The Chase Clicks advertising network is an Exclusive Affiliate Network, Premium Ad Marketplace, and Real-Time Traffic Exchange. It began in 2001 and was officially launched under the Chase brand in 2005.

The advertising network has grown into one of the world’s most premium online advertising channel and serves ads on thousands of websites and delivers millions of impressions a day to users all over the world with site-level transparency.

The ad market currently spans the internal Chase Ideas media and content network, and a large but select inventory of hand-picked publisher web properties and traffic channels.

The company was founded with a few key goals in mind. To bring transparency to the online advertising industry, help both publishers and advertisers generate higher revenues and ROI than traditional advertising methods, and establish high volumes of quality traffic for our advertisers and media buyers.

Chase Clicks is looking to establish strong and profitable partnerships with the industry’s leading media buyers, compliant email marketers, social marketers, PPV marketers and PPC marketers.

Network staff is always available on AIM, Skype, Phone, or Email, and our team maintains personal connections with all our affiliates, no matter what their traffic volume or earnings level.

Internet marketers, affiliates, and webmasters… run some traffic with Chase Clicks and experience the difference! Advertisers, purchase traffic and clicks to your website or brand with the Chase Clicks Ad Market & Traffic Exchange!

Online, it is crucial for your visitors to know that the connection is secure. To encrypt the connection to your website, SSL certificates are commonly used to establish a secure connection. Webmasters may buy SSL certificates to secure their website from web hosting companies who sell offerings from premium vendors such as GeoTrust, Verisign, and others. Apache recommends Web Host With Us for buying SSL certificates.

Setup SSL Tutorial teaches you how to generate and setup a SSL certificate.

Assuming you have apache and openssl installed, you would like to generate and setup an SSL certificate for a domain and generate a CSR.

First, Generate the RSA & CSR (Signing Request)

[root@chevelle root]#
[root@chevelle root]# cd /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key

Generate the RSA without a passphrase: Generating a RSA private key without a passphrase (I recommended this, otherwise when apache restarts, you have to enter a passphrase which can leave the server offline until someone inputs the passphrase)
[root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key]# openssl genrsa -out yourdomain.key 1024

Or, with a passphrase: Generating a RSA private key with a passphrase. You will be prompted to enter a passphrase right after you hit enter.
[root@chevelle/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key]# openssl genrsa -des3 -out yourdomain.key 1024

You should generally NOT generate the RSA private key with a passphrase if you have scripts that restart apache automatically in case of a crash or otherwise. If there is a passphrase, Apache will just sit there and wait for the script to input the passphrase which means downtime, and downtime usually equals bad.

Next generate the CSR using the RSA Private Key

[root@chevelle/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.csr]# openssl req -new -key yourdomain.key -out yourdomain.csr
[root@chevelle/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.csr]# mv yourdomain.csr ../ssl.csr

You will be asked to enter your Common Name, Organization, Organization Unit, City or Locality, State or Province and Country.
Do not enter these characters ‘< > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ * / ( ) ?.,&’ because they will not be accepted.

Common Name: the domain for the web server (e.g. MYdomain.com)
Organization: the name of your organization (e.g. YUPAPA)
Organization Unit: the section of the organization (e.g. Sales)
City or Locality: the city where your organzation is located (e.g. Flanders)
State or Province: the state / province where your organzation is located (e.g New Jersey)
Country: the country where your organzation is located (e.g US)

You may be asked for an email address and a challenge password. I usually just hit enter.

Now you should have:
/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/yourdomain.key
/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.csr/yourdomain.csr

Be sure to always make a backup copy of your private key! If you lose it, you’ll have to purchase a new cert!

Now you need to submit your CSR to your provider and they will mail you the certificate. They usually also send you a confirmation email before the certificate is sent out.
Now that you have the certificate..

Installing the Certificate for Apache

[root@chevelle root]# cd /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt

Copy the certificate that they mailed you to yourdomain.crt
Open your httpd.conf file and place the following to your virtualhost

<VirtualHost 209.123.546.123:443>
- other config details-
SSLEngine  on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/yourdomain.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/yourdomain.key
</VirtualHost>

Restart apache
OPTION 1 [root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt]# apachectl restart
OPTION 2 (using the sh script) [root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

You may be asked to enter the passphrase IF you generated the RSA with a passphrase. If you do NOT want to be asked for a passphrase when restarting apache, re-generate your RSA key file.
[root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt]# cd ../ssl.key
[root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key]# mv yourdomain.key yourdomain.key.has-passphrase
[root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key]# openssl rsa -in yourdomain.key.has-passphrase -out yourdomain.key

And then restart apache again
[root@chevelle /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

Now you should be able to access https://yourdomain.com

From the Apache forums:

I’m posting this message for the benefit of other newbies like me.

Thanks to CHASE’s advice, I now have a very simple mail script that works:

<?php
$to = $_REQUEST['MyEmail'] ;
$subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ;
$greeting = $_REQUEST['greeting'] ;
$realname = $_REQUEST['realname'] ;
$HisEmail = $_REQUEST['HisEmail'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$headers = “From: $HisEmail”;
$send = mail($to, $subject, $greeting.”\n”.”\n”.$realname.”\n”.”\n”.$HisEmail.”\n”.”\n”.$message, $headers);
?>

In the BODY of the email that I receive, the script shows the person’s greeting (e.g., Ms.), name, email address, and the comments that he/she made.

As I improve the script, I’ll post the results for the benefit of other newbies like me. Suggestions are, of course, welcome. 

– Dr. T.

If you’re looking for a good developmental server for your work, or just for personal use, what better place than your workstation? It eliminates the need for uploading your work to a remote server and allows you to run your scripts and test your website in a server environment. You can even set it up to be accessible to the public, password protected, or invisible behind your firewall. 

Nowadays, it is easier than ever to get a complete web server setup on Windows. WAMP is a popular package combining the popular web server Apache, MySQL Database server, and PHP scripting language. The install takes a few minutes and is super easy; if you can click Next, you’re good. With a couple quick tweaks to your router and httpd.conf file you are ready to serve files to the web. The below steps will get you up and running in minutes, let’s get started!

First, download the WAMP install package from the WAMP homepage. Once you download WAMP, double click the exe and begin the install process.

Click Next to begin:

After agreeing to the WAMP license, select the destination location. Leave the default location as “c:wamp” and click Next:

Choose your shortcut options and click Next:

Review your installation destination is correct. Click Install and WAMP will begin the install process:

WAMP will extract and install itself. The process should only take a few seconds.

WAMP will prompt you to enter the SMTP server and email to be used by PHP to send emails. Leave the default SMTP value as “localhost”, put your email address in the Email field and click Next:

If you have Firefox installed, WAMP will ask you if you would like to use Firefox as the default browser with WAMP. This is a personal choice, so feel free to choose either “Yes” or “No.” I prefer to use Firefox for pretty much everythig so I click “Yes” and then click Next:

You will likely be prompted by Vista whether the Windows Firewall should allow or block the features of WAMP. You want to allow all of the features of WAMP, so click Unblock:

Congratulations, the installation process is complete. Yes, it was really that easy. Now click Finish and Launch WAMP now:

Open a browser and enter “127.0.0.1″ or “localhost” as the URL, and you will see a summary of the installation process:

There are a few more configuration changes you must make to use WAMP. Firstly, open a port on your router and allow it to forward requests to WAMP. This will allow you to connect to your WAMP server from outside your local area network.

You will need to learn what your local area network IP address is before opening a port on the router. In order to do this, open Command Prompt by going to Start – Run, and typing “cmd”. It will open up a command prompt window.

Once in Command Prompt, type ipconfig. This command will show you your network IP information, we are interested in the IPv4 address and Default Gateway of your Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection.

Your address will be different from the one displayed. Write the IPv4 address and Default Gateway down and close the Command Prompt.

You are at the point where you can open a port on our router and forward requests to WAMP. The firmware for routers is different, so the directions are different for every router.  Connect to your router through the browser of your choice. Enter the Default Gateway address you wrote down above.

If you have a Linksys router enter http://192.168.1.1 into the URL bar. If you have a NETGEAR router enter http://192.168.0.1.

Once you are in your router’s control panel, you will have a location called something along the lines of “Port Range Forwarding.” You will want to create a new entry and call the application WAMP to easily identify the application that is using the port. Enter 80 for Start and End, choose Both for Protocol and enter your IPv4 address (my address was 192.168.1.123) you obtained form the Command Prompt as the IP Address. Choose Enable and click Save Settings:

You need to edit one more file before you will be able to access your documents from outside your local area network. Click the WAMP icon that has been added to the system tray, choose “Config files,” and select “httpd.conf”:

This will open httpd.conf in Notepad. You will need to edit the section called “Controls who can get stuff from this server.” Scroll down to this section (it’s a little less than half way through the file) and change the line that says “Deny from all” to “Allow from all” and resave the document:

Click the WAMP icon in the system tray and restart Apache:

Open a browser and navigate to “http://www.whatismyip.com” and find out what your IP address is. Now open a browser and enter “http://yourIPaddress” and you will be forwarded to your WAMP server whether you are inside or outside your local area network. Anything you put into your “c:wampwww” directory will be stored on your server. For example, if you copied all your pictures to “c:wampwwwpictures,” you will be able to navigate to “http://yourIPaddress/pictures” and all of your pictures will be available.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced that the first all-Arabic Web addresses are now online according to CNN. While this doesn’t seem like a big change for Western countries, this is significant to the global access of the internet.

Prior to this change, non-English speaking countries had to use the traditional .com, .net, .org or one of the other available Western suffixes. Now they will be able to use suffixes in their own language.

Foreign letters have been able to be used for the main part of the web address, however, the ability to use non-Western suffixes is just now reaching the market.

The First Of Its Kind

The first international suffix of its kind is the Arabic version of “.masr,” which means “Egypt.” While the western-typed version of .eg will remain, the Arabic version can be used in its place for Arabic speaking people. The change has been a long transition on the part of ICANN to include non-Western characters in the available domains.

At this time, Chinese and Russian characters have yet to be included in the change. However, over twenty countries in eleven different languages have applied to be included. As more countries join in, more websites will make the transition to continue to reach the growing population of internet users.

Need To Purchase A Domain?

Whether you are looking to purchase new domains or transfer your old domains, FatCow’s web hosting team can assist you. Contact FatCow to secure your site’s domain today, whether you’re on the Western or Eastern hemisphere, check us out!

Domain names are a valuable commodity, whether you know it or not.  They have been bought and sold over the past couple decades, sometimes going for millions of dollars, but why is this?  The domain name that you choose for your website will have a profound impact on your site’s marketability in several different ways.  The name you choose for your site will affect your search engine optimization efforts, as well as the number of visitors you can retain.

Domain Names and SEO

Before you decide on a catchy domain name, you should consider using your website’s targeted keywords in the name.  If you don’t know what those are yet, you had better start researching.  Search engines give a lot of extra weight when ranking a site for a specific keyword if the keyword happens to be in the domain name.  SEO takes a lot of time to perfect, and by adding keywords to your domain name you can get a leg up on the competition.

Domain Names and Repeat Business

When you are brainstorming domain names, short names are best.  If a domain name is short, people will tend to type it directly into their URL bar when they want to visit your site.  How many times do you use Google to get to Amazon.com?  If your domain name is too complicated, it will be hard for your visitors to remember.  Unfortunately, the internet has been around for a long time and it might be hard to come up with an available one word domain name in your niche.  This means that you might have to choose an unrelated one-word domain name.  If you are willing to put in the work to promote your site, this will not hurt you in the long run.  It will only slow you down a little.  This might be a sacrifice you will have to make if you are trying to create a viral website.

Combination of the Two

When you are able to get a short, search engine optimized domain name for your site, you get the best of both worlds.  It can be very hard to come up with something that hasn’t already been taken, but it is worth the time and effort if you can come up with something.  Even if you never use the domain name, you can make a pretty penny by selling it to the highest bidder.

Domain names will have more of an impact on the amount of traffic that your website receives than you could ever imagine.  It is time well spent to invest several hours in the creation of your site’s domain name.  If you can come up with a good domain name, it will be the first big step in getting your online business known. When you are shopping for web hosting, look for companies like FatCow that offer a free domain name!

Among the tons of spam all across the net, and blatantly-promotional “review” sites out there, there are a few good, quality web hosting services review sites out there. We would like to highlight that one of the most quality web hosting services reviews websites we know of is QualityWebHostingServices.com.

On it, users can submit web hosting reviews, comment and rate existing web hosting reviews, chat with other web hosting users, and otherwise share real-world hosting company experiences with other users. In fact, this is what makes this hosting review site truly shine above the rest. The rankings of the web hosts aren’t just static web pages simply arranged for the best conversions. These are actual user rankings and reviews!

If you already have a web hosting plan and just want to browse what’s out there, or you’re actively shopping for a new web host, there is something for everyone. Feel free to spend a few moments browsing and leave your reviews for your past web hosts.

It may come in handy to know how to check the CPU temperature of a server over SSH from time to time. It is nice to know how to check the vitals of a system quickly and easily. Use the following command to check what the current temperature reading of the processor of your server is over a SSH session or via any other terminal window:

cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature

*The command may vary slightly depending on your system configuration. If you need help, ask in the comments are and other visitors or Apache.com staff may help answer your question.*

SSH is a necessary tool in any server admin’s arsenal. It is the main way you will be interacting with your servers whenever you are performing system tasks such as install, updates, etc. SSH allows you to remotely connect to your server and command it via the shell. Below is a list of commands you will use commonly while working with your server.

I prefer the popular SSH client Putty, but any SSH client will do.

Common SSH Commands or Linux Shell Commands,
ls : list files/directories in a directory, comparable to dir in windows/dos.
ls -al : shows all files (including ones that start with a period), directories, and details attributes for each file.

cd : change directory · · “cd /home/username/” will navigate to /home/username/ directory
cd ~ : go to your home directory
cd - : go to the last directory you were in
cd .. : go up a directory cat : print file contents to the screen

cat filename.txt : cat the contents of filename.txt to your screen

chmod: changes file access permissions
The set of 3 go in this order from left to right:
USER – GROUP – EVERONE

0 = —  No permission
1 = –X  Execute only
2 = -W-  Write only
3 = -WX  Write and execute
4 = R–  Read only
5 = R-X  Read and execute
6 = RW-  Read and write
7 = RWX  Read, write and execute

Usage:
chmod numberpermissions filename

chmod 000 : No one can access
chmod 644: Usually for HTML pages
chmod 755: Usually for CGI scripts

chown: changes file ownership permissions
The set of 2 go in this order from left to right:
USER – GROUP

chown root myfile.txt : Changes the owner of the file to root
chown root.root myfile.txt : Changes the owner and group of the file to root

tail : like cat, but only reads the end of the file
tail /var/log/messages : see the last 20 (by default) lines of /var/log/messages
tail -f /var/log/messages : watch the file continuously, while it’s being updated
tail -200 /var/log/messages : print the last 200 lines of the file to the screen

more : like cat, but opens the file one screen at a time rather than all at once
more /etc/userdomains : browse through the userdomains file. hit Spaceto go to the next page, q to quit

pico : friendly, easy to use file editor
pico /home/burst/public_html/index.html : edit the index page for the user’s website.

File Editing with VI ssh commands
vi : another editor, tons of features, harder to use at first than pico
vi /home/burst/public_html/index.html : edit the index page for the user’s website.
Whie in the vi program you can use the following useful commands, you will need to hit SHIFT + : to go into command mode

:q! : This force quits the file without saving and exits vi
:w : This writes the file to disk, saves it
:wq : This saves the file to disk and exists vi
:LINENUMBER : EG :25 : Takes you to line 25 within the file
:$ : Takes you to the last line of the file
:0 : Takes you to the first line of the file

grep : looks for patterns in files
grep root /etc/passwd : shows all matches of root in /etc/passwd
grep -v root /etc/passwd : shows all lines that do not match root

ln : create’s “links” between files and directories
ln -s /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd.conf : Now you can edit /etc/httpd.conf rather than the original. changes will affect the orginal, however you can delete the link and it will not delete the original.

last : shows who logged in and when
last -20 : shows only the last 20 logins
last -20 -a : shows last 20 logins, with the hostname in the last field

w : shows who is currently logged in and where they are logged in from.
who : This also shows who is on the server in an shell.

netstat : shows all current network connections.
netstat -an : shows all connections to the server, the source and destination ips and ports.
netstat -rn : shows routing table for all ips bound to the server.

top : shows live system processes in a nice table, memory information, uptime and other useful info. This is excellent for managing your system processes, resources and ensure everything is working fine and your server isn’t bogged down.
top then type Shift + M to sort by memory usage or Shift + P to sort by CPU usage

ps: ps is short for process status, which is similar to the top command. It’s used to show currently running processes and their PID.
A process ID is a unique number that identifies a process, with that you can kill or terminate a running program on your server (see kill command).
ps U username : shows processes for a certain user
ps aux : shows all system processes
ps aux –forest : shows all system processes like the above but organizes in a hierarchy that’s very useful!

touch : create an empty file
touch /home/burst/public_html/404.html : create an empty file called 404.html in the directory /home/burst/public_html/

file : attempts to guess what type of file a file is by looking at it’s content.
file * : prints out a list of all files/directories in a directory

du : shows disk usage.
du -sh : shows a summary, in human-readble form, of total disk space used in the current directory, including subdirectories.
du -sh * : same thing, but for each file and directory. helpful when finding large files taking up space.

wc : word count
wc -l filename.txt : tells how many lines are in filename.txt

cp : copy a file
cp filename filename.backup : copies filename to filename.backup
cp -a /home/burst/new_design/* /home/burst/public_html/ : copies all files, retaining permissions form one directory to another.
cp -av * ../newdir : Copies all files and directories recurrsively in the current directory INTO newdir

mv : Move a file command
mv oldfilename newfilename : Move a file or directory from oldfilename to newfilename

rm : delete a file
rm filename.txt : deletes filename.txt, will more than likely ask if you really want to delete it
rm -f filename.txt : deletes filename.txt, will not ask for confirmation before deleting.
rm -rf tmp/ : recursively deletes the directory tmp, and all files in it, including subdirectories. BE VERY CAREFULL WITH THIS COMMAND!!!

TAR: Creating and Extracting .tar.gz and .tar files
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz : Extracts the file
tar -xvf file.tar : Extracts the file
tar -cf archive.tar contents/ : Takes everything from contents/ and puts it into archive.tar
gzip -d filename.gz : Decompress the file, extract it

ZIP Files:  Extracting .zip files shell command
unzip file.zip

Firewall - iptables commands
iptables -I INPUT -s IPADDRESSHERE -j DROP : This command stops any connections from the IP address
iptables -L : List all rules in iptables
iptables -F : Flushes all iptables rules (clears the firewall)
iptables –save : Saves the currenty ruleset in memory to disk
service iptables restart : Restarts iptables

Apache Shell Commands
httpd -v : Outputs the build date and version of the Apache server.
httpd -l : Lists compiled in Apache modules
httpd status : Only works if mod_status is enabled and shows a page of active connections
service httpd restart : Restarted Apache web server

MySQL Shell Commands
mysqladmin processlist : Shows active mysql connections and queries
mysqladmin drop databasenamehere : Drops/deletes the selected database
mysqladmin create databasenamehere : Creates a mysql database

Restore MySQL Database Shell Command
mysql -u username -p password databasename < databasefile.sql : Restores a MySQL database from databasefile.sql

Backup MySQL Database Shell Command
mysqldump -u username -p password databasename > databasefile.sql : Backup MySQL database to databasefile.sql

kill: terminate a system process
kill -9 PID EG: kill -9 431
kill PID EG: kill 10550
Use top or ps ux to get system PIDs (Process IDs)

EG:

Each line represents one process, with a process being loosely defined as a running instance of a program. The column headed PID (process ID) shows the assigned process numbers of the processes. The heading COMMAND shows the location of the executed process.

Putting commands together
Often you will find you need to use different commands on the same line. Here are some examples. Note that the | character is called a pipe, it takes date from one program and pipes it to another.
> means create a new file, overwriting any content already there.
>> means tp append data to a file, creating a newone if it doesn not already exist.
< send input from a file back into a command.

grep User /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf |more
This will dump all lines that match User from the httpd.conf, then print the results to your screen one page at a time.

last -a > /root/lastlogins.tmp
This will print all the current login history to a file called lastlogins.tmp in /root/

tail -10000 /var/log/exim_mainlog |grep domain.com |more
This will grab the last 10,000 lines from /var/log/exim_mainlog, find all occurances of domain.com (the period represents ‘anything’,
– comment it out with a so it will be interpretted literally), then send it to your screen page by page.

netstat -an |grep :80 |wc -l
Show how many active connections there are to apache (httpd runs on port 80)

mysqladmin processlist |wc -l
Show how many current open connections there are to mysql