If you want your own name server such as ns1.linuxbabu.net, ns2.linuxbabu.net Please follow the below steps to setup your own nameservers. Step 1. Log into your domain manager account, via your domain registrar’s web site (i.e. www.godaddy.com , www.enom.com , …) Step 2: You will need to name your DNS server and insert a valid… Continue reading Setting Private name servers in Cpanel / WHM
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How do I view what exim is doing?
Exim comes with a utility called ‘exiwhat’ which will display what each instance of exim is currently involved with. The output will look similar to this: root@server [~]# exiwhat 2118 daemon: -q1h, listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv4) 2130 daemon: no queue runs, listening for SMTPS on port 465 (IPv4) 31640 handling incoming connection… Continue reading How do I view what exim is doing?
Any operation on a VPS gives me “Cannot lock VE”. How do I solve it?
A VPS is locked when some operation (backup, migration, start / stop, etc.) with that VPS is in progress. You can determine which process is holding VPS #101 using the following command on the hardware node: cat /vz/lock/101.lck You can kill that process if needed, but make sure that the process is really killed. If… Continue reading Any operation on a VPS gives me “Cannot lock VE”. How do I solve it?
DirectAdmin : How to downgrade from apache 2 back to apache 1.3
If you need to go back to apache 1.3 after installing apache 2, you’ll need to do the following: 1) Restore the old httpd.conf file: cp -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.1.3.backup /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 2) Get DirectAdmin to use the old httpd.conf files for the users. Edit the /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf file and change apache_ver=2.0 to apache_ver=1.3. Then type echo “action=rewrite&value=ips” >>… Continue reading DirectAdmin : How to downgrade from apache 2 back to apache 1.3
Updating your DirectAdmin License manually
If you need to update your DirectAdmin license manually, you can do so by running the following commands: cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts ./getLicense.sh 123 1234 service directadmin restart Where 123 and 1234 are your Client ID and License ID, respectively. If there are errrors extracting the update.tar.gz file, then run: head -n 1 /usr/local/directadmin/conf/license.key to search for… Continue reading Updating your DirectAdmin License manually
Plesk domain bakups
Here is the steps to backup individual domain on Plesk. I’ve tested. It works. 1) backup the domain #pleskbackup -v domains yourdomainname.com backupfilename.bkp 2) Then create a map file #pleskrestore –create-map backupfilename.bkp -map yourmapfilename map file should be like that below. if not, edit it. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++ [thisdomain’sclientname] # Client account name yourdomainname.com 11.22.33.44 #… Continue reading Plesk domain bakups
How to re-install RVSkin ?
How to uninstall RVSkin? Run this command: perl /root/rvadmin/uninstall.pl Terminate rvadmin account from WHM Reinstall rvadmin mkdir /root/rvadmin; cd /root/rvadmin; wget http://download.rvglobalsoft.com/download.php/download/rvskin-auto/saveto/rvauto.tar.bz2; bunzip2 -d rvauto.tar.bz2; tar -xvf rvauto.tar; perl /root/rvadmin/auto_rvskin.pl
How can I restore the Plesk psa database from a backup?
The following example shows how to restore the mysql.preupgrade.dump.gz backup file. gunzip /var/lib/psa/dumps/mysql.preupgrade.dump.gz mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` -e”DROP DATABASE psa;” mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` < /var/lib/psa/dumps/mysql.preupgrade.dump Actually standard daily backup file includes three databases: * psa * horde * mysql That is why the following error message will appear when you performed the latest command:… Continue reading How can I restore the Plesk psa database from a backup?
Ports that must be open to run cPanel behind a firewall IPTables
Ports that must be open to run cPanel behind a firewall / IPTables port service protocol direction 20 ftp tcp inbound/outbound 21 ftp tcp,udp inbound/outbound 22 ssh tcp inbound 25 smtp tcp inbound/outbound 26 smtp tcp inbound/outbound 37 rdate tcp outbound 43 whois tcp outbound 53 DNS tcp/udp inbound/outbound (inbound is only needed if you… Continue reading Ports that must be open to run cPanel behind a firewall IPTables
How do I INSTALL cPanel and FANTASTICO?
cPanel setup : —– cPanel Installation Instructions: —– cPanel now uses a universal install script which can be found at http://layer1.cpanel.net/. You can use the following commands in the root shell to download and start the installation script: mkdir /home/cpins cd /home/cpins wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest sh latest —– Fantastico —– SSH to your server(s) and enter… Continue reading How do I INSTALL cPanel and FANTASTICO?