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OpenSSL/Secure Server
How to renew your SSL certificate that was acquired through your hosting plan with Dreamhost.
They do not automatically renew certificates. They just need to hear from you that you would like the renewal and they'll go ahead and renew it for you. You need to provide the following information that they will be using in order to request your certificate from GeoTrust:
- Administrator contact person (First name, Last name, Telephone number, and email address)
- Approval Email Address: This is where an approval email will be sent asking you to approve the certificate request. Please make an alias for one of the following addresses and make sure it forwards to a mailbox that you check multiple times daily. You will need to create one of the following aliases and let us know which one you choose: admin, administrator, hostmaster, root, ssladmin, sysadmin, or webmaster@secure.domain.com or @domain.com So create one of the aliases above going to your most frequently checked mailbox. (you only need one)
Email all that info to tech support and then you'll be all set with the free secure server renewal. It should take no longer than an hour depending on how fast support sees the request and how fast you respond to the approval email that GeoTrust sends out to you at the above mentioned alias.
Dreamhost will put in the renewal request for your domain. Approve the certificate and they'll go ahead and install it once geotrust sends it to them.
Jabber Instant Messenger
See this page for more Jabber-related info
DreamHost supports the creation of Jabber IM accounts for your hosted domains from the web panel. To log into your DH Jabber IM accounts, use the following settings, substituting "myusername" for the Jabber username you created and "mydomain" for your domain you host through DreamHost (Note that subdomains work too! Use "mysubdomain.mydomain.com" instead of "mydomain.com")
username: myusername server: mydomain.com port: 5222
Some client programs use a "JID" field instead of a combination of "username" and "server". For these programs, specify "myusername@mydomain.com" as the JID.
DreamHost's Jabber IM accounts also support encryption if your site has a security certificate and a static IP.
Note: conferences are unsupported (the following instructions may work for you, but DreamHost does not support multi-user conferencing on their Jabber servers.)
If you want to set up conferences with multiple Jabber users, you can do so by logging into your DH Jabber IM account, and setting up a "room".
conference server: conference.jabber.mydomain.com
The name of the room can be anything that's allowed as a Jabber room name.
For example:
chat@conference.jabber.mydomain.com
Note: If you use Trillian as your Jabber client, be sure to disable the proxy, or at least don't use the ImSmarter proxy because you won't be able to connect to your Jabber service. (More details in this thread.)
WebDAV
Crontab
Nvu
Backups
- Backup (portal to many articles about backup-related topics
- Automated domain snapshots
- rsync Backup
Darwin Quicktime Streaming Server
Every DreamHost hosting account includes access to a limited version of Apple "Darwin" Streaming Server for streaming QuickTime media. For information about embedding streaming video, see Object Embedding.
See Also
Additional Note
Streaming is not the same thing as Pod-Casting. If you place a file you intend to podcast in your streaming directory, it will not work.
Live Streaming
Live streaming is not officially supported by Dreamhost but it is possible to do using Dreamhost servers. Essentially you need to use something like QuickTime Broadcaster and find some instructions related to Manual Unicast.
A student of mine put these instructions together: Open QuickTime Broadcaster and click “Network” tab.
Select “Manual Unicast” for Transmission.
Enter your streaming server address (it has to be the IP address of your QuickTime/Darwin streaming server. You can get this information via terminal by running host streamingserver.yourdomain. I use host streaming.walking-productions.com.)
You should be able to leave Audio port and Video ports as shown (If it doesn’t work, add 1 or 2 to the number. If it didn’t work the first time it might mean that someone else is using those ports on the server.)
Click “Broadcast” and it will start broadcasting.
Then go to File menu, choose Export > SDP and save it with filename.sdp
Upload the .sdp file to your streaming server (under streamingserver.yourdomain for Dreamhost).
Next, open QuickTime Pro, choose File menu and select Open URL. Then put the URL, like rtsp://streamingserver.yourdomain/streamingserver.yourdomain/filename.mov (again, this is how it is on Dreamhost, modify for other servers).
It should connect to your live video.
To embed this on a page or offer it available over the internet, choose File > Save As and save it as a “reference movie”.
Upload this file to a webserver and you can embed or link to the mov file just like any normal QuickTime movie.
