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.

Third party hosting

You can use your domain with any third party hosting company by following the instructions to change hosting provider. Some third party services do not provide their own DNS service, in general SpaceReg does not support these services because it is not possible to provide a service level agreement for a service (SLA) we dont contol. However, if you contact support we may offer unofficial (without SLA) support. Some such services are listed below.

mobileme: Online storage service

This is a service for your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC offered by Apple to store all your information online in one place. It is possible to associate this service with a domain name. However, in order to so certain DNS records need to be setup (Apple do not provide DNS services). We will setup the required CNAME records.