Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded

Fix:

If you get this error you will need edit config.default.php inside phpmyadmin and look for this line

$cfg[’ExecTimeLimit’] = 300;

and replace with 0 or any larger value

$cfg[’ExecTimeLimit’] = 3600;

If that doesnt work, try this BigDump MySQL Importer. It is free for download.

If you have commandline SSH access, and your SQL file is in gzip format use this superfast command to import large gzipped mysql databases

gunzip < dbname.gz | mysql -u Username -p dbname

Always consider GZIP to export and dump large mysql databases as it has better compression than ZIP formats.

Although NAS is not fully fault tolerant, its a very primitive form of backup and the one disadvantage is should the hosting providers network go down you wont be able to move your backup to another host. You have to wait until your host network is up and running. I would suggest evault which is one of the cheap and reliable fault tolerant backup distributed over different locations and servers. If you have a dedicated server then NAS should cost about $5/mon and $10/mon for evault.

Here i will demonstrate how to store and retrieve files with Network Attached Storage (NAS) from commandline.

Step: 1
Get NAS ip address with user name and password from your hosting provider.

Step 2: If you have any firewalls(APF or CSF firewall) running, you have to unblock the following TCP/UDP ports 137,138,139,445

Step 3:
Connect through FTP and store files. You just need to know the basic knowledge of ftp commands from linux commandline.

ftp <11.22.33.44>
Username:
Password:

Then,

(i) switch off prompt

ftp> prompt
Prompt off

(ii) Switch to binary mode

ftp> binary
BINARY mode ON

(iii) Store backup files using put

Then transfer files to remote NAS with put

put source-file [remote-destination]
put /mybackup.tar.gz /backups

(iv) Retrieve backup files using get
Similarly to retrieve backup file from remote use get

get source-file [destination]

Note: [remote-destination] is optional

(iv) To FTP transfer (store/retrieve) Multiple files at once use mput or mget with asterisks.


mput backup* /backups
mget backup* /backups

(vi) To list remotely stored files in FTP use nlist

nlist /backups

Good luck!

With Backups YOU can SLEEP with Peace of MIND

../../bins/zziptest.c: In function ‘main’:
../../bins/zziptest.c:76: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
make[3]: *** [zziptest.o] Error 1

To fix:

install the latest version of zziplib.0.13.49. It nicely fixed the above problem. It will be under zziplib-preview file name.

Note that zziplib requires zip and its header files, so before you compile and make it install zip package. yum install zip zip-devel

By default apache runs as nobody (means anybody from inside same shared host can read your php files) and installing suphp makes php to run under the user account ownership. 777 permissions to folders can also be avoided.

NOTE: suPHP needs PHP installed as CGI not as apache module.

Download suPHP from suphp.org

Then

tar zxf suphp-current.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install

If you get error like

configure: error: APR is needed to build mod_suphp for Apache 2.x but was not found

APR => Apache Portable Runtime

To fix:
=========
yum install apr

./configure --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config

Once this is done you have to modify httpd.conf and

LoadModule suphp_module modules/su_php.so

Thats it and restart httpd

Here is an easy way to accomplish transferring backup files from one server to another in linux. Just simple command using SCP (secure file copy)

scp -C -P portnumber local_filename root@your.ip.address:destination_file

Example:
scp -C -P 2929 backups.tar.gz root@IP.ADDRESS:/home/backups/

-C is compression to speed up transfer.
-r is for recursive
-P is your SSH port number (default ssh port 22)
[If you are running SSH other than default port you will need to specify this]

NOTE:
Dont forget that if you are running a firewall (CSF or APF) make sure that your unblock port in your EG_TCP_PORT (outbound TCP port) in your local host.

Colocation

You have to buy server equipment and the co-location service provider gives you all internet facilities in their location like internet connection, safety of your equipment, surveillence and more.. Further the software and administration your responsibility. Simply put take your server hardware equipment from your home/office to your co-location providers office and fit it there. It is generally expensive!

Dedicated

You dont buy server hardware equipment, instead your webhost will give all necessary hardware for monthly rent. And ofcourse, it could be managed or unmanaged one depending on the costs.

Hope you now understood the difference between the two!

Be sure to include the below statement in your named.conf
I am assuming that you are running Bind9 or later version in your VPS or dedicated server.

zone "example.com" {
type master;
file "example.com.db";
}

$TTL 14400
$ORIGIN example.com.

; Specify the primary nameserver ns1.example.com in SOA
@ 14400 IN SOA ns1.example.com. webmaster.example.com. (
                                2008092902 ; Serial in YYYYMMDDXX (XX is increment)
                                10800; refresh seconds
                                3600; retry
                                604800; expire
                                38400; minimum
                                );
; Website IP Address specified in A record

       IN A 11.11.11.11

; TWO nameserver names

       IN NS ns1.example.com.
       IN NS ns2.example.com.

; Nameservers and their corresponding IPs

ns1  IN A 11.11.11.11
ns2  IN A 22.22.22.22

; Specify here any Aliases using CNAME record

www IN CNAME example.com.
ftp IN CNAME example.com.

; Set Mail Exchanger record with priority

mail IN MX 10 example.com.

How to test the DNS server?

Just goto the following sites, enter the domain name and you will see the test results.

http://www.intodns.com (free)
http://www.pingability.com (free)
http://www.dnsstuff.com (paid)

Good luck!

If your ISPs DNS server is down which often causes “connection timed out” or host unreachable and this problem may be for for hours until gets fixed by your ISP. Its significantly speeds up fast loading of website.

Alternative….is go for other third party dns resolving service. Its not only fast and

Its OpenDNS.com Its free!

Just register get the

two ip addresses

and you will need to enter that in your network settings.

Double click on your internet connection > Properties > TCP/IP Settings > Alternative DNS Servers

OR

Goto > Start > Control Panel > Network > Your ISP connection > Properties > TCP/IP

Finally the advantage is…

- Speeds up loading of websites you surf!
- You will be able to access websites when your ISPs DNS is down

I am using opendns and its way faster than my ISPs DNS service (BSNL dataone)

By default the mysql root password is blank and this is a big security issue and you have change the mysql password as soon as possible. If that is not done anybody could login with phpmyadmin with username root and password blank. You also must avoid to login phpmyadmin with mysql root password. Instead you must create a new user (to phpmyadmin) with same privileges as mysql root.

First change the mysql root password

mysql > update user set password=password('XXXXX') where user='root';
Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 3 Changed: 3 Warnings: 0
mysql > FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Thats all! you have changed your mysql root password. All you have to do is login to phpmyadmin with username as root and password as new password.

Create a new phpmyadmin user

Now we will create a new administrator login (say sysadmin) for phpmyadmin which will have same privileges as mysql root.
Its just one line command;

mysql> GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'sysadmin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

then

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Now you can login to phpmyadmin as new administrator and avoid using root logins. You can create databases, change or insert or edit tables or do whatever you want!

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server.

To fix:

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf

Remove or comment the first two lines in bold.


#Order Allow,Deny
#Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1


Restart the apache server.

service httpd restart

Once this is done, you should be able to see phpmyadmin working by pointing your browser to http://ipaddress/phpmyadmin

This method worked for me and leave a comment here if there is an issue.