Questions tagged [shared-hosting]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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