On a linux dedicated server which has DirectAdmin control panel on it, if you have couple of sites under your user account and you need to view the site without changing the DNS. You can view the default domain by the URL;

http://server-ip/~username/

But, if you have an addon domain and need to view the site without changing the DNS, you can set the addon domain to default and view it with the above URL. The other way is to set the IP and domain name in the hosts file in your windows system.

That’s it!

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One of our client needed sBNC to be installed on his dedicated server, here is how we helped him setup sBNC on his server.

Downloaded the source, kindly see below:

wget http://mirror.shroudbnc.info/sbnc-current.tar.gz
tar -zxf sbnc-current.tar.gz
cd sbnc-1.1
ls
./configure

Here we got an error of c++ compiler:

configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables

To fix this, you need to install c++ compiler on your system. I did it using yum:

yum install gcc-c++

After this is done, again giving the below command to install it:

./configure # without SSL-support
./configure --enable-ssl=yes # with SSL-support
make
make install

Now, if you need web interface, you will have to do this:

cd tickle
./configure
make
make install

Got errors while “make” , TCL was not installed on the server – you can install TCL on your dedicated server by doing this:

wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/tcl8.4.13-src.tar.gz
tar xfvz tcl8.4.13-src.tar.gz
cd tcl8.4.13/unix
./configure
make
make install

Then, you can proceed for the configuration by the conftool:

cd sbnc/sbnc
./conftool

Here, you can set the port number, username and password.

Start sbnc by:

./sbnc

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