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Almost all webmaster try to have SSL certificate on their ecommerce sites so that all transactions can be done securely. Domain which need to have SSL certificate should be hosted on dedicated IP where you can install SSL certificate for it. You can order SSL certificate from any provider and can install it for your domain. Once you have generated or received an SSL certificate, you can install the certificate using WebHost Manager. You need to have both the certificate and key files to install the certificate. Following steps would be helpful for you to install SSL certificate.
*) Login to WHM.
*) Click on Install an SSL Certificate and Setup the Domain under the SSL/TLS menu.
*) Enter the domain, user name, and IP address for the certificate in the Domain, User, and IP Address fields.
*) Click on the Fetch button to paste the .key and .crt files for the domain into the fields, if they are currently on your server. Otherwise, copy and paste the .key and .crt files into the available display areas.
*) Paste the ca bundle for the certificate in the bottom display area
*)Click on the Submit button.
that’s all you have successfully installed an SSL certificate for required your domain.

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FreeBSD is a popular free Unix like open source operating system that is based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) version of the Unix operating system. FreeBSD runs only on the Intel PC platform (i386 and higher) having atleast Pentium processor and also on amd64, Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC processors. You can consider FreeBSD as an alternative to Linux which will run Linux applications. Its said that its fast, stable, and is appropriate for Internet server or as a file server. FreeBSD supports all major X Window desktops, such as KDE and GNOME.

If you want to add Dedicated IPs on server having FreeBSD you need to follow following instructions.
First login to your FreeBSD server as a ‘non-root’ user. You should have an account in the ‘wheel’ group. Once you logged in your server just run the following commands to switch users to ‘root’

su -
Password:
server#

you will get command prompt as ‘#’ which indicates that you are operating server as ‘root’ user. Now run following commands as root :
ee /etc/rc.conf

now for example, if we want to add 4 IPs for your server [ 192.168.1.3 - 192.168.1.6 ] you need to implement following :
Code:
ifconfig_fxp0=”inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.248″
ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=”inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.255?
ifconfig_fxp0_alias1=”inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.255?
ifconfig_fxp0_alias2=”inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.255?
ifconfig_fxp0_alias3=”inet 192.168.1.6 netmask 255.255.255.255?

Note that changes to the _aliasNN and also the netmask changes to 255.255.255.255 from 255.255.255.248. The IP’s will not work unless you use a 255.255.255.255 netmask for the alias IP’s.

Once you added the entries to your file you need to press ‘ESC’ and have to save this file. You need to reboot the server so that all new IP’s would get bounded with your server and you can use them.
You have other option too, you can also use ifconfig command for adding IP’s on your server, in this case you don’t have to reboot your server. You can also add extra Dedicated IPs if you have WHM/cPanel control panel with your server. just login to your WHM account and add new Dedicated IP using WHM >> Add a new IP.

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Setting/changing MYSQL root Password
Setting up mysql database password is one of the important tasks which a webmaster should take care of. If you have never set a root password for MySQL, then server does not require a password at all for connecting as root and if you have already set password for your database and for some reason if you want to change it then you can do so using following commands.
To setup root password for MySQL databases for first time you need to login to your server as root and will have to use mysqladmin command at shell prompt as follows:

$ mysqladmin -u root password “mysql_password“

However, if you want to change/update your root password, then you will have to use following command

$ mysqladmin -u root -p oldpassword newpassword

after you fire above command you will have to provide password for your MySQL database.

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SSH or Secure shell is a protocol which is intended for exchanging data in most secure format over a network. You can get access to any remote machine and can operate it using this protocol. Most webhosting service provider will offer you root SSH access on higher hosting plans such as VPS or dedicated servers. Few webhost may offer you shell access on their shared hosting plans but its not a pure SSH access rather its Jailed SSH that mean you don’t have full SSH access to your account.
If you have SSH Root access you can easily login to any remote system and can fire any command you want, you have full access to the server you have logged into. Most important feature of SSH access is that its most secure as compare to other methods like rlogin or telnet. While using SSH access your system is connected and will exchange data through a communication of encrypted messages. You have session compression feature as an added advantage. One of the most important benefit of SSH in root access is the prevention of IP spoofing.

If you are login to your server using SSH then password of your system will not be hacked easily by mediator. People who act as mediators try to hack and spoof  your private data thus using SSH such sorts of violations are not possible. SSH works on authentication process before entering into a network for accessing any remote system. SSH uses public/private key cryptographic methods so as to ensure the identity of the requesting user for root getting access thus it ensure that there is no chance that a user can spoof as another user and login to the remote system.
SSH works with the help of many configuration files. It caches all host names with which it had acquaintance , it have its own list of  all host names this helps in authentication process to execute faster.

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You have wordpress blog and for some reason you want to reset admin password of it. You can do so easily using your control panel cpanel. Your webhosting service  provider will provide you cpanel as webhosting control panel using which you can easily manage all aspect of your hosting account. cPanel includes a very useful tool called phpMyAdmin which is used to mange your databases so if you want to reset password for your blog then most convenient way is through phpMyAdmin databases management tool.
You need to login to your control panel cPanel >> MySQL Databases section, scroll down and click on phpMyAdmin link or
Goto cPanel >> Databases>>phpMyAdmin

After you got in phpMySQL you have to select Wordpress dataases from the drop-down list, you will get all batabase tables, now open SQL tab and just fire following SQL query in it.
UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( ‘new_password_here’ ) WHERE `wp_users`.`user_login` = “admin_username”;
“new_password_here” -  your new password goes here
“admin_username” – the username for which you are updating password shouls be used here.
Just click on GO button and you have updated/reset password for Admin/user for yoru WordPresss Blog. If everything goes fine you can login to your WordPrress blog using new password.

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 Every reputed webhosting service provider will support Drupal hosting, if you are using Drupal CMS for developing your website then you should check if your preferred webhost support this CMS on their servers. linux hosting plan as PHP-MySQL is perfect combination on Linux hosting plans. You will be offered with cPanel as your webhosting control panel where you will be having Fantastico as addon within your cPanel. You can install Drupal or other CMS using Fantastico addon of your cpanel. Installing Drupal is very simple and is just a single click operation through Fantastico. Using cpanel you can manage your website hosting account and can easily manage databases and other stuffs of your drupal application.
You can consider Drupal as one of the leading content management systems (CMS) available free of cost as its open source CMS which is written in PHP programming language. It have many powerful features and have easy management tools which can be used for managing, developing your website. If you are planning to publish small websites, blogs or major community websites you can consider Drupal as your website development application. Drupal CMS have builtin tools which are very useful for developing small or large corporate website.

Using Drupal you can create Community web portals,Social Networking sites,E-commerce applications ,Personal web sites or blogs etc very easily though you don’t have much technical web-programming knowledge. Drupal is very easy to install and can be operated even if you are newbie in website development. You can have Search engine friendly URLs which would help you for better ranking in Google, you can have multiple categories, can easily implement search function within your site which will help your website visitor to browse your site deeper. You can create a webforum, blog, wiki or any other website as per your requirement using Drupal CMS thus Drupal is getting more popularity and is widely used.
Thus if you are planning to use Drupal you need to get a reliable website hosting service provider who will offer you Drupal hosting package.

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Web is vast source of information which is freely available for all of us. Search engines helps us to explorer this information. There are many sites which are very best source of information eg… Wikipedia, yahoo answers etc…. Google had recently launched a user generated content creation web portal similar to Wikipedia. It is intended for people who possess tremendous  knowledge that they would love to share with other people on the web so that billions of people can benefit from it. Google had given a name for this project  as “ Knol “Google engineer, Udi Manber, said, Knol will invite “people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it” which can be used by web community. The name knol derives from the word “knowledge” this service is free of charge. Main benefit would be for all authors who can attach advertising to their work and take a share of revenues. The main goal for “Knol” is to cover all topics, which can include scientific concepts to entertainment and all other, making it a huge success.You can consider this project as a new step of giant search engine Google so as to get their feet’s in this new venture. Recently Google had squared up to the mobile phone industry by unveiling its own operating system for hand-held devices. Thus you can see Google is trying to get into every sector of IT industry. Currently “Knol” is an invitation-only beta service but it’s likely to be open to the public very soon. After Wikipedia you may see ‘ Google’s Knol’ as most-visited online destination and most popular among webmasters.

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As a system administrator you should always try to keep your system up and running all the time, Its your responsibility for ensuring backup and making it available in case of system crash. A system with no backups is useless as if in any case your system got halt then there’s no way for getting your system back. So its always recommended to have a latest backup for your server.
A good backup strategy should be implemented and which may composed of backup, storage, verification, and restoration. Backup component covers methods for taking backups and about the data which has to be backup. Backup storage covers both terms related to what media you want to take backup and where you want to keep your backup.
You should also verify your backup as its most important factor which is needed to be considered, you should have latest backup available for your system which can be used to restore system if for some reason it get down.

Two main strategies for backups are to be considered : Disaster Recovery and Archival.

Disaster Recovery : These backup are designed for restoring your system to a normal working state. This can be achieved by taking backup of entire system which can be used to restore it on another machine and you can continue with your work.
Archival strategy : It termed as retrieving all backup data you have for a particular server/system and to restoring your system as a effective working system.
Both strategies works in conjunction, while archiving your data you usually reinstall and reconfigure the operating system before restoring the data;  this process takes longer time and is more error prone. So you have to be careful while you are working on Archiving your data. You should test your backup strategy before you implement them on working system.  You can test Disaster Recovery backup system by restoring your system backup onto a fresh system so that you can confirm that you ca recover your system from an emergency. An archival system can be tested by retrieving files and verifying them, you can crosscheck that you have found the files you need and are readable after system restoration.

If you are into webhosting industry you should take backup of your account/server as frequent as possible. If you are using Linux hosting package you can backup your server/account using cPanel administrative interface.
Using cPanel you can easily take backup of your hosted site, your databases or even your home directory. First of all you need to login to your control panel cPanel. Just try to find “ backup “ icon using which you can initiate backup process for your hosting account. On backup page you have several option available you can download or restore your MySQL Databases and also web data. You have option for Generating Full backup or Downloading full backup on this page. You need to provide backup destination where all your backup files would be stored. You can choose “ Home Directory “ as Backup Destination “ you also need to provide your email address as you will be receiving email once your website backup is completed. That’s all, you just need to proceed by clicking “Generate Backup”. Button and will have to wait till you receive email confirmation. Once you got your confirmation email you can download this backup copy from the location you have specified to your local machine. You will have zipped copy of your backup data stored on the location you have specified while creating backup. You can store this backup copy of your website data on your local machine  or can burn it on CD.