Howtos

Anti-Spam & Virus Measures Howto

HSR has taken several steps to help keep spam out of your inbox and help you manage the spam that happens to make it through.

How to Make Zope Think its Someone Else

All HTTP servers identify themselves. Here's how to change Zope's default identity.

Using The Deadlock Debugger

If you ever find your Zope using 99% of CPU or otherwise not performing as well as you would like, then DeadlockDebugger is for you. Nuxeo's DeadlockDebugger will show you at any time what your Zope's threads are spending precious time on, and thereby enable you to quickly track down and resolve problems. At HSR, we regularly use DeadlockDebugger to decipher complex Zope software problems - and so should you.

How to Use the E-mail System

This is a comprehensive Howto on using HSR's e-mail system, a powerful, full-featured solution that allows you to manage all aspects of your e-mail configuration through your browser.

The EZMLM Howto

EZMLM is a fast, secure and convenient mailing list manager for Qmail, the MTA that HSR uses and installs by default. EZMLM does not have the web-based interface that has made the Mailman MLM so popular, but it only takes a small extra effort to learn how to use EZMLM and take advantage of its greater speed and considerable convenience. EZMLM is an excellent choice for any mailing list, tiny or huge, discussion or announcement.

How to Install Zope Products

This documents shows you how to install new Zope products into a Zope instance.

The MailBoxer Howto

MailBoxer is an excellent Zope-based Mailing list Product. Its easy to create a MailBoxer and connect it with the HSR mailserver. If you're planning to use MailBoxer, please read the following short howto to learn the basics

Sending E-mail From Zope

Sending email from Zope is easy.

SSH Howto

You need to access your SSH-enabled account to install Zope Products, upload zexp files, start and stop your Zope instance or just generally explore. If you aren't using SSH, not only can't you do any of this, but you're missing out on a powerful tool.

MySQL SSH Tunnel Howto

You would like to connect to your MySQL databases hosted on your HSR account but you can't do so directly because if we allowed that, it would open a security hole. Is there a workaround? Absolutely. Read on for the howto.

Things *Not* to do with Zope

I've noted that some of the same mistakes are repeated over and over again in Zope. With that in mind, I've written up this list of things *not* to do.

New Account Introduction

This howto describes what a virtual server is, how you can use it, how you can use the many pre-installed applications it comes with and how you can extend it to further meet your needs.

The Mailman Howto

The Mailman mailing list manager is a popular MLM with a web-based interface. Read on for how to install it.

How to Create and Use SSH Keys

SSH Keys make it simple to login to your SSH account(s). Read on for how to use them.

Working with Zope Howto

This howto will show you how to upgrade and install Zope and related applications.