring the install scriopt couldn't look "further uphill" into the domain to be told to get over itself and just run.
any help or instrux based on the premise that ur talking to an compleat idiot on code will be deeply appreciated.

This is getting really bad guys

MrVee — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:26:02 -0800

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I am having so much trouble getting to my website I can't hardly stand it. For the first time I am considering switching web hosts. I have several computers and several browsers on each and NONE can get to my website this morning. It loads and loads and loads until it quits. I've sent in tickets on this and they say the load time is great. But I don't know when they read the notes to check because by the time they do, it's great for me too. This morning it's not so great. And I'm annoyed about it. I've made NO changes to my message board or my website and for some reason it is NOT coming up. This sucks.

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Still pending approval 4 days

bobosky — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:15:51 -0800

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I signed up my domain and hosting from DH in 11/09/2009, it has been 4 days, it still pending. I paid with my Credit card, does it take this long?
account #605062

Thanks.

At the end of my rope...

jtagen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:56:19 -0800

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A question for the general community.... is Dreamhost going down the tubes, am I just extremely unlucky, or am I missing something?

I've been a DH customer for over 5 years, currently have several different accounts for businesses, turned on a huge number of people to a great service.

One of the sites I run is for the courses I teach. I'd problems (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error) every other page for almost three months. After a whole support debacle, finally got moved to a new server (twins). Things seemed to be better. Now I'm back to the same old, errors that disappear after a refresh.

It's finals week, I'm running a stable unmodified Moodle install, students are trying to submit their final projects right now and driving me crazy. I know I'm in a shared hosting environment, and I definitely don't expect five nines of uptime, but I'm losing patience. There seems to be regular "restructuring", but never any increase in availability. I have an open ticket now (3556196), and based on my experience someone will go to the site, refresh until it loads okay, and close the ticket with a reply that it "works for them".

Is it just me, my luck, or is the relationship over and it's time to shop around?

site design and issues (html, css?)

CoachP — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:33:35 -0800

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I have very little experience with hmtl and none with css styles. I have created the following site but have some pretty major issues with my result.
1. images (logo at top and the verticle left bar and the top and bottom image bars, and background) are fixed so if each links page contains more than what fits in the area it shoves the credits at the bottom past the background and shows it repeat instead of readjusting.
2. these images also repeat horizontally.

not sure if im explaining it exactly. but i created it with web expression 2 and it looked great on a 14-15" screen but on 17" or higher it repeats. I would also like to have a frame inside that lets me use the same top,side and bottom instead of editing every page when i add a link which is how i have it now. I know this has nothing to do with dreamhost or its services but thought there might be an easy way to figure it. please see my sig below if any of you have extra time and want to help us out! once i get this i will move on to lookin for help with the search bar.
God Bless
Shawn

all help, suggestions, and code to improve our site is appreciated. altizerbaptist.org

Securing access to content from Moodle

gbeevers — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:53:45 -0800

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Hi,

I run a Moodle site outside of the Dreamhost network, but have rich media content sitting on Dreamhost. I want to secure that content so that only users within my Moodle app can access the content on the Dreamhost server. Has anyone done this and could share how I might be able to implement?

Thanks.

Installing SimplifyMedia's Rhythmbox

bradknox — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:50:41 -0800

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Hi,

I'm trying to install SimplifyMedia's Rhythmbox via ssh on my account (on the clamato machine). If I can get it working, Rhythmbox would let me stream music to other computers and my iPhone. Does anyone have any experience installing this application on a Dreamhost server?

Thanks!

File Size Question

CoachP — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:20:43 -0800

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I have the happy free hosting plan for non profits. I just recently uploaded some html files and we moved to dreamhost because of the free hosting didnt require a forum login as X10' free hosting plan did, and also because of the reputation and virtually limitless files and bandwidth. With that said, our goal as a church is to have video sermons on the site from each sunday. I have went through and created a shell of what he are wanting it to look like. The only problem i see is that the swf/flv files are still going to be too large to upload with net2ftp because its limit says 4MB file size and a 30 sec upload time limit. Anyone have suggestions or am i missing something? Also anyone who is more advanced than me which is more than likely everyone is welcome to give advice on design and implementation for our site. Our church members give feedback to me as well but i have to figure it all out and currently their are numerous issues but lets tackle the video problem first.

thanks
Shawn P
altizerbaptist.org

all help, suggestions, and code to improve our site is appreciated. altizerbaptist.org