Plesk is a web hosting automation suite used by hosting providers.
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Plesk 10 - creating and using vhost.conf
I'm having some issues setting up and using a vhost.conf for one of my domains. So far none of the domains have required any extra configuration but now I need to use a PEAR module, so I'm looking to ...
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Atomic repository…in english please
Simple question, hopefully a simple answer:
I am new to Linux servers, and my hosting company offered me a tip to:
You may want to add the Plesk
repository provided by Atomic Turtle.
I know ...
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Crontab and dayofweek
I'm trying to set up a cron job that runs once a week on Sunday. I think I'm supposed to use the "dayofweek" position with it set to 0, but I'm unsure if this overrides the "*" for the day position.
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upgrading ssh. what should i backup?
Title says it all.
I'm going to upgrade ssh on a unfamiliar server.
What would it be a good idea to backup before doing so?
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Server Memory Usage VERY high on new linux dedi box - How to find the issue?
I have recently aquired a dedicated server running CentOS and Plesk for my applications.
These scripts were running on a 1.5GB ram VPS running CentOS and CPanel and worked very well.
Now they are ...
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Postfix SMTP server down on Ubuntu
I have a Plesk server running Postfix on Ubuntu 10.04 and the SMTP service on port 25 is down. When I stop and then start postfix the server comes up only for a minute and goes down again. I have ...
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Adding Utilities to /bin/bash (chrooted)
I have my hosting users on /bin/bash (chrooted) for SFTP.
How do I add unzip to the list of utilities they can execute?
Running Plesk Panel 9.5.2 on CentOS
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apache process count spike bringing vm to its knees
we have a few virtual machines we're using as a plesk hosting servers.
one of them exhibits the following bad behaviour:
apache process count goes sky-high (ive limited MaxClients to 80 to try to ...
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Plesk HTTPS setup and directory problems
We are trying to configure ssl for one of our domains hosted on a Red Hat server running Plesk.
Plesk version: 9.5.2
Apache: 2.2.3
Redhat: 2.6.18-194.el5
We created a new SSL certificate entry ...
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Plesk FTP not working but SFTP and Shell is working
I am facing a strange problem. The FTP on my Plesk VPS is not working. Whenever I try to connect, FileZilla FTP client says:
Status: Resolving address of xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com
Status: Connecting to ...
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Upgrading openSUSE 11.1 with Plesk Panel 9.3 to PHP 5.3
I'm running a VPS with openSUSE 11.1 (i586). On the VPS is Parallels Plesk Panel 9.3.0 installed. The current PHP-version is PHP 5.2.11. I want to upgrade PHP to PHP 5.3, but I can't find good ...
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Websites on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS with Plesk are infected with viruses
I am running Plesk 9.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and have about 15 websites infected with some malicious code appended to the end of java files. I have installed Clamav and it has managed to pickup the ...
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Why doesn't this command work as a cronjob, while it works perfectly when typed in a shell?
If I run this command from the shell, it works as expected:
cd ~ && mysqldump --databases --skip-dump-date --host=localhost --user=admin --password=xxxxx --lock-all-tables ...
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What is Plesk good for?
I am about to order a Windows VPS. The hoster gives me a choice of two configurations:
Windows Server 2008 64bit
Windows Server 2008 64bit with Parallels Plesk Panel
Now, a few years ago I had a ...
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Multiple websites each with an SSL certificate of its own
We run cent os, plesk with apache and php, mysql. There are around 25 sites and each of them need an SSL certificate now. The host cannot have more than 16 IPs on the same server. Is it possible to ...
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How can I get a notification from my server if the mail queue stops
I am using QMail with Plesk 10 on an Apache server.
Occasionally the mail queue stops processing emails - this most recently happenend when an email account got hacked and started sending hundreds of ...
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On postfix how do I override the mydomain value in PHP
In my postfix log I have the following when I send e-mail from a PHP based web site:
Feb 11 11:52:04 cp5
postfix/qmgr[6007]: 93C6E79C4D1:
from=|www-data@domain.com|,
size=3266, nrcpt=1 ...
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Does Webmin/Virtualmin overwrite apache conf files like Plesk
I was wondering if Webmin or Virtualmin will overwrite the apache conf files like Plesk does. I'm currently running a couple servers with Plesk, and short of writing some scripts that fire when ...
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How to install nginx with Plesk for a WordPress blog
I have a WordPress website running on a Plesk 10.4 server and only this website on the server, and it started receiving huge traffic recently. How can I install nginx as a reverse proxy for the ...
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SSH Connection dropping as soon as I log in
I was changing some settings on my dedi box to do with adding more descriptors and then rebooted. Since then I cannot log into SSH with root details (or anyone else). As soon as I log in, the putty ...
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Is it worth updating Plesk to newer versions?
I have a VPS running Plesk (on a 32bit Centos 5, i think).
Plesk is currently at version 9.5.2.
The Updates section show there are new versions available:
Plesk Panel 10.0.0 Upgrading to the new ...
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mod_rewrite, mod_alias, subdomain changes how domain serves website?
I've made a django site for a magazine, and it's found in mag.org/django-site. the old site is still at mag.org/httpdocs (hosted by mediatemple).
I would like it so that a hit to www.mag.org turns up ...
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formalizing centralized web hosting in a University setting
Our Foobar University is currently in the planning stages of moving their web hosting services to an enterprise hosting automation panel system like Plesk or cPanel. Is anyone out there in a ...
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mail server: retry timeout issues to and from specific domain
we have a dv server with mediatmeple, running apache 2.2, and plesk panel 10.3.
for some reason, when sending mail from our domain to theirs, or when they send email to ours, the messages bounce back ...
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Backup your unix server via shell access
I am looking to backup my dedicated unix server which is running Parallels Plesk Panel v10.4.4_build1013111102.18 os_CentOS 6. The server has Plesk installed but there are some limitations to it's ...
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When is a mail relay needed?
Let me expand...
I have a client who is unhappy with their current hosting situation. They want me to move their website and domain across to my hosting platform. I can do this.
However I have ...
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Subdomain to different nameservers in Plesk
I have a domain (e.g. mytakeaway.com) on a Plesk 9.5 Linux server. It's got a site associated with it currently.
I'm using a 3rd party ordering system (to be housed within an iframe), which I need ...
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Plesk is down but the site works fine
I have a very strange problem on my vps hosting. For some reasons the I can no longer access the plesk control panel. When I open the address in my browser I get the default error message that the ...
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How to change Plesk's database configuration?
I've been tasked with setting up and maintaining a few websites on a server that came with Plesk pre-installed. So far it's been nothing but hassle (I tend to stick to the terminal and don't like ...
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How can see what processes makes my server slow?
All my websites on my server are extremely slow or not loading at all. Even server admin (Plesk) will not load some times.
There's been no changes to the sites for the last coupple of months.
How ...
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Can't start Bind9 on Ubuntu 10.04 + Plesk 10.1 - “named: no process found”
I've installed a fresh version of
Ubuntu 10.04 64bit, I didn't install
bind when choosing what packages
should be installed in the Ubuntu
installer.
I downloaded the auto installer for Plesk 10.1 and ...
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Plesk Folder Structure Doesn't Allow Creating Folders
i use kohana framework which have 3 folders applications, system and public. I uploaded public folder to httpdocs but applications and system folders should be away from httpdocs. I should upload ...
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domain and subdomain ssl access on plesk
I need both www.mysite.com and subdomain.mysite.com to have ssl access
I'm on PLESK/ Media temple Centos5. I have exclusive IP for mysite.com
I purchased two appropriate certificates but only ...
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All my sites are 403 but the server is running. Errors on startup
We gave access to a contractor to install a firewall and somehow while he was doing it he fracked something up. Everything went off-line about 24 hours ago and we are effectively out of business until ...
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determining disk space usage on plesk domain
I have an unix webserver runing Plesk control panel with several domains configured.
Plesk is reporting that one of the domains is using 1129 mb of disk space, however, I can't seem to find what ...
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postfix: force server to send mail outside of localhost
I have a php file that sends mail using the mail() function. The problem is one of the forms sends to a domain that is registerred on my server while having the mail handled on a different server. ...
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Server CPU and Memory running at over 100% - Plesk
I have a media temple server with a Plesk interface.
The site runs a Wordpress installation with some custom code.
My issue is that the server keeps falling over due to extremely high CPU and Memory ...
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Changing time of drweb update
Our drweb update is running daily at around 00:30 each day, we are looking to change this to 05:00.
I've found the drweb-update file in the cron.d folder but not sure what to change:
*/30 * * * * ...
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Mediatemple (dv) kmemsize, privvmpages, tcpsndbuf QoS alerts [closed]
I'm on a (mt) (dv) base 3.5 server and am running ~20 small sites and I keep running into memory issues:
cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5 ...
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Advice for novice looking to host ASP.NET MVC website on windows server 2008
As context, I have recently built a website using ASP.NET MVC that is backed by SQL Server 2005 database. I am now looking to host this on a dedicated server and have found a suitable web host. So far ...
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Linux server management tutorial(s) for newbie?
Disclaimer: I am a coder...not a server guy - however I am pretty savvy with tech stuff.
I have been coding a website for a while, and with a recent boost of popularity, it is time to switch from my ...
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Kmemsize problems in VPS even when there is about 500MB free mem
I have a site hosted on a Plesk VPS with 512MB memory and keep on getting kmemsize in "black zone" QoS errors. The soft limit of kmemsize is 12,288,832 and hard limit is 13,517,715.
The definition ...
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Setting up multiple FTP accounts on domain in Plesk 8.6 CentOS
Plesk 8.6 currently does not allow creating more than one FTP account per domain. You can setup 'web users' via the plesk interface but this sandboxes the FTP accounts outside of the web accessible ...
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PHP 5.2.10 lost json and mcrypt - Parallels Small Business Panel v10.2.0_build102100709.06 os_CentOS 5
I updated my PHP from 5.1 to 5.2 a few months ago. Since then I noticed I don't have mcrypt. I tried everything I could too install it. Yum install...added to /etc/php.d/mcrypt.so etc. but nothing ...
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APC uptime 0 because of Fast
I have a VPS using Parallels/Plesk (11.0.9 Update #22, last updated at Oct 31, 2012 03:33 AM
CentOS 6.3 (Final) x86_64)
I have apache (CGI/FastCGI) installed and nginx as reverse proxy. Everything is ...
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Postfix does not work after setting server hostname from plesk [closed]
I have recently set my server hostname from localhost.localdomain to xx.mydomain.com from the plesk control panel.
However after doing this change postfix has stopped working, I tried restarting and ...
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Sending a large number of mails causing problems on CentOS 6 / Plesk 10
I have a VPS running CentOS 6. When the system tries to send daily newsletter, after some time (e.g. after sending about 2000 emails), I get error "Unable to send mail" and the system memory goes ...
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1600+ 'postfix-queue' processes - OK to have this many?
I have a Plesk 9.5.4 CentOS server running Postfix. I had been having massive problems with the mailq being full of 'double-bounce' email messages containing errors relating to 'Queue File Write ...
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qmail log ALL outgoing mails
I have Plesk 11 and it's working with qmail I think.
One of my customers have extrem high outgoing mail traffic.
I want to log all his outgoing mails.
How can I configure qmail to log all mails in ...
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Infected JS code between /*km0ae9gr6m*/ shows in “View Source” but not file itself [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
My server's been hacked EMERGENCY
I've heard about the problem with code becoming infected because of a Plesk vulnerability, but my case is slightly weirder. When I ...
