Archive for the 'PlusNet' Category

Magic ADSL



Over the past few weeks, for the first time ever, my ADSL connection at home started to play up. Nothing major, the modem would loose synchronisation momentarily (1 or 2 seconds) every few hours and then resync - Windows remained perfectly oblivious to this activity and carried on as if nothing had occured.
Past experience […]

Getting started on PlusNet CCGI



This is a guide intended to cover the basics of PlusNet’s ccgi server and it’s perculiarities. It is not a guide to cover installation of any specific package, although the information here can be used to successfully install packages such as PhpBB, WordPress, Gallery and many others.
Activation
By default you do not have any CCGI […]

Webserver On A Stick



Every now and again some bright spark comes up with a simple idea that really does rock.
Like many people I’m sure, I work on Windows 99% of the time. However much you want to knock Microsoft, it really is still the platform of choice for most purposes. In my case, I’ve little choice anyway, […]

PHPBB Temporary Email Fix



This is for PlusNet customers having problems with ’sendmail’ on the new CCGI server. The linked file fixes the problems associated with mail not being delivered.
The file for PHPBB 2.0.16. It may or may not work for earlier versions.
The single file enclosed in the ZIP file is to replace {boardroot}/includes/emailer.php , I strongly […]

Pointing PlusNet domain at ccgi



This article describes the procedure required to point your domain fully at the PlusNet ccgi server, where you are then able to run PHP without strange URLs outside your normal domain name.
At the end you will have both http://{domainname}.co.uk and http://www.{domainname}.co.uk pointing to the ‘ccgi’ server. You will only have 1 place to […]