FrontPage Extension has been removed in Linux Hosting
To all Philhosting Linux Customers: With great regret, Philhosting has decided to discontinue FrontPage publishing on all of our Linux cPanel hosting servers. This is because Microsoft has discontinued FrontPage extension support for the Unix/Linux platform and we have recently observed severe intrusion attempts using FrontPage vulnerabilities. These intrusions attempts could affect every user on our [...]
Continue reading...9. July 2008
Sending Email through PHP scripts
Most Linux hosting doesn’t allow direct mail sending through PHP mail() function due to spam security issue. In order to send email through PHP mail() function, you need to be authenticate first by the SMTP server. Simplest way to do is to use the PHPMailer. Below is the sample php code using PHPMailer. <?php include(”class.phpmailer.php”); $mail [...]
Continue reading...12. August 2008
Oracle connection strings
Oracle ODBC connection strings Open connection to Oracle database using ODBC “Driver= {Microsoft ODBCforOracle};Server=Your_Oracle_Server.world;Uid=Your_Username;Pwd=Your_Password;” Oracle OLE DB & OleDbConnection (.NET framework) connection strings Open connection to Oracle database with standard security: 1. “Provider=MSDAORA;Data Source= Your_Oracle_Database;UserId=Your_Username;Password=Your_Password;” 2. “Provider= OraOLEDB.Oracle;Your_Oracle_Database;UserId=Your_Username;Password=Your_Password;” Open trusted connection to Oracle database “Provider= OraOLEDB.Oracle;DataSource=Your_Oracle_Database;OSAuthent=1;”
Continue reading...12. August 2008
MySQL connection strings
MySQL ODBC connection strings Open connection to local MySQL database using MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver “Provider=MSDASQL; DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51Driver}; SERVER= localhost; DATABASE=Your_MySQL_Database; UID= Your_Username; PASSWORD=Your_Password; OPTION=3″ MySQL OLE DB & OleDbConnection (.NET framework) connection strings Open connection to MySQL database: “Provider=MySQLProv;Data Source=Your_MySQL_Database;User Id=Your_Username; Password=Your_Password;”
Continue reading...12. August 2008
MS Access connection strings
MS Access ODBC connection strings Standard Security: “Driver= {MicrosoftAccessDriver(*.mdb)};DBQ=C:\App1\Your_Database_Name.mdb;Uid=Your_Username;Pwd=Your_Password;” Workgroup: “Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; Dbq=C:\App1\Your_Database_Name.mdb; SystemDB=C:\App1\Your_Database_Name.mdw;” Exclusive “Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=C:\App1\Your_Database_Name.mdb; Exclusive=1; Uid=Your_Username; Pwd=Your_Password;” MS Access OLE DB & OleDbConnection [...]
Continue reading...12. August 2008
SQL Server connection strings
This is a compiled connection strings reference list on how to connect to SQL Server. ODBC Standard Security Driver={SQL Server};Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword; Trusted connection Driver={SQL Server};Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;Trusted_Connection=Yes; Prompt for username and password This one is a bit tricky. First you need to set the connection object’s Prompt property to adPromptAlways. Then use the connection string to connect to the database. oConn.Properties(”Prompt”) = adPromptAlways Driver={SQL Server};Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;
Continue reading...14. July 2008
Yahoo Mail Servers Rejecting Email
If you use Yahoo! mail as your main email account, you might not be receiving all of your emails. What is Yahoo thinking??? Recently Yahoo has started “greylisting extremely deprioritizing” almost every email that goes through their mail server. Greylisting This is a way of attempting to block SPAM. Yahoo mail denies the first every [...]
Continue reading...4. July 2008
What is EPP Code and where can I find it?
The EPP key (Authorization code) is one of the safeguards against unauthorized transfers of domain name registrations and it protects your rights as a domain owner. The EPP key is required when transferring .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info and .us domain names. It is not possible to initiate a domain name transfer for these domains without an EPP code.
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5. August 2008
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