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CGI program gives 405 error on shared hosting

I have moved the website a few weeks back, its was working fine the previous hosting now its gives 405 error. I have perl installed on linux server. This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 3 (v5.26.3) ...
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Mount Additional Storage on shared hosting without root access

I have a domain with a website where my clients upload files (expected 100GB) my employees have emails (3 mail box, 10-15GB each) My current "shared hosting" is fantastic, and I committed ...
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Installation of Tandoor on shared webhoster (no root access)

I'm trying to install Tandoor (https://tandoor.dev) on my uberspace (https://uberspace.de - shared webhoster). Docker is not supported by uberspace, so I tried the manual installation guide: https://...
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Connecting to Web Host using SSH?

I want to connect to my Web Host via SSH, it worked fine the first time, but then I wanted to mount my host's drive locally, I found "sshfs" so I ran this command: sshfs -o allow_other,...
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Setting default webpage for shared hosting [closed]

I've got a bunch of domains on a shared ip address (through bluehost, not sure if that matters). Visiting any domain works fine, but visiting the ip address just triggers a 404 error. After doing some ...
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Does shared web hosting host each website on a separate server or on separate virtual machines? [closed]

It have been a long time since I'm trying to understand how does a web hosting host thousands of websites without being hacked since the users runs there own code. Does each website runs on a separate ...
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Error while installing Nodejs on Godaddy Shared Linux Hosting

I am installing Node.js on Godaddy Shared Linux Hosting by connecting to SSH via PuTTy. Getting Errors. I ran 'curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash' ...
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How would we eliminate the need to use index.php after the domain name to visit the endpoints for October CMS with NGINX on shared hosting?

I am using October CMS with NGINX on a shared hosting plan. How do I go about removing the need to put index.php after the top-level domain. For example: http://www.example.com/index.php/backend/ ...
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Unable to install Supervisor on shared hosting [closed]

I am trying to install supervisor to keep my jobs running .. this is my first time using it and as far as i understand i should first enter apt-get install supervisor from the terminal. Please note i ...
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Laravel's project deployment on shared hosting throws error 500

I want to deploy a laravel’s project on a shared hosting (ovh) I have ftp access, and the folder’s architecture of the shared hostings is like this: I have uploaded the laravel’s files to the root ...
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Symfony installation in shared hosting

With SSH i install a symfony project in public_html/myname directory. I assign the domain name to point at myname/web directory. is there fault with that way ? maybe a security issue or something ...
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Resolve email delivery issue on "From and EnvelopeFrom 2nd level mail domains are different". Is this a hosting provider issue?

We send email from our main domain "vocalsound.org". It is delivered through our hosting provider, which however sends it through a shared mailserver hosted on their generic domain (webland.ch). ...
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Domain expired on provider but SSL and Hosting are still good - how to get website up again?

So, apparently the domain was purchased at a different time. The hosting and files are still good, as is the SSL. Went ahead a purchased the domain name again. This is on Godaddy. Do I need to ...
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Can't access my websites from my IP in different operating systems

I use my internet connection via a typically installed Win10 home / Apple Iphone (iOS) with different browsers. The operating systems and browsers are all up to date. I host two WordPress websites on ...
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How to kill a process on shared hosting environment

How to kill and restart nodejs when the account has run out of processes. Using username "shee". Authenticating with public key "imported-openssh-key" Passphrase for key "imported-openssh-key": [shee@...
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How to tell if a website is using shared hosting or just masking IP address?

When I do a reverse lookup on a certain website, it returns a Dyn IP as below: C:\Users>nslookup xyz.com Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.1.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: xyz.com ...
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Share files wirelessly - Homegroup for Win7 and Win10 pcs

I want to share data between two PCs wirelessly instead of having to use an external disk drive. The best option from what I have found so far is to create a homegroup. (In case I am wrong, I would ...
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Shared hosting ip address

i would like to know how a shared hosting ip works.. for example when we want to access the website "abc.com" and the DNS return with its IP address (1.1.1.1).. however IP 1.1.1.1 is is a shared IP ...
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Phabricator installation - change database name prefix

I'm on a shared host and I'm in the process of installing Phabricator. One issue I've come across is created the databases for Phabricator, which want the following, phabricator_audit ...
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Accessing an addon domain outside public_html

I have a shared hosting account with a shared IP, and with no domain name added yet. I have uploaded a website in the public_html folder and I can access it by using the shared server's IP and my ...
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My website is visible only through direct URL but not via the domain name I bought

I have bought hosting and domain name separately, later when I'm buying hosting I have linked hosting to the domain name I bought. Now after hosting all the files by uploading them to the CPanel 11 ...
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Security of web app files and database passwords in a linux shared hosting environment

I have a web app on a linux shared hosting machine. Lets say I have a .htpasswd file, some configs that store a database password and generally don't want people snooping through my source code ...
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Shared hosting: how do they estimate server CPU usage? [closed]

I'm using several shared hosting services and wondered many times: how do they calculate those "CPU seconds"? For example one of those limiting me with 300,000 seconds/month, 10,000 seconds/24h and 2,...
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Disable SSH login via password on a per-user basis?

I’ve asked some web hosting providers (Bluehost and Dreamhost) and they both said that on shared hosting accounts they have no way to disable login via SSH with a password. What this means is that ...
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CNAME to shared IP on a cluster

I'm trying to set a CNAME record (www) at ISP-A to forward to a subdomain at ISP-B. the domain/website at ISP-A works flawlessly at ISP-A, the website at the subdomain at ISP-B works also good. but ...
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Can't delete file from web interface of owncloud

I have own instance of own cloud. With latest stable version 6.0.1. If i delete some files from web - after page refresh they are back. If i delete some files from client (1.5.0) under linux, in ...
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How can I stop my email being blocked as spam?

I have my own small company that deals with big corporate customers. Many of these, plus others, have told me my email keeps going to their junk folders. I have my domain DNS hosted on a shared ...
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How to connect to MySQL on shared Host?

I am web developer and i just wonder Why i can't connect to mysql database on almost all my website with command line (all of theme use cpanel) and when i saw that port 3306 is closed !! How could i ...
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Shared hosting, stop user deleting .html file?

Hi guys I have set up a small shared hosting set up for friends. I have set the file chmod permissions to chmod 711 /home chmod 711 /home/testuser chmod 755 /home/testuser/public_html chmod o+r /...
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Install git on server without sudo

I'm trying to install git on a server with a user that does not have root access. I've seen a lot of tutorials that suggest using ./configure, but when I downloaded the latest git zip from github, ...
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How to compare page load speeds of two different web servers [closed]

I've recently set up a VPS with a view to transferring all of my current websites from my current shared hosting platform to this VPS. But I want to make sure that this VPS would be an improvement to ...
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Permissions on a typical shared Linux web host

I am trying to understand the file permissions on a typical shared Linux web hosting account. I know how to set rwx permissions for the OWNER GROUP and PUBLIC entities of a file or directory. What isn'...
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How does shared hosting work?

Ive always wonder how its possible to host many websites on one server. For example dreamhost can have 100+ pages hosted on one server, how is this abstracted? Does it have 1 ip for every webpage ...
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How can I find out my hosting server's outbound IP address?

I need to find out my web hosting server's IP address. Its on a shared hosting server and from experience, it's usually not the same as the incoming IP address that you would get by just pinging the ...
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Using Yum to install packages for my user only

I would like to be able to install packages by using a package manager (Yum is available on my server), but I don't have root access. I don't technically need root access, I just want the packages to ...
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Difference between hardware based virtualization and software based virtualization in VPS Hosting?

I want to know the difference between these two kinds of virtualization in VPS Hosting. Which one is used by hosting companies? And also tell which one is best? Commonly used software for software ...
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