Category: How-To Guide

How to Block IP Addresses with .htaccess

This tutorial will explain how to deny an IP address or how to allow only a particular IP address to access your website. This is extremely useful to protect your website from hackers or to block unwanted visitors. You need to create an .htaccess file in your public_html folder and add these lines below, based

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Setting up Storage VPS for use with JetBackup – JetBackup on Storage VPS

This guide will be similar to our previous guide on setting up JetBackup with our SSH & FTP Storage however, we will be backing up to a Storage VPS. If you’re using our SSH/FTP Storage and not a Storage VPS, please view our Setting up JetBackup with SSH/FTP Storage guide: https://www.veerotech.net/kb/setting-up-ftp-ssh-storage-for-use-with-jetbackup-jetbackup-ssh-storage/ This guide assumes your Storage

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How to Create a php Info File and View PHP Information – phpinfo.php

Quick steps: Log into cPanel Open File Manager Locate your current working directory (eg public_html) create new file: phpinfo.php Enter the following code: <? phpinfo(); ?> Save the file and navigate to the phpinfo.php file from your website The PHP installed on your hosting account and/or server has various settings that are configured. Depending on the

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How to Install MySQL on CentOS 7

This guide will outlined how to install MySQL on CentOS 7. MySQL is a widely used database management platform used by various applications. Many applications such as WordPress, Joomla and others rely on MySQL databases to function. MySQL however, must be installed with a few different steps since it’s no longer the default in the

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Setup mapped drive in Windows 10 using VeeroTech Storage Linux VPS

This guide will be a basic how-to on connecting to your VeeroTech Storage VPS server in Windows 10 as a mapped network drive. You will need to install 2 packages within Windows in order to connect to a Linux server, WinFsp & SSHF-Win https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win First, you’ll want to install the latest version of WinFsp from

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How to Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) on CentOS 7

In this guide we will walk through the steps for installing and configuring LAMP stack on a CentOS 7 VPS. All commands – without sudo yum update yum install httpd -y systemctl start httpd systemctl enable httpd yum install mariadb-server mariadb -y systemctl start mariadb systemctl enable mariadb systemctl mysql_secure_installation yum install epel-release yum-utils -y

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How to Create MySQL Databases and Users Via the Command Line

This article explains how to create a new MySQL database and user using the command line. If MySQL is not installed yet, follow our guide to install MySQL on CentOS 7 first. Quick Steps:  Login to the Database Server as the root user.   Create a new user with the command “CREATE DATABASE databasename;“  Select the

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