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Setting up mobile for POP-IMAP email account

Setting your mobile for POP/IMAP email account hosted on UnicHost server.

  1. On your mobile, iPhone, tap Mail or from the settings menu choose Settings > Mail > Accounts > Add an account
  2. Choose your email account type: Personal(POP3)
  3. Add your email address: you@yourdomain.com
  4. Select manual setup
  5. Select a server type — Personal POP3
  6. Server settings:
    Enter your email address > you@yourdomain.com > password > Enter your incoming mail server (which may look like “mail.yourdomain.com” Port:995 Security: SSL/TLS) > Next > Enter your outgoing mail server (which may look like “mail.yourdomain.com” Port:465 Security: SSL/TLS) > Enter your username and password for incoming and outgoing servers (you may need to authenticate to send email) tick YES or Enter username/password for an outgoing server.
  7. That’s it! You are ready with your emails on the go.

These 5 easy steps applies to all the accounts hosted on UnicHost windows servers or linux server. For further support feel free to contact one of our representative at support helpdesk.

Related to: Mail Servers, Email on Mobile

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Dedicated Server PHP Scripts Security Virtual Private Server Web-Hosting www

Captcha image is not working – Fatal error?

Captcha image is not working – Fatal error?

You have the GD image library installed and otherwise working.
Still unable to get captcha with the captcha plugin.

You are not sure what’s the problem as it works on one of your other sites.  When you try to include the captcha on your website or contact form it generates an error message like…
Call to undefined function imagettftext() OR
Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagettftext() in /home/user/public_html/appfolder/plugins/captcha/captcha.php on line 99  OR
Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagefttext() in /home/user/public_html/lib/captcha/captcha.php on line 329 OR
‘–enable-gd-native-ttf’

Problem could be, because the standard PHP “imagefttext()” function does not work on your server.
It can caused by the fact that there is no –enable-gd-native-ttf key installed on your server as the Cart uses GD Library for displaying the verification image.

Please note that PHP must be configured with the following keys:
–with-gd –enable-gd-native-ttf  Contact your host to make the change!

Any idea why or how it can be fixed?

imagettftext() is part of the GD image functions library, which is not always part of PHP (the code CMS/Cart runs on).
You need to contact your host and ask them to install the PHP GD library. It’s really simple for them to do and is fairly common, so if they give you a hard time about it, I would seriously consider switching to better and friendly host – UnicHost :).

Related: Web Server, PHP Hosting, LAMP Server, cPanel Hosting

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Web-Hosting www

FLUSH DNS in Windows Linux Mac OS

FLUSH DNS in different platforms

In Microsoft Windows, you can use the command flushdns to flush the DNS resolver cache.
Open the command prompt and type the following:
C:>ipconfig /flushdns
Windows IP Configuration
Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.

In Mac OSX Leopard, you can use the command dscacheutil -flushcache to flush the DNS resolver cache:
bash-2.05a$ dscacheutil -flushcache

In Mac OSX versions 10.5.1 and before, the command lookupd -flushcache performed the same task:
bash-2.05a$ lookupd -flushcache

In Linux, the nscd daemon manages the DNS cache. To flush the DNS cache, restart the nscd daemon.
To restart the nscd daemon, use the command
#/etc/init.d/nscd restart

Related: DNS Server, Linux Server, Windows Server

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Dedicated Server Virtual Private Server Web-Hosting

Clear-ssh-command-history-in-ssh-cache-from-server

When I login to SSH and push the up arrow, the previous commands are shown. How do I clear or delete that log?

Clear the history for current login or current user.
#history -c

First find the history file for particular user.
Delete .bash_history file, will be recreated again next time.
#locate .bash_history
#rm .bash_history

It is not a best practice to totally disable the ssh command history on any dedicated server or vps server. It’s a quick reference to user’s past actions on server.

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Dedicated Server PHP Scripts Setup www

phpinfo.php file on server

How to check php settings by using phpinfo on server?

Each server is setup differently whether it is a dedicated server or a virtual server, phpinfo() is commonly used to check configuration settings and for available predefined variables on a given web server.

phpinfo() is a valuable debugging tool as it contains all the data, information related to environment, GET, POST, Cookie, Server etc.

To create the file simply add the following lines of code to a blank document.
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
Save the file as phpinfo.php and place it in the desired directory. Lastly, call the script from a browser.

http://www.your-own-website-example.com/folder/phpinfo.php

This php file will output detail information about the current state of PHP: PHP compilation options and extensions, the PHP version, server information and environment, the PHP environment, OS version information, paths, master and local values of configuration options, HTTP headers, and the PHP License as well.

Related: PHP Hosting, LAMP Server, cPanel Hosting