By default, on a DirectAdmin server, you can access user accounts via http://hostname/~username and http://IP/~username. Via this way, a third party can find out the actual username of a user on the server. You might want to disable this option.…
Lighthouse is an audit tool for your webpage. It will report many different things related to Performance, Accesibility, Best Practices and SEO. You can generate a Lighthouse report online at https://pagespeed.web.dev/ , but you can also generste it from many…
Ping is a utility used to check whether a host is reachable. Ping will send ICMP echo request packets to the target host. According to Wikipedia, ping is: Ping is a computer network administration software utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It…
When running a Lighthouse test on your computer or online at https://pagespeed.web.dev/, you might get a message regarding the contrast of the text elements from your page: Lighthouse CONTRAST message CONTRASTBackground and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast…
Some PHP functions can be used in malicious ways. They are, of course, not malicious per se, but can be used for malicious things. DirectAdmin provides a simple way to disable such PHP functions. How to disable malicious PHP functions:…
PHP directives are PHP options that are usually configured in php.ini files. You can consult the list of PHP directives here https://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.list.php On DirectAdmin servers, the php.ini files are located in /usr/local/phpXX/lib/php.ini where XX is the PHP version. For example,…
