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2.1 What operational system is installed on your servers?
2.2 What are the paths to Perl, sendmail, etc on your server?
2.3 Do you provide me with access to my log files?
2.4 Is there a size limit for log files?
2.5 What is your web server?
2.6 How to replace Name Servers for a domain? What are your NS?
2.7 Have I FTP and anonymous FTP access?
2.8 Why does not SSI work?
2.9 How to adjust SSI for working with files different from .shtml?
2.10 How to turn Shell on?
2.11 Why can not I start new user? The server replies that such user already exists, but there is no user with this name!
2.12 What pages/’ encoding should be? Can the automatic encoding definition be adjusted?
2.13 How can I create a 2nd level domain: love.mydomain.com?
2.14 What is your Ñ compiler?
2.15 Is it possible to execute php in .html?
2.16 The Proxy-server of my provider gives out an error during connection with the control panel. All works directly well, without a proxy server.
2.17 What are the backup functions in the control panel for? Should I be insured against possible failure with the help of this function? Is there an automatic reserve copying (imperceptible for me)?
2.18 Can I adjust my statistics analyzer? For example, how can I make statistics analyzer to show 300 Referrers, not just first 30?
2.19 Can I receive detailed statistics of log-files by month?

2.1 What operational system is installed on your servers?
  Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Zoot)

2.2 What are the paths to Perl, sendmail, etc on your server?
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Mail: /bin/mail
Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
Date: /bin/date

2.3 Do you provide me with access to my log files?
Yes, you have. Folder /logs, files *.log
Moreover, you have access to the already processed statistical data of log files. Click the button SiteUsage in your Control panel.
If you don/’t use our hosting yet, please check the example of Control panel and Statistics in demonstration Control panel.
2.4 Is there a size limit for log files?
Yes, there is.
The maximal size of each log file = 10% from the size of your server (but not less 1Mb). As soon as a log file reaches limit, it is compressed to
*.log.1.gz
(Log files are compressed two times a day, i.e. a log file can exceed 10%, when traffic is very large)
Please note. Volume of log-files is not included into volume of your site!
BUT!
Some features of managing log files. The log files are written separately in one shared file and are scattered to users folders two times a day (at 04:00 and 16:00).
2.5 What is your web server?
Apache/1.3.22

2.6 How to replace Name Servers for a domain? What are your NS?
To transfer hosting of a domain from one hosting company to another, you have to replace Name Servers of the domain. Usually it is made on web site of your registrar.
Links to the main registrars:
NetworkSolutions:
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/makechanges/domain.mod
Totalnic:

http://core.totalnic.net/cgi-bin/mod-dom-wizard1
RIPN (.ru domains)

You have to replace a technical service to ours (MST2-MNT-RIPN) to let us make all work independently. Ask your former hoster about changing of technical service.
More info: http://www.ripn.net:8080/nic/dns/isp_ch.html

If you registered your domain with us, then you have got convenient Control panel:
http://domain.mastak.com

Our Name Servers:
For domains in RU zone:
www.list-int.com
www.mastak.com

For domains in COMNETORG etc. zones:
ns1.list-int.com
www.mastak.ru


2.7 Have I FTP and anonymous FTP access?
Yes, we provide you with FTP access, which is included into a typical set of options.
Anonymous FTP is included into the Standard and Large server, and is activated according to demand, free-of-charge.
2.8 Why does not SSI work?
SSI works only in files with the extensions .shtml. and .shtm on our server.
(if you want SSI to work with .html, please view question below)
It/’s better to use [an error occurred while processing this directive] instead of exec
2.9 How to adjust SSI for working with files different from .shtml?
Files with extensions .htm and .html are not processed by SSI by default and the SSI directives are interpreted as html comments.
SSI work in files with.shtml extensions by default. To make the SSI directives processed in files .html and .htm, you have to create a file .htaccess (with a point in the beginning). The action of this file will be distributed to current directory and to all directories located below.
The file .htaccess should contain such a line:

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html .htm
2.10 How to turn Shell on?
We give Shell access only to users of the Standard or Large WWW-server and only after receiving money to our account.
We give access based on ssh protocol, in case of absolute necessity.
Period is stipulated beforehand.

2.11 Why can not I start new user? The server replies that such user already exists, but there is no user with this name!
We have united data base for all users. If you can not add the user xxx, it means that such user has been added by someone else.

Of course, login name is not so essential, please make xxx2. If you want him/her to receive messages addressed to xxx@yourdomen.com, please register e-mail aliases = xxx for xxx2 in adjustments.
Your user xxx2 will receive messages addressed to xxx@yourdomen.com and xxx2@yourdomen.com
Please note. In this case the user can respond to letters only from login name xxx2.


2.12 What pages/’ encoding should be? Can the automatic encoding definition be adjusted?
No. It is not necessary. The task of code conversion is solved by browsers. You only have to specify coding inside heading HTML of a page.
For example (for windows-1251 char set):
<html><head>
<title>My page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="ru">
</head><body>
. . .

If you want server to give out encoding, you should put file .htaccess into the WEB directory.
This file may include such a line:
AddDefaultCharset koi8-r


2.13 How can I create a 2nd level domain: love.mydomain.com?
Please send an application for subdomain connection in billing system.
It will be tied with a folder, specified by you, (folder should be created!)
Please note, This is a paid service.

Note: New domain can be tied to any of your folders.
The existing domain, for example: love.yourdomain.com =>
yourdomain.com/love/ or any other variants.
Besides, it is possible to make aliases from top level domains, for example: love.com => yourdomain.com/love/


2.14 What is your Ñ compiler?
gcc-2.91.66, egcs-1.1.2
2.15 Is it possible to execute php in .html?
You can/’t execute php in .html. The files with PHP should have .php3 or .php4 extensions.
2.16 The Proxy-server of my provider gives out an error during connection with the control panel. All works directly well, without a proxy server.
Most likely your provider blocked 81st port (probably for the purposes of safety. Providers prefer to block everything that is used rarely). Call your provider and they will turn it on.
2.17 What are the backup functions in the control panel for? Should I be insured against possible failure with the help of this function? Is there an automatic reserve copying (imperceptible for me)?
Yes, you can do backup of all changed files for any period (+ your mail boxes). But to our experience, almost nobody uses backup functions in the control panel. We make backups from our servers daily. Therefore in case of any critical situations you do not lose your data (at least no more, than for one day).

2.18 Can I adjust my statistics analyzer? For example, how can I make statistics analyzer to show 300 Referrers, not just first 30?
You can adjust the analyzer for your log files. Put a configuration file (webalizer.conf) in the root folder of your site (/) for this purpose. An example of configuration file can be found here. You can simply copy it, change any way you like and put it into the root folder with a name webalizer.conf.

Work carefully with a configuration file. Your log files will not be analyzed, if something will be out of rules. You can remove your webalizer.conf file any time and your log files will be processed by default "standard".

Pay attention to last parameters Dump* in configuration file. You can receive results of the analysis of log files in text files with a help of Dump* parameters. If you have got a plan to work with these files using any software, it will be very convenient.

Remember that log files are analyzed two times a day (at 04:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.),
Therefore you will see new report about your log files at 04:30 a.m. or 4:30 p.m.


2.19 Can I receive detailed statistics of log-files by month?


Yes. Use SiteUsage item menu in Control panel of your site. You/’ll get general statistics for all period. Click the name of month to view separate month statistics.

See also:

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  3. FTP client, FTP File Upload
  4. E-Mail
  5. E-Mail opt-in lists
  6. CGI Scripts
  7. File .htaccess, passwords
  8. Databases


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