Draggar's really basic VPS hosting questions..

[Mark Talbot]

I was talking about at no extra cost and also without justification such as a signed form where you certify you need them and explain why, and have an costly SSH certificate for each IP as required by places like Hostgator. Old plans which had a lot of IPs I believe are grandfathered in but not if you go with a new or upgraded server.

Ok I know what you are saying now. I have had mine for years, and havent had to sign anything to get or keep them, probably cause I have had them so long. But I dont use hostgator, so I dont know their policies.

 

[draggar]

Consider you are working at McDonald for $8 an hour.
Is it worth your time and effort?

Unless you consider to work for the Red Cross or United Way - then ignore my question.

I'm seeing that now. How long should it take for new nameservers to be active and I'm able to point domains to it?

Hang in there - once you get it all set up, you'll be rolling. Don't be afraid to pester the heck out of support. They are used to new user needs.

I am. I think I'm about to log my 4th ticket - and that's with me combining tickets.

Are you sure they gave you 12 IP's? I would be surprised since most all hosting firms (even dedicated server) only allow a few IPs (usually 1 or 2, sometimes up to 5) due to a severe worldwide shortage of numbers.

It looks like it. When I ping a site that is working it shows up as the IP address that I have it assigned to.

 

[draggar]

I need to change the actual directories for themes in SMF - the old host was /usr/www/virtual/(name)/(site)/(location)

How can I find out the actual directory structure since I can't seem to get an actual root FTP connection?

 

[Mark Talbot]

I need to change the actual directories for themes in SMF - the old host was /usr/www/virtual/(name)/(site)/(location)

How can I find out the actual directory structure since I can't seem to get an actual root FTP connection?

Can I ask a stupid question?

Why install smf in your root directory since you have it redirected as indicated in a post further back?

Do you mean in the root of a domain account?

And if you do, why cant you setup an ftp account in the domain account cpanel?

 

[draggar]

For some reason SMF needs to know where the actual templates are compares from the root. When you do a fresh install this isn't a problem but when you move form host a to host b you might have to change it.

In the control panel for SMF it has this for the theme's directory (from the old host):

/usr/www/virtual/draggar/(website)/(SMF folder)/Themes/default

I'm going to look though their plugins to see if there is one that does this.

\I found this which does the trick:

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Repair_settings.php#Download

 

[Mark Talbot]

OK. good deal.

I was going to suggest a fresh install, and then just import the theme over using smf, and backingup the database and reinstalling it using cpanel.

But you beat me too it