Direct Admin Features

[D9r]

Originally posted by Nick wrote:
DA is great. The user features surpass the features offered by Ensim. Here are a few that I found clients would be interested in....

I see a lot of tickets with people needing help setting Outlook Express up - Well, you can log into the DA control panel and download the settings for each user. I found that a very helpful tool for the user.

I love the filter option built into DA. Here are some ways to filter mail at the server...
Block a specific e-mail address:
Block mail from an entire domain:
Block all e-mail containing the word:
Block all e-mail larger than:
Enable adult filter: (blocks out common adult phrases, words, and addresses)
Now you has a user have several ways to filter all that junk, porno crap at the server

You want to use frontpage extensions? We do have the fastest tech support in the nation....however you don't have to rely on us...the user has full control over that

DNS? Yep, you guessed it...you have full control over DNS

You still have control over your databases as well..so you won't need us for that either

There are a lot more...I could be here all night telling you about what you can do now....however....I thought these were pretty nice to start with...

[D9r]

Within the reseller control panel I saw a choice for Suspend at Limit. Does that mean if I were to set up an account with small quotas (like 10MB disk space and .1GB bandwidth), I wouldn't have to worry about paying for going over the quota because the account would suspend itself for the month once it reaches its quota?

[D9r]

Any opinions, theories, ideas?

I guess that last post really belongs in the reseller folder. Oh well. Maybe I'll move it.

[thevillageinn]

that's what I've gathered it to mean. however I'm not sure that I would trust DA to do the monthly resetting.

[Nick]

This is what the DA author replied with


The only thing that "grows" uncontrollably is bandwidth, thus it is the only thing that will trigger a suspension. It will be suspended during the nightly tally if the used bandwidth is more than the bandwidth limit. For things like email, DA will just prevent you from adding them completely, so there is no reason to get suspended.

[D9r]

I'm not sure where to ask this so I'll ask here.

The old hostpc website had a list of specifications for the features offered, but I haven't found such a list here. I'd like to know what version of Perl we're running in particular and if CGI.pm is on the server. Also, for future reference, I'd like to know the PHP version, mySQL version, do we have Python, etc.

Thanks

[D9r]

The error log wrote:

Can't locate CGI.pm in @INC
(@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi)

I guess that means we don't have CGI.pm;
could you get that installed?

[D9r]

CGI.pm - Download and Installation instructions (http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/CGI/#download)
(in case you didn't know what I'm talking about, I didn't know till recently)

If you can do this sometime soon I'd really appreciate it. I'm trying to get a CMS ready that I promised a client several months ago and this module would help considerably. Thanks again.

[Jeff]

Originally posted by D9r@Nov 17 2003, 09:44 AM
I'm not sure where to ask this so I'll ask here.

The old hostpc website had a list of specifications for the features offered, but I haven't found such a list here. I'd like to know what version of Perl we're running in particular and if CGI.pm is on the server. Also, for future reference, I'd like to know the PHP version, mySQL version, do we have Python, etc.

Thanks
When I select the "System/Services" item in the User Control Panel, I get the following list, which answers the MySQL version part of your question. I'm on www9, if you're on another server, YMMV.

Processor Name Intel® Celeron® CPU 1.70GHz
Vendor ID GenuineIntel
Processor Speed (MHz) 1716.928
Total Memory 1022796 kB
Free Memory 19164 kB
Total Swap Memory 2040244 kB
Free Swap Memory 2002356 kB
System Uptime 4 Days, 18 Hours and 41 Minutes
Apache 1.3.29 Running
DirectAdmin 1.20.1 Running
Exim 4.24 Running
MySQL 4.0.14 Running
Named 9.2.1 Running
ProFTPd 1.2.8 Running
sshd Running
vm-Pop3d 1.1.7e Running

[D9r]

According to the error log, the version of Perl that we're running is 5.8.0, and CGI.pm is not installed.

According to the Perl coders I've talked with, CGI.pm has been a core module since Perl version v5.004. In other words it's considered standard at this point.

Could someone see about getting it installed here? (please) (I'm on #5 if you just want to start there.)

Is this the right place to ask? Should I start a support ticket?

Thanks.

[Nick]

Yes, please open a support ticket

[D9r]

Originally posted by "someone at perlmonks.org"

Do you know what operating system the server is using? CGI.pm is part of the core Perl. On Red Hat, the perl-CGI package was split out so that it could be upgraded separately. My guess is that the admin didn't install that package. It really should be installed on any web server with Perl.