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Change File / Folder Owner With SSH

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:46:50 +0000

After doing a transfer of files for a website using SSH, if you’ve transferred from one domain to another, you’ll probably run into a file or folder ownership problem. Using SSH, this is actually easy to fix.

Change to the directory you need to change permissions or ownership.

chown -R correctuser *

correctuser is the name of the owner of this website

That’s it. You’ve now changed the owner of files and folders in that directory using SSH.

Another Way to Move Website Via SSH

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:24:48 +0000

Very recently, we published an article about moving entire website from one server to another via SSH. Sometimes those commands give us problems with the resulting transfer, so we found this alternate method that seems to work perfectly.

Keep in mind, you MUST perform separate actions for copying or moving databases as well as adding email addresses.

1. First log in to your old server via SSH. If necessary, you may need to login as a “super user”.

2. Change directories to the directory where your website resides.

3. Type in the following code:

4. tar -cpzf backup.tar.gz *

6. This creates a tar file of all files in that directory.

7. Login to your new server.

8. Navigate to the directory where you want to place the website you are moving.

7. Type in:

8. wget yourdomain.com/backup.tar.gz

9. (Of course, yourdomain.com is replaced with your actual domain name). This transfers the tar file from the old server to the new server.

10. Once the file is transfered, type:

10. tar -xzf backup.tar.gz

11. This will unpack the tar file onto the new server in the directory that you placed it.

That’s it, another way to move websites using SSH.

How To Move A Website From One Server To Another Using SSH

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:19:15 +0000

If you ever have the need to move or migrate complete websites from one server to another, you know what a hassle it is using FTP. For one, it takes a long time, especially for larger sites, plus most of the time, we lose connection and our FTP program stalls, meaning we have to start all over again. So here’s how to do it using SSH /Telnet.

First log in to your old server via SSH. If necessary, you may need to login as a “super user”.
Change directories to the directory where your website resides.
Type in the following code:
tar -cvf sitepack.tar ./ This creates a tar file of all files in that directory.
Login to your new server.
Navigate to the directory where you want to place the website you are moving.
Type in:
wget yourdomain.com/sitepack.tar (Of course, yourdomain.com is replaced with your actual domain name). This transfers the tar file from the old server to the new server.
Type:
tar -xvf sitepack.tar
This will unpack the tar file onto the new server in the directory that you placed it.

There you go. Within seconds you have moved all your site files from one server to another using SSH, which makes migrating a website as easy as ever.

Keep in mind, you MUST perform separate actions for copying or moving databases as well as adding email addresses.

Alternate or Different Backgrounds Using CSS

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:36:09 +0000

Ever want to have different backgrounds for different pages? Here’s the way we suggest:

Using your <body> tag on your hrml page, add an id tag. Now it might look like this:

In your CSS file, add

.body#page_2 {

your parameters and settings

}

Thats it!

Park City Real Estate Website and IDX Integration

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:19:31 +0000

If you’ve never done any work on a real estate website, I have to say, you may want to think about it again. This is one we’ve been involved in developing for a Park City Utah Real Estate Agent. The real estate market is extremely guarded by the companies that specialize in real estate websites. It’s amazing what some of these companies charge for real estate websites, even though it’s not rocket science. The biggest hurdle is getting an IDX or RETS feed on the website. Most companies that provide an IDX solution apparently think there code is gold, and apparently it is. We’ve talked with some of these companies that want $350.00 / month just to provide the software that serves up the data feed, and they require you to host your site on their server since they don’t want anyone stealing their code. Then, there’s the frameset method, which is just the other companies website framed into your website, therefore giving them all the benefits of SEO, while getting nothing for the hosts real estate website.

I know I sound like I’m ranting and I suppose I am. If anyone out there knows of a good solution for IDX feeds for Real Estate Websites, feel free to add your comments here.

How to Import a MYSQL Database using SSH

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:02:47 +0000

Using SSH is a much more efficient way of importing a large MYSQL database than trying to use phpMyadmin. But if you’re not used to using SSH / Telnet, it can be a bit awkward.

Here are full and easy instructions on how to import a mysql database using SSH / TELNET.

Use FTP to transfer your MySQL database to your server
Create a remote connection using your SSH program to your server
Navigate to the directory where you uploaded your MySQL database
Enter this command: mysql -u username -p -h servername data-base-name < data.sql
The system will prompt you for the database password
Enter the password
You’re done.

Add pop-up window in Dreamweaver

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:33:58 +0000

Instructions
Things You’ll Need:
Dreamweaver
. Step 1

Start Dreamweaver. Open a new blank document by selecting “HTML” in the “New” category on the introduction splash screen.
. Step 2

Type the word “Link” or some other text so you can test out the pop-up window onto your new blank HTML document and select it when you are finished.
. Step 3

Choose the “Window” menu, and then “Behaviors” to bring up the Behaviors panel.
. Step 4

Click on the “+” symbol and then choose “Open Browser Window” to view the Open Browser Window pop-up properties. Here, you can set the specific properties you would like to apply to your pop-up window.
. Step 5

Key in, copy and paste or browse to input the URL you wish the visitor to be directed to when he clicks on the word “Link” in your document.
. Step 6

Specify the width and height of the pop-up, as well as any attributes you want the pop-up to contain such as a toolbar, menu bar, status bar, scrollbars or resize handles and click “OK.”
. Step 7

Select “onClick” from the Events column in the Behaviors panel to set the pop-up window to occur when the word “Link” is clicked.