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How to Prevent Breaking your Live Website with the Staging Feature What is Staging? The staging environment is a copy of your production site where you can preview any changes or upgrades before you use them on your production website. This avoids any downtime or unexpected errors on your live website. The Staging Tool makes the process easier and efficient The brand-new... How to Determine your Server's IP Address In the case that your server carries multiple IP addresses, it is important to know which one is your primary one. The Primary IP is the one your system uses to make requests, which means Softaculous will use it to determine and verify your license. If it is not correct, then your license may not work properly,... How to Access Softaculous in cPanel Softaculous is a powerful script Autoinstaller that allows you to install over 400 of the most popular web applications and scripts available in just one click. Softaculous is automatically preinstalled with all our web hosting, VPS, and dedicated server plans. In order to access your Softaculous license from... Official Softaculous Documentation Softaculous is a great Auto Installer - having 447 great scripts, 1115 PHP Classes and always adding more. Softaculous is ideal for Web Hosting companies and it could give a significant boost to your sales. These scripts cover most of the uses a customer could ever have. They cover a wide array of categories so that... Can not find /var/softaculous Error: softaculous: plugin disabled: Can not find /var/softaculous Installer may still be running, check install.log Fix: This fix is only for InterWorx, other control panels will probably vary. Go into the var folder: cd var Make the Softaculous folder: mkdir softaculous Set... INFO.XML not found This error usually occurs when script packages are missing. If you have a firewall, then make sure to allow access to *.softaculous.com domains to be able to download all packages. If your firewall is blocking access to Softaculous domains, then the script library will not be able to function or update properly.... Softaculous Error Message: Installation cannot proceed You cannot install more than one Softaculous-based script into your account’s root directory. If you try to do so, you will get the following error message: ----- Installation cannot proceed because the following files already exist in the target folder: - .htaccess - includes - index.php - media... What is Softaculous? Softaculous is a script library that automates the installation of web applications to your website, including blogs, shopping carts, and full-featured content managers. All you have to do is install the script, one per directory, using the easy directions provided for each one. Go ahead and try them out –... What is an Automatic backup? A backup is a system that copies your data - your files, pictures, folders, etc - into an archive that can be used to restore them to their original state. By creating an automatic (and regular) back up system, you don’t have to worry about backing up your data manually. These can be performed through cronjob... A Comprehensive Guide to Content Management Systems (CMS) A Content Management System (CMS) allows for the creation, modification, and storage of digital content, usually in terms of creating websites. The most popular CMS (by far) is WordPress, however, there are a lot of other CMS solutions available for use, each with its pros and cons. We’ll explain more about... Using Softaculous scripts While Your Domain is Still Propagating Some scripts automatically incorporate your domain name from your hosting account’s settings. If your domain name’s propagation has not yet been completed, you may experience temporary issues after installing one of these scripts. While the script will automatically generate page and image links using...