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Keeping Your Server Secure

Since I haven’t mentioned it in the article itself so far (only in those large letters that make up the title), let me just tell you that I’m a seller.  I currently make it my living solely by developing, designing and flipping websites.  Recently I’ve been hearing more and more similar stories from my clients about buyers that have violated their trust.

For example, in one situation the buyer had provided the seller with the login to their entire site control panel.  Once the seller had access to this, they proceeded to login to the account, copied all of the buyer’s previously existing websites and then proceeded to sell copy cat versions on Flippa.   There is definitely a risk and a danger in granting too broad of access to someone on your server; particularly if you have never had any type of established rapport or relationship with them.

What Can Be Done?

Thankfully, there are some definite, easy-to-implement measures that you can take as a buyer to help safeguard yourself from this type of incident.

1. Never give a seller access to the control panel that manages all of your domains /addon domains.
2. Set up restricted FTP access for them so that they can only gain entry to the area they need to upload files to and nothing more.
3. Delete their FTP access or change the password as soon as their work is done.
4. If you are comfortable in doing so, set up your own database and request the database backup  file to import yourself.  Coordinate with the seller to let you know what configuration file you will need to edit in order to update it with  your new database settings.
5. If you are not comfortable importing your own database, then grant them access to phpMyAdmin (or similar) only for the site they are setting up.  If you are on a shared server and it is not possible to grant them restricted phpMyAdmin access, then it would greatly benefit you to learn how to do this step on your own.  It is really incredibly easy once you learn what to do.  We’ll cover that in an upcoming tutorial to show you just how easy it really is.

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Step 1: Login to your Paypal account. From the top links, click on the “Profile” link. Do not worry if you get some dropdown menu choices.. just click on the word “Profile”

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1. Upload a demo page for your new product.  (Click here  for the demo upload tutorial)
2. Create a thumbnail image for your new product (i.e. a screenshot of the demo site)
3. In the niche website admin, add a new product and upload the zip file that your customers will download
4. Fill in the product details, add the thumbnail image.

In a nutshell, those are the steps – however there are some important points to be mindful of as outlined in the more detailed instructions below.

You will then be taken to the product information screen.  The first section on this page is where you will need to add the product title.  Since we are dealing with downloadable products and not physical goods, the additional fields in this first section do not need to be filled out.  Do be mindful, however, to ensure the product status is kept in the “enabled” state as it is by default.

The next thing you will need to do is to click on the checkbox next to “Is This A Downloadable Product”.  Once you check that box, additional options will then appear in regards to the download file to present to your customers.

The first option after the checkbox is the “Upload a file” form field.  Using the browse button, locate the product zip file from your hard drive.  From the moment that you select the file, please be aware that although there is no realtime status indicator, the file is actually in the process of uploading.  This is very VERY important to realize, because you MUST wait for the file to completely upload before you hit either of the “Save” buttons at the bottom of this screen.  We’ll come back to this in just a bit.

• After upload, in the File name section, the file name appears with its extension.
• In the Number of downloads field, you choose how many download you allowed for each customer who buy your file.
• In the Expiration date field, insert a date if you want to see the link of this file unvalaible after a date (use this form YYYY-MM-DD).
• In the Number of days field, enter number of days during customers keep access to his file.

The product pricing comes next.  Simply fill in the Pre-tax retail price (please note the red asterisk next to this field in the form to help you quickly recognize which file you are required to fill in).  Once you fill the pre-tax price in, it will automatically fill in the other necessary price fields.  Also, if you wish to discount an item or mark it as “On Sale” you can also do so in this section.

Next you will want to fill out the available quantity before the item is considered to be out of stock.   Since this is a download product and not physical goods, i just put in 1000 as a default number… It would be a good problem to have to realize that it dwindled down to zero and you need to edit that info later on

Next, select the category you wish to file the product under.  Leave the “Home” category checked by default and then pick the specific category or categories  you feel is appropriate for this product.  In this example, we’ll select Health and Fitness.

The next section you’ll encounter is the product description.  There are actually two sections associated with this. First is the short description followed by the standard description.  The short description is what is displayed in the search results and also what appears at the top of the product page next to the product image.  The next description area should be the more detailed description and is what is presented when a user clicks on the “More Info” button at the top of the product page.

Any other fields on this page are completely optional to fill out and we’ve already covered all the required fields which means now it’s time to save all the data that we’ve input… but WAIT – first, we have to go look to make sure that the zip file has finished uploading.  Scroll the page back up to where we selected the file to upload.  If it has completed, then you should see a highlighted confirmation message much like this one:

Once you see that above confirmation message (and also please note, the Filename has automatically filled in for us) you are free and clear to hit either of the Save buttons at the bottom of the page… if you hit just the standard Save button, then you will be taken back to the catalog listing.  If you click Save and Stay then it will save the data that you have input and keep you on this same page.   Since we still have to add a product thumbnail image, go ahead and click “Save and Stay”.

Technically speaking, you could actually have done this next upcoming step before saving anything, but it’s always a good habit to save each step of the way just in case the unthinkable happens and you lose power, lose your internet connectivity etc.

Once you haved saved your data, scroll back up to the top of the screen and click on the “Images” tab at the top of the product form.

Select the thumbnail image from your hard drive, fill in the caption and check on the “Use as product cover” checkbox.  Once you have done all this, click on Save and then go enjoy your new product listing!

The first thing you need to do is to find the website files from the product files.  If you haven’t already, unzip the product file to your hard drive.  Keep in mind that when you purchase niche websites from vendors outside of Grooviness.com, there is a very likely chance that the zip file might be put together differently from the example that I am showing you.  The best rule of thumb is to just poke through the files until you find and html file (usually – but not always- named index.html)  and images directory.  Some may package it in a website folder, some may called it sales page, others put it in a squeeze page folder, etc.

Create a new folder on your computer (for simplicity sake, i normally just create this on my desktop).  This is the folder in which we will copy the website files for the new product to and ultimately upload to the server.

Name it sensibly so that you can easily recognize what product it goes to.  In this example, I am going to add a new niche website on how to Boost Your Metabolism, so i will name the directory boost-metabolism.  Please note, that there should be NO spaces in the naming convention used.  Dashes or underscores are equally acceptable to use, just no spaces or you’ll be in for some future headaches.

Now you will need to copy the index.html file and the images directory from your product files and COPY them to the folder you just created on your desktop.  If, for some reason, the website provided with the product does not include an index.html file (for example, sometimes they called it squeeze_page.html or some other somewhat non-conventional name) you will need to rename the document to index.html after you copy it to your desktop directory.  Also, be aware that if there is a style.css document also included in the website files, you will need to copy that as well.

Once you have all the necessary files copied over and have verified you have everything you need, zip up the file on your desktop.  If you plan to use a standard FTP client to transfer the files to your server, then you do not need to zip them up… however, if you plan to use the cpanel (or equivalent) File Manager, you will need to zip this folder up.  Depending on your own personal computer setup, the actual steps to zip up the file may vary, but in many instances it’s as easy as right clicking on the folder then selecting “Send To > Compressed (zipped) Folder”.

UPLOADING THE DEMO PAGE TO YOUR SERVER

If you plan to use the standard FTP method, then you will simply need to login to your server via your FTP client, navigate to the /public_html/demosites/ directory on your server and then upload the boost-metabolism directory from your desktop into the demosites directory on your server.  In this illustrated example, however, we will be showing you how to do this within your cpanel File Manager.

Go to File Manager and navigate to your site’s demosite directory.  In this example, we navigate to /public_html/demosites/

One you have selected the demosites directory, you should see all the current directories listed on the right.  This is where we will be adding our new directory.  At the top of the File Manager screen, click on the “Upload Icon”

Browse to your computer’s desktop and select the zip file you just made.  Once it has finished uploading, you should see the zip file in the demosite directory. (Note: on some servers, at the upload screen you might also have the option to extract the file after uploading.  If you have this option available on the upload step, by all means check that option to enable the auto extraction of the file and then you can skip the next step).

The next and last step we need to do for the demo site is to extract the file we just uploaded.  In the demosite directory, select the boost-metabolism.zip file that you just uploaded.

Once you have selected the zip file, click on the “Extract” button at the top of the file manager screen.  Take a look at the confirmation prompt and double check to make sure you are extracting it in the correct location.  If all looks to be in order, go ahead andclick on the Extract Files button.

You should now be all set and able to view your new demo site by going to  yourdomain.com/demosites/boost-metabolism/

Click here for the tutorial on how to add the website product to your shop.

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