I am trying to connect to a remote PostgreSQL database via VBA. I read here about the Database server configuration to make this possible but i cannot find the configuration files in cPanel file manager(I am new to cPanel).
It says in the article that i can find the pgsql config file here /var/lib/pgsql/data but i do not see a var folder in the root folder.
You can NOT access your /var directory through cPanel file manager. cPanel file manager has limited directory access and due to that you can not access /var folder which is present outside the cPanel user home directory
You will have to access your server with root user through SSH and then try to access /var/lib/pgsql/ directory
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I have just purchased a dedicated server from a UK hosting company that uses cPanel and I have root access
I am using scp to copy a huge (> 2tb) website from another hosting company (1&1 IONOS using Plesk not that it should make any difference)
The files are copying over .. using SSH I can use the "ls" command to list all the files that I've copied over
However, when I use the File Manager option via cPanel interface, I can see the first folder name on the left hand side (i.e. public_html/my-copied-site) but on the right hand window it shows the directory as empty
If I use the "ls" command, I can see the files & folders
if I try an access any of the files directly via a web browser then I get a 403 Forbidden message
What have I done wrong?
The answer to this problem is the ownership of the folder
Using scp over SSH meant that I was logged in as "root" and therefore the owner of the folders was also "root"
Changing the owner of the folder (using "chown" command) to the account's name resolved the problem
Hope this helps someone out
I use a server with WHM. I created monthly backup, it makes full server backup to /backup folder. I can create targz file with SSH, I know how to download gziped file with pscp, but I don't know how to download it from server with link in browser. I think it's possible, because sysadmin before me did it.
Can anybody help me with that?
You want to generate a link that you can access through your browser and will be served up by the web server? (your question is a little vague)
These files are stored out of the standard web directories so you could create a symlink in the public_html folder of your website to /backups and call it something obscure so it can't be easily scraped.
So for example public_html/my-secure-backup-folder can be a symlink to /backups.
Guide on creating a symlink here: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9561/29/how-to-create-a-symbolic-link-in-cpanel
Easiest way to proceed:
Ssh to your WHM server then decide which cpanel account you need to backup. Create a full backup for that cpanel:
cd /home/cpaneluser/public_html
/script/pkgacct cpaneluser /home/cpaneluser/public_html
chown cpaneluser:cpaneluser /home/cpaneluser/public_html/cpmove-cpaneluser.tar.gz*
Then you can download the backup using your web browser by accessing your cPanel user's domain -> http://domain.tld/cpmove-cpaneluser.tar.gz
If you don't know the actual domain for that cPanel user you can do a cat /etc/userdomains | grep cpaneluser. It will show the configure domain for that account.
That would be all.
Alternatively you can login to the cPanel account using your web browser -> http://domain.tld/cpanel using the user/password combination for that cPanel account. There is a full backup function there (in the cPanel web interface) that does pretty much what I have explained earlier.
I've just installed Concrete 5 CMS by following the instructions on the website.
The folders application/files/, application/config/, packages/ and
updates/ will need to be writable by the web server process. This can
mean that the folders will need to be "world writable", depending on
your hosting environment. If your server supports running as
suexec/phpsuexec, the files should be owned by your user account, and
set as 755 on all of them. That means that your web server process can
do anything it likes to them, but nothing else can (although everyone
can view them, which is expected.) If this isn't possible, another
good option is to set the apache user (either "apache" or "nobody") as
having full rights to these file. If neither are possible, chmod 777
to files/ and all items within (e.g. chmod -R 777 file/*)
The packages folder has permission 777 and root/tmp folder has permission 755.
I've uploaded a new theme to /packages over FTP. When I try to install the new theme I see the following error:
An unexpected error occurred. fopen(/root/tmp/1419851019.zip) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream:
Permission denied
I have FTP access to the server and access to CPanel. How do I get this working without granting too many permissions which pose a security risk?
My install has the folders application/files, application/config, packages, and updates all set to 755 and it's working just fine.
You get that error because the system is trying to write to /root/tmp, which apparently is the environment configuration for a temp folder when your PHP request is handled.
Try adding the folder application/files/tmp in your file system (within your concrete5 installation). And then make sure that the user can write to that folder that is running PHP in your environment. As explained in the concrete5's own documentation (that you linked originally), it depends on your server which user this is.
Usually in shared hosting environments it's the same as the account you use to login there through SSH or FTP. In these cases, the 755 permissions should be enough if your own user owns the tmp folder you just created.
Our server is running under CentOS 6 and handled over Panel Plesk 10.4.4. Structure of folders and files is created using php script. Then, when accessing through FTP we are unable to modify these folder contents previously created. When accessing it over Apache web user works without exception but not over ftp. Folders and files have 755 and 644 rights respectively. How to enable ftp acces? Thank you
EDIT: problem is that file owner and ftp are not the same but I do not know exactly how and where to attach it.
File and folders owner is psacln (gid 502) and group is apache (gid 503). Ftp users are not the same.
We add a login ftp user (also system one) to the group owner of files and folders "psacln" using usermod -a -G psacln ftpusername. Same procedure with apache group but problem persists.
The problem here would be that you probably run your site in mod_php mode. In this mode scripts are operated under Apache privileges, so all files and directories created are owned by Apache. This way the files cannot be accessed by your FTP user unless you set up 777 or 666 permissions.
I think your options could be
switch to FastCGI mode of PHP. Depending on your Plesk account privileges, you can either do it yourself in Plesk UI or will have to ask hosting provider for that.
This way your script will be operated under user privileges (same as FTP user) and there will be no problems with accessing these files through FTP. Also this option is often considered more secure.
make PHP script setting 777 permissions on your folders and 666 permissions on your files. It means you allow to modify them by everyone (so called "others"). So FTP user can modify these files as well. While this may sound insecure, but practically these files are already can be accessed from any other site on that system (if it is shared hosting server). So I don't think it will be any more insecure than the current status.
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Hey guys I have one folder which I like to keep my backups in its on my Desktop. I use it to backup to the Cloud etc.
My XAMPP site is in c:/xampp/htdocs/mysite
What I want is to have that mysite folder inside my Desktop folder so i can backup it one push /w all my other stuff, I could move the whole XAMPP directory into my Desktop folder but then i need to setup transfer filters so I don't backup all the necessary XAMPP folders .etc
Is this possible?
Open the httpd.conf file of your apache server and find the settings related to this variable "DocumentRoot".
You will find it similar to this.
DocumentRoot "D:/wamp/www/"
Then replace the current folder path with the path to the folder you needed as the new document root and restart the server.