Update Awstats…Anytime You Want To!
A few of our clients have recently requested the ability to update their awstats via their browser. Before, Awstats simply updated once every 24 hours. As an Awstats user myself, I can appreciate how frustrating (or is that my impatience?) this may seem.
I’m pleased to announce that all clients may now update their awstats – wherever they want, whenever they want to! To do this, simply login to your cPanel, navigate to Awstats and click ‘Update now’ at the top of the page. With one click of your mouse, you will be able to access up-to-the-second statistics for your website.
Once again, HostedFX listens to what our customers want, and delivers.
HostedFX Introduces PHP5!
We now have PHP4 and PHP5 on all of our servers. Both versions have been installed side by side (PHP5 was added after) and because of this in your cPanel you will only see PHP4.
In order to utilize PHP5 simply save all of your files using the extension .php5
If you wish to use solely PHP5 and not PHP4, instead of having to save your files using the extension, simply add the following line to your .htaccess
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
And this way all of your files will default to PHP5.
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PHP 4.4.6 (cli) (built: May 11 2007 16:47:19)
Copyright © 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright © 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader v3.1.24, Copyright © 2002-2006, by ionCube Ltd., and
with Zend Extension Manager v1.0.9, Copyright © 2003-2006, by Zend Technologies
with Zend Optimizer v2.6.2, Copyright © 1998-2006, by Zend Technologies
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PHP 5.2.2 (cgi) (built: May 23 2007 17:30:43)
Copyright © 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright © 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
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I hope you’re as happy about this as I am 
Notice: WordPress 2.1.1 Vulnerability
I’m sure that many of you are users are WordPress. If any of you are using WordPress 2.1.1 it is vital that you upgrade to 2.1.2.
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.
It was determined that a cracker had gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers wordpress.org, and had used that access to modify the download file. We have locked down that server for further forensics, but at this time it appears that the 2.1.1 download was the only thing touched by the attack. They modified two files in WP to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution.
PHP5 Coming Soon!
This is just a notice to inform you that PHP5 will be installed onto our server within the next couple of months. I do not have an exact date as of yet, as the datacenter are working through all of the servers one by one (there are thousands!).
PHP will be version 4 by default as it has been. But you can use .php5 as the extension for any single file you want parsed with PHP5. If you would like all of your .php pages to parse as PHP5 exclusivly, you just add a line to your .htaccess file:
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AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
Else just leave it as it is, and make use of the .php5 extension
If you only wish to use PHP4 and all your sites are fine on PHP4 then you don’t have to do anything. Using PHP5 is completely optional as I have made sure that our current version (PHP4) will remain on the server exactly as it has been.
