We get this question many times in the tickets. Most of the time, you will want to change file permissions to limit access to it. By default, on most web servers, the public directories have a 755 permission and the…
The possibility to access sites via IP/~USERNAME is enabled by default in DirectAdmin. If you want to disable this feature use: # cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild # ./build set userdir_access no # ./build rewrite_confs On our test server, the process is: [root@web…
As for the domains, the DirectAdmin GUI offers you the possibility to change the PHP version for a particular subdomain. How to change PHP version for a subdomain: 1. Log into your DA account 2. Go to Account Manager >>…
You can change the default port used by DirectAdmin via the directadmin.conf file by using the port=xxxx directive. This is a nice feature, as other control panels like cPanel do not offer this possibility. How to change the DA port…
Many times, web hosting owners are asking if a specific PHP extension is installed on the server or not. You can check easily with a simple PHP script. We will mainly use the get_loaded_extensions PHP function to get the list…
You might have some scripts that require specific PHP versions. DirectAdmin offers the possibility to install multiple PHP versions and select which version to run for individual sites. To change the PHP version for a site: 1. Log into your…