Web Hosting How-To Articles, Help and Information at Web Hosting Plus

Articles and Help pages in this section:

Email, SMTP, POP3/IMAP and Exchange

• What is SMTP?
• What is a POP or POP3 mailbox?
• What is the difference between POP3 and IMAP4 mail?
• Why can't I send email?
• How do I filter out spam or junk email?
• How do I configure email using Outlook Express?
• How do I set-up a mailbox in Thunderbird Mail?
• How do I set-up email in Apple Mail?
• How do I set up an Exchange mailbox in Outlook 2010?
• How do I set up an Exchange mailbox in Outlook 2011 for Mac?

iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

• How do I set up POP3/IMAP email on an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad?
• Why am I Unable to Send Email from an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad?
• How do I sync Sent, Draft and Deleted mail items with IMAP folders on iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad?
• How do I set up an Exchange mailbox on an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad?
• How do I choose which Exchange mailbox folders to push to an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad?
• How do I choose how many days of Exchange mail to sync with an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad?

MySQL Databases

• What is a MySQL database?
• How do I connect to my MySQL database using CGI?
• How do I upload my MySQL database?
• How do I query a MySQL database from a PHP script?
• How do I grant permissions to a MySQL standalone user?
• How do I backup my MySQL database?
• How do I create a MySQL database?
• Is there a graphical interface available for MySQL?

MSSQL Databases

• How do I backup and restore my MSSQL database?
• Can I use Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to manage my MSSQL database?
• Can I connect to a MSSQL database from my linux shared hosting account?

Miscellaneous Database

• Can I use Access Databases on my web hosting package?
• What are valid database connection strings on the Windows platform?

PHP Scripting

• What is PHP?
• Why isn't my custom php.ini working?
• What are the correct file permissions for a PHP file?
• Can PHP5/PHP4 code be put in files with the .html/htm file extension?
• What file extensions can run PHP?
• How do I connect to another database on another server from my PHP script?
• What version of PHP does Web Hosting Plus run?

Perl Scripting

• What is Perl?
• What permissions do I need to set CGI scripts to?
• How do I set permissions on files and scripts?
• Why does my script produce a 'file permissions error'?
• CGI scripts fail with 'exec format error'
• Why does my CGI/Perl script fail with an error 500 (Internal Server Error)?
• Where do I put CGI or Perl scripts? Do they have to be in a specific directory?
• How do I upload a CGI script to my web space?

Python Scripting

• What is Python?

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

• What is FTP?
• Why can't I connect with FTP?
• Why can't I see the images on my website?
• Why have the images on my website been corrupted?
• How do I connect to the web server with Dreamweaver?
• How do I publish my website with Adobe GoLive?
• How do I connect to the web server via FTP with Mac OS X?
• Why can I not see my uploaded website?

Ruby on Rails

• How do I set up Ruby on Rails?
• Why does my Ruby on Rails custom installation return 404 errors?

ASP Scripting and ASP.NET

• What is ASP?
• ASP Built-in Objects
• How do I connect to MySQL with ASP?
• Database connections from ASP fail with 'Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server'
• Do you support ASP.NET?

Web Technologies

• How do I set-up Real Audio HTTP streaming?
• What is Java?
• What is JavaScript?
• What is Linux?
• What are cookies?
• What is WAP?
• What is PING?
• What is Traceroute?
• What is NSLOOKUP?

WordPress Hosting

• How do I install and set-up WordPress?
• How do I set-up trackbacks in WordPress?

Miscellaneous

• Why does access to all files result in '500 Internal Server Error' messages?