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The following PHP programs are installed at our servers including PHP Nuke:

PHP-Nuke
Post-Nuke Content Management
Invision Forum Board
OS Commerce 2.2 Cart
phpLinks
PHPauction
phpWebSite & 4images Gallery
PHProjekt
RedHat Interchange Cart
phpBB Forum
Xoops Portal System
b2 (Weblog)

You can Instantly activate these programs from your control panel.
Every account hosted with us also has access to these programs/scripts.

Yes, also we support the following PHP Progrmas:

Post-Nuke Content Management
Invision Forum Board
OS Commerce 2.2 Cart
phpLinks
PHPauction
phpWebSite & 4images Gallery
PHProjekt
RedHat Interchange Cart
phpBB Forum
Xoops Portal System
b2 (Weblog)

We recommend that you always host your asp/.net application in your domain's root directory. You can infact create a sub domain to host each of your applications. If that is not possible, you must open a ticket specifying which folder in your domain must be created as an application directory.

If you host a .NET or ASP application (that has a global.asa file), it must be hosted in an application directory. The root directories of all domains are application directories by default

ASP.net allows the developer to encode the page using character sets other than unicode. If your ASP.net page containing foreign characters does not render properly when served from our webservers, you may need to change the FileEncoding setting in the web.config file.

<configuration> <system.web> <globalization fileEncoding="<code page>" requestEncoding="<code page>" responseEncoding="<code page>" culture="en-US" uiCulture="de-DE" /> </system.web> </configuration>

For more information on code page, please review these articles:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/getWR/steps/wrg_codepage.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/cscp.htm

Make sure to include the following code at the top of every ASP page:

@ Language=VBScript CodePage = "1256"

1256 is your codepage LCID.


To find out your locale id (LCID) , please visit:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/882ca1eb-81b6-4a73-839d-154c6440bf70.asp

See also:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/sql_arabicsupport.asp

Hoststore.net has set up tutorials on our online support center for uploading your files using the most famous FTP and Web publishing softwares.

Please go to the Tutorials Section to view the tutorial for your Web publishing method.

No we do not offer installation of custom COM components. Custom COM components can degrade our service level, since we cannot ensure that the custom component will not cause crashes, exhaust server resources, and/or be malicious.

No, We bill month to month based.

SSH is similar to telnet, but it's more secure. It uses high level encryption and compression to make sure nobody can takeover or eavesdrop on your telnet session. Due to to the security risks associated with providing SSH accounts, we do not enable SSH access by default.

No, we do not register any custom or 3rd party DLLs or ActiveX controls apart from those supported on our website. This policy is in place in order to ensure a stable windows hosting experience for our customers

The following domain extensions can be registered through HostStore.net:

.com
.net
.org
.info
.biz

Please note that HostStore.net do not register local domain names. You have to find a local registrant inorder to register your local domain name.

For Windows Accounts Please follow the instructions at the H-Sphere Menu Guide.

For Linux Accounts Please follow the instructions at the cPanel 7 User Guide.

"HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error" is one of the most uninformative error messages. In general, this error indicates a bug in the code.
Internet Explorer has a feature that blocks the true error message from displaying. In order to display the true error message, follow the instructions below:

1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Goto Tools --> Internet Options
3. Goto Advanced Tab
4. Uncheck Show Friendly Error Message
5. Click OK

Reload the page, you should now see a more detail error message.

In general, 2 different methods can be used to connect an ASP.net application to MySQL database.

· Using ODBC .net data provider
· Using a MySQL native .net data provider

We only provide support for using ODBC .net data provider to connect to MySQL.

Our servers do not have any MySQL .net data provider installed because of the lack of standardization in this market. If you prefer to use native drivers to connect to MySQL, you can upload the data provider to your bin directory.

Here is a list of available MySQL .net data providers

ByteFX MySQL Driver:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqlnet/

Core Lab MySQLDirect .NET Driver:
http://crlab.com/mysqlnet/

eInfoDesigns MySQL .NET Data Provider:
http://www.einfodesigns.com/products.aspx

1.Open Outlook or Outlook Express.

2.On the Tools menu, click Accounts.

3.Select the email account you wish to modify and click the Properties button.

4.Click the Servers tab.

5.Under the Outgoing Mail Server Heading, Check the My server requires authentication check box.

6.Click the Settings button.

7.In the Logon Information dialog box, click to select the Use same settings as my Incoming Mail server option.

8.Click the OK button until the Internet Accounts dialog box appears, and then click Close.

9.Exit from Outlook or Outlook Express. The next time you start Outlook or Outlook Express the new settings will take affect.

This is a specific issue on Windows 2003/IIS6 servers. What happens is that any shared host creates application pools within IIS6 to host certain x number of websites. Each server may have several application pools and all websites on the server are divided among these pools. When a customer's website calls session.terminate within any application pool, all session variables are lost within that pool.

The only real solution to this issue (which is highly recommended by many developers and Microsoft themselves) is to use database session management. Here you can store all session related data in a local database. If you are unable to implement this solution, we can try working on something unique for you (such as moving you to a Win2000 server). Please open a ticket for that. However it is highly recommended you rework your website's code to incorporate these changes

In order to display error messages on a remote machine, you must set the Custom Errors Mode in your Web.Config file to On.

This error occurs because we only support the free version of ASPEmail and not the Premium version. We however do support the premium version of ASPMail which offers similar functionality. Please visit www.serverobjects.com for documentation on ASPMail

First: make sure that your data types of your database fields are (nchar, nvarchar, and ntext).

Second: Remember that the use of the "n" prefix to represent Unicode data in both string literals and data types.

SQL Select Statement example:

SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Myfield = N' "& Searching_Criteria &" ' ; "

SQL Insert Statement example:

INSERT INTO MyTable (Myfield ) VALUES ( N' "& My_Value &" ')


SQL Update Statement example:

UPDATE MyTable Set Myfield = N' "& My_Value &" '


For more information about Multilingual Transact-SQL please read the following MSDN article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/intlfeaturesinsqlserver2000.asp

If your ASP.NET file is returning a parser error, it is most likely caused by incorrect code.