Recovering Parallels Plesk panel password

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:20:45 +0000

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 …

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

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:56:55 +0000

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 …

Access tomcat Admin area

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:58:02 +0000

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> <!-- …

Change timezone on dedicated server

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:33:52 +0000

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

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

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:38:30 +0000

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.

Install wine on CentOS

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:13:55 +0000

Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems. SSH the server as root and refer to following steps …

error: subsystem: cannot stat /usr/libexec/sftp-server

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:56:11 +0000

Unable to connect SFTP via FTP client on Plesk server. FTP logs show following: As mentioned in the error, file /usr/libexec/sftp-server was not present. To fix this problem you can refer to following steps: 1) root@office1 [~]#locate sftp-server /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server 2) Edit ssh configuration file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and comment the line containing "/usr/libexec/sftp-server" and add new line which …

SMTP Error (435): Authentication failed

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:25:43 +0000

While sending an email from Roundcube webmail I was receiving following error To fix this issue edit file /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/main.inc.php and make following changes. i.e remove %u $rcmail_config['smtp_user'] = ‘%u’; to $rcmail_config['smtp_user'] = ‘ ‘;

boot Ubuntu into single user mode

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:09:00 +0000

Booting UBUNTU into single user mode is slightly different then CENTOS. 1) Hold the Shift key at boot to display the Grub boot menu. If you fail to press Shift key then you will not see boot menu 2) Select the first Grub entry, it will be similar to: Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic-pae 3) Press e to edit the the …

The MySQL® server is currently offline

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:55:33 +0000

While going to cPanel >> Mysql database I was getting following error: On checking server side I found that mysql service is online and still cPanel was throwing the error. FIX: This issue is mainly caused when mysql root password is not set on the server. To fix the issue Login to WHM as root …