If you don’t have an IT background, then working on your server is a bit like working on a car for the first time. There’s a lot of stuff under the hood but it all looks like a whole lot of hoses, wires and thingamajigs. That can be scary and it’s true to say that […]

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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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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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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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I can almost see you shaking and shuddering at the thought of doing this but it’s probably not as bad as you think. Armed with a little bit of information and a few commands, you should find the upgrade goes fairly smoothly. I’ve just upgraded 2 of my own dedicated servers and apart form a […]

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