WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 300 of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.
This tutorial assumes that you’re already logged in your H-Sphere control panel and that you know how to upload files through FTP.
First, click on the Manage button from your H-Sphere control panel and a new window will open :
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There are all kinds of things that can happen to your website… hackers, expiration, deletion, your data center gets bombed, (let’s hope that never happens!), so why wouldn’t you have a back up of it? Thankfully, after I walk through how easy it is, you won’t find yourself in that situation!
So first, you might want to think about organization. No one wants to have a ton of files scattered everywhere throughout their computer with no rhyme or reason behind it all. So my suggestions for keeping your backups organized:
1) Keep it all in one place! Make a folder, either on your desktop, in your documents, whatever, where you will commit to putting all of your backup files. +Continue Reading
When you login into your FTP account, before you are allowed to log in, the ftp daemon searches in your home directory for a file called “ftp.allow” to see if your IP address is specifically allowed to log in. In order to find out what you IP is go to: http://www.whatismyip.com If the file is found, and your IP address is permitted, no other checks are performed. If your IP address is not found in the list of allowed IPs, or the file is not found, the daemon searches for a file called “ftp.deny”, to see if your IP address is specifically denied. If the IP address you’re trying to connect to matches one of the entries in ftp.deny (which can be ALL: ALL that denies everything that was not already permitted), the access will be denied with the message “530 User ‘username’ denied by access rules”. If the file is not found, or if your IP address doesn’t match anything, your access will be permitted. In addition to that, webshell access is always permitted (so you could modify the ftp.access and ftp.deny if you denied your own access by mistake). +Continue Reading
Anytime Automattic, the creators of WordPress, release the latest version of their very popular Content Management System (CMS) it is bound to have unforeseen issues that cause the system to break temporarily. In this case when clicking the automatic upgrade button for either the newest version of WordPress, installing or upgrading new plugins, or adding/editing posts or pages causes WordPress to give a PHP Fatal Error message. WordPress runs on PHP. It means though the error you are getting is on your WordPress Blog. But, it is related to a PHP Error. +Continue Reading
