Referrer Spam

Referrer spam is traffic from bots that impersonate a referral link. The pseudo traffic is designed to make their domain show up in your site analytics so that you’ll visit the site. Referrer spammers just forge the referrer of a http request to make their site show up in your logs/statistics. More information: http://blog.raventools.com/stop-referrer-spam/

How to restore default permissions on a domain

How to restore default permissions on a domain? Resolution In case default permissions on the domain folder are lost, the following actions can be performed to restore them: In Parallels Plesk Panel (PP), go to the Domains page, mark the required domains, and click on the Check permissions button. Then uncheck the Check-only mode checkbox … Read more

Installing the Remote Desktop Session Host role service on a computer running Windows Server 2012 without the Remote Desktop Connection Broker role service

This configuration, will provide desktop sessions to users based on the number of Remote Desktop Services client access license (RDS CALs) installed on the server, but will not provide access to RemoteApp programs or the RDWeb site.

Consideration for installing the Remote Desktop Session Host role service on a computer running Windows Server 2012 without the Remote Desktop Connection Broker role service.

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Enabling Adobe Flash Player on Windows Server 2012 / R2 and installing Flash Player on Windows 2008 R2.

Internet Explorer 10 is available by default with Windows Server 2012 /R2 , which includes Adobe Flash Player as a platform feature. However, the plugin is enabled only if you enable the Desktop Experience feature. To enable Desktop Experience on Windows Server 2012 1. Open Server Manager and click Add Roles and Features. 2. When … Read more

RKHunter warnings improvement

APPLIES TO: Plesk 12.0 for Linux Plesk 11.0 for Linux Plesk 11.5 for Linux Symptoms I started a security check through Parallels Plesk Panel at Modules -> Watchdog -> Security -> Start. The process finished successfully, however, the following warning messages are reported in the Watchdog security check log (/var/log/rkhunter.log): Warning: The command ‘/usr/bin/GET’ has … Read more

File and Folder Permissions in Linux

In a typical UNIX/LINUX-style file listing, a file will be displayed in the following way: Output: The first character indicates the file type. It can be a regular file (-), directory (d), a symbolic link (l), or other special types of files. The following nine characters represent the file permissions, three triplets of three characters … Read more

Mod_Rewrite on IIS Plesk Server

On Windows, similar results can be achieved using the IIS URL Rewrite functionality. To enable this functionality, place the desired rewrite rules in a web.config file in your website’s document root directory. Refer to the IIS documentation for more information. More info: http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/using-the-url-rewrite-module Windows 2008 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7435 For Windows Plesk servers, this KB says that IIS … Read more

Add New Drive to Windows 2012

Once you’ve added a new hard disk to Windows Server 2012, you’ll notice that it’s not showing up as a new drive in My Computer. To add a new hard drive to Windows Server 2012, do the following: Open Server Manager Click on File and Storage Services Click on Disks Right click on the new … Read more