DirectAdmin

Managing your hosting through DirectAdmin: domains, email, databases and file access.

47 guides in this section.

How to Access Your Email From DirectAdmin Webmail lets you read and send mail from your Noiz mailbox in an ordinary browser, with nothing to install and...

How to Add a Subdomain in DirectAdmin A subdomain is an extra name in front of a domain you already host, separated by a dot. If your site is...

How to Block a Domain Using Spam Filters in DirectAdmin If the same spammer keeps mailing you from a stream of throwaway addresses that all share one domain, blocking...

How to Block an Email Address Using Spam Filters in DirectAdmin If one particular sender keeps mailing you and you want the messages stopped at the server rather than in your mail...

How to Block Emails by Size Using Spam Filters in DirectAdmin DirectAdmin lets you reject incoming mail that is larger than a size you choose, using the SPAM Filters tool in the...

How to Block Emails by Stop Word in DirectAdmin This guide shows you how to block incoming mail that contains a particular word or phrase, using the Stop Word option...

How to Change a Database Password in DirectAdmin Changing a database user's password is one of the fastest ways to lock an attacker out of a compromised site, and it...

How to Change an Email Account's Disk Quota in DirectAdmin Every mailbox on a DirectAdmin hosting account has its own disk quota, which is separate from the disk space of the...

How to Change an Email Account's Password in DirectAdmin Changing the password on a mailbox is one of those jobs that is easy in the panel and then catches people out...

How to Change an FTP Account Password in DirectAdmin FTP accounts are the credentials that let a person, a design agency, a deployment script or a backup plugin write...

How to Change the Email Sending Limit in DirectAdmin Every mailbox on a DirectAdmin account carries a send limit: a cap on how many messages that address is allowed to...

How to Change the PHP Version via CloudLinux Selector in DirectAdmin The CloudLinux Select PHP Version tool lets you change the PHP version your websites run on, from inside your...

How to Check or Optimise a Database in DirectAdmin Databases pick up two kinds of wear over time: internal inconsistencies that make queries return errors, and wasted...

How to Create a Domain Alias in DirectAdmin A domain alias lets a second domain name serve the same website as your main domain, while keeping its own name in...

How to Create a Domain Pointer in DirectAdmin A domain pointer lets a second domain name send visitors to a site you already host. If your primary domain is...

How to Create a MySQL Database in DirectAdmin Almost every dynamic website needs a database behind it. WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Laravel and most custom PHP...

How to Create a New Database User in DirectAdmin A database user is the account your website or application uses to log in to MySQL/MariaDB. Creating a database on...

How to Create an Email Account in DirectAdmin This guide shows you how to create a new email account (a mailbox) on a Noiz hosting plan that uses the DirectAdmin...

How to Create an FTP Account in DirectAdmin Your main DirectAdmin username and password already work as an FTP login, and that login lands in your home directory...

How to Create and Download a Full Backup of Your Account in DirectAdmin DirectAdmin lets you package your entire hosting account into a single compressed archive and download it to your own...

How to Delete a Database in DirectAdmin This guide shows you how to permanently remove a MySQL or MariaDB database from your hosting account using the...

How to Disable Apache SpamAssassin in DirectAdmin This guide shows you how to switch off Apache SpamAssassin for your DirectAdmin account on Noiz hosting. Disabling it...

How to Download a Database Backup from DirectAdmin DirectAdmin lets you download a copy of any MySQL or MariaDB database on your hosting account straight from the...

How to Download Email, FTP, or a Database-only Backup from DirectAdmin DirectAdmin lets you back up part of your hosting account instead of all of it. If you only need a copy of your...

How to Enable Apache SpamAssassin in DirectAdmin Spam filtering is not switched on by default for every domain, and a mailbox with no filtering in front of it will...

How to Enable ionCube Loader Using the CloudLinux Selector in DirectAdmin ionCube Loader is the runtime component that allows PHP to execute files protected by the ionCube Encoder. If you run...

How to Enable or Disable PHP Extensions Using CloudLinux Selector in DirectAdmin PHP does very little on its own. Almost everything a real application needs (image resizing, encrypted archives,...

How to Enable or Disable PHP's allow_url_fopen Using CloudLinux Selector in DirectAdmin allow_url_fopen is the PHP directive that decides whether your code may treat a remote URL as though it were a local...

How to Enable or Disable PHP's display_errors via CloudLinux Selector in DirectAdmin PHP's display_errors directive decides whether PHP writes its warnings, notices and fatal error messages into the...

How to Enable the GD Extension of PHP Using CloudLinux Selector in DirectAdmin GD is PHP's built-in image processing library. If a site needs to resize an upload, generate a thumbnail, stamp a...

How to Enable the Mailparse PHP Extension Using CloudLinux Selector in DirectAdmin Mailparse is a PHP extension for reading email messages and splitting them into their component parts: headers,...

How to Increase or Decrease PHP Memory Limit via CloudLinux Selector in DirectAdmin On Noiz DirectAdmin hosting that runs CloudLinux, the Select PHP Version tool lets you raise or lower PHP's...

How to Increase PHP's post_max_size Value Using CloudLinux Selector in DirectAdmin On Noiz DirectAdmin hosting that runs CloudLinux, the Select PHP Version tool lets you raise or lower PHP's...

How to Increase PHP's upload_max_filesize Value Using CloudLinux Selector in DirectAdmin upload_max_filesize is the PHP directive that sets the largest size a single uploaded file may be. Anything bigger is...

How to Modify a Database User's Privileges in DirectAdmin Database privileges control what a MySQL or MariaDB user is actually allowed to do inside a database: read rows,...

How to Redirect Your Website Using DirectAdmin A site redirect tells visitors' browsers, and search engines, that a page or an entire website now lives somewhere...

How to Remove a Backup File in DirectAdmin Backup archives that you generate yourself are written into your own account, inside a folder named backups in your...

How to Remove a Domain Alias in DirectAdmin A domain alias makes a second domain name serve the exact same website as your main domain, without a second set of...

How to Remove a Domain Pointer in DirectAdmin A domain pointer in DirectAdmin lets a second domain name serve the same website as one of the domains already on...

How to Remove a Redirect From Your Website Using DirectAdmin A site redirect sends visitors who request one address on your domain to a different address instead. If you created...

How to Remove a Subdomain in DirectAdmin A subdomain is a separate section of your website that lives under your main domain, such as shop.yourdomain.com or...

How to Remove an FTP Account in DirectAdmin An FTP account is a login, not a folder. Removing one withdraws a set of credentials from the server so that nobody...

How to Remove Email Spam Filters in DirectAdmin Spam filters in DirectAdmin are blocking rules that reject unwanted mail before it ever reaches your mailbox. Over...

How to Rename an Email Address in DirectAdmin Renaming an email address in DirectAdmin changes the part of the address in front of the @ sign, so...

How to Repair a Database in DirectAdmin A database repair is the first thing to try when a site backed by MySQL or MariaDB starts throwing table errors after...

How to Restore a Previously Generated Backup in DirectAdmin This guide shows you how to restore a backup you previously generated in DirectAdmin on your Noiz hosting account....

How to Suspend an FTP Account in DirectAdmin An FTP account you no longer want in use does not have to be deleted. DirectAdmin lets you suspend it instead, which...