How to change your servers hostname in Plesk

Plesk 9.5 To change your server’s Hostname within Plesk Log into your Plesk control panel. Click on Settings on the right hand side. Click on Change Hostname, under General. Where it says “Full hostname” is where you would want to put your servers new hostname, typically it is set up as something like server.domain.com or … Read more

Disabling mod_security on Plesk Server

Source: http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/Mod_security Getting errors with scripts? [stextbox id=”warning”]Get Request to piwik.php failed. Try whitelisting this URL from HTTP Authentication and disable mod_security[/stextbox] Check for the module – view the loaded modules using the command:

Plesk domain date.timezone error

Warning: phpinfo(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone ‘UTC’ for now, but … Read more

Deleting and Re-creating email for a domain in plesk

Let’s say that you need to delete a plesk domain with email and recreate it. 1. Recording the email addresses and passwords (over ssh you can use the command /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mail_auth_view to show addresses and passwords) 2. Making a copy or renaming of the folder /var/qmail/mailnames/domain.com to something like /var/qmail/mailnames/domain.com.BAK 3. Deletion of the Alias and … Read more

PHP Session write error

php Sessions write error suddenly on website http://kb.parallels.com/en/115704 Step 1 Change the permissions and ownership Step 2 Check the yum update log for php updates as this is usually the cause of the permissions change. This will give you the date and time of the last php update!