Archive for the ‘hosting’ Category

Custom mail filtering in plesk9 postfix

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

This arcticle desribes how we can implement custom mail filtering in a plesk9 server having postfix as the MTA. This can be used for mailfiltering tasks like moving over spam messages to a spam or .Spam folder at delivery time etc.This is only a single use that i have described here..but you can devise do [...]

Plesk9 integration with Postfix and ClamAV

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Officially Plesk 9 does not support  ClamAV (Parallels as of the time of writing officially supports two antivirus solutions that needs you to pay for the license )
The integration uses Plesk9- Postfix - ClamSMTP - clamAV to get things working.This was accomplished in a CentOS -5.2 system .But it should work just fine on other [...]

Cpanel Hooks and custom configurations

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Modifying the source code of cpanel control panel is prohibited by End User License Agreement (EULA)
So how would you implement some custom fucnctionality?
Cpanel provides something called hooks! for this purpose .Hooks are basically files that are checked and if present executed after some  internal cpanel process like account creation,termination etc
I would provide the example of [...]

Ruby On Rails Hosting -A Laymans Approach

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Recently there is a lot of Hype in Ruby On Rails commonly called ROR . Ruby On Rails  claims to be a platform with Rapid development .The problem arises when when people used to the PHP hosting world switch to Rails Hosting . Then people start to realize whey there are millions of WebHosts offering [...]

List of Different web servers on GNU Linux

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Today we have different web servers available on the GNU/Linux platform.Here i am listing only the web servers that can be used for a mainstream web hosting environment
The web servers can be classified basically into 2
1. Process based webserver - In a process based web server each new connection is handled by a new web [...]

Howto disable access log in nginx

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

The following configuration disables logging the http requests in nginx
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http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
#log_format main ‘$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $request ‘
# [...]

Howto enable Directory Listing in nginx

Monday, September 1st, 2008

To enable directory listing use the following configuration option:
autoindex on;

eg:
server { listen 80; server_name gnusys.net; autoindex on;…………}

Good WHM-cpanel troubleshooting guide

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

The following guide (property of Cpanel.net ) is a good starting point in troubleshooting cpanel /whm problems
Please note that this document belongs to Cpanel.net and may contain proprietary informationr
Download a copy from here
http://gnusys.net/downloads/Troubleshooting.pdf

Howto install Nginx from source

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Nginx is a very fast ,powerful asynchronous web server that can be considered as a good replacement for the Apache HTTPD web server. Below are the steps required to get Nginx installed on your system. It is preffered to install Nginx from source as we get the latest stable version of this project as compared [...]

Plesk Control Panel icons missing!

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Scenario:- Add Application icon missing or grayed out
“Add New Application” icon can be missing if “Hide all greyed out buttons by default” is enabled on the Server -> Interface management page in Plesk CP.
“Add New Application” can be greyed out if some application is already installed in the domains’ DocumentRoot folder (httpdocs or httpsdocs). It [...]