For a webmaster it is one of the regular tasks to shift files and folders from one directory to another. If you are a webmaster using cPanel Hosting which comes with cheap web hosting plans, then it’s an easy task to move files and folder from one directory to another. You just need to follow the following instructions.

• Log in in to your cPanel account, here your can find ‘File Manager’ Icon under Files category.
• Click on it and You will come to one message window providing you the following options

1. Home Directory
2. Web Root (public_html/www)
3. Public FTP Root (public_ftp)
4. Document Root for (For Exchanging Data among sub-domains created on a main domain)

• You need to select the appropriate option to find the destination of file or folder you need to move from and click ‘Go button. (’Home Directory’ contains all the sub-directories so you need to follow longer path if your went through it)
• After reaching to your destination file or folder you can find all editing options at the top of the window including ‘New File’ ‘New Folder’, ‘Copy’, ‘Move File’, ‘Upload’, ‘‘Download’, ‘Delete’ etc.
• As you want to move the File, you first select it and click on ‘Move File’ now it will ask you the destination folder where you want to move the file, just provide it and click on ‘Move File(s)’ button.

That’s it you can check for the file you have moved in the respective folder.

Following are the steps to install phpBB through cPanel using softaculous.

• Login to your cPanel web hosting account by using your username and password.

• Click on the ‘Softaculous icon, which will carry you to newer screen where you will see ‘phpBB’ listed under the forums to the left side.

• Click on the phpBB and you will see the overview page of particular phpBB Version.

• Find the ‘Install’ tab and fill all the required details in the form such as Protocol, Domain, Directory in which phpBB is to be installed, Database name etc.

• Now find the ‘Install’ button at the bottom and click on it, your installation will get started and you will receive the message “Congratulations, the software was installed successfully.” after successful completion of it.

Now you can login into your phpBB control panel through the url provided at confirmation page and arrange the setting as required.

cPanel is known for providing a spontaneous interface to help webmasters for managing their websites. On the other hand WHM (Web Host Manager) make it simple to manage server side operations for making the administration process easier. When both these comes together, the complicated tasks of managing accounts become simple.

Many web professionals prefers this great utility which makes it easy to upgrade new technology without any major problems. By adopting for cPanel a website can remain ahead with the latest technologies and innovations. Being a self-monitoring application ‘cPanel is able to detect failed services and automatically restart the services. Recently it has been improved with clustering for better performance.

As cPanel is one of the most widely used application all over the world, updates and solutions on any issues are easy to find on internet and can be used by webmasters without the help of cPanel web hosting company’s support staff.

Occurrence of ‘Internal server error 500 is an indication of server’s temporarily inability to handle the request by user. First step to resolve this type of problem is to be started from trying to find the cause of this. And this is possible by performing a checkout of error logs. Usually this is done by entering in to cPanel >> Error log.

Watch out for the latest error logs appeared on server’s error logs list. Following are common errors can be seen in error logs

“error: directory is writable by others:“

For resolving this error you will have to change the permissions of directories to 755 using file manager which can be found within cPanel.

“error: file has no execute permission:“

This error can be solved by changing the permissions of the file in question to 755 by using your FTP client or the FileManager within the cPanel of website.

“[client 111.1.1.10] (13)Permission denied: /home/user/public_html unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable “

This error occurs due to faulty permissions of .htaccess file. This can be solved by setting permissions of .htaccess and folder to 755.

“[client 111.1.1.10] Premature end of script headers: /home/user/public_html“

There are many factors which causes for the occurrence of this error such as script’s requirements for more time for processing and being stopped by system. Setting an time interval for timeout up to 10-15 seconds is a good solution for this.

Another possibility is existence of a bug in code of the script so for solving this problem you need to be a expert web programmer.

We saw the above errors and the solutions to resolve them. Mostly setting Folder permission to 755 and File permission to 644 can resolve the above errors. In very few cases you need to change Public_html to 750. As Dedicated Server Hosting consumers enjoy the benefit of making the required changes on the web hosting servers, this post can help them to solve the errors at their own.

Following is the procedure of making your Directories as password protected.

Enter to your cPanel and perform a search for your own domain name.

To view your order details click on you domain name.

Click on Manage Web Hosting Services on the lower toolbar.

Here you will get entry to Website Management area

Follow this Manage Website >> Directory Protection >> Add Directory Protection

Use Browse button for the selection of the directory which you want to protect.

Give a Username and Password for the selected Directory and click on submit button.

All the website statistics are available under the Logs section in the cPanel. You will see many statistical applications listed there. Some of them are described below:

Analog:

The Analog is a free website statistical tool with fast processing and better scalability. It is geared up with high configurable applications and is capable of working on any operating system. Analog is easily available as being freely distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Webalizer:

Like most of the other popular statistical tools it is also available free, being distributed under the GNU General Public License. Webalizer is powered with efficiency to withraw and analyze information from the web server, it provides conplete and detailed reports in HTML format.

Awstats:

AwStats undoubtedly is the most used and preferred website statistical tool. Awstats is being distributed free under the GNU General Public License and has the ability to graphically generate advanced web, streaming, FTP or mail server statistics. It fucntions fast providing detailed information on just a few web pages.

As PHP provided a great utility of using different versions of PHP for different Directories residing on the same hosting account. Many people don’t know how to change to their current PHP versions with another version of PHP. Currently there are severn different versions of PHP available starting from PHP 4.4 to PHP 6.0.

Following are the steps I have mentioned to change the current PHP versions installed with your directory.

• Access your cPanel by logging in to your account.
• Enter to Advanced Section
• Here you will find PHP Version Change option
• Select the Directory of which you want to change PHP version (Changes will take place for the subdirectories also)
• Select the PHP version you want
• Click on Save

Many Web hosting companies provides you the option of using multiple PHP versions for each different folder.

Want to install new software application on your website? Want to manage classified Ads from your website? Want to send newsletters at once? Want to have powerful blog feature for your site? Want to build nice look and feature rich website as fast as you can? Want to add polls, forums and shopping carts in your website? If the answer is yes, then you can install various scripts and softwares in only few clicks including blogs, polls and many more to come. Here comes the user friendly software installation method that is provided by Softaculous – a great auto software installer. By using Softaculous one can make their cPanel hosting packages more powerful and flexible than ever.

On October 28th, 2010, Softaculous released new version – Softaculous 3.1. This new version comes with 150 scripts to install. Just install these scripts on a fly and start using it at your pace. The software scripts are selected keeping a common user’s requirements in mind. These scripts will provide powerful features to your website so that, more uses can get attracted to your website. Softaculous had provided a wide array of categorized software modules that can be easily plugged with your website design. It contains various categories of PHP scripts which includes:

• Blogs
• Micro blogs
• emails
• Portals / CMS, Forums
• Image Galleries
• Wikis Management software
• Social Management
• Project Management
• E-Commerce
• Music plugins
• Videos Sharing plugins
• Customer Support
• Guest Books
• RSS Modules

…. too many names isn’t it?

It also includes some JavaScripts modules in addition to PHP Applications, which installs Javascript Libraries, a Cross Browser module and hundreds of codes available.

Softaculous believes that users are the best judge to decide which software is best. So they have given choice to decide it by allowing users to rate software. You can view a demo of each software before you install any software module. This will help you to make decisions on usability and workability of software.

You will also be able to see ratings and reviews made on any particular software. You can also post your ratings and reviews for software which you installed for your website.

Total number of scripts provided by Softaculous 3.1 are 150 as of today. Softaculous said that they will keep on adding more software applications into their catalog. They wanted users to decide and to choose the best software available. This way they are giving chance for new software development companies to join Softaculous. To know which is the best application available for users, they have provided ratings scheme for applications. This rating can be viewable by all uses before installing any application to their control panel.

Softaculous works with many popular Website Control Panels available in web hosting services industry. It will work with cPanel, DirectAdmin, Interworx Control Panel, Plesk, ISPManager etc. Recently they have released WHMCS Plugin which is available for users when they sign up with WHMCS.

Softaculous not only installs web application on your server but, you can also manage your installed applications too. You can backup your applications with directory structure and with databases. You may download this backup and restore this backup to other server very easily.

So, if you want to build your website quickly with various features and containing rich set of web applications, then go for Softaculous! Ask for more information to your hosting service provider on this.

XOOPS is an acronym for eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Xoops assist its users to easily develop dynamic websites with good content and other remarkable features. Xoops proves to be an ideal tool to develop small to large dynamic community websites, companies internal portals as well as corporate portals, web blogs.

XOOPS is released under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL). In short, it is an Open Source Content Management System (CMS), therefore its development is dependent on the contributions of worldwide community.

XOOPS is supported by Host.co.in via cPanel Fantastico. We offer the latest version of XOOPS which is 2.3.3. Installation of XOOPS is fairly easy – the only thing you need to do is to provide some basic info such as admin access data, site name and slogan, installation path, email address and that’s it, once you are done with that,click ‘Install’,then the system will automatically install XOOPS and configure the required things on a new database.