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Articles about advanced features and options for your Slamdot hosting accounts, including frontpage extensions, cron jobs, SSL certificates, domain pointers and DNS settings.
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How do I access phpMyAdmin?
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP that allows you to administrate your MySQL databases. You can execute SQL statements, work with fields (add,...
(No rating) April 22, 2006 Views: 620
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How do I add a user to an existing database?
There may be times when you want to have more than one login name and password assigned to a database. To add additional users to a database,...
(No rating) April 22, 2006 Views: 738
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How do I change the password for a database user?
From the dashboard, choose a domain. Click the Advanced tab and click the databases link. Click the users link under the database. Click the change...
(No rating) April 22, 2006 Views: 588
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How do I create a MySQL database?
From the dashboard, choose a domain. Click the Advanced tab and click the databases link. Click the create a new database link. Note: Choose a...
(No rating) April 22, 2006 Views: 602
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How do I create a new cron job?
From the dashboard, choose a plan. Click the advanced tab and click the cron jobs link. Click create a new cron job and enter the values for each...
(No rating) May 15, 2007 Views: 707
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How do I create a self-signed certificate?
An alternative to the self-generated shared server certificate is a personalized self-signed certificate. Sign in to your Slamdot account at...
(No rating) April 21, 2006 Views: 601
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How do I create a site backup?
From the dashboard, choose a domain. Click the Advanced tab and click the backups link. Click create a new backup. Note: The backup file takes...
(No rating) April 21, 2006 Views: 764
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How do I create access hosts for a database?
You can allow external web servers (hosts) to access your MySQL databases by adding their domain name to the list of access hosts that are able to...
(No rating) April 22, 2006 Views: 786
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How do I delete a cron job?
From the dashboard, choose a plan. Click the advanced tab and click the cron jobs link. Click the delete icon next to the appropriate cron job.
(No rating) May 15, 2007 Views: 605
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How do I delete a database?
From the dashboard, choose a domain. Click the Advanced tab and click the databases link. Click the delete icon under the database you want to delete.
(No rating) April 22, 2006 Views: 575
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How do I delete a site backup?
From the dashboard, choose a domain. Click the Advanced tab and click the backups link. Click the delete icon under the backup file you want to...
(No rating) April 21, 2006 Views: 651
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How do I delete a user from an existing database?
From the dashboard, choose a domain. Click the Advanced tab and click the databases link. Click the users link under the database. Click the delete...
April 22, 2006
Views: 730
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How do I download a site backup to store on my computer?
Although backups are stored in the /backups directory, we suggest that you download backup files to your computer. This is the safest method...
(No rating) April 21, 2006 Views: 583
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How do I export/download a database?
You can export, or download, a database to keep a backup on your local computer, or to use for other programs and tasks. From the dashboard,...
(No rating) April 22, 2006 Views: 532
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How do I install a purchased SSL certificate?
A purchased certificate is the best form of security. Because the certificate is both secure and trusted, visitors will not receive a warning...
(No rating) April 21, 2006 Views: 905
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How do I manage my DNS information?
Important: The ability to change the DNS configuration of a web site is an important feature for many people. However, incorrect DNS modifications...
April 21, 2006
Views: 1285
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How do I restart my FastCGI processes?
From the dashboard, choose a plan. Click the advanced tab and click the fastCGI link. Click the button to restart FastCGI.
(No rating) May 15, 2007 Views: 1083
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How do I restore a site backup?
First, if you have a backup saved on your computer that you want to restore, upload it to your /backups directory via the File Manager or FTP. ...
(No rating) April 21, 2006 Views: 646
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How do I setup hotlink protection to prevent people from stealing my images?
Hotlinking, or Direct Linking, is a method of linking to someone else's server/website to display their images and other files. This equates to...
(No rating) August 1, 2007 Views: 490
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How do I setup my database with scripts?
Most scripts need to know four things about your database: the database name, database username, password, and hostname. Database Name The...
(No rating) April 22, 2006 Views: 745
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How do I use the server's shared certificate?
One of the simplest ways to have a secure site is to use the server's built-in self-generated certificate. The following provides an introduction...
(No rating) April 21, 2006 Views: 612
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How do I view a list of installed perl modules on the server?
To view a list of the installed perl modules on the server, first log into your Slamdot account. From the dashboard, choose a plan to manage. Click...
(No rating) December 4, 2007 Views: 1312
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How do you support PHP5?
Slamdot supports PHP5 using Apache 1.3 and mod_php5.
December 29, 2006
Views: 484
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What are the SSL certificate requirements?
In order to use the SSL feature your site must have it's own static (dedicated) IP address. If you don't have a dedicated IP address, you will get...
April 21, 2006
Views: 934
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What are the types of DNS records?
There are 5 types of DNS records: A, CNAME, NS, MX, and PTR A records Address (A) records direct a hostname to a numerical IP address....
April 21, 2006
Views: 1483
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What is DNS?
Important: The ability to change the DNS configuration of a web site is an important feature for many people. However, incorrect DNS modifications...
(No rating) April 21, 2006 Views: 377