Posts Tagged ‘plesk’

Upgrade mysql to latest version in parallels plesk

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Note: It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software. Although MySQL has done its best to ensure a high level of quality, you should protect your data by making a backup. MySQL generally recommends that you dump and reload your tables from any previous version to upgrade [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

plesk DBWebadmin Access denied for user error

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Sometimes you get the following error when accessing DBWebadmin (phpMyadmin ) in plesk
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#1045 - Access denied for user ‘pma_tUuzljY3KmgS’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)
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pma_tUuzljY3KmgS may vary according to your system
To fix this
vi /usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/domains/databases/phpMyAdmin/libraries/config.default.php
and change the values of controluser , controlpass , pmadb to null
thats it ;save the file and now everything should work fine
Ref: http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=167179#post167179

Howto manage qmail queue in Plesk linux

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

You can use third party programs like qmail-remove http://www.linuxmagic.com/opensource/qmail/qmail-remove to accomplish queue management in plesk control panel managed qmail
The Plesk control panel itself provides a modified version od qmHandle ( http://qmhandle.sourceforge.net/ )along with it that can be used with ease to manage the queue
To see the statistics of the queue:

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailqueuemng -s
Messages in local queue:  0
Messages [...]

parallels plesk extras; script to extract plesk login and password

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

This script is useful in extracting the Parallels Plesk control panel client/reseller login ,password and email address.An quick script to aid in troubleshooting plesk login problems
wget http://gnusys.net/downloads/psaclientpass.bash
bash psaclientpass.bash

parallels plesk extras; script to extract ftp password from psa

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

This script comes handy to anyone who wants to extract the passwords for ftp users for a plesk domain.
OfCourse the username can be obtained from the Plesk control panel
The script also retrieves the home directory to which the user logs in when he authenticates successfully to the ftp daemon
wget http://gnusys.net/downloads/psaftppass.bash
bash  psaftppass.bash

Parallels plesk extra;script to extract database details of a client

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

The following script is very useful if you are planning to migrate or sync all database of a paticular reseller.I made it to aid in database recovery of a client from a failed Plesk Migration Manager (PMM) migration
Script has been tested to work on Parallels Plesk upto version 8.3.The output of the script is self [...]

plesk increase php memory_limit for a vhost

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

You can change the php memory_limit value for a particular domain or on a per virtual host basis by the following way
Add the following line to the file
/home/httpd/vhosts/gnusys.net/conf/vhost.conf
php_admin_value memory_limit “128M”
Reconfigure the vhost by running the following command
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –reconfigure-vhost –vhost-name=gnusys.net
and restart the webserver using the command
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –restart
Check if the setting is correct using phpinfo(); function