by Mohsin Sumar | Mar 29, 2022 | Server Management, Tips & Tricks, Web Hosting
From time to time, cPanel releases new themes – from X3 to Paper Lantern to Jupiter. It would’ve been nice for cPanel to build in a one-click migration wizard in WHM. Maybe, they will do so in the future. In the meantime, here’s a command that is...
by Mohsin Sumar | Jan 9, 2021 | Server Management, SSH, Tips & Tricks
Earlier this week, I was presented with a challenge to copy over a website that wasn’t having a control panel like cPanel; and moving it over to cPanel web hosting service provided by Extreme Web Technologies. The traditional approach for such type of migration...
by Mohsin Sumar | Apr 17, 2017 | Server Management, SSH, Tips & Tricks
One of our customers had a unique challenge of moving web servers. Their site was huge, with one directory having over 200GB of images. They opted to do a partial migration, copying over the website as is first before the final switch over. The final switch over...
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 27, 2009 | Apache, PHP, Security, Tips & Tricks
If you’ve stumbled across this post, then you’ve recently become a victim of the most famous way of uploading a malicious script to a website – PHP file uploads. Many websites and web applications that are developed using PHP & MySQL allow users...
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 24, 2009 | SSH, Tips & Tricks
Using the following command in SSH, you will be able to extract files from your tar file. tar -xf file.tar
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 22, 2009 | SSH, Tips & Tricks
Use the following command if you want to create a tar and compress a file (or folder). tar -czf /path/to/save/file.tar folder_or_file_name The options used in the above command are outlined below for your understanding. -c = create -z = compress a file -f = use the...