Category: Technical Support

Rsync is a powerful tool that facilitates the transfer and synchronization of data between both local and remote systems.

Are you unable to connect to your server to send and receive email, log into cPanel or WHM, or make an FTP or SSH connection?

Using Liquid Web’s name servers to manage DNS for your domains has never been easier. You can quickly add your domain to our nameservers using your my.liquidweb.com account.

Using Softaculous, a new CMS(Content Management System) such as WordPress, Joomla, or Mambo has been installed on your website.  It does not matter which CMS is installed, they all need to be able to write files on the server. However, they could show “permission denied” errors during the first-time setup or the first time an upload is attempted via their built-in web interface.  This can happen when using DSO or CGI as the PHP handler. With either handler, php scripts by default run as the Apache user “nobody”, and the webserver software (usually Apache) needs to have write access to a user’s files to avoid this error.

One of the tools most commonly used by systems administrator and wed designers is phpMyAdmin.  The phpMyAdmin interface provides a web driven graphical interface that is used in manipulating and managing mysql databases.

One of the more common management tasks performed on web servers is restarting services (such as your web server daemon, mail daemon, FTP server, or DNS service).

Below are a list of some of the most common HTTP codes.  These status codes are generally visible in either the access log, or the error log. Check your web server’s documentation for details about where to find those logs.

Your browser has a local file store that contains the images, CSS, JavaScript and other files of websites you’ve recently visited. These files are stored and can be served locally, therefore increasing page load performance and reducing access times dramatically.

In our “How to use ps” article we talked about the Linux command ps and how it can be used to examine the currently running processes on a Linux server.

Git is an open source, distributed version control system. It’s all the rage right now with sites like GitHub offering a social coding experience, and popular projects such as Perl, Ruby on Rails, and the Linux kernel using it.