Change Local Timezone In .htaccess

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Rui Soares

Here’s an easy solution to change the local timezone of your account in a Linux server.

Please check if PHP is recompiled as an apache module. You can check this by creating a php file with this code:

If the server API is CGI, you can’t use this solution. If the server API is apache, add this code to your .htaccess file:

php_value date.timezone "America/Detroit"

You can find your timezone in this List Of TimeZones.

To test, create a php file named time.php and put in this code:

<?php
 echo date('d-m-Y H:i:s');
?>

call the file in the browser and check if the time is correct.

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List Of Time Zones

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Rui Soares

Here’s a list of time zones. You will need to know yout timezone to change the local timezone in your site’s hosting account.

AD Europe/Andorra
AE Asia/Dubai
AF Asia/Kabul
AG America/Antigua
AI America/Anguilla
AL Europe/Tirane
AM Asia/Yerevan
AN America/Curacao
AO Africa/Luanda
AQ Antarctica/McMurdo
AQ Antarctica/South_Pole
AQ Antarctica/Palmer
AQ Antarctica/Mawson
AQ Antarctica/Davis
AQ Antarctica/Casey
AQ Antarctica/DumontDUrville
AR America/Buenos_Aires
AR America/Rosario
AR America/Cordoba
AR America/Jujuy
AR America/Catamarca
AR America/Mendoza
AS Pacific/Pago_Pago
AT Europe/Vienna
AU Australia/Lord_Howe
AU Australia/Hobart
AU Australia/Melbourne
AU Australia/Sydney
AU Australia/Broken_Hill
AU Australia/Brisbane
AU Australia/Lindeman
AU Australia/Adelaide
AU Australia/Darwin
AU Australia/Perth
AW America/Aruba
AZ Asia/Baku
BA Europe/Sarajevo
BB America/Barbados
BD Asia/Dacca
BE Europe/Brussels
BF Africa/Ouagadougou
BG Europe/Sofia
BH Asia/Bahrain
BI Africa/Bujumbura
BJ Africa/Porto-Novo
BM Atlantic/Bermuda
BN Asia/Brunei
BO America/La_Paz
BR America/Noronha
BR America/Belem
BR America/Fortaleza
BR America/Araguaina
BR America/Maceio
BR America/Sao_Paulo
BR America/Cuiaba
BR America/Porto_Velho
BR America/Manaus
BR America/Porto_Acre
BS America/Nassau
BT Asia/Thimbu
BW Africa/Gaborone
BY Europe/Minsk
BZ America/Belize
CA America/St_Johns
CA America/Halifax
CA America/Glace_Bay
CA America/Goose_Bay
CA America/Pangnirtung
CA America/Montreal
CA America/Nipigon
CA America/Thunder_Bay
CA America/Iqaluit
CA America/Winnipeg
CA America/Rainy_River
CA America/Rankin_Inlet
CA America/Regina
CA America/Swift_Current
CA America/Edmonton
CA America/Yellowknife
CA America/Inuvik
CA America/Dawson_Creek
CA America/Vancouver
CA America/Whitehorse
CA America/Dawson
CC Indian/Cocos
CD Africa/Kinshasa
CD Africa/Lubumbashi
CF Africa/Bangui
CG Africa/Brazzaville
CH Europe/Zurich
CI Africa/Abidjan
CK Pacific/Rarotonga
CL America/Santiago
CL Pacific/Easter
CM Africa/Douala
CN Asia/Harbin
CN Asia/Shanghai
CN Asia/Hong_Kong
CN Asia/Chungking
CN Asia/Urumqi
CN Asia/Kashgar
CO America/Bogota
CR America/Costa_Rica
CU America/Havana
CV Atlantic/Cape_Verde
CX Indian/Christmas
CY Asia/Nicosia
CZ Europe/Prague
DE Europe/Berlin
DJ Africa/Djibouti
DK Europe/Copenhagen
DM America/Dominica
DO America/Santo_Domingo
DZ Africa/Algiers
EC America/Guayaquil
EC Pacific/Galapagos
EE Europe/Tallinn
EG Africa/Cairo
EH Africa/El_Aaiun
ER Africa/Asmera
ES Europe/Madrid
ES Africa/Ceuta
ES Atlantic/Canary
ET Africa/Addis_Ababa
FI Europe/Helsinki
FJ Pacific/Fiji
FK Atlantic/Stanley
FM Pacific/Yap
FM Pacific/Truk
FM Pacific/Ponape
FM Pacific/Kosrae
FO Atlantic/Faeroe
FR Europe/Paris
GA Africa/Libreville
GB Europe/London
GB Europe/Belfast
GD America/Grenada
GE Asia/Tbilisi
GF America/Cayenne
GH Africa/Accra
GI Europe/Gibraltar
GL America/Scoresbysund
GL America/Godthab
GL America/Thule
GM Africa/Banjul
GN Africa/Conakry
GP America/Guadeloupe
GQ Africa/Malabo
GR Europe/Athens
GS Atlantic/South_Georgia
GT America/Guatemala
GU Pacific/Guam
GW Africa/Bissau
GY America/Guyana
HN America/Tegucigalpa
HR Europe/Zagreb
HT America/Port-au-Prince
HU Europe/Budapest
ID Asia/Jakarta
ID Asia/Ujung_Pandang
ID Asia/Jayapura
IE Europe/Dublin
IL Asia/Jerusalem
IN Asia/Calcutta
IO Indian/Chagos
IQ Asia/Baghdad
IR Asia/Tehran
IS Atlantic/Reykjavik
IT Europe/Rome
JM America/Jamaica
JO Asia/Amman
JP Asia/Tokyo
KE Africa/Nairobi
KG Asia/Bishkek
KH Asia/Phnom_Penh
KI Pacific/Tarawa
KI Pacific/Enderbury
KI Pacific/Kiritimati
KM Indian/Comoro
KN America/St_Kitts
KP Asia/Pyongyang
KR Asia/Seoul
KW Asia/Kuwait
KY America/Cayman
KZ Asia/Almaty
KZ Asia/Aqtobe
KZ Asia/Aqtau
LA Asia/Vientiane
LB Asia/Beirut
LC America/St_Lucia
LI Europe/Vaduz
LK Asia/Colombo
LR Africa/Monrovia
LS Africa/Maseru
LT Europe/Vilnius
LU Europe/Luxembourg
LV Europe/Riga
LY Africa/Tripoli
MA Africa/Casablanca
MC Europe/Monaco
MD Europe/Chisinau
MG Indian/Antananarivo
MH Pacific/Majuro
MH Pacific/Kwajalein
MK Europe/Skopje
ML Africa/Bamako
ML Africa/Timbuktu
MM Asia/Rangoon
MN Asia/Ulan_Bator
MO Asia/Macao
MP Pacific/Saipan
MQ America/Martinique
MR Africa/Nouakchott
MS America/Montserrat
MT Europe/Malta
MU Indian/Mauritius
MV Indian/Maldives
MW Africa/Blantyre
MX America/Cancun
MX America/Mexico_City
MX America/Mazatlan
MX America/Chihuahua
MX America/Ensenada
MX America/Tijuana
MY Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
MY Asia/Kuching
MZ Africa/Maputo
NA Africa/Windhoek
NC Pacific/Noumea
NE Africa/Niamey
NF Pacific/Norfolk
NG Africa/Lagos
NI America/Managua
NL Europe/Amsterdam
NO Europe/Oslo
NP Asia/Katmandu
NR Pacific/Nauru
NU Pacific/Niue
NZ Pacific/Auckland
NZ Pacific/Chatham
OM Asia/Muscat
PA America/Panama
PE America/Lima
PF Pacific/Tahiti
PF Pacific/Marquesas
PF Pacific/Gambier
PG Pacific/Port_Moresby
PH Asia/Manila
PK Asia/Karachi
PL Europe/Warsaw
PM America/Miquelon
PN Pacific/Pitcairn
PR America/Puerto_Rico
PS Asia/Gaza
PT Europe/Lisbon
PT Atlantic/Madeira
PT Atlantic/Azores
PW Pacific/Palau
PY America/Asuncion
QA Asia/Qatar
RE Indian/Reunion
RO Europe/Bucharest
RU Europe/Kaliningrad
RU Europe/Moscow
RU Europe/Samara
RU Asia/Yekaterinburg
RU Asia/Omsk
RU Asia/Novosibirsk
RU Asia/Krasnoyarsk
RU Asia/Irkutsk
RU Asia/Yakutsk
RU Asia/Vladivostok
RU Asia/Magadan
RU Asia/Kamchatka
RU Asia/Anadyr
RW Africa/Kigali
SA Asia/Riyadh
SB Pacific/Guadalcanal
SC Indian/Mahe
SD Africa/Khartoum
SE Europe/Stockholm
SG Asia/Singapore
SH Atlantic/St_Helena
SI Europe/Ljubljana
SJ Arctic/Longyearbyen
SJ Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
SK Europe/Bratislava
SL Africa/Freetown
SM Europe/San_Marino
SN Africa/Dakar
SO Africa/Mogadishu
SR America/Paramaribo
ST Africa/Sao_Tome
SV America/El_Salvador
SY Asia/Damascus
SZ Africa/Mbabane
TC America/Grand_Turk
TD Africa/Ndjamena
TF Indian/Kerguelen
TG Africa/Lome
TH Asia/Bangkok
TJ Asia/Dushanbe
TK Pacific/Fakaofo
TM Asia/Ashkhabad
TN Africa/Tunis
TO Pacific/Tongatapu
TR Europe/Istanbul
TT America/Port_of_Spain
TV Pacific/Funafuti
TW Asia/Taipei
TZ Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
UA Europe/Kiev
UA Europe/Simferopol
UG Africa/Kampala
UM Pacific/Johnston
UM Pacific/Midway
UM Pacific/Wake
US America/New_York
US America/Detroit
US America/Louisville
US America/Indianapolis
US America/Indiana/Marengo
US America/Indiana/Knox
US America/Indiana/Vevay
US America/Chicago
US America/Menominee
US America/Denver
US America/Boise
US America/Shiprock
US America/Phoenix
US America/Los_Angeles
US America/Anchorage
US America/Juneau
US America/Yakutat
US America/Nome
US America/Adak
US Pacific/Honolulu
UY America/Montevideo
UZ Asia/Samarkand
UZ Asia/Tashkent
VA Europe/Vatican
VC America/St_Vincent
VE America/Caracas
VG America/Tortola
VI America/St_Thomas
VN Asia/Saigon
VU Pacific/Efate
WF Pacific/Wallis
WS Pacific/Apia
YE Asia/Aden
YT Indian/Mayotte
YU Europe/Belgrade
ZA Africa/Johannesburg
ZM Africa/Lusaka
ZW Africa/Harare

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Missing Accounts From WHM

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Rui Soares

If you list accounts and one of your accounts is missing, run this command in the shell:

/scripts/rebuildcpusers
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Disable Mod_Security In .htaccess

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Rui Soares

This post adresses the issue of disabling mod_security on a per account basis. Just add this code to a .htaccess file:

SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
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Wrong Datatype Error In Fantastico

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Rui Soares

If you receive a Wrong Datatype in /tmp/ message in your fantastico, here’s the fix:

Login to WHM and check in Tweak Settings if Ioncube PHP Loader is selected. It should be.

If that solved the issue, Goodbye. If it didn’t, Hello!

SSH to your server as root and run this command:

/scripts/makecpphp

That should fix your problem.

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Running PHP Script With Cronjob

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Rui Soares

It’s easy to configure a cron job in cpanel, in order to run a php script automatically. You must know the physical path of the script. That will be:

/home/username/public_html/folder/filename

Replace username, folders and filename.

And the php path, which will be /usr/local/bin/php

The command will then be:

/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/username/public_html/folder/filename

Configure the time settings. And it’s done.

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Correct Permission Problem In Suphp

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Rui Soares

With Suphp, you can’t have any files or folders with permissions greater than 755. Otherwise, you will get a Internal Server Error. There could be other reasons for that error. You must check the apache error_log. In Centos, you will find that file in /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log.

Confirmed the permission problem, a easy fix is to ssh to the server. Access the public_html folder of the account. And run these commands:

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 '{}' \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' \;

If you don’t have ssh access to your shared hosting account, upload a php file to the public_html directory and call the file in the browser. Include this code in the php file:

<?
shell_exec("find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \\;");
shell_exec("find . -type f -name '*.php' -exec chmod 644 {} \\;");
?>
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Meta Refresh Redirect

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Rui Soares

If you need to redirect your visitors to a different webpage, one of the options available for that redirect is a meta refresh redirect. This code is normally used to refresh the webpage after a few seconds. But it’s also used for url redirects. You just lower the refresh interval to zero. In the example we have a interval of 5 seconds.

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://www.domain.com/new-url.html" />
<title>This Webpage has moved</title>
</head>
<body>
The content of this webpage has moved. If you're not redirected to the new webpage in a few seconds, please click <a href="http://www.domain.com/new-url.html">here</a> to go to the new webpage.
</body>
</html>
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Free Live Chat Software

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Rui Soares

Here’s a list of a few live chat scripts. They are all open source and free:

Olark allows you to monitor and chat with customers as they browser your website.

LiveZilla is a Live Help, Char and Support script, that also allows you to monitor your visitors in real time.

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Server Administration Companies

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Rui Soares

Here’s a list of companies that provide server administration services.

Most of these companies provide server administration for linux servers. But a few also support Windows servers. Check their websites for more information.

Normally, these companies will do security configuration and audits, software updates, server optimization and monitoring. And their mothly service will also include a few hours of server administration to fix any problems with your server software.

You can find cheap services, starting at $30 per month and per server. But a more reasonable price will be in the $50 / $100 range, for a more reliable service.

I can recommend Touch Support and Rack911.

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