Although you can still use FastCGI, DreamHost now recommends using Passenger to deploy and host Ruby on Rails applications on DreamHost servers. Enabling Passenger: To enable Passenger, edit any of your fully hosted domains or add a new domain from the Manage Domains area of the web panel. Check the “Ruby on Rails Passenger (mod_rails)?” [...]
Making a custom error page with DreamHost is easy. DreamHost servers have built-in special file names that, if present in your domain’s root directory, will load automatically when a visitor gets a particular error message on your website. Here are the special file names: failed_auth.html – for Error 401 – Failed Authorization forbidden.html – for [...]
PhpBB is one of the most popular free message board applications, and Dreamhost offers it as a “one-click” install from your web panel. Like other database dependent web scripts, phpBB can drain server resources — especially on popular sites. Here are some tips to help optimize your phpBB forum on Dreamhost (though, the tips will [...]
While Dreamhost offers it’s customers an easy way to prevent hotlinking via the web panel, that method is only suitable for basic websites and beginner webmasters that don’t already rely on .htaccess for URL rewriting and other applications often used in CMS / blogging software. Also the web panel method to prevent hotlinking doesn’t provide [...]
Hotlinking occurs when a website directly accesses, rather than links to, a file (like an image, or video) on a remote site. In other words if you have an images on your website and other webmasters choose to display those images on their own sites (rather than link to them) it could end up costing [...]
Many web scripts, like blogs and CMSs use and display the time. The problem is that without modifications, the time displayed will be that of the Dreamhost server you are on which is US West Coast time. If you would rather have your scripts run and display your local time you can modify your .htaccess [...]
PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a common server-side scripting language. If you are working with web scripts, like WordPress, Joomla, Pligg, etc. — then your site is probably using PHP. For advanced users and those that like to break modify scripts, knowing what PHP versions and modules are available from their host may be important. PHP [...]
Dreamhost accepts a variety of payment methods, and is probably one of the most flexable hosts I have ever encountered when it comes to billing. Dreamhost accepts the following credit cards: Visa MasterCard American Express Discover Diner’s Club Carte Blanche Additional payment methods available include: Debit Cards (with Visa or MasterCard logo), Personal Checks, Money [...]
If you are looking to see if a particular Perl module is installed on your DreamHost server, you can do so by logging into your shell account, and then enter the following (replacing “Some::Module” with the name of the module you are searching for): perl -M Some::Module -e0 If you want to know all of [...]
Q. Where are my stats on my Dreamhost account? A. To log into your stats just go to: http://yourdomainatDH.com/stats (replacing yourdomainatDH.com with your own domain name). Q. What’s my user name and password for Dreamhost stats? A. Your username is your main Web ID and can be found under Web Panel > Stats – click [...]