1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package.

2. In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the Order Details View.

3. Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.

4. In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> Database Manager -> List Databases.

5. The following page would contain a list of Databases associated with your website, with complete details for each Database such as the Database name, space utilization and the Users associated with it. Here, click on the User whom you wish to delete.

6. In the User details view that follows, click on Delete.

The actions that you can choose to provide/revoke privileges for a User are:

You can specify restricted Database access for a particular User during creation of the User account itself. Click here to read how to add a MySQL Database User >>

However, if you had not done so and wish to do it now, or wish to modify the existing action privileges, follow the process mentioned below:

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package. Click here to read how >>

2. In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the order details view.

3. Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.

4. In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> Database Manager -> List Databases.

5. The following page would contain a list of Databases associated with your website, with complete details for each Database such as the Database name, space utilization and the Users associated with it. Here, click on the User whose access you wish to modify.

6. In the User details view that follows, click on Modify.

7. Under the Advanced Options section, de-select the check-boxes adjacent to the action privileges that you wish to revoke, and click Submit.

This would ensure that the User can only perform the actions that are selected (ticked in this view).

You can backup your database using phpMyAdmin in just a few mouse clicks. The process for the same is outlined below:

1. Connect to your database using phpMyAdmin. Click here to read how >>

2. Click the database name in the list on the left of the screen. Once you get to your database details, you should get a menu header for your database which looks like so:

3. Click on Export. This will get you to a screen with the following options:

4. From here it’s just a matter of clicking the right options and the Go button to get your database dump. To save the backup file on your computer, click on Save as file option and the corresponding compression option to get the backup to download to your system.

Taking a Backup of your MySQL Database from within the Control Panel

Gossimer Hosting Control Panel provides an easy method to create a backup copy of your MySQL database. Process mentioned below explains how to create a backup copy:

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package. Click here to know how >>

2. In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the order details view.

3. Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.

4. In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> Database Manager -> Backup/Restore Database.

5. Select the radio button Backup Database.

6. You can take a backup of only the database schema, database schema and tables or a back up of selected tables only.

• Select a Database from the drop-down menu next to Select Database. Select the check box Dump Schema only (No Data) if you wish to take a back up of just a database’s schema. Leave the checkbox unchecked if you need a backup of the entire database.  You may a take a back of the all the tables or only selected tables. Select the radio button Backup Selected Tables and select the desired tables from the list or select the radio button Backup All Tables.
   

   

• Click on Browse next to Backup Directory field, select the desired directory where you want to save the backup and click Submit to save the backup.

In case you are taking a backup of only database scheme or database scheme and all tables, the backup will be stored as database_name.sql, while in case of backup of only selected tables, the backup will be stored as database_name.table_name.sql.

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased a Linux hosting package. Click here to know how >>

2. In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the Order details view.

3. Click on the Manage Web Hosting Service button in the lower toolbar.

4. Go to Manage Website -> Power Tools. This will present you with a list of Power Tools offered.

5. In order to install phpBB, click on Install link under the Status column.

6. In order to install the phpBB Power Tool you would need to simply input the following details -

i. Database Name – select the database from the drop-down list.

1. You need to upgrade your package by adding a database. Click here to read how to upgrade your package >>

2. You need to configure your database. Click here to read how to configure your database >>

ii. Database Username – select (one of) the Database User(s) whom you have associated with this database, from the drop-down list.

iii. Database User’s Password – provide the password of the Database User, you selected above.

The Database User’s Password you input above has to match the Password you entered while adding this User in the Database Manager interface. In the event that you can not recall this Database User’s Password, you need to reset the same before continuing. Click here to find instructions on how to reset the Password of a Database User >>

iv. Directory Name – you need to input a new sub-directory name where you want the phpBB Power Tool to be installed on your website. This sub-directory will be directly under your web directory. You need to provide the directory name without any trailing forward-slash (/).

IMPORTANT

Confirm that you have sufficient Web Space and Database Space before continuing the phpBB installation, by referring the information provided in the interface.

Should you not have enough Web and/or Database Space, you would need to upgrade your package. Click here to read how to upgrade your package >>

IMPORTANT

IMPORTANT

phpBB is a database-driven Power Tool. Hence, your hosting package needs to include at least one database. If a database is not included in your current hosting package, the following steps need to performed -

7. Click on the Install button to complete the phpBB installation.

Besides the above information, you need to provide a few details about the phpBB Administrator:

1. Admin Name – This is the name of the person who will be administering the phpBB installation.

2. Password – This is the Administrator’s Password.

3. Confirm Password – Re-enter the Administrator’s Password to confirm the same.

4. Admin Email – Mention the Administrator’s Email Address where important notifications will be sent by the phpBB Power tool.

Once phpBB is installed, you can click on the View link under the Details column, to view the details related to phpBB.

Follow this process to un-suspend a suspended FTP user:

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package.

2. In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the order details view.

3. Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.

4. In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> FTP User Manger -> List FTP Users. This would give a list of all FTP users associated with your web hosting package.

5. Select the check-box before the suspended user whom you wish to Un-suspend, and click on the Unsuspend button.

This will restore the FTP users access.

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package.

2. In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the order details view.

3. Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.

4. In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> FTP User Manger -> List FTP Users. This would give a list of all FTP users associated with your web hosting package.

5. Click on the desired FTP user to go to the details view.

6. Here, select the check-box next to Restrict Web space. In the adjoining text field, enter the limit you wish to impose for that particular user.

7. Click on Modify.

You should make it a habit to change your FTP User password at regular intervals. Follow this process to modify the password for an existing FTP user:

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package.

2. In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the order details view.

3. Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.

4. In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> FTP User Manger -> List FTP Users. This would give a list of all FTP users associated with your web hosting package.

5. In the user list view that follows, click on the user whose password you wish to change.

6. Enter the new password in the Password and Confirm password slots, and click on Submit.

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package. Click here to read how >>

2. In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the order details view.

3. Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.

4. In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> FTP User Manger -> List FTP Users.

This would give a detailed list of all FTP users associated with your web hosting package.

The Direct Download Manager is another feature exclusive to the Gossimer Control Panel. It helps you save several hours of your valuable time by allowing you to download files to your web space directly from another server via a HTTP URL or FTP URL.

If you need to transfer large files to your web space that are already available on some other server, then you would typically have to download these files locally to your desktop and re-upload them. All of this could take up quite some time depending on the file size and your Internet connection speed. However, using the server-to-server transfer facility provided by the Direct Download Manager, you can utilize the server’s high speed connection to directly download large files. So, even if you are connected to the Internet via a dial-up connection, file transfers will occur at the very high speeds. 

This feature is most useful when you are transferring your Website data from your previous Web Hosting provider, as you could just zip up your whole website and instead of downloading it locally to your desktop, directly download it on the server and unzip it there. 

Using the Direct Download Manager
Follow the process mentioned below to download files using the direct download manager:

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package.

2. In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the order details view.

3. Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.

4. In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> Additional Tools -> Direct Download Manager.

5. Here, provide the following details

• The remote URL – i.e., the location of the file that you wish to download
• Destination – the directory to which you wish to send the downloaded file

6. Click on Download Now. This would download the file to the location you have specified.