Email: How do I set up a signature in webmail? Answer:
First, login to webmail with your email address and password @ http://webmail.brownrice.com
Click the "Settings" Tab
Click the "Identities" tab, then click your email address on the ...
SmartVPSs: How do I use an .htaccess file? Answer: Create a new text file on your computer and save it as ".htaccess" (with the leading dot and without the quotes)
Whatever directives you are entering ...
Email: What are my email server settings? Answer: Your email server addresses are:
Incoming (IMAP and POP3) server: mail.brownrice.comOutgoing (SMTP) server: mail.brownrice.com
You'll also want to turn SMTP Authentication on to send email from anywhere.
Outgoing Server Name ...
SmartVPSs: How do I administer my SmartVPS? Answer: Brownrice Managed Virtual servers (SmartVPSs) are powerful machines that can be fully administered via the Brownrice Dashboard at http://dashboard.brownrice.com. A short list of some of ...
Site Building: How do I create a custom "Not Found" page? Answer:
Create a new text file on your computer and save it as ".htaccess".If you are creating the file from scratch, simply type the following line ...
Site Building: Please explain my web site visit statistics. Answer: Learning to read log files and stats is one of the most important aspects of running a web site. With tools such as the statistics ...
SmartVPSs: Do the brownrice servers support mod_gzip? Answer: In Apache2 - which is the web server Brownrice uses - mod_deflate has replaced Apache 1.3's mod_gzip.
mod_deflate is loaded and enabled on all of our ...
SmartVPSs: How do I upload my web pages to my web site? Answer:
So you've created a few web pages on your computer but you don't know how to get them onto your web site. What do you ...
Email: How to convert a POP account to IMAP account Answer:
IMAP email accounts are much better at syncronzing email between devices (your desktop computer, smart phone, and webmail) than POP accounts. Additionally, Brownrice Advanced Spam ...
SmartVPSs: How do I change the document root for my website? Answer: What is the Document-Root?
This is the directory where your site lives, and where you should put your index.php or index.html file. The default settings are ...
SmartVPSs: What should I do about these AutoTune Alerts? Answer: AutoTune notices are just informing you of site "slow-downs," not outages. And these occasional Load Average spikes, or Web Server Connections being maxed out, are ...
SmartVPSs: How do I redirect an alias domain to an internal folder, another address, or my Answer: Add any of the code below to an .htaccess file in the "docs" folder within your web site. i.e.
docs/.htaccess
Redirect to a subdirectory:
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/test/
RewriteRule ...
SmartVPSs: How do I get a free SSL certificate for a domain alias? Answer: The short answer is that we don't support SSL certificates for aliases. However, you can still totally get this done. Here's how:
If you already set ...
SmartVPSs: How do I setup DNS? Answer: Here's how to add your domain to the Brownrice DNS servers:
With an email address that is associated with Brownrice hosting account login to our Dashboard:http://dashboard.brownrice.com
First ...
Email: What should I use for my SPF record? Answer: If you are hosting your email on the Brownrice servers than you'll likely want to login to our Dashboard and enter this TXT record (the ...
SmartVPSs: How do I set up a new web site on my SmartVPS? Answer: Here's how to setup hosting for a new web site or subdomain to be hosted on your SmartVPS
You can add as many web site hosting ...
