Applications

Wordpress upgrade to the newest version

Servage recommends to keep the WordPress up to date. The reason for that is that the WordPress developers find and fix bugs, add new features, and hunt down security vulnerabilities on a regular basis. These changes are then released in a new WordPress version. You find a detailed overview of the improvements on e.g. THIS (https://www.wpbeginner.com/category/news/) page. Servage makes it very easy for you to upgrade your WordPress (and other applications which are installed via our application...

Application Installer

Our Application Installer gives you the chance to install advanced applications with few clicks only. - log in to your Servage account - go to domains and websites -> Application installer - push the button "Install New Application": - Choose the domain or subdomain where you want to install an application (Attention: if there already files under that domain or subdomain, they will be overwritten!): - scroll down and find several categories such as "Popul...

Customized error pages

An error page is often returned when a visitor attempts to access a page that doesn’t exist on your site. The two most common reasons a visitor gets e.g a 404 error are: They mistyped the Web address (URL) of the page they were trying to reach; or They followed a link to a page that no longer exists on your site. In order to avoid the standard error pages, you can set up your customized error pages via your Servage hosting account with few clicks only: - log in to your Servage account ...

Install Wordpress manually

- Step 1 Download the WordPress package to your local computer from http://wordpress.org/download/. Unzip the downloaded file to a folder on your local computer. - Step 2 Upload WordPress to Hosting Account There are three available options for uploading WordPress to a hosting account: - Upload via File Manager - Please see File Manager section under Files option in Control Panel for more information. - Upload via SSH - Please see SSH section under Files option in Control -...

Free website builder

Our free website builder will help you to create html pages and provide you with some designs and way to customize your own webpages. To install the tool, follow this guideline: - go to Domain and Website -> Sitebuilder - click on "Install on new domain": - a new window open where you can choose the domain or subdomain where you want to use the site builder: - choose the free version of the website builder and click the green button "INSTALL" - complete the ord...

Find the initial application data

When you install a tool via the application installer, you see information about the path, the username, the password and the adminstration path. Please write these details down on a save place to have them available. If you should have forgotten these details, you can see them in your control panel: - go to Domains and Websites > Application installer - push the button "Manage" - you find the initial application data

How to uninstall an application

In order to make a remove an installation which was made via the Servage application installer, follow the following steps: - log in to your Servage account - go to Domains and Websites > Application installer - push the button "Manage" for the location where you want to uninstall: - a drop down menu opens, choose "Uninstall" - confirm that you want to uninstall the application (if you want to, you can create a back up of the files and database) As soon as the process...

Where to find the application information

If you installed an application via our application installer, you can find the relevant information for that app via the following procedure: - go to "Domains and Websites" - navigate to "Websites" - click on the grey button "Manage": - choose "Show Info" from the drop down menu - a new window opens with plenty of information related to the application:

Install Pear & Mail (SSH)

Client needs to use it to send mail via SMTP in php. It is not present server wise, but you can manage pear packages trough ssh for their account, or just upload the libraries manually In all of our SSH accounts, PEAR's "package manager" is now installed and all siters PHP.ini now have a default inclusion that means that no paths need to be corrected to quickly get started, for example. send email via SMTP in PHP. Install PEAR + Mail 1. Start by logging in to your SSH account (The account cre...

MODx - 503 message

There could be faulty include path in config.core.php You will need to update the db settings and local paths in these files: public_html/config.core.php public_html/core/config/config.omc.php public_html/core/cache/system_settings/config.cache.php This seems to be what is needed to get MODx to work (if one has defined it with absolute paths to folders etc)