Jun 27

Recently wordpress had present it’s upgraded version 3.0 which can be installed using Fantastico ( automatically or manually ) you may get some weird error message like :

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare is_rtl() (previously declared in /home/cpuser/public_html/wp-includes/locale.php:347) in /home/cpuser/public_html/newtest/wp-includes/locale.php on line 349

Don’t worry there’s a solution for above error !!!

All you have to do is to backup your blog as a safe side and then delete the events-calendar/ plugin folder from wp-content/plugins folder, that’s all :)

Check your blog it should work with latest wordpress version.

You may also face some other errors which are due to DB Cache Reloaded plugin ( if it’s installed for your blog ) You may get following error messages like ”

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method wpdb::get_blog_prefix() in /home/www/XXX/domain.com/webroot/wp-admin/includes/user.php on line 260

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method wpdb::get_blog_prefix() in /home/www/XXX/domain.com/webroot/wp-admin/includes/user.php on line 445

If you are using DB Cache Reloaded plugin and it is set in active mode then it will be using a custom WPDB file which will replace the original one hence to get the issue resolved you just need to deactivate the DB Cache Reloaded plugin and you have a fix for above error message. We need to wait for an updated version of DB Cache Reloaded plugin till then we have to manage this latest wordpress upgrade 3.0 using such trick ;)

Jan 16

It’s very important to keep track of your website traffic details and study your website performance in terms in SEO. If you are using cpanel as your hosting control panel then you are gifted with a very useful tool AWstats which will help you to monitor your website and will offer you detailed information which will help you in SEO and will provide you required information so that you can take necessary actions for better search engine ranking.
When it comes to check to traffic stats for your website then you have many tools using which you can check all details. If you are hosted on linux cpanel hosting account you would be having Webalizer, Analog Stats and Awstats tools included within your control panel. Among different options available Awstats seems to be most popular and is widely used due to its easy to use features. It will give you detailed description and daily report of your visitor. It will help you to know what keywords your visitor have used to reach your website thus you can work more harder on them so as to get top ranked for them. Thus stat programs could be very useful in search engine optimization also.
It also shows all the error pages of your site which search robots were unable to find or crawl thus you can fix them and can make your website more search engine friendly.


Following are most important features which you would be getting with your Awstat program :
1. Number of Unique visitors.
2. Number of visits.
3. Visit Duration.
4. Authenticated users.
5. IP addresses of Visitors.
6. OS used by the Visitors.
7. Browsers used by the Visitors.
8. Keywords, Keyphrases and Search Engines used to find your website.
9. HTTP Errors.
10. Most Visited links.
11. Visits of Search Engine robots.
12. Worms attacks.

Thus using above features you can analyze the traffic of your website which is the key factor for making your website search engine friendly.
Getting top ranking in Google will help you to attract organic traffic which is help your business to grow.

Dec 29

Almost all available operating systems start many differnt daemons like nfs, nfslock, cups, gpm etc which are usually not required or used hence it’s better to disable these services, if you are sure you don’t want to use them. you can turn them on if required. Using chkconfig command you can manage all above services and can add/remove them whenever you want. you can also remove / add them for execution at the init levels. Disabling/deleting such daemons will save unnecessary server resource utilization and will offer you more free server resources for other useful task to get executed.
Using following commands :-
We will consider one of the daemon which is rerely used it’s cups

chkconfig –del cups ( –del will simply remove cups )
chkconfig –level 3 cups off ( –level 3 option will turn cups off in init #3 )
similarly we can play with all other unused daemons and can freeup server resources for other useful task :)

Above commands will work for Centos, RedHat and Fedora an other Linux flavors.

Dec 28

As we all know that cPanel is one of the Best website hosting control panel which is widely used among webmasters for managing their server / websites.
cPanel always tries to update it’s control version very frequently so as to offer you better features, excellent security and lighter versions.
Recently cpanel released it’s newer version 11.25.0 which seems to have many useful features and will help to manage your server more effectively.
Following are the best features of this new release.
# Lightening the load on your server.
# Optimized Apache, queuing restarts.
# Mail upgrades
# DNS Clustering Enhancements
# XML API Updates
# Improved IMAP Support for Mobile Devices
# Refined User Interfaces
# MySQL Support and The Upgrade Interface
# Enhancements for resellers and administrators
# Language system improvements etc….


You can expect this new release (11.25.0) to be a relatively trouble free update.
So you are planning to update your cPanel server version you can do it either from your WHM control panel or from SSH. Make sure you need to have root access to your dedicated server.
For upgrading cpanel version for your dedicated server from WHM follow the instruction :-
Login to WHM (Main >> Server Configuration >> Update Preferences) that’s all you are done :)
If you want update cpanel from command prompt then use following :- /scripts/upcp –force

Once you update cpanel version for the latest version (11.25.0) you may face some issues and few of your services may get halt or may not restart again.
Solution :- You need to clear the browser cache completely because you may be using old cached version of pages for accessing control panel, webmail, etc
Also you can use following command directly from SSH in case of an erroneous upgrade :
/scripts/upcp –force
you should not face any major issue with such cPanel update now !!

RVskin error with cpanel upgrade :-
You amy also get some strange error message if you are using RVSKIN after this cpanel upgrade to newer version
Solution :- All you have to do is to add

mkdir /root/rvadmin
cd /root/rvadmin
rm -f rvauto.tar.bz2
wget http://download.rvglobalsoft.com/download.php/download/rvskin-auto/saveto/rvauto.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf rvauto.tar.bz2
perl /root/rvadmin/auto_rvskin.pl

Nov 18

Well, it’s always better to use private name servers if you are into reselling hosting business. Private nameserver are usually used by higher hosting packages like with resellers , VPS and dedicated servers owners so as to have their own name servers for appearance reasons. It doesn’t look professional if you use anonymous name servers which are provided by your hosting service provider. Having Private nameserver will allows you to brand your services, and also allows you to have full control over your DNS.

Definition :- Private name servers are the name servers which includes your own domain name, Usually you would be having Private name servers as ns1.yourdomainname.com and ns2.yourdomainname.com
You would be using Dedicated IP for binding your private nameservers ns1.yourdomainname.com and ns2.yourdomainname.com. You will have to order 2 dedicated IPs from your webhost which can be used for binding your private nameservers.
Your domain register will offer you private nameservers which you can use for your server.



Now it's time to setup private nameservers :
To setup Private nameservers you will have to create name servers at your domain registrar. Every domain registrar have different process for creating private nameservers. While setting up private name servers, check for something like “register DNS” “create DNS” or “add DNS” on your domain registrars website using which you can register your private name servers. You will have to use your Dedicated IPs which you have ordered from your webhosting service provider.