Author: George Shaw

This guide is about to take backup or restore their database using PHPMyAdmin. If you want to do this, you’ll need to have access to cPanel.

1. Log into your cPanel account by pointing a browser to http://IPAddressOfServer:2083 and using the credentials provided.
2. On the Home screen, scroll down to Databases and click on phpMyAdmin.
3. Select the database you would like to backup from the left navigation tree.

4. Click the Export tab.

5. Choose the Quick export method and click Go.

6. Your export of your database will be downloaded to your local machine’s default downloads location.

Restore your MySQL database from a Backup

1. Select your database by clicking on database from the left navigation tree.
2. The phpMyAdmin script that restores your database does not drop the tables first. Click the Check All check box.
3. Click the With selected: drop down menu and choose Drop.

4. Confirm by clicking Yes.
5. Click on ‘Import’.
6. Click on ‘Choose File’ and locate the database backup file resides on your local computer.
7. Make sure that ‘SQL’ is selected in Format dropdown menu.

8. Click on ‘Go’.

1) Login to DirectAdmin.

2) Click the button ‘SPAM Filters’ from the section ‘E-Mail Management’.

3) We can create email filters from this section.

4) You can block a specific email address by entering the email address in the text box and click ‘Block’ button.

5) You can block mail from an entire domain by entering the domain name in the text box and click ‘Block’ button.

6) You can block all email containing the word by entering the word in the text box and click ‘Block’ button.

7) You can block all email larger than any specific size by entering the size in the text box and click ‘Block’ button.

8) If you want to disable the adult filter, click the button ‘Disable’. This feature will prevent email with adult content from getting through.

9) After that, choose the option that match your filter criteria can either be dropped or sent to a spam box.

10) Once the settings have been completed, click “Save’ button to update the details.

11) If you want to delete any filter, select the corresponding filter and click “Delete Selected’ button.

That is how we can setup spam filters in DirectAdmin.

This guide will help you how to Stage an installation. The new Softaculous Staging feature allows you to create a full copy of your website where you can preview any changes or updates before you apply them on your website and then you can push the changes to the main installation.

NOTE :

• Stage functionality is available only for a few scripts at the moment. Softaculous will be adding it to more scripts soon. 
• Stage has been added in Softaculous 4.2.8 
• Stage is not supported on Softaculous Remote at the moment. 
• If you have your site already installed manually. You will have to import it to Softaculous.

We will be taking an example of a WordPress installation. We will stage the installation to a sub directory stage.

1) Login to Panel

• Go to your panel (e.g. cPanel’s url will be https://yourdomain.com:2083) and login with your details.
• There click on the Softaculous Icon or Link.
• The Softaculous End user Panel will be displayed.
• Go to all installations page.

2) Choose the installation you want to Stage

• Click on the Stage icon next to the installation you wish to stage. 
  

• The Staging page will appear with the current installation details and a form to fill in the details for the stage installation.

3) Fill in the Staging Installation Details

• Fill in the staging installation details i.e. Choose domain, Directory, Database name, etc
• Click on the Stage Installation button and this should do the trick. The time taken may vary in accordance to size of your installation, So please be patient.
• That’s it !! You can now use this stage installation to test the updates or any other changes you may want to test.

NOTE : You will receive the staging installation details via email (if the emails are enabled). 

NOTE : The admin/user account login details will be the same as the source installation.

Log in to Gmail and go to Settings

• Log in to your Gmail account.

• Click the gear icon in the top right corner.
• Select Settings from the drop-down menu.

Add an email account

• Click Accounts and Import in the menu at the top.
• Click Add an email account.

Enter your email address

• Type in the email address you want to set up in Gmail.
• Click Next.

Confirm you want to import with POP

• Select “Import emails from my other…“.
• Click Next.

Enter the POP server settings

Please use the following settings for the incoming email:

• Username: your email address
• Password: the password you use to log in to Webmail
• POP server: Mail.YourDomainName.com
• Port: 995
• Check the option to leave a copy on the server (Recommended).
• Check the option the use SSL.

Click Add account to continue.

Tip: We recommend you to check the option to leave a copy of your emails on the server. That way you can still access your emails in Webmail.

Confirm you want to send from Gmail

You can now receive emails from your email account in Gmail. The next step is to set up the outgoing settings, so that you can also send emails from your account.

• Select “Yes, I want to be able to send…“
• Click Next.

Enter the sender name

• Enter the sender name you want to be visible to your recipients.
• Click Next step.

Tip: If your Gmail address is your primary address, and your other email address is only for recieving, you might want to check the box for “Treat as an alias”.

Enter the SMTP server settings

Please use the following settings for the outgoing email:

• SMTP server: Mail.YourDomainName.com
• Username: your email address
• Password: the password you use to log in to Webmail
• Port: 587
• Secured connection: TLS

Click Add account to continue.

Open the Gmail Confirmation email

Gmail will now send you an email with a confirmation code.

• Log in to Webmail.
• Open the email “Gmail Confirmation – Send mail as…“
• Copy the confirmation code in the email.

Enter the verification code

Paste the verification code in the field and click Verify.

Verify your settings

Your account is now set up. You can both send and receive email in Gmail. Check your settings to make sure it’s set up according to your preferences.

JetBackup is the cutting-edge backup technology ideal for data protection. Using JetBackup Backups, not only do the backups on databases can easily be performed but also the time consumed during the backup process is minimal as JetBackups does incremental backups. Experience the power of world class backup solution. No more worries on data loss or unpredictable disasters!

After accessing your cPanel, you’ll see under “JetBackup” category an icon labeled “Full Account Backup”, as demonstrated below:

The following page will appear:

This page displays all the available backups automatically generated by JetBackup. In order to restore the entire account, all you need to do is to choose the date you’d like to be restored (normally, the date closest to today), and click the “restore” link adjacent to the desired date. The following message will be displayed:

Check V in the box, understanding that the restored account will overrun the current one. You could also enter your email address in order to be notified when your account is restored. Click the “Restore” button and the following page will appear:

The account restore is in process. Please note that the duration of the restore process depends on the entire account’s weight. You can see the restore status using the “Queue” option from the main JetBackup category in your CPANL home page:

Which will lead you to a designated page of your account’s restore status:

And will finally display:

The PHP Selector allows end users to select the specific version of PHP they need. It allows ultimate flexibility by offering all popular versions of PHP, with more than 120 PHP extensions to choose from.

Each of the customers is totally different, and every has totally different needs. With PHP being the dominant language on the web, we have a tendency to package multiple versions of PHP and let the client choose that version they need to run. Customers will choose between PHP four.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, and 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2. they’ll conjointly choose from quite a hundred and twenty totally different PHP extensions.

Step 1. Login to cPanel

Step 2: Click on the Select PHP Version Software Menu:

Step 3: Select the desired PHP version from the drop down list, then click on Set as current and Save the change:

That’s it! The new PHP version is already enabled for your user.

If you want to enable or disable a PHP module, just select it or deselect it from the list and click on Save.

You can also change the PHP options, by clicking on the Switch To PHP Options button:

Here you can manage the PHP options, such as the allow_url_fopen, max_execution_time, memory_limit, upload_max_filesize and others:

Click on the Save button at the bottom, in order to save your configuration!

Should you need any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.