What is phpBB?
PhpBB is an open source forum software.It was created in 2000. It is suitable for new as well as more technically oriented users.phpBB software has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.
With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB will grow with, and compliment your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.
Forum Administration - phpBB has powerful and easy-to-work-with administration panel. You can easily create unlimited number of forums and categories, set permissions, word sensors, mass emailing and smilies, polls, and much more. From there you can also ban access by IP, email address or username. If you would like to see how phpBB works, here you get phpBB forum pre-installed and activated in less than 15 min.
Security - The security of any forum system is a theme of a highest priority. This phpBB is designed specially with strong authorization system and high encryption which helps to save all passwords save. It is also supports URI-based and cookie sessions.
phpBB themes - According to your needs you can set the outlook of your forum . There are a lots of free and paid phpBB themes available on the Internet which you can use. Also, with phpBB you will have access to the CSS(Cascade Style Sheet) so that you can change colors and fonts by yourself. The templates within phpBB are separated from the rest of the php code and new styles and themes can be easily created or integrated.
Members - It has the ability to contain unlimited number of members. With phpBB each one of your community will be able to create and edit his own profile, create avatars, send private messages to other users of the forum, etc. They will not experience any difficulties posting and managing their own posts as phpBB was created very user-friendly.
How to install phpBB?
PHPBB comes in fantastico as well as in cpanel addon scripts. You can install the PHPBB forum software easily.
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ImageMagick is a software suite which is used to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. ImageMagic can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. There are many Web applications that use ImageMagick to manipulate images. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications.It is a free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution or as source code that you may freely use, copy, modify, and distribute. Its license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major operating systems.
By using ImageMagick, you can do the following:
a) Convert an image from one format to another.
b) Resize, rotate, or add special effects to an image.
C) Easily create thumbnails on your Web page.
d) Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web.
e) Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence.
f) Create a composite image by combining several separate image.
g) Draw shapes or text on an image.
These are the few examples you can do many more things by using ImageMagic.
IIS Application Pool
IIS Application Pool contains all web applications on your domains. If your service provider has given you a dedicated IIS application pool, it enables you to have a level of isolation between web applications used by your domains and web applications used by another domain owners which host their web sites on that same server. Because every single application pool runs independently, errors in one application pool will not affect the applications running in other application pools.
Once you allow the application pool, all the web applications on your domains will be using it.
To stop all applications running in the application pool, click IIS Application Pool on your home page and click Stop.
To start all applications in the application pool, click IIS Application Pool on your home page and click Start.
To restart all applications running in the application pool, click IIS Application Pool on your home page and click Recycle. This can be handy if some applications are known to have memory leaks or become unstable after working for a long time.
Changes in Domain Alias Properties in Plesk Control Panel
How to change the properties of an alias ?
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click Domain Aliases.
3) Click the alias name you need.
4) Click Preferences in the Tools group.
How to modify resource records in the DNS zone of a domain alias ?
1) On you Home page, click the domain name you need
2) Click Domain Aliases.
3) Click the alias name you need.
4) Click DNS Settings.
How to Add, edit or remove the resource records as required ?
a) To add a resource record to the zone, click Add New Record. Specify the required values and click OK to write the values to the zone.
b) To modify a resource record, under the Host column, click a hyperlink corresponding to the record you need.
c) To remove a record, select a check box corresponding to the record you wish to remove and click Remove selected icon. Remove Selected.
Follow these step to remove a redundant ColdFusion DSN connection:
1) Click the required domain name on your Home page and go to ColdFusion DSN .
2) Select the check box corresponding to a DSN connection you want to remove.
3) Click Remove selected icon. Remove Selected, confirm the removal
4) Now click OK.
o restore the default ASP.NET configuration in Plesk follow these steps:
1) On your home page, click the domain name you need.
2) Click ASP.NET in the Hosting group.
3) Click Set to Default.
4) Confirm the restoring and click OK.
You can change settings of an existing ODBC connection by following these steps:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click ODBC Data Sources in the Services group.
3) Click the required connection name in the list.
4) Change the settings as needed.
5) Click Test to check whether the connection will function properly with new settings.
6) Click Finish to save changes.
To remove a redundant ODBC connection:
1)Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click ODBC Data Sources in the Services group.
3) Select the checkbox corresponding to a connection you want to remove.
4) Click Remove selected icon.
5)Remove Selected, confirm the removal and click OK.
You can enable your Plesk control panel to automatically include specific files and directories into Web spaces created for newly hosted Web sites. This can be a set of useful scripts, custom error messages, a placeholder index.html page, or any other files of your choice. These files can then be replaced, edited or removed on a per-site basis.
This is how you can set up the control panel so as to automatically include your web content into web spaces:
1) Create the required directories on your local file system: httpdocs, httpsdocs, cgi-bin, anon_ftp, error_docs.
2) Place the files you need into the directories you have created: Place web pages into httpdocs and httpsdocs directories, scripts to cgi-bin directory, and custom error messages to error_docs directory.
3) Pack the directories and files into an archive file in tgz, tar, gz, rar or zip format.
Note: Make sure that the directories are in the root of the archive file and not in a subdirectory.
4) Log in to your Plesk control panel.
5) On your Home page, click Skeleton in the Tools group.
6) Click Browse to locate the archive file on your local computer, select the file, and click the Send File button.
To revert back to the original structure of web server directories and files:
a) On your Home page, click Skeleton.
b) Click Default.
In order to provide running ASP.NET applications which use different ..NET framework versions within single domain, Plesk allows setting up the framework version per virtual (web) directory, where the applications are deployed.
By following these steps you can choose the version of .NET framework for a virtual (web) directory:
1) Click the domain name you need on your home page.
2) Click Web Directories in the Hosting group.
3) Enter the required web directory and click ASP.NET in the Tools group.
4) Select the required .NET framework version and adjust other settings as necessary.
5) Click OK.