Monthly Archive: January 2012

Jan 24

Recovering Parallels Plesk panel password

  Following are the steps to recover Plesk Control Panel Password. 1. SSH to the server as root user. 2. For Plesk version 10.1 and below, you can use following command to check/retrieve password. cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow   This file contains your admin Parallels Plesk Panel password Parallels Plesk Panel 10.2, however, encrypts this file. To view …

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Jan 22

mysql :Got error: 1016: Can’t open file: … (errno: 24) when using LOCK TABLES

  Sometimes, when you have got a large number of tables in your database and while taking the dump of that particular database, you would have encountered this strange error.  mysqldump: Got error: 1016: Can’t open file: ‘.\database\certain_table.frm’ (errno: 24) when using LOCK TABLES   There are two solutions for this problem. 1) Set the following …

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Jan 16

Access tomcat Admin area

Accessing Tomcat Admin area: http://server-ip-address:8080/admin/ You may receive a message:   This is because, by default admin section of tomcat is not enable. To enable Admin section, you can refer to following steps. “%TOMCAT_FOLDER%/conf/tomcat-users.xml” manually. If you have a cPanel server then you will find the file /usr/local/jakarta/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml Before editing the file: <?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’utf-8′?> <tomcat-users> <!– …

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Jan 16

Change timezone on dedicated server

Change timezone on CentOS If you have CentOS/RHEL Server then you can fallow following steps: 1) SSH the server as root. All Time zone configuration files are located under directory /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Example: Say your current server time is in GMT Format and you want to change it to IST time. cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta     /etc/localtime Thats all   …

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Jan 12

export.php was not found while backing up databases through phpmyadmin

  This error is mainly caused when database size is more and you are trying to backup it up using phpmyadmin.   Increase memory_limit in /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini to higher value and restart Plesk Control Panel after that. Ideally 512M of memory_limit should fix the issue. contact@webhostingsupport.info