If you are installing Gallery2 for the first time and you are gettings errors such as:
Error
Error (ERROR_PLATFORM_FAILURE) :
* in modules/core/classes/GalleryTemplate.class at line 270 (gallerycoreapi::error)
* in modules/core/classes/GalleryTemplate.class at line 200 (gallerytemplate::_initcompiledtemplatedir)
* in main.php at line 418 (gallerytemplate::fetch)
* in main.php at line 87
* in main.php at line 80
This error is usually due to wrong folder permissons to your g2data. Submit a support ticket to have this folder CHMODed to 777 to fix the issue.
July 1st, 2006
In the last 48 to 72 hours, we’ve been having connectivity and uptime problems with the Windows servers here and we’ve tried hard to find the cause and fix them asap.
Apparently, Plesk released a very insecure version and the installation of this version was compromised before a patch was released and updated it. There were malicious files that were intended to be used as a backdoors has caused a lot of problems with the server and which made services to be restarted, only to fail again and again. This caused the server to repeatedly reboot or crash.
We ahve made changes in the protocols for the Windows so that this incident will not happen again.
Our sincerest apologies.
June 10th, 2006
The latest in the stable 2.0 series, 2.0.3, is now available for download at WordPress.org.
This is a bug fix and security release, and is recommended for all WordPress users. In addition to an issue that was raised on Bugtraq a few days ago, we’ve also backported a number of security enhancements from 2.1 to further enhance and protect your blog.
This release includes:
* Small performance enhancements
* Movable Type / Typepad importer fix
* Enclosure (podcasting) fix
* The aforementioned security enhancements (nonces)
We’d like to encourage everyone to upgrade their blogs to the latest version.
You can download a copy of WordPress here.
June 10th, 2006
plogHost is selling .PH domains for only Php1,499 annually, which includes:
- .PH
- .COM.PH
- .NET.PH
- .ORG.PH
- .MIL.PH
- .NGO.PH
Each domain can be registered annually, unlike the regular $70 for 2 years on domains.PH.
June 6th, 2006
SEO Philippines is launching a keyword ranking contest with over PHP 130,000 in prizes.
Contest Mechanics
1. Contest starts June 1, 2006 12:00 noon and ends September 29, 2006 8:00 PM.
2. The domain where your contest entry page is hosted should have a 2006 registration date. If your domain was registered before January 1, 2006, your entry page is disqualified.
3. The contest is open to all Filipinos. It’s also open to non-Filipinos who can be present at the awarding ceremonies. If a non-Filipino should win and he’s not physically present at the event, he is disqualified from the contest.
4. To win the top prize, you must be #1 for the keyword phrase isulong seoph (without quotation marks) in Google.com.ph on Friday September 29, 2006 at 8:00 PM. During the awarding ceremonies, there’ll be a public viewing of the Google.com.ph SERPs to determine the winners.
5. For the purpose of this competition, indented listings in the SERPs will not be counted.
6. To qualify for the Bonus Prize, you should have at least one of the following text links on your entry page. Should you qualify for any of the awards, a Google cache: search will be performed on your entry page during the awarding ceremonies. If the cached version of your entry page does not have at least one of the required text links, your entry will be disqualified.
* SQL Server (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
* SQL Performance (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
* SQL Database (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
* SQL Performance Tuning (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
* SQL Performance Monitoring (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
* Database Performance (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
7. Contest updates will be posted on the SEO Philippines discussion group and blog:
* http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seo-philippines/
* http://www.seophilippines.org/
8. In order to win, contestants must register, read and acknowledge the full contest terms and conditions by posting a “I have read the contest mechanics and I agree” comment on the contest terms and conditions page. Contestants who do not comply are not eligible to win.
Contest Prizes
First Prize
* PHP 10,000 from Marc Macalua
* 1 year Linux Reseller Hosting worth PHP30,000 (5 GB diskspace, 100 GB bandwidth, 1 free .com/.org/.net domain, 1 dedicated IP address, anonymous nameservers) from Ploghost
* PHP 5,000 from Alleba Filipino Search Engine Philippines
* Bonus Prize: PHP 25,000 from Lakeside Technologies ***
Second Prize
* USD 100 from Philippine Photo Gallery
* 1 year Linux Reseller Hosting worth PHP20,000 (3 GB diskspace, 50 GB bandwidth, 1 free .com/.org/.net domain, 1 dedicated IP address, anonymous nameservers) from Ploghost
* PHP 2,000 and 3 domains for 1 year from YDS Web Solution
* Bonus Prize: PHP 15,000 from Lakeside Technologies ***
Third Prize
* USD 100 from JNB Web Promotion Search Engine Optimization Services
* 1 year Linux Reseller Hosting worth PHP10,000 (1 GB diskspace, 30 GB bandwidth, 1 free .com/.org/.net domain, 1 dedicated IP address, anonymous nameservers) from Ploghost
* PHP 1,000 and 2 domains for 1 year from YDS Web Solution
* Bonus Prize: PHP 10,000 from Lakeside Technologies ***
Fourth Prize
* PHP 2,000 and 1 year Linux Hosting (1 GB diskspace, 1 GB bandwidth, 1 free .com/.org/.net domain, cPanel) from Kabarkada Web Design and Hosting
* PHP 1,500 worth of gift certificates from Bitstop Network Services
* PHP 500 and 1 domain for 1 year from YDS Web Solution
Fifth Prize
* PHP 2,000 from Healthy Culinary Creations
* PHP 1,000 worth of gift certificates from Bitstop Network Services
Sixth Prize
* PHP 2,000 from Cerveo GeoVisitor
* PHP 500 worth of gift certificates from Bitstop Network Services
Seventh to Tenth Prize
* PHP 500 worth of gift certificates each from Bitstop Network Services
Visit SEOPhilippines.org for more info.
June 3rd, 2006
This is a short guide on how to use the File Manager in your cPanel.
1) Login to your cPanel and click on the File Manager link icon.
2) A new window will show with the File Manager below:
3) To navigate to a directory, click on the folder icon (encircled in red).
4) To upload files to the current directory, click on the arrow up icon (encircled in green).
5) To delete/copy/move/edit an item, file or directory, click on the text links and a Properties window will show on the top right side of the window as shown below:
June 2nd, 2006
A new version of Apache (1.3.36) was just released for Cpanel servers. We don’t recommend upgrading rightaway, because you quite often wind up with more problems than the upgrade is supposed to fix. It is a ‘fact’ that almost every new version of any software (mysql, php, etc….) that has been released by Cpanel has been unstable in the beginning first few weeks of the release. This isn’t their fault, it is just the nature of the beast. The latest version of any software that is just released quite often has bugs or some sort of problems.
This Apache update for Cpanel was just released yesterday, so we recommend to wait at least a week or two at the very least before upgrading to make sure it is stable.
As for the warning message you see when logging into WHM, naturally since the version currently installed is not the latest, the message will say your version is insecure, regardless of any actual real security threat or not.
It’s a balance between stability and security, and only you can decide what you want to side with. This decision is always controversial, because neither having an insecure nor unstable server is any good. In our opinion, we recommend to wait at least a week or two, based on past experiences and what we are already hearing from customers that already attempted this upgrade. People have already upgraded Apache without asking us and have run into problems, problems ranging from Apache not starting to Apache modules not loading to Apache crashing constantly and more. You can also read about problems others are having at the cpanel forums, there’s many complaints there already.
What makes this even worse is that there is no option to even downgrade, so it has to be manually reinstalled or recompiled which results in HTTP downtime during this process.
May 25th, 2006
In the Philippines, cheap and affordable are interchangeable in the web hosting market. plogHost tries to seperate each one from the other.
Cheap hosting means that you get more for less and thus gives the impression that clients get a huge bargain for cheap web hosting. This is usually measured in peso-per-megabyte in the resource allocation for disk space and bandwidth.
On the other hand, affordable hosting is a little different in our definition. Affordable reflects the ability of the consumer to be able to acquire such a prodyct or service, whether or not it is cheap.
Case in point, fully managed dedicated servers nowadays are cheap and could be had for around Php8,000 in the Philippine web hosting market. However, not every person who wants to get a web host can “afford” such cheap servers.
Thus, a more affordable alternative is to go for shared hosting. It may not be cheap, but most people can afford it.
May 23rd, 2006
We have disabled the Mchat, Cgiecho, Cgiemail, Guestbook, Counter and Formmails from CPanel’s system wide cgi-sys directory. The are the most commonly exploited scripts since they are in the same location on every CPanel server in the world.
We have learned our lesson that it is better take the side of security rather than convenience. If you are using these scripts, they might not work anymore. We will provide you with alternative scripts to replace them.
May 16th, 2006
Since register_globals is disabled on the servers for security purposes, some of your scripts and Fantastico installs might not work properly. However, you can enable it on your individual accounts thru .htaccess.
All you need to do is edit your .htaccess in the root folder of your account (or create one via the File Manager if none exist).
Place the ff. line of code in it:
php_flag register_globals on
That’s it.
May 16th, 2006
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