Just a little sharing. Here is the solution for cpanel addon and park domain problem. Let say I have a hosting account has been already added with an addon domain, example addondomain.com to the root domain for the web hosting account, rootdomain.com. I’ve however deleted it from Cpanel, and tried to add it again but failed. Addon domain error shown:

Error from park wrapper: addondomain.com is controlled by another user. You cannot park it.

After that, I tried to also add this domain as parked domain to see whether it works or not. But also getting the same error.So, what is actually the reason and why this happened?

Currently, my server is using the current Cpanel version, cPanel 11.25.0-R46156 – WHM 11.25.0 – X 3.9.

One simple reason is that the domain is not fully removed from the server system. Even there is no account shown inside our Cpanel area, but the logs, settings are still not removed from it. We need to fully remove it from the server system so that we are able to add it back nicely.

So what should we do?

The solution is simple. If you are only the web hosting account user, simply contact your web hosting server admin to do it for you (if they did not know how to do it, simply refer them this post for a simple reference. But, if you are the owner of the server, here are ways to recover add on and park domain not working problem.

Basically, we need to remove all the domain configuration on the server, which include:

1. /var/lib/named
2. httpd.conf
3. /var/cpanel/users
4. /etc/userdomains
5. /etc/localdomains
6. /etc/named.conf

To make you easier, just login your web server root access via SSH, and follow the command above. In my example, I am using domain.com as my example, so you can change it with your problematic domain.

1. #rm -f /var/lib/named/domain.com.db
2. #pico /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (remove addondomain.com, example : “DNS1=addondomain.com” and save it back)
3. #pico /etc/userdomains ( delete the lines of “domain.com: username” and “domain.user.server1.yourcpanel.com: username” related to your domain)
4. #pico /etc/localdomains (delete “domain.com” and “domain.user.server1.yourcpanel.com”)
5. #pico /etc/named.conf ( delete the record zone of the domain. exanple: zone “domain.com” {type master;file “/var/lib/named/domain.com.db”; }; )

After all these has been removed, kindly login back to your WHM account, go to ‘DNS FUNCTIONS’ > ‘Delete a DNS Zone’, and delete the addon domain that is still exist on the server (if any).

The last step is to update your domain users from the server console. To do it, just simple login back to your SSH account and proceed with this command:

• #/scripts/updateuserdomains

That’s all. Kindly try back to add the domain via your Cpanel. Please note that renaming, or commenting on the domain entry will not work. You will have to completely remove it in order  to make it working back.

If you do need help, hassle free to contact me via Contact Me form. I will be happy to assist.

Hi! You must probably reached here after getting error of importing your WordPress xml file, or have problem to transfer your big wordpress blog to another hosting. Today I’m doing a wordpress blog transfer and found a difficulty along the process. I have done all the necessary process, which are:

1. Creating a backup file of previous WordPress blog (login to ‘wp-admin’>’Tools’>’Export’ )
2. Copied all the ‘wp-content’ folder.
3. Installing new WordPress file into new hosting environment.
4. Replace the ‘wp-content’ folder with the backup one.

Now it comes to the part of importing back the previous xml backup database that I created in Step 1. It was a total of 18.7Mb file, but while I click on the Import area (login to ‘wp-admin’>’Tools’>’Import’ ), I found that the limit for importing file is only 8MB! What the heck! It was half than the original file generated.

I tried to upload it back but failed, and getting this error message;

Sorry, there has been an error.

File is empty. Please upload something more substantial. This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini or by post_max_size being defined as smaller than upload_max_filesize in php.ini.

Solution to import bigger WordPress XML file into WordPress blog

I always hate to do complicated solution to solve this lame error. Configuring Php.ini and .htaccess did not solve this mystery. Well, not anymore. Google is always the sifoo. Found another trick to help those who also getting the same problem with me.

I found an application that can split large xml file into smaller files, which called WordPress Splitter program. It can split file, example, 8Mb of xml file, into 8-20 smaller xml files which less than 1Mb per file respectively.

WordPress Splitter program require you to install Virtual Basic 6 runtime. All you need to do to perform splitting operation are:

1. Download and install Virtual Basic 6 runtime. Just click on install and next, next until finish.
2. Download WordPress Splitter program, extract the file using Winrar, and run WPsplitter.exe.
3. Select the xml file that you want to split and click ‘Open’.
4. Done! Your file will be extracted on the directory you keep your xml files.

I’ve used the WordPress splitter to split my 18.7Mb xml backup file created, into 21 files, and then upload them one by one to ‘wp-admin’>’Tools’>’Import’, and..

All done. Have fun!

All has been successfully imported. Got the idea? Hope this helps. Anything just let me know, leave me comments.

I rephrase, can you actually earn money online? I am quite sure most people nowadays believe in make money online. But, does this method applicable to you? Yes, YOU!

Making money online is not as easy like what ebook promoter mentioned to you. As what you all know, money is not free. Likewise, earning money online also requires lots of constrain, creativity and a non-stop efforts to earn even a single cent. Offline or online, both of them have advantages and disadvantages to you.

Now let us see what’s good when you make money online:

• No traffic jams and do not require to go to office, save fuel, energy and costs
• Able to proceed with business even at home
• Does not require to meet clients
• Have more free time to spend with family, and for recreations
• No stress from your employer or partners

But how about working normal as other people do?

• Earn salary at the end of each month
• Fixed amount of salary with commissions each month
• Easily able to apply loans or credit cards (since your payslips are from reputable company)
• Office hours or shift working hours
• Free of mind not to develop something new since all you need to do is work.

Both of them have pro and contra. As for me, I am still young, so I choose to try both of them first. Time will decide which best for one. How about you?

Thought that Google celebrate Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary just by a logo? Check again while the giant web Google today doodle itself to a Pac-Man’s japanese release game and accessible on top of the main page. It’s a full 255 level game with complete 256 ‘kill screen’ just like the original game.

Pac Man was a game made by Toru Iwatani, created as way for Namco originally designed to appeal to women, instead of the game industry involvement only to men and couples.

It’s the first interactive doodle by Google, the idea of senior user experience designer, Marcin Wichary, now working with Google doodler, while Ryan Germick to finishing it’s design.

“[We] made sure to include PAC-MAN’s original game logic, graphics and sounds, bring back ghosts’ individual personalities, and even recreate original bugs from this 1980s masterpiece.” – Marcin Wichary

Google even changed  “I’m Feeling Lucky” button into “Insert Coin”. It’s historically fun!

If you are the blogger enthusiast, it must be frustrated to have blogs with too much spam unapproved comments, and it might get even upset with blogs attacked with frequent non-stop spam comments. Well, for me i do received thousands of spam comments pending awaiting for moderation and have no time to empty them all, and this happens everyday, or even every hours.

Full of unapproved comments

WordPress comment spam attack is definitely automated and all URL address or email pointed are all different, and it is kind a hard to blacklist them since the will be appear different every time. Luckily I managed to get a way to remove all comments in just a single click via PhpMyAdmin. Thanks to Google for revealing this method

Here let me share you what you can do to delete all WordPress comment spam via PhpMyAdmin.

First, Login into your PhpMyAdmin area. If you are using Cpanel, try log in to your Cpanel area (http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel) and click to the PhpMyAdmin icon. You will get directed into the PhpMyAdmin.

Now is the time to clean up the spam comment in moderation. In the PhpMyAdmin area, select your wordpress database (example: wordpress_hanep.org, the database in which your wordpress linked to), and click on the ‘SQL’ tab.

At the empty form provide, copy and paste this to the form and click ‘Go’

delete from wp_comments where comment_approved = ’0′

As you can see, this will run a clean up process to any comments under moderation, that are still unapproved yet.

PhpMyAdmin area

Now try login your WordPress Admin and see if there is still any comments awaiting moderation. PhpMyAdmin took only a click away to bulk wordpress comment clean up. This surely works!

Alternatively, you can use some WordPress configuration tweaking to disallow WordPress spam comment no more by log into your WordPress Admin (http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin), then go to ‘Settings’ > ‘Discussion’ and CHECK ‘Users must be registered and logged in to comment’ option. With this method, anyone who want to post a comment must register first before able to comment at your blog. And to get more strict enough to your blog, you can disable comment option by disabling registration at ‘Setting’ > ‘General’ and UNCHECK ‘Anyone can register’. If there two steps are done, no one will able to comment after all!

Also, if you choose to enable comment area but to completely avoid spam comments, you can choose to use CATCHA feature to your wordpress blog by installing wp-reCATCHA plugin, which helps you to secure your comment environment effectively.

Well, this post actually written future my future references. If you find this useful, do leave me a comment.

It has been almost a month I’m using P1 Wimax as  an alternative to Streamyx, should be enough for me to blog about it. To be honest, I’m not a fan of any broadband service providers. I am a high end user, who need to always get connected since I ate, blog, develop webs, learn, read, socialize, slept, and most of all , make money online.

I need to daily check emails, send and receive money, and also to gain infos. What good is there are alternatives that might get us connected. You can use Streamyx, P1 Wimax,  3G connection, free wireless, and more alternatives to online. Last time on March 28th I’ve succesfully be a P1 Wimax subscriber for the first time, with 2 years contract and FREE Wiggy USB Portable modem.

Enlisted here are my experiences that I wish to share with you guys about P1 Wimax, together with my own rating;

Speed Satisfaction (3/5)

For the moment, I do satisfied with the speed. I’ve tested and getting 800kbps up. It’s good to surf by the way.

Though I heard claims that connection is worse at the highly density users coverage and raining days, nor weak signals from the central point. The claimed does not work for me. I do manage to get good connection for the moment, even during heavy raining days lately. Upon raining I switched off Streamyx and started to move to P1. There is however quite weaker signals received.  I’m living in the heavy density coverage area (based on P1 Google Earth density addon showed by one of P1 Agent), but managed to still get the best connection so far.

Stability (2/5)

Can’t comment much on stability. Like what I mentioned above, the connection is good. But that was the time when I am able to log in. There are also time when I cannot log into the internet at all, and it happens few many times already.

A good example is NOW, I can not connect. Tried to plug the USB modem in, but keep getting the window’s sound of insert/eject USB. I’ve just used the modem for 1 month, and ONLY used it few times, does the modem broken already? Haven’t tried on other PC yet.

Customer Service & Support (4/5)

This surely better compared to our main internet provider in Malaysia. P1 does good in term of service. They maybe had learnt from previous competitor’s experience. P1 customer service is actually small, but yet able to do the task good. When I first sign up for P1, I filled up a form, and minutes later, I am able to start using it without having to wait 24 hours, nor 7 days for so called ‘activation’ with charges everywhere.

Coverage Areas (1/5)

Too bad for the coverage areas. An example, for the moment, there is no P1 coverage at Malacca except at Tampin (why tampin?). The same goes to other countries. Even it does not fully covers the whole KL area yet. I just moved to Kelana Jaya but getting no connection at some place. Do check for your area coverage availability if you wish to subscribe for this.

Billing Payment & Systems (3/5)

P1 online billing method made easy to make payment. Once subscribed, you will be able to login into your online billing system and make payment there via bank transfer or credit cards . The payment process is so easy (same like paying TNB online), unlike our main internet provider’s procees which have multiple inconvenient system and hard to process payment online through their billing system, even though have multiple service centres and kiosks.

The bad thing is P1 just have there is only few centres available for us to pay offline. I do felt easy to make payments online and I wish that P1 should consider accepting Paypal as one of alternative method to accept payments online.

This entry is specially dedicated to my experiences with P1. However, I repeat, I am not a fan of any internet service provider instead being a fair user. Well, this is my complete rating based on what experienced so far, so do not take it straightly. Differ people differ thoughts.

So to P1, this entry specially towards your service. Any discount for me?

p/s : And for TM Streamyx, I do hope for an improvement in systems especially TMBill for customers to pay online. TNB and P1 online portal system should be a good example. And please, stop hiring fully-table-usage web designers. We’re not 1998 anymore.

P1 Wiggy is a friend of mine

Just got new friend – Wiggy. Remember my earlier post that I will subscribe for an internet mobility alternative? Now I choose P1 Wimax to be mobile. I do preferred Streamyx much with uncapped bandwidth, stabe and much faster, with TM’s upcoming UniFi HSBB that speeds up to 100Mbps. Since that Streamyx isn’t actually mobile, P1 Wimax should be an alternative for those who always want to get connected.

P1 Wiggy unboxed

P1 Wimax does have it’s own pro and contra. It’s the 4G technology that can speed up to 70Mbps around the 50Km radius wireless coverage. I subscribe for P1 Wimax Wiggy 800kbps plan costly RM69 per month. Speed test here at Section 7, Shah Alam can get around 812kbps and upload 300kbps. It is definitely an advantage compared to 3G Broadband which can offer speed up to 3.6Mbps (normally 384kbps). But well, the only bad news is that P1 Wimax is limited and covers certain areas only for this moment. Do check your areas with local vendors for coverage availability to subscribe.

Have your own experience with P1 Wimax? Do post it here

UniFi - a newly launched TM HSBB Project

TM finally launched it’s HSBB project and branded as UniFi (as per logo on the top image) at Merdeka Square yesterday evening. UniFi converged into 3 services, which is broadband, IPTV (video content) and telephony.

No pricing yet to be avail more, but for now, 3 packages offered which is speed at 5 Mbps, 10 Mbps and 20 Mbps. Pricing may starts from RM149  to RM 300. This added UniFi on top of Streamyx since Streamyx only offered at 4 Mbps maximum at the moment. For IPTV, streaming content allocated 8 Mbps for this purpose in addition to the broadband package. At this speed, I believed that there should probably be no interfering with the internet usage at all. An official price is expected to be released very soon.

Update : Below are the package pricing offered for the UniFi high speed broadband from TM :

• 5 Mbps – RM 149
• 10 Mbps – RM199
• 20 Mbps – RM249

Well, for me, IPTV is something that we’re looking forward. This is seriously interesting since Malaysia newly started to introduce video streaming with no buffers. It is seriously seen to be an TV operator alternative, with the recent announcement that it already has agreement with more than 20 content providers and expected to grow further.

UniFi is available at certain areas and still limited to 4 exchange area which is Shah Alam, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail (TTDI), Bangsar, and Subang Jaya. It is expected to expand to more that 48 exchange areas by the end of 2010.

Now let us see what’s hot with TM HSBB – UniFi!

UniFi is a long awaited high speed broadband service we are looking for in Malaysia. But deep inside my mind questioning, why it is named UniFi?

Updated : There will be no more bandwidth cap for UniFi!

Wake Up Sleepy Little Monster - Hanep.org

My truly latest honest blog update was on December 2009, but that was also not so much regular compared to the previous updates me to my blogs. Gosh! Busy scrambling me all the time. Not that I am getting busier but the time management and efforts doesn’t enough to make me spiritual enough to online.

Few years ago I am an active technology blogger constraining on blog network, reviews, text link advertising. Though that still remain but all get unmanaged plus with some of blog getting penalized (Google Pagerank) for no updates for months.

P1 Wimax

P1 Wimax Wiggy :  By today I will sign me up for a P1 Wimax broadband. I am a proud Streamyx and HSBB wannabe user, but somehow being an active blogger means that you need to be always connected. This seems a good choice for mobility by the way. I do think several times of getting P1 Wimax or 3G broadband services from Celcom, Maxis or Digi after considering that P1 Wimax are only available at certain areas. We can see that 3G network is available almost everywhere now. What happen if I want to get connected in rural areas?  What do you think of P1 Wimax as one of internet mobility alternative?

Mobile netbook - HP Mini

Netbook : Remeber one time that I dream of buying a netbook? Guess what, I delayed my dream for over 1 years!! It happens. I changed my mind after a little savings on getting a new car. The car was finally with me all the time rushing anywhere, but the dream of getting netbook is always there. TM staff package and Streamyx Cool Uni Pack are a good offer of internet with free HP Mini netbook, and I might consider of getting this one, probably soon..

Nokia E71

I’m a phone geek! Again, I changed my mind after buying a phone months ago. At first I brought Nokia 6200 Classic as an alternative to my Samsung Omnia phone. But then I get fed up with both phone, keep my Omnia at home, sell of Nokia 6200 Classic and get up Nokia 6303 Classic. After a month of usage, I sell it back to a friend of mine and insist upgrading into Nokia E71. I do not know how many times already I’ve swapped my phone, but that happens since I was using 3210 more than a decades ago, and this has becoming an addiction to a Tech savvy like me. Now that I’ve used Nokia E71 for almost 2 months up until now. Might consider to try Blackberry later on.

Dedicated Hosting

Premium Hosting for Premium Project : I found lots server from other web hosting provider getting down and unstable to hold hundreds of users. I do plan big on getting a highly specification server, hosted on an exclusively managed colocation environment, well maintained professionally, with popular control panel and supportive addons/extension. The most special thing about this project is that, all calculations has been done and there will only be few people per server especially for bloggers and people who really rely on making money online!. Malaysia datacenter is one of the greatest world class datacenter, and I am planning to prove this right. This is a long term project and probably will consume a lot money, but I am really exited on bringing this to Malaysia. Since when will we able to see the good performance hosting from Malaysia? You decide. Heh..

I found less productivity in blog network while leaving opportunities open. Lots of blog reviews and text link offer denied. But one time I get proud that one day when I checked into my mail box, I received an email from a person willingly pay me for a signature link removal from the WordPress theme I created years ago. That was the most grateful moment that my work finally appreciated when I almost forget about that theme I created while ago. It was too long for me to remember, but thanks to him, my spirit ‘Level’ increased back to jump into this world again.

“Madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity, all it takes is a little push” -  Joker, The Dark Knight

Yes, I do need a push.

p/s : HSBB is launching today. Waana join the club at Dataran KL?

Note: This is a sponsored post from the Credit Land

Why knowledge is power when choosing the best credit card?

Credit cards seems to be offered everywhere and easily to be find anywhere. There are many options you can find online. With various options, it can be hard to sort them thoroughly. If you are looking for a card, rest assured that you find one that is the good one, since you will be using it for a time.

Choosing the best credit card is a time consuming process, but however save you more time rather than getting one that may give you an unpleasant process which may consume difficulties in future. I am newly a credit card user, so this is what I find the best tip in finding the best credit card on the net.

First thing first, is to examine your situation. You may know exactly your reason of getting one, you much income you bring each month, bills you need to pay, and savings you set aside. Some may want a card for emergencies, and this will mix into your financing since the day you started to use one. Find one that is below your credit level. You will probably have a high credit score if you able to pay bills on time, yet low credit score if you recently filed for bankruptcy. However, get the idea where your credit stands online before applying for a credit card.

Knowledge is one thing that also important to determine your best selection. It will reflect how you can manage your financial. Try to look at some reviews and testimonials by the previous users. Comparison can somehow helps a lot in selecting the best credit card deal for you.

instant credit cards can be a life saver, but also can be a disaster for owner. If you choose and use it wisely, you can manage your finance effectively. That is why I explained the wise decision to select, and manage credit cards. Try to plan wise.