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Nigeria Internet Registration Association

Kayode Muyibi — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:36:32 +0000

Registering a Nigerian tld was quite cumbersome in the past, but it seems the end to the cumbersome and daunting process is coming with the certification and automated system, NIRA has in place, or would have in place.

The system uses an Extensible Provisioning Protocol , which enables certified merchants to connect to their servers and perform the transaction.

I am about to start coding the modules that we would be using for the connectivity and automation. It could be fun, who knows?

Anyway I would keep you updated.

WordPress 2.5 released

Kayode Muyibi — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:44:04 +0000

WordPress after six months of hard-work by the WordPress community, has finally released the WordPress version 2.5 stable edition. In a post by Matt titled 2.5 Sneak Peek, Matt says…

The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages. Read More

All Nairahost customers are encouraged to update their wordpress or request for a free update through our support channels.

Microsoft Web Data Administration as a Service

Kayode Muyibi — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:15:16 +0000

Installing Microsoft web data administration(MSWDA) on IIS as a Service is as straightforward as the manual instructs, if you need to install it on a Hosting Server as a Service.

Nairahost Administrators wanted the following.

1. MSWDA as a Service

2. MSWDA runned on a dedicated ip

3. Hosting accounts access to MSWDA using an A entry

This is what we did after installing MSWDA using the msi setup file.

1. We did not enable the IIS Service it came with as we wanted it to run under our ISS Server

2. We added a website and added all the Internet User permissions. This we did by pointing the Website to the Web Folder and leaving the Header variables Empty.

3. We modified the web.config file with the following while leaving the


authentication :mode="Windows" 
authorization:  allow users="?"

The rest of the modifications are a simply straightforward and default.

Upgrading from MYSQL4 to MYSQL5 on a Cpanel Server.

Kayode Muyibi — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:45:04 +0000

Today I upgraded one of our servers MYSQL software from version 4 to version 5. Below is the steps of a successful install.

Step 1.)
Go into your WHM > TweakSettings and select the MySQL 5 > Save it

Step 2.)
login as root via SSH and run /scripts/mysqlup, it will do the upgrade for you.

Step 3.)

Rem out the line in /etc/my.conf that was setting basedir to /var/lib. As seen below:

user=mysql
#basedir=/var/lib

Step 4.)

Create the directory “/var/run/mysqld” if it does not exist. Then chown that directory to mysql.mysql as below…

mkdir /var/run/mysqld
chown mysql.mysql /var/run/mysqld

Step 5.)
Kindly check if a socket file exists on /tmp.
if not add one
root@server [~]# cd /tmp
root@server [/tmp]# ln -s /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock .

Step 6.)
Start the service..

service mysql start