The reason for this upgrade script failing for Plesk machines is due to Plesk changing the mysql ‘root’ account into ‘admin’. To get the script to run successfully, you can simply open up the file Read more…
I’ve come across this a couple of times and thought it worth adding here, so I’m more likely to remember next time. You need to comment out or delete the default Virtualhost config in this Read more…
This will count the number of files in the current directory from a linux command line. ls -l | grep ‘^-‘ | wc -l
Want to search for files over a certain size on your linux box? find / -xdev -size +100000k -print This will find files larger than 100MB within the root and it’s subdirectories without venturing onto Read more…
Very neat little tip this… find -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; Find all directories ( type -d ) under this path ( /dir/to/chmod/all/dirs ) and change their execute mode ( chmod 755 {} \; Read more…
In Mythtv, add an eject link to your cd/dvd and optical disk menu… < button> DVD_EJECT Eject DVD EXEC eject < /button> by adding this to optical_menu.xml and dvdmenu.xml
I had to extract a single database record from a Plesk backup today. The backup utility within Plesk 7.5.4 is not intended for accessing like this. It’s designed to restore a whole domain at once Read more…
These ports may be listening on a typical webserver… PROT PORT# Usage —– ——– ——– tcp 993 imaps – Encrypted IMAP mail tcp 995 pop3 – Encrypted POP3 mail tcp 3306 mysql – MySQL database Read more…
Really these are ways for finding the spoor left by rootkits and such… and partially dealing with them. Best practise is to rebuild the server once it’s been rooted, but these techniques may give you Read more…
I’ve just setup a serveralias for one of my domains on my PLesk managed server. e.g. example.co.uk aliases to example.com To do this properly, you need to add the lines ServerAlias www.example.co.uk ServerAlias example.co.uk to Read more…
