Archive for May, 2008

WHM/CPanel: #2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured) »

Tjis is quite a common error and fortunately there seems to be a ’silver bullet’. The answer was posted on the CPanel forums by Dawzz.
pico /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php
or if your server doesn’t have pico:
nano /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php
Look for the line that says:
$cfg[’Servers’][$i][’socket’] = ”;
and change it to:
$cfg[’Servers’][$i][’socket’] […]

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Five Reasons NOT To Use Hotmail »

Do you use Hotmail? If you do then there is a very good chance (in fact I would say 100% chance) that some of the legitimate emails that are sent to your Hotmail address aren’t reaching you. Hotmail has the most aggressive filtering system of any of the major free email providers. Not only that … […]

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What’s Up With PayPal Lately? »

I’ve always been a big fan of PayPal. I joined back in 2001 and have brought them more than a few customers through my script development work. Now they’re not perfect and I know that to some people they are downright scary. There are many stories about PayPal merchants having their accounts frozen because someone […]

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Fantastico Is Not Installed »

I had this error show up on a couple of servers today. A search on Google revealed that it’s not an entirely uncommon problem and there seemed to be a host of possible fixes.
 After trying a few things that were suggested in forums (and didn’t fix the problem) I deleted the Fantastico files and did […]

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WHM - Recompiling Apache With Sensible Defaults »

I’m probably going to regret using the wording ’sensible defaults’ … what may seem sensible to me may well be not-sensible to others. Still, at the very least I’ll be able to explain how I recompile apache and why I choose certain settings. If you’ve never recompiled Apache on a WHM server then it can […]

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