To find out where disk space is being used: Get to the root of your machine by running Run Note which directories are using a lot of disk space. cd into one of the big directories. Run to see which files are using a lot of space. Delete any you don’t need. Repeat steps to … Read more
FTP is not working and has the following error: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection Also, in the message logs: Plesk Unable to FTP – missing scoreboard file (Linux) On CentOS 6 and 7 if you experience issues logging on to FTP server please check the logs for the following: Look for … Read more
This article describes how to change the SSL cert for you Windows server to match a hostname so that when you remote desktop to a windows server, you don’t get a warning for the identity and the SSL cert. Go to Sectigo (Comodo) and sign up for a free ssl. https://ssl.comodo.com/free-ssl-certificate.php First, generate a CSR. … Read more
Symptoms Webmail webmail.example.com shows the blank page or the default plesk page. DNS records for webmail.example.com is managed by external DNS server: There is another IP 203.0.113.3 is set in web server configuration file for webmail.example.com: RHEL-like systems Debian-like systems Both IP addresses belongs to the server Cause IP address that is set for domain … Read more
DDos Detection Articles: https://www.hivelocity.net/kb/how-to-check-if-your-linux-server-is-under-ddos-attack/ http://linuxaria.com/howto/how-to-verify-ddos-attack-with-netstat-command-on-linux-terminal https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000345633-How-to-diagnose-possible-DoS-or-DDoS-attack-on-Apache
How to import a very large SQL dump file (6 Gb) to a MySQL database using windows command line. If you are using linux it is the same. The process is the following: Open a command prompt (or shell in Linux) with administrative privilleges Connect to a mysql instance using command line: if you are … Read more
How to enable and test CORS on Plesk https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12173990/how-can-you-debug-a-cors-request-with-curl https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001338265-How-to-set-up-CORS-cross-origin-resource-sharing-in-Plesk-for-Linux- and https://awesometoast.com/cors/
Recently there was an issue where the fopen and curl function and shell_exec functions were reverting back to original values. Using the MutiPHP Editor was not working. the resolution was that the php-fmp handler was being used on a cpanel server. So the php-fpm config file needed to be changed. The line that needs to … Read more
The Plesk Control Panel has the ability to create multiple MySQL and PostgreSQL databases as well as multiple users within each database. Also, directly accessible via Plesk, are the links to phpMyAdmin and PhpPGAdmin, the PHP interface applications that abstract mysql or postgresql into a web-based administration tool, allowing you to sort, edit, and create … Read more
I went and adjusted the expected time out to 4 hours on every domain and on the default settings through Plesk. But it seems that instead of time outs being handled by php, the server runs a cron job that handles the timeouts and ignore php settings. That breaks our apps. Is it there a … Read more