Overview Your terminal is a command-line interface to your hosting account on the server. It provides a quick, efficient means to make permission changes, edit files, and even run services like MongoDB and node.js. Terminal access is provided with certain qualified packages. Logging In Terminal access follows general login guidelines: Login consists…
By default, the panel will perform an IP check to ensure a hostname maps back to the configured IP address before issuing a certificate. This is true for both initial requests and automatic renewals. Automatic renewals occur 10 days before expiration. Both the panel and API allow you to circumvent…
Yes, hosting platforms v4.5+ and beyond support multi-domain certificates through SNI (server name indication). In order to use a multi-domain certificate, you will need to purchase a corresponding multi-domain/”UCC” certificate from the accredited SSL authority. What is SNI? With SNI, multiple domains co-exist on a single certificate making it suitable…
Overview v5+ and above platforms support Let’s Encrypt certificates within the control panel. Let’s Encrypt is a free certificate authority that provides free trusted certificates accepted by all modern browsers. Let’s Encrypt certificates may be issued within the control panel under Web > SSL Certificates. Let’s Encrypt has a few limitations: Only 100 hostnames…
Overview Accessing a website, protected by SSL, yields a “mixed-mode” notice or the SSL indicator displays different than normal. Mixed mode encountered on a website using Firefox Cause SSL is designed to protect data transfer from third-party snooping through encryption. By accessing a resource over a non-encrypted stream (e.g. including an image…
Overview Newer hosting platforms, v6+, support multiple Ruby versions through rvm. This enables you to run multiple versions of Rack and Rails using any available Ruby interpreters. Currently, versions 1.8 to 2.2 are supported. Important: Avoid using 1.8, except to shim an older application with an intent to upgrade. 1.8…
Overview On newer v6+ platforms with support for multiple Ruby interpreters, installing a gem may fail resulting in a similar error message: [user@sol ~]$ gem install –no-rdoc –no-ri passenger rails Fetching: passenger-5.0.6.gem (100%) ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don’t have write permissions for the /.socket/ruby/gems/ruby-2.1.2 directory. Cause The…
Overview Ruby on Rails is a web application framework built on the Ruby programming language. Older hosting platforms (< v4.5) support up to Rails 2. Newer platforms before v6 support Rails 3. v6+ platforms support Rails 2-4+ and Ruby 1.8-2.2+ using rvm. Need a migration to a newer platform to support…
Overview Jekyll is a lightweight blogging platform written in Ruby. Jekyll compiles into a static site with no dynamic endpoints, making it extremely secure and fast. Posts are written using Markdown syntax. A basic Jekyll blog Quickstart Login to the terminal Select a Ruby interpreter to use. If you would…
Discourse is a popular forum software written in Ruby. Because Discourse relies on Docker, which is incompatible with the platform, installation must be carried out manually. A larger is recommended to run Discourse as each worker is approximately 200 MB. Getting Started Installation is done within the Terminal. Checkout the…