Zone+ Security Monitor FAQ What is Zone+ Security Monitor? Zone+ Security Monitor is a web security monitoring system that gives a user an overview...
xmlrpc.php POST requests to WordPress methods Protection has been added to Zone webhosting websites to block POST requests to files named xmlrpc.php that contain a WordPress...
Web server log format Apache webserver logs are located in the logs catalogue. Secure HTTPS connection logs are located in apache.ssl.access.log file. Logs are...
Installing Atlassian Jira (Java application) on a virtual server Jira is a development project management software created by Atlassian. The guide below is a tutorial for installing Jira Server...
Sending emails via web-server General If you are hosting your website on Zone virtual server and you would like to send emails out from...
Zone SSH access policy You can get an overview of SSH via server management. The SSH access log can be accessed via the “Logs”...
WAF – Web Application Firewall Zone server platform uses ModSecurity and OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) firewall rules can also be activated via My...
How to change default php-cli in console Default PHP CLI version for Zone managed servers (shared hosting, smart dedicated servers) have the same PHP version as the...
PHP time limit (max_execution_time, set_time_limit()) The default PHP’s execution time (max_execution_time) is 30 seconds. This is the time limit for a PHP script for how...
How To Change php.ini File (max_execution_time, memory_limit) PHP extensions and values for a virtual server can be managed in multiple ways: via the global php.ini file, using...
Mail-to-HTTP In addition to any other e-mail address, incoming mail can also be forwarded as an HTTP request to a URL,...
Python MySQLdb module There is no MySQLdb python module in the ZoneOS software platform. This is the source of the error: No module...
Setting up cron jobs in Magento 2 In order to run Magento 2 you need to add 3 cron jobs to the webhosting management. The interval of...
composer Using Composer v1 The ZoneOS platform uses composer version 2.x by default. However, some older plugins may require the first...
Changing your WordPress URL to a temporary address When installing WordPress on a server, the application assumes that the domain’s web page resolves to Zone server. If you...
Changing WordPress admin credentials via phpMyAdmin In case the ”forgot password” link on the WordPress login page fails, you can change the admin account password directly...
Installing a Node.js application on a Zone web server Our web servers can also host Node (VueJS, Nuxt, ReactJS, NextJS etc) applications. Node is automatically installed on the servers...
WP-CLI a command line tool for WordPress management WP-CLI is the official command line tool for managing WordPress pages. For many activities, it is a more convenient and...
Detecting slow PHP requests On the Zone server platform, the real-time web server logs are situated in the logs directory. HTTP and HTTPS logs...
Changing the Node.js version ZoneOS platform servers default to the latest Node.js LTS (Long-term support) version. At the time of updating this article, it...
ZFPM (Zone FastCGI Process Manager) Overview ZFPM (Zone FastCGI Process Manager) is a software product developed by Zone Media whose mission is to provide an...
Favicon (favicon.ico) A favicon is a small 16×16 (or 32×32) pixel icon that serves as branding for your website. The main purpose...
Golang installation Both the Golang development environment and the applications compiled in it are very self-contained and do not require anything from...
Timezone on ZoneOS servers On servers with the ZoneOS platform, the server time is UTC regardless of the physical location of the server (on...
Mercurial Mercurial is a free code management tool. In order to use Mercurial, you need to install it yourself, as Mercurial...
How to view disk space usage and the number of files (inodes)? To view the amount of disk space used, run the following command in the SSH console: quota -s virt490:sn-69-1.tll07.zoneas.eu:~> quota...
Restricting access to a website with .htpasswd If you want to temporarily restrict access to your website, one way to do this is to use the .htpasswd...
Moving your website to Zone server Zone’s customer support and technicians can assist you with migrating your website and email to the Zone web-hosting as a...
Ordering a Let’s Encrypt certificate using the Zone DNS API To order a Let’s Encrypt certificate, you need to add a Zone API key. To add an API key, see...
Zone API API (Application Programming Interface), also known as API interface or application interface, refers to the rules by which one program...
Setting up WordPress cron jobs By default, WordPress uses a built-in scheduled job execution solution that generates an additional call to the web server each...
How to login to an FTP Accessing FTP requires you to have an FTP user account. You will find instructions here, on how to create an...
Redis redis-cli To use redis-cli, next command must be used: > vs-redis-cli Information about the version of Redis, connected clients/applications, and...
Inode In simple terms, 1 inode equals to 1 file. Once the number of inodes allowed on the server has been...
Limiting the .htaccess file size to 512 KiB In a shared hosting environment, the size of .htaccess files is limited to 512 KiB to ensure proper functioning of...
Establishing an SFTP Connection SFTP, abbreviation of SSH File Transfer Protocol (also know as Secure File Transfer Protocol), is a network protocol for securely...
500 Internal Server Error The 500 Internal Server Error is a very general website status code that means something has gone wrong on the...
Establishing an SSH connection Windows 11 SSH is installed by default on Windows 11. In order to establish an SSH connection, you must first...
Parallel processing unit limits What is a parallel processing unit? Web hosting packages have a limit on the number of parallel units that can...
Enabling/disabling WordPress debug.log What is WP_DEBUG? WP_DEBUG is a feature in WordPress that allows you to save all errors that occur during website...
AWS CLI installation Official documentation on how to install the AWS CLI: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html Since the~/bin directory exists in the PATH variable, it is...
How to edit the hosts file Sometimes there are situation, when you need to view a website before redirecting a domain to it first. For example,...
Examples of .htaccess rewrite rules Enable directory indexes Options +Indexes Blocking certain IP-addresses deny from 12.34.45.78 1.2.3.4 Allowing queries from one certain IP-address order deny,allow...
HTTPS and free SSL certificate – Let’s Encrypt HTTPS is a web security protocol and a TLS (SSL) certificate is needed to use it. Zone offers its web...
301 redirect with .htaccess file To redirect web-traffic the following lines of code are entered with text editor (Notepad, WordPad etc.) and then saved as...
How to create an FTP account In order to create an FTP account, first log in to the My Zone control panel, then click Webhosting. From...
Activating Jetpack What to do if you receive the following error during Jetpack installation: Your website needs to be publicly accessible to...