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Re: Back to BASICS

aditya — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:08:11 -0800

I am facing the same problem. Can anyone know more tutorials on dreamhost.

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Forwarding pop3 sent mail

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

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?

Re: Limit the host storage

sdayman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:31:01 -0800

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You can't. The Unlimited plans have no quotas. Your best bet is just to monitor usage and notify users when they go past a certain amount.

-Scott

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?

Re: Bird cam and uploads

peni123 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:09:23 -0800

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What software did you end up using

Edited by andrewf on 11/18/09 10:03 AM (server time).

Re: Back to BASICS

maruchan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:45:59 -0800

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http://wiki.dreamhost.com/FileZilla_Setup

Give that a try.

Two ways to use Filezilla:
1. Connect to server, download HTML files from server to your home computer, edit HTML file on home computer, drag-and-drop HTML file back to server.

2. Connect to server, right-click an HTML file you want to edit, click "Edit," then your HTML editor will open on your home computer. When done editing, save the HTML and Filezilla will ask you if you want to upload the changed file to the server.

Pretty simple once you get through it the first time.

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

Re: linking new domain to host

sXi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:13:11 -0800

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You can add more domains to your existing account via Panel > Domains > Manage Domains

No need to purchase any extra hosting - you can host as many domains as you like on one account

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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!

Re: Back to BASICS

sdayman — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:11:01 -0800

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The wiki is full of information:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Category:Getting_Started

But you'll need an FTP program, which usually has a built in text editor:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/FTP

For a more dynamic site, try a One-Click install of a database-driven site:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/One_Click_Installs

-Scott

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!

Re: favicon

vicm3 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:25:49 -0800

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To avoid extra load on servers (and probably to make more thin the error logs) the large explanation it's http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2009/06/10/faviconico-favicongif-and-robotstxt-update/ here.

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Re: favicon

sXi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:21:11 -0800

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They're something Microsoft implemented and it caught on as a "standard" of sorts.

Most browsers will check for and use a favicon graphic nowadays.

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favicon

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

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

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Re: Bird cam and uploads

sXi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:42:44 -0800

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Sadly, there are no *truly* unlimited download plans in Australia anymore - most ISPs cap us at 64kB/s once we hit our monthly download quota. Enough to do the basic web stuff so they're still called "unlimited" plans. Uploaded data isn't counted on many ISP plans, so we can stream at full rate as long as we still have a couple MB of download quota left under our belt.

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Re: Bird cam and uploads

sdayman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:26:45 -0800

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You didn't mention that you plan on uploading 2.6 million pictures of birds every month? Out of curiosity, does that mean there's no download limit as well?

-Scott

Re: Bird cam and uploads

fatbeetle — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:51:11 -0800

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Well my ISP replied;

In reply to:
Thank you for your support request with Internode.

On the Extreme plans there is no upload limit. The only plan we have with uploads counted is the 'Easy Broadband' plan.

If they say I have no upload limit, on their heads be it! :)

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

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!

Re: File Size Question

CoachP — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:42:51 -0800

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LOL@myself. that was an obvious answer i guess i was thinking that it was the only thing dh allowed. Im guessing they have the addresses etc available in that wiki. ill check it out. Thanks so much.

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

Re: File Size Question

andrewf — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:29:16 -0800

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Then don't use Net2FTP! It's mainly just intended for quick fixes, not as a primary tool for maintaining your web site. There are a bunch of "real" desktop FTP clients listed on the DreamHost Wiki at:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/FTP

If you're on Windows, for instance, Filezilla is an excellent choice.

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

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Re: Confused about test site

SHYM — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:56:57 -0800

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Thanks so much for the quick reply. Much appreciated!

Deb

Re: Confused about test site

sXi — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:36:34 -0800

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robots.txt :

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

The above instructs Google to not look at any files/directories.

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Re: Confused about test site

SHYM — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:26:09 -0800

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Can you explain how to go about doing a "strict" robot.txt for a test subdomain, please? Pretty new to robot.txt in general...

Thanks so much!

Deb

Re: Crontab

yun4 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:00:22 -0800

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Thanks, I'll try running the cron job through dreamhost panel

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Re: Bird cam and uploads

fatbeetle — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:02:23 -0800

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Many thanks.

I'll be running it from 7.30 am, to 11.00 am Canberra time, until I get word on the upload matter from my ISP. I hope you enjoy.

Re: Bird cam and uploads

dwr — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:39:47 -0800

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I sure hope you get it sorted, I love the idea and would definitely check in on it from time to time, and tell others that might enjoy a little Zen moment about it as well!

Re: Bird cam and uploads

fatbeetle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:59:47 -0800

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Sorry, the software is this, I paid $45 Au for it.

http://www.digi-watcher.com/

maybe if I limit the time the cam is on to a couple of hours each morning would solve this upload issue.

Re: Bird cam and uploads

fatbeetle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:45:20 -0800

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Thanks for that, it certainly seems that it would be a heavy upload, maybe I should think of only having it on at certain times.

I'm going to have to contact my ISP.

Any further advice will be gratefully received.

Re: Bird cam and uploads

sdayman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:29:35 -0800

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What software did you end up using? I see mention of Digi-Watcher.

One image per second is pretty serious, but it is supposed to be a quasi-video feed. For the image src line, you should include height (288) and width (352) so web browsers can allocate screen space for the image. When it cycles, or misses loading an image, the page collapses.

Based on the one image I grabbed at 37k, that works out to about 3 gigs per day. Maybe someone can check my math, but that's a *lot* of uploading (~100 Gigs per month).

-Scott

Re: Bird cam and uploads

sXi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:04:33 -0800

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That's cool as!

The only limit you're likely to hit is your ISP quota. If you're on an unlimited upload plan then you're laughin'

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Bird cam and uploads

fatbeetle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:48:21 -0800

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Hi, I've just added a webcam to my Dreamhost site. It's not a streaming one as Dreamhost does not host streaming services (I believe?) It's a constantly refreshing j.peg.

Will this in any way affect my upload limits?

Do I have upload limits?

Will Dreamhost warn me before slapping other charges on?

The cam can be seen here; http://www.fatbeetle.com/bfwc/broadcast.html

WebDAV & Windows 7 help

hexland — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:46:24 -0800

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I need some assistance... I want to set up a Windows drive mapping to a folder on my domain, using WebDAV.

I have successfully (as far as I'm aware) used the panel to set up the htAccess/WebDAV folder (and received the confirmation email), but I can't for the life of me get anything to connect to it.

Windows 7 just complains the folder is not valid.

I've followed the steps on the Wiki, but with no success.

Has anyone else successfully done this?

Thanks

Re: Crontab

sXi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:24:17 -0800

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> tracert brain

Tracing route to sXi's brain over 30 hops

1  * * * Request timed out
2  * * * Request timed out
3  * * * Request timed out
...
29 * * * Request timed out
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I are packet loss

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Re: Crontab

sdayman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:10:10 -0800

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Try logging into your shell and do a traceroute to your keyboard to see if you can track down the latency.

-Scott

Re: Crontab

sXi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:01:23 -0800

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zomg Erik is as fast as Scott!

I lose soooo many internets on this board

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Re: Crontab

sXi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:59:31 -0800

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Try setting up a bogus one using Panel then see if you have access to it from shell.

Definitely let Support know about the problem though.

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Re: Crontab

erikjacobsen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:57:32 -0800

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Have you tried "cron jobs" in the control panel?

Crontab

yun4 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:17:57 -0800

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I'm looking to set cron to execute a simple script everyday and when I use crontab -e it won't save saying that i have no permission. I used to be able to set cronjobs any idea why I can't now?

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Re: Need basic help

sdayman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:53:39 -0800

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You can use the WebFTP interface in the DreamHost panel under Domains -> Manage Domains. The theme folder belongs in your example.com/wp-content/themes directory.

Or you can get a friendly FTP program like Filezilla.
http://filezilla-project.org/

-Scott

Re: wget in cron

j.b.dances — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:17:29 -0800

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thank you . i gave that a shot and it began to work.
i note in response to :"Documentation for wget can be find by searching Google, for example man wget"
that i am used to spending an hour or two sorting thru such documentation trying to get into an english i can comprehend before i ever ask anyone a question.
your direct "that script will work, try it" was far more helpful than something by developers, for developers.

Google Apps, MX Record change, & discussion lists

jolly — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:48:48 -0800

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Hi,

I've been using dreamhost for our email for 3 years now. We have dozens of email accounts, announcement lists, and discussions lists. I would really like to switch my email over to Google apps.

In the wiki, it says that switching my MX records over the Google will not affect my announcement lists, but there is not mention about whether an MX record change would affect my discussion lists. I assumed that I would have to migrate over all of the email accounts to google.

Will I have to move the discussion lists over to google as well?

Is there a way to keep the discussion lists through mailman and still move our email over to google apps?

I've heard the best way to do the migration is to replicate all my accounts on google ahead of time and then when I switch over, POP from the new google account back to my dreamhost to download the files to the new gmail account before deleting the dreamhost account. Is there a different way I should be doing this?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Re: Need basic help

thefield — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:43:53 -0800

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I did the advanced mode.

Is there a place I can get a quick how-to on using an FTP? I have one I am using, but have no clue on folders and what goes where...

Re: Need basic help

monkeyboy7706 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:39:20 -0800

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depends which option you used to install it, if it was easy mode you probably can't if you used the advanced mode then you can upload it by ftp.

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Re: Need basic help

thefield — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:36:57 -0800

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thanks monkeyboy,

i did the easy install of wordpress. so now my website has the basic wordpress background. i feel like i am making progress.

so my next question is:
i have a third party word press theme that i want to use. will i upload this through my wordpress dashboard or through my dreamhost stuff?

i am pretty clueless, but i know once i get this initial stuff setup, i will be good to go.

thanks for the help!

Re: Need basic help

monkeyboy7706 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:10:06 -0800

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Go to manage domains and add hosting to the domain. the default options should be fine.

Easiest way to install Wordpress is to use the one-click install option under goodies.

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Need basic help

thefield — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:03:08 -0800

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So I have bought my domain that will be hosted by DreamHost. I am wanting to run a blog with wordpress through my new website, but do not know what steps I need to take to get that set up.

Any help?

Re: How do I edit my homepage in the Control Panel?

Ryo-ohki — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:25:47 -0800

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Well... you can go to domains-->manage domains and click on webFTP. I would highly recommend getting an FTP client though. I use flashfxp but if you have firefox you can install FireFTP. I use that one a lot directly from the browser.

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How do I edit my homepage in the Control Panel?

pinkpineapple — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:46:03 -0800

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Hi All,

Ive just been given access to the Control Panel section of my website and need to learn how to use it.

The first thing I really need to do is edit the text on my homepage. I thought this may be straightforward and I would see how to do it as soon as I logged in, but its not as clear as i had hoped. I dont want to mess with it without knowing how to do it incase I wreck something!

Please could someone give me some instructions on how to do this? I would really appreciate it as I dont know how else I am going to figure this out!

Thanks for your help in advance,

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