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How to fix wget for Fantastico install

If it is wget-1.10.2-3.3.fc5 or wget-1.10.2-8.fc6.1. This version does not honor the “-P” switch.

Update to the latest versino or An alternate version that we know works is wget-1.10.2-3.2.1

You will also want to put wget on /etc/yum.conf’s “exclude=” line (near the start of the file) so the OS doesn’t automatically reinstall the buggy version.

Reference - http://www.netenberg.com/

How to create Custom Name Servers for your domain.

1. Ensure that your domain registrar allows you to create custom nameservers with your domain name.

2. Choose the prefix you wish to use with your domain, e.g. ns1.yourdomain.com ns2.yourdomain.com

3. Set them up using the two IP addresses that you have for DNS at the registrar domain manager. You will need to contact you provider to obtain these IP addreses.

4. Ask your data centre to enter a reverse DNS pointer for your nameservers.

5 .Now–> WHM–>>Server Setup >> Enter ns1.yourdomain.com in the Primary Nameserver field. Hit ‘Assign IP Address’, then hit ‘Add an A Entry for this nameserver’.

6. Repeat this process for Secondary.

HOW TO Install Fantastico

SSH to your server(s) and enter following commands

Go to WHM, login as root and click on Tweak Settings, then you should ensure that both the Ioncube loader is selected for the backend copy of PHP. Save changes.

Upon loading, Fantastico De Luxe WHM Admin will auto-update your existing installation (if existing). All admin files (masterfiles, tarballs, settings etc) will be moved to or created at /var/netenberg.

If your users don’t see a Fantastico link in their CPanel: Go to WHM and edit the “default” Features List. Activate Fantastico.

Reference : http://www.netenberg.com/

Install Memcache

You can use the following steps to install Memcache in the server.

Before installing Memcache module, first you need to check the ‘libevent’ which is an essential :dependency for memcache module. You can follow the following steps:

The output of “make install” is very important as it lets you know where the compiled module was installed. The default library location is
/usr/local/lib. Open the configuration file;

Now you can install the “Memcache” module.

Now you can check whether the Memcache module has properly installed.

Setting up the firewall for Passive FTP: (APF Firewall)

1.Open your APF configuration file with your favorite editor. This configuration file is usually located at: /etc/apf/conf.apf

2. Select a port range to use for the passive FTP connection, and find the line that looks like this:

If this list of ports already includes a port range above 20000, then you can skip onto configuring your FTP Server, but remeber the range listed. (20000 to 30000 would be written as 20000_30000)

3. Add the port range to the end of the line and within the quotation marks(”). Remeber each port/port range is seperated by a comman(,), and a port range between 35000 to 36000 is written as 35000_36000 .

3. Save and restart your firewall.

To restart your firewall: