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Installatron help

Our hosting provides cPanel with Installatron, a one-click web application installer that enables blogs, photo galleries, forums, shops, and other top web applications to be instantly installed and effortlessly managed.

Here some Installatron support links:

Installatron Website Owner Documentation

MySQL access

Your hosting account has access to a MySQL compatible database, the MariaBD.

MariaDB was made by the original developers of MySQL and it’s the new default database in some new Linux distributions, as your hosting OS: Linux centOS 7.

To access your database use localhost as server address/IP.

For security reasons, the database has disabled network connectivity, so you can’t access it from outside, using any TPC/IP connection.

Reactivating suspended service due to lack of login into client area

The free web hosting service can be suspended due to lack of sign-in to your client area.

Remember our free services users need to login at client area every 30 days so that services are not suspended. The suspension is provided in terms of use.

To reactivate your service access your client area and click at “Reactivate my webhost” button, on your service screen.

To avoid suspension every 30 days without performing login, upgrade your plan and enjoy all the other benefits of our paid plans.

Select PHP version, extension and limits

Inside cPanel, you can change PHP versions, enable/disable PHP extensions and change PHP options.

It anable you to change php.ini variables with a fast an easy editing GUI.

To access it follow the steps below:

1. Inside cPanel, at SOFTWARE group, click “Select PHP Version”.
2. At this screen you can change PHP version and enable/disable extensions.
3. At right-top screen, you have a link to “Switch To PHP Options” where you can setup other limits.

Changing cPanel password

To change your cPanel access password, follow this steps:

Client Area Access >> Services >> Select Service >> Menu Change Password

Below the screens of each step.

 

CLIENT AREA ACCESS

Login at client area to gain access to your hosting configuration.

 

 

SHOW SERVICES

Click at services box at the top box on your dashboard, to list your active services.
clientarea_dashboard_services

 

 

SERVICE SELECTION

Select desired service clicking on it.
clientarea_myproductsservices

 

 

CHANGE PASSWORD MENU

Click at left menu item “Change Password” and follow screen instructions.
clientarea_selectedserviceoptionsmenu

 

 

Directory Auto Index

Ours web servers are configured by default to not display the list of files contained in directories. This is a security measure, because the directory may contain files that are not normally exposed through links on the web site.

But some times you need an easy way to simple list and link the files inside a specific directory tree, like this picture.

directory_listing

To enable the directory Auto Index (or auto listing) feature, create a file named .htaccess inside the directory you want it, with this content:

Options +Indexes

 

All directory tree below this file will also have this feature enabled, until another .htaccess disable it again.

Add your domains at client area

Before configure your domain to use our DNS servers, you need to add it to them.
To add your domains at our DNS servers, follow this steps:

Client Area Access >> Services >> Select Service >> Domain Management >> Adding Domains

Below the screens of each step.

 

CLIENT AREA ACCESS

Login at client area to gain access to your hosting configuration.

 

 

SHOW SERVICES

Click at services box at the top box on your dashboard, to list your active services.
clientarea_dashboard_services

 

 

SERVICE SELECTION

Select desired service clicking on it.
clientarea_myproductsservices

 

 

DOMAIN MANAGEMENT

Click at left menu item “Manage Domains” to continue.
clientarea_selectedserviceoptionsmenu

 

 

ADDING DOMAINS

Now, click at blue button “+” to add all needed domains.
Save when finished, so all DNS entries will be created at our DNS servers.
clientarea_selectedservicemanagedomains

Memcached access

Introduction

What is memcached? Learn here!

You can have a dedicated memcached at your hosting account for your websites cache and other special needs.

The memcached will be a private daemon, and accessed through linux socket, so no others users will have access to your data.

You need a paid hosting plan to have access to this resources.

 

Create a cron job to start the memcached

 

Just insert this line at your cronjobs, inside cPanel, to run at every minute:

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/dmcached.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

 

To verify the statistics of your memcached, run this at your shell (ssh):

# /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/dmcached.sh stats

 

The default memcached has 32MB of memory, if you need more, just add the memory parameter like this:

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/dmcached.sh 64 >/dev/null 2>&1

 

And stop the actual daemon, so the cron can start the new one with the new memory. At shell:

# /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/dmcached.sh stop

 

How to use memcached with unix socket?

It is basicaly the same of network access, with other URL.

The URL will be:

unix:///home/REPLACE-YOUR-USER-HERE/.memcache/memcached.sock:0

At port, use:

0

 

For example, here is how to enable memcached at mediawiki LocalSettings.php:

// MEMCACHED
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_MEMCACHED;
$wgParserCacheType = CACHE_MEMCACHED; # optional
$wgMessageCacheType = CACHE_MEMCACHED; # optional
$wgMemCachedServers = array("unix:///home/REPLACE-YOUR-USER-HERE/.memcache/memcached.sock:0");

$wgSessionsInObjectCache = true; # optional
$wgSessionCacheType = CACHE_MEMCACHED; # optional

 

How can I see my value of “REPLACE-YOUR-USER-HERE”?

At shell login (ssh) just enter: # pwd , and you will see /home/YOUR-USER-HERE

 

Why I cant access memcached at default URL?

The URL 127.0.0.1:11211 is insecure if used at shared hosting, because all users can read and write at same memcached servers and data.
Here you have a very secure solution: unix socket inside cloudLinux with cageFS.

Starting your hosting

Welcome to FreeHosting.host

To use our services, you need to know some details about our systems:

  • Your email accounts will run out of cPanel, at our dedicated email cluster;
  • The DNS service runs out of cPanel, at our dedicated DNS servers;

 

To start follow these simple steps:

  1. Order your hosting plan (also free);
  2. Add your domains at client area;
  3. Configure your domain to use our DNS;
  4. Create your email accounts at client area;
  5. Add your domains at your cPanel account;
  6. Upload your website files to your domains folders;
  7. Configure the DNS of your domains to our name servers;

 

 

 

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