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Hosting: starting guide (DirectAdmin)

  • Cron jobs

    The hosting panel allows you to create and add scheduled tasks, which will be performed automatically at certain intervals of time. If you worked with Linux-based systems, these are cron tasks. For ex...

  • How to find error_log

    When your website for some reason returns codes 5** or explicitly displays an error message on the page, the error log, aka error_log file, can help you diagnose the problem. It stores the history of ...

  • Web server's access_log

    If you want to check who and when visited your site, you need the access log. This log are typically stored in access_log file, with a history of all visitors. Usually you will be able to see: IP-addr...

  • Managing privileges and changing the password of a database user (DirectAdmin)

    Sometimes, after transferring or setting up hosting, we get a database error on the site. One of the reasons may be incorrect database data in the configuration file or insufficient rights of this use...

  • Adding a user for an existing database (DirectAdmin)

    Often on hosting it becomes necessary to add an additional user for an existing database. To do this, open the DirectAdmin hosting control panel. Place the cursor over the first menu item Account Mana...

  • How to change the rights to folders and files through the file manager

    Why you should set the correct rights to files and folders discussed in the article Access rights to files and folders on hosting. In this article, we will look at how to change them in the hosting pa...

  • "Catch-All email" function (DirectAdmin)

    What if others are trying to send emails to non-existent mailboxes and you don't want to miss an important notification? In this case, the Catch-All email function will help: it allows such letters to...

  • Dedicated IP address on the hosting

    In addition to hosting services for sites, we provide the ability to order a dedicated IP address. In this article we will consider why you need it and what are the benefits of using it. By default, a...

  • Exporting a hosted database with DirectAdmin

    Exporting a hosted database with DirectAdmin is quite simple (it only takes three steps). First, go to the hosting panel, where in the Account Manager section, select MySQL Management. Next, select wh...

  • How to reassign main domain on hosting in Direct Admin

    There are times when we no longer need one domain on a hosting account with several sites, and we want to delete it. When this domain for such a site is additional, there are no difficulties here. But...