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Help: Hosting applications

Our FreeBSD hosts have a number of application installed, a full list of apps can be found by running the following UNIX command:
pkg_info
If what you are looking for is not there you can contact our support team and they will consider installing it.

All system installed applications are monitored by the FreeBSD security team and we make sure any vulnerable applications are kept up to date with the latest patches.

Below you can information on how to use certain applications.

phpbb: Bulletin board software

Requirements: Hosting account with SQL.
You can check the version installed with the UNIX command:
pkg_info | grep phpbb

Installation and configuration: please contact our support team for instructions on how to use this.


phpAdsNew: Advert serving and management software

Requirements: Hosting account with SQL.
You can check the version installed with the UNIX command:
pkg_info | grep phpAdsNew

Installation and configuration: please contact our support team for instructions on how to use this.


WordPress: Personal publishing software (blog)

Requirements: Hosting account with SQL.
You can check the version installed with the UNIX command:
pkg_info | grep wordpress

Installation and configuration: In order to use this piece of software you will have to:

  1. Copy the file /usr/local/www/data/wordpress/wordpress-config-sample.php to wordpress-config.php in your home directory.
  2. Edit the file wordpress-config.php and update the MySQL authentication credentials.
  3. Symbolically link the directory /usr/local/www/data/wordpress to a directory within your website directory structure. For example
    ln -s /usr/local/www/data/wordpress ~/www/blog
    will configure wordpress to appear in the /blog location of your website.


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