Recovering Administrator Access on Your Drupal Site
If you have lost your administrator password for your site, this article will help you recover access. The way most content management systems (CMS) stores authentication data, is within a MySQL database table usually named “user.” Passwords are usually encrypted
How to Manually Install Drupal Using cPanel
Drupal offers many ways to install their platform to accommodate everyone. The most common method among developers is to use the Drupal command line tool, Drush. While this is a powerful and efficient way of installing Drupal, it may be
Recovering Administrator Access on Your WordPress Site
If you have lost your administrator password for your site, this article will help you recover access. The way most content management systems (CMS) stores authentication data, is within a MySQL database table usually named “user.” Passwords are usually encrypted
Recovering Administrator Access on Your Magento Site
If you have lost your administrator password for your site, this article will help you recover access. The way most content management systems (CMS) stores authentication data, is within a MySQL database table usually named “user.” Passwords are usually encrypted
How Magento 2 Deployment Modes Can Impact Your Site
As a Magento user, you may have wondered what the different deployment modes do, and if switching to a different deployment mode could help optimize your site. The different modes are optimized for different uses, so it may merit a
Adjusting PHP Configuration in cPanel
Sometimes you may find it necessary to adjust a PHP configuration, such as when you are installing a web application and it requires that PHP be configured in a special way, or if one of your applications reaches a timeout
Preparing for Magento Upgrades, Patches, and Improvements
When looking to make changes to your store such as installing security patches, themes, importing products, or module removal/installation, it is important to take measures to aid recovery in the event that things go wrong. Here at the Alpha Hosting office,
Install ssh2 pecl package on cPanel
PHP developers may want to use SFTP to transfer website assets and code to a cPanel server with their favorite programming language. This scenario may seem impossible if php throws an error when attempting to call the underlying SFTP software and server refuses to install the necessary dependencies.
How to Make Site Backups
If you're human like most of us, then you have probably had the unfortunate experience of losing hours (or even days) worth of work due to an accidental coding mistake or mis-typed command. When this happens, the end result is spending even more time trying to duplicate the work that was lost. Wouldn't it be nice if there was an "easy" button that could be used to instantly revert such a mistake? This article will explore how you can create your very own "easy" button by manually backing up your site which will allow for instant rollbacks when needed.
TMUX primer and cheat-sheet
Tmux is a terminal multiplexer that can greatly improve your productivity on the command line. You can use tmux instead of opening multiple terminal windows on your local machine. With tmux you can ssh into multiple systems from a single terminal session without wasting time touching