New guy with a couple of questions

[marshull]

I am coming over from ipower where i had several domains on shared servers. After they moved one of my sites to vdeck 3 and failed to move my DBs over for 2 sweeks, i have decided to come here. I purchased a VPS to take advantage of the speed and ability to install FFMPEG and better account managing.

Problem is, I have never had a VPS before and am a little intimidated by the whm. I am used to just logging into my control panel and just going from there. But I don't have access to the control panel cause I am assuming I first need to create an account. So since I will be the only one using this account to manage my 4 sites, do i just create a master account with no limits?

Once i create this master account, is there really any need for me to go back into whm for anything?

Now, when i created my VPS, I gave them one of my domains. For my other three sites, I just create add on domains. So the files for my add on domains will go into the folder under the public_html with the sites name on it. But will the domain i opened the VPS using just be at the root of the public_html folder?

[lnxcode]

Hey! - Welcome to the HostICan Forum!

Well, mainly what the /whm is used for is controlling as many aspects as you can about the hosting solution. So thats understandable that you are confused and uneasy about it.

Mainly, if you're uneasy what you should be doing is... creating a new account and then from cPanel working with that account (this way you can't accidentally change configurations you're not sure about).

FFMPEG, FLVTOOL, etc... can you be found using shell, so once you are in Shell you want to do:

updatedb

wait.... wait.....then... once this is done, do:

locate ffmpeg
locate flvtool
locate etc....

That way you can find all the tools and the paths that they are in. So you know what path to tell your script.

Hope the above helps

[marshull]

What I am trying to do now is get my sites uploaded and tested before i change the dns to point to hostican.
Okay, so I went and created an account. I then went and added 2 more domains. I am now in the process of uploading my old sites to hostican. I am rebuilding one of my sites using Joomla but after uploading it into the public_html directory, i can not surf to it. I typed in the ip of my site followed by the name of the joomla folder and I keep getting page not found. I also noticed that if i just surf to the ip, i get the welcome screen, but when i use the file manager in cpanel, i can not seem to find this file(home.htm) in the public_html directory. I am now guessing i am looking or uploading in the wrong spot. Any clues?

[whm_newbie]

Hi. I am fairly new to the whole whm thing myself as you can tell by my forum name.The guys on this forum are great.

To access you site before the DNS propagates you'll need to use your IP followed by the name of the account you made in the whm.

Example:
999.87.34.44/~youraccountname

make sure you use the tilde character then just put the name of the account.

Like on of my sites is guitaristtube.com so, the account name is guitaris

so i put

999.87.34.44/~guitaris // note this is not the real IP or whatever

Hope that helps

whm_newbie

[marshull]

It was that dang tilde. I tried every way i could think of but forgot to add th the tilde. Thanks a bunch.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by marshull

It was that dang tilde. I tried every way i could think of but forgot to add th the tilde. Thanks a bunch.

Yes, one has to remember not to overlook tildes.

[thnet]

Originally Posted by whm_newbie

...
To access you site before the DNS propagates you'll need to use your IP followed by the name of the account you made in the whm.

Example:
999.87.34.44/~youraccountname

whm_newbie

You can also edit your local "hosts" file, to make the site resolve "for your own pc".
In Windoze Explorer: navigate to [My Computer] [C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc]
right click on "hosts" copy, and then paste it; giving a new name like hosts.bak.
Then, double click on "hosts" and, open with Wordpad, then, add 2 lines:

999.87.34.44 [Tab] yourdomain.com
999.87.34.44 [Tab] www.yourdomain.com

save the file, and close all browsers,
& if you use Front Page, close all instances of Front Page

Now, open browser, & type your url in address bar; you will see
your site, before DNS has propigated; you can also publish using FrontPage,
before DNS has propigated.

hosts file causes domain name to be found, so, your pc doesn't "ask" your isp, or root name servers for the DNS.

[thnet]

Originally Posted by marshull

What I am trying to do now is get my sites uploaded and tested before i change the dns to point to hostican.
Okay, so I went and created an account. I then went and added 2 more domains. I am now in the process of uploading my old sites to hostican. I am rebuilding one of my sites using Joomla but after uploading it into the public_html directory, i can not surf to it. I typed in the ip of my site followed by the name of the joomla folder and I keep getting page not found. I also noticed that if i just surf to the ip, i get the welcome screen, but when i use the file manager in cpanel, i can not seem to find this file(home.htm) in the public_html directory. I am now guessing i am looking or uploading in the wrong spot. Any clues?

For sites sharing an IP (name based sites) the server default is:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/index.html
in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf the order of default index is set by:

   DirectoryIndex index.ppl index.pl index.plx index.perl index.html index.wml 
index.cgi index.shtml index.jsp index.js index.jp index.php4 index.php3 
index.php index.phtml index.htm default.htm default.html home.htm

[marshull]

Okay, so how do i go about installing imagemagick? Ran ssh and did yum install ImageMagick. Looked like it installed but i can find the binaries.

[DOCENTA]

Hello,
ImageMagick is installed by default. If it is not you may submit a support ticket.
Normally it is located in :


/usr/bin/convert



/usr/bin/convert -v

to see its version.