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==A== | ==A== | ||
* '''Apache''': A web server daemon used to serve web pages over HTTP. ''PHP'' serves data through Apache. | * '''Apache''': A web server daemon used to serve web pages over HTTP. ''PHP'' serves data through Apache. | ||
| − | * '''API''': | + | * '''API''': '''A'''pplication '''P'''rogramming '''I'''nterface. This is an interface that a application utilizes in order to make parts of it available to other applications. |
==B== | ==B== | ||
==C== | ==C== | ||
| − | * '''Cron job''': An automated task run on a Unix/Linux/BSD computer. Required for | + | * '''Cron job''': An automated task run on a Unix/Linux/BSD computer. Required for THT to function and clean up accounts.. |
* '''cPanel''': A webhosting control panel that helps to maintain your site with a web-based ''GUI''. | * '''cPanel''': A webhosting control panel that helps to maintain your site with a web-based ''GUI''. | ||
* '''cURL''': A URL transfer library required by TheHostingTool to communicate with ''WHM (see below)'' | * '''cURL''': A URL transfer library required by TheHostingTool to communicate with ''WHM (see below)'' | ||
==D== | ==D== | ||
| + | * '''DirectAdmin''' -- A control panel for managing web sites and hosts, similar to ''cPanel'' / ''WHM'', which maintains sites with a web-based ''GUI'' | ||
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==E== | ==E== | ||
==F== | ==F== | ||
==G== | ==G== | ||
| − | * '''GUI''': | + | * '''GUI''': '''G'''raphical '''U'''ser '''I'''nterface |
==H== | ==H== | ||
| + | * '''HTTP''': '''H'''yper'''t'''ext '''T'''ransfer '''P'''rotocol is something that's sorta hard to explain in a couple lines. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol Wikipedia] says it best. ;) | ||
* '''httpd''': ''See "Apache"'' | * '''httpd''': ''See "Apache"'' | ||
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==I== | ==I== | ||
==J== | ==J== | ||
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==P== | ==P== | ||
| − | * '''PHP''': PHP | + | * '''PHP''': '''PHP''' '''H'''ypertext '''P'''reprocessor (recursive acronym), a web-based programming language. A necessity for TheHostingTool to function. |
==Q== | ==Q== | ||
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==W== | ==W== | ||
* '''WHM''': The '''W'''eb '''H'''ost '''M'''anager which allows license holders to create shared hosting accounts. It is possible to create, suspend and terminate accounts without an automation script, but is hard to manage if you do so. | * '''WHM''': The '''W'''eb '''H'''ost '''M'''anager which allows license holders to create shared hosting accounts. It is possible to create, suspend and terminate accounts without an automation script, but is hard to manage if you do so. | ||
| + | * '''Wiki''': It's complicated. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki | ||
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==X== | ==X== | ||
* '''XML''': E'''X'''tensible '''M'''arkup '''L'''anguage | * '''XML''': E'''X'''tensible '''M'''arkup '''L'''anguage | ||
| − | * '''XML-API''': The WHM XML-API used by ''THT'' to communicate with ''WHM'' through ''cURL''. ''TheHostingTool'' also implements its own | + | * '''XML-API''': The WHM XML-API used by ''THT'' to communicate with ''WHM'' through ''cURL''. ''TheHostingTool'' also implements its own kind of API. |
==Y== | ==Y== | ||
==Z== | ==Z== | ||
Latest revision as of 02:47, 21 February 2010
A
- Apache: A web server daemon used to serve web pages over HTTP. PHP serves data through Apache.
- API: Application Programming Interface. This is an interface that a application utilizes in order to make parts of it available to other applications.
B
C
- Cron job: An automated task run on a Unix/Linux/BSD computer. Required for THT to function and clean up accounts..
- cPanel: A webhosting control panel that helps to maintain your site with a web-based GUI.
- cURL: A URL transfer library required by TheHostingTool to communicate with WHM (see below)
D
- DirectAdmin -- A control panel for managing web sites and hosts, similar to cPanel / WHM, which maintains sites with a web-based GUI
E
F
G
- GUI: Graphical User Interface
H
- HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol is something that's sorta hard to explain in a couple lines. Wikipedia says it best. ;)
- httpd: See "Apache"
I
J
K
L
M
- MySQL: A database system that is required by TheHostingTool.
N
O
- OOP: Object Oriented Programming
P
- PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (recursive acronym), a web-based programming language. A necessity for TheHostingTool to function.
Q
R
S
- SQL: Structured Query Language
T
- THT: TheHostingTool -- refers to the WHM automation script we're writing this documentation on.
U
V
W
- WHM: The Web Host Manager which allows license holders to create shared hosting accounts. It is possible to create, suspend and terminate accounts without an automation script, but is hard to manage if you do so.
- Wiki: It's complicated. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
X
- XML: EXtensible Markup Language
- XML-API: The WHM XML-API used by THT to communicate with WHM through cURL. TheHostingTool also implements its own kind of API.
