As Moonfruit is losing its Flash editor at the end of the year, so I am helping one of my clients to move his remaining websites across.
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Moving IMAP emails offline to save web space
I find that a lot of space taken up on clients’ hosting accounts is from emails, usually emails many years old.
One easy way to save much of the space is to archive the emails in offline folders after a period of time. You only need to do this for your main device if multiple devices use the same account.
Continue reading Moving IMAP emails offline to save web spaceQuickly update the reseller ownership in cPanel
After seeing that cPanel doesn’t offer a quick way to change a reseller for a user, I’ve made a simple script to set this in shell.
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Bulk update your code to run with PHP 7.0+
Migrating from PHP 5.x to PHP 7.x is a hassle when you’re dealing with a large website or multiple websites on a server. So, I’ve made some improvements to an existing a shell script to recursively modify directories of PHP pages that load in 4 or 5 but will no longer run in PHP 7.
Quick email forwarder in Shell
I’m always create new forwarding emails for different websites – helps me track down if and when their email list is hacked… To save logging into cPanel or WHM, I’ve created a little script to quickly add new forwarding emails.
Continue reading Quick email forwarder in ShellMigrating from Office 365 or Yahoo! Mail to cPanel using IMAPSync
This was considerably harder than I thought and there is very little online about migrating away from Office 365 to cPanel. This guide makes things much simpler, saving time looking up the relevant arguments and avoiding the mismatches with the names of the main IMAP folders. You’ll need a copy of the free software: IMAPSync – used to synchronise emails to and from one server to another.
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Free HTTPS across the server!
Everyone on Xenacia has a free HTTPS address with a valid TLS certificate! This is all thanks to the amazing crowd funded open certificate authority: Let’s Encrypt.
Stop all WHOIS email spam
Finding that a lot of spammers are grabbing your publicly listed WHOIS email address – sending spam about marketing, web development and fake renewal invoices? Perhaps you don’t want to pay $5+ a year for WHOIS privacy per domain to avoid the spam?
Well, there’s a simple way to stop all of that for free…
How to clone a website in cPanel
Would you like to clone any website in cPanel? There is a pretty fool-proof way to clone a website and change the references to URLs, paths and database details. There isn’t one perfect catch-all method, but you can cover most bases using this short guide. Continue reading How to clone a website in cPanel
WordPress Installer
This is my biggest bash script yet! It will fully install WordPress from a shell command and add a number of security measures to boot.