FTP password
You can reset your FTP password via the Customer Care Center. Login, then click on the domain, then choose FTP in the main menu.

MySQL password
We will reset the MySQL wachtwoord on request (send us an e-mail on support@hensel.nl). Please be aware that after changing a database password, all sites using that login, will not work anymore! If you know that it is in use, it’s better to check any config files via FTP. Common names for it are config.php or /config/config.php , settings.php etc. For WordPress wp_config.php is in use.

Username lost
If you lost the username for your Customer Care Center you can request it via the link at the bottom of the login page on http://www.managedomain.nl/

We will still support the standard unsecure FTP connections. To use FTPES/Explicit TLS you will probably have to make some changes to the profile settings of your website in your FTP client. Please look below for a video manual on how to do this in a popular FTP client “FileZilla”:

and another popular FTP client “Transmit” (Mac OS X):

Any feedback is welcome!

You can simply click the Install button to install it on the domain (eg. www.example.com) or enter a subfolder to install it the subfolder (eg. www.example.com/blog).

Currently we install the plain vanilla version of WordPress, but we may add some of the best plugins available by default.

We look forward to your feedback!

Video manual One Click Installer

PS: all the clients that are subscribed to the WordPress update service have been upgraded to WP 3.0 recently. If you are not using our service, please upgrade your WordPress installation now, to make sure your version is secure from vulnerabilities and get the new features. If you don’t have time to upgrade, subscribe to our service and we’ll do it for you.

Ben Ramsey, Cal Evans and Jason Mauer will each be doing a short presentation.

We are proud to sponsor the pizza and beer. And Coworking Fullerton will be hosting the event.

Some cool books will be raffled: Essential PHP Security (O’Reilly) – Securing PHP Web Applications (Addison Wesley) – Professional PHP 5 (Wrox) – Dojo (Addison Wesley)

I have personally met Cal Evans 2 years ago at a PHP conference in Amsterdam (RAI) where he was one of the speakers. He’ll probably not remember me but he’s an awesome speaker. I haven’t seen the others speak, but from what I heard and read, they’re good! This will be one awesome night of PHP, just one week from now!

The Speakers

BEN RAMSEY

Ben Ramsey is a Software Architect at Schematic, where he is a leader in the Open Source Platforms Group, designing and developing software and setting and enforcing best practices. Ben is a leader in the PHP community–the founder of the Atlanta PHP user group, the founder of the PHP Groups user group network, a founding member of PHPCommunity.org, and a speaker at industry conferences worldwide. He has written forphp|architect, International PHP Magazine, and Zend Developer Zone and has contributed to several books, including php|architect’s Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide (php|architect) and PHP 5 Unleashed (Sams).

Blog: http://benramsey.com/

CAL EVANS

For the past 8 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of “management by wandering around.”

Cal is currently based in Utrecht, Netherlands. He is a professional member of the PHP community and attends more conferences in a year than most people get to go to in a lifetime. He fills his spare time as the Director of the PCE for Ibuildings. Cal is responsible for coordinating the awesome Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam. In Cal’s past life, he was the Editor in Chief of Zend’s DevZone, host of the podcast PHP Abstract and responsible for coordinating ZendCon. Cal is the author of php|architect’s Guide to Programming with Zend Framework.

Blog: http://blog.calevans.com/

JASON MAUER

Jason Mauer is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft based in Portland, Oregon. He has over fifteen years of application development experience on a variety of platforms. His job is to make developers happy, which he strives to accomplish by providing training, participating in community events, and talking with customers about emerging technologies. Jason can be found online at jasonmauer.com and as @jasonmauer on Twitter.

Blog: http://jasonmauer.com/

A BIG THANKS, to William Estrada, for organising the speakers and the OC-PHP meetup in general.

RSVP for this awesome PHP event

For SIDN, 2009 will be dominated by the development of an EPP interface for the DRS. With this major project now in full swing, we want to keep you updated on its progress. We will be making use of various channels to do so, including this ‘DRS-EPP Weblog’.

The weblog is a public resource. You can access it via http://weblog-en.sidn.nl/.

The weblog features:

1 EPP-related decisions and choices made by SIDN
2 Reports on Taskforce meetings and decisions
3 News about the progress of the DRS-EPP project
4 Links to relevant documentation and tools to help you make a smooth migration to EPP

Naturally, you can respond to the information we publish if you wish.

This week, we shall start publishing details of the discussions held at the first meeting of the EPP Taskforce. Earlier decisions on the relevant issues are also being made available and we will be providing more detail regarding the processes within the DRS-EPP.

To make sure you don’t miss any news, you can subscribe to the RSS feed or to the e-mail newsletter. You will then be informed automatically whenever there is an update.

How does it work?
Gumblar is an example of this malware. You get this malware by visiting a website that is already infected. This website will use a leak in Adobe Reader or Adobe Flash to infect your PC.

After your pc is infected, this software looks (among other things) for passwords that you stored in FTP programs.

These stolen FTP passwords are then used to secretly alter files hosted on your website. For example, it will alter HTML or PHP files to add javascript code or a iframe that in turn infects your website’s visitors.

What can you do to prevent this?

1. Keep all your software up-to-date. This can be a daunting task, but a good (and free) tool is available to help you; Secunia Software Inspector. Be sure to at least download the most recent versions of Adobe Reader en Flash, and update your browser.
2. Browse safe; don’t just click on any link (especially from spam mail). If you really want to make an effort you should consider using Firefox together with the NoScript plugin.
3. Even if you already use a virusscanner (highly recommended), it’s wise to scan your PC frequently using different malware detection software such as Malwarebytes.
4. Don’t store your FTP password in your FTP program, and use a third-party application to keep your passwords safe.
5. Be careful with outsourcing or giving other people your website passwords. Even if you trust the person or company that you give them to, they can also be infected (and developing countries tend to have higher infection rates).

What to do when I’m infected
The first thing to do is to change all passwords you stored on your PC (do this from a clean PC of course). Next, determine what kind of virus you have. Use for example the Malwarebytes scanner we mentioned earlier, or install a recent anti-virus program and follow the directions given. Unfortunately, the only way to make really sure that you PC is secure again, is to reinstall it from scratch. Our best advice is to back up all your files, and reinstall or restore your installation. Yes; we realize this is a lot of work but you make sure that no backdoors or rootkits remain behind that could make your PC vulnerable to the same attack all over again, or worse!

What we do to protect you
We are now scanning all files uploaded via FTP for malware. In case we detect any suspicous files, these are cleaned or removed, your FTP password will be reset, and you will be notified. Although this doesn’t guarantee that your website is 100% safe, this will catch most of the common malware before it can do more harm.

Log in to the Customer Care Center on http://www.managedomain.nl. Next, choose the domain that you want to use the database for and select “Database management”->”View database(s)”

A new window will open, asking for a username and password. Enter the login details for your MySQL database (sent to you by email when your domain was first created with us).

Once you’re logged in, you can view and manage your databases. Choose one of the available databases on the left side of your screen, for example the first one.

After selecting one of the databases, on the right side click on “Import”. You can now browse for the database backup file on your computer.

After doing this, scroll down and select “start”. After some time (depending on the size of your database), all imported tables will appear on the left side. If you encounter any error messages, perhaps your database is too big to import via your browser, or your user might not have enough privileges. In that case, contact us and we’ll be happy to help!

The location of your database back-ups is not visible by default in most FTP programs, because they are located in a “hidden” folder. See the manual to access this folder via Filezilla.

All recent back-ups of your database(s) will be located in this folder as .tar.gz (archive) files that you can extract on your own pc, or import via our Customer Care Center. The prefix of each database shows the date the backup was created.

Video manual for FileZilla

The location of your database back-ups is not visible by default in most FTP programs, because they are located in a “hidden” folder. See this manual to access this folder via Filezilla.

All recent back-ups of your database(s) will be located in this folder as .tar.gz (archive) files that you can extract on your own pc, or import via our Customer Care Center. The prefix of each database shows the date the backup was created.

If you need a back-up from more than a couple of days ago, or want us to restore your backup you can contact support.

Guides
How do I download a database backup?
How do I import a database backup?

If you are using our WordPress update service, we already sent you a message and upgraded your weblog yesterday after testing that the application is fully compatible with our web hosting platform.

Highlights:

* New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
* Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
* Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
* Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
* Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
* Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
* Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
* Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

If you want to know more, visit http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-28/.

[update: Check http://wordpress.org/development/ regularly as quite soon a new 2.8.1 beta 1 was released.]