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DNS
Themes inc logo & favicon etc
Crawler alert
add users

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How to change 1&1 name servers

If you use Website Builder:

1. select [ Websites & Applications | Website Builder | Settings ]
2. Assigned domain = [--- none selected ---]
3. click OK

To change DNS name servers:
4. select [Domains | your domain | DNS | Edit DNS settings]
5. Name Server=[My nameserver]
6. Primary nameserver="ns1.drupalvaluehosting.net"
7. Secondary Nameser=[My secondary namesever]
8. Secondary nameserver="ns2.drupalvaluehosting.net"
9. click OK

How to Upgrade Drupal

1. Backup files - FTP client download www
2. Backup DB - [phpMyadmin | Export ] Save Structure, Data and Save to File.
3. Offline - /admin/settings/site-maintenance
4. Remove old Drupal - Use filemanager to delete contents of /www/
5. install new Drupal - unpack tar and FTP to /WWW
6. restore sites - use FTP to copy back sites/default/settings.php plus and multisites
6 run update.php

How to add a new site (multisite)

Assume new site: example.com

a. use registrars DNS to point name servers for example.com to ns1.drupalvaluehosting.com & ns1.drupalvaluehosting.com (allow up to 24 hours to propergate)

1. use cPanel | Domains | Parked Domains and created example.com
2. use cPanel | Files | File Manager to create /www/sites/example.com and /www/sites/example.com/files with write permissions (0777)
3. use cPanel | Databases | mySql Wizard to create database, user & give ALL permissions (take a note of details)

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