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Install AWStats On DirectAdmin

You Can Install AWstats On DirectAdmin Using The Following Steps cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild nano options.conf change “awstats=no” to “awstats=yes” ./build update ./build awstats nano /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf change “”awstats=0” “awstats=1” cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts ./awstats.sh echo ‘action=tally&value=all’ >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue /usr/local/directadmin/dataskq d /etc/init.d/directadmin restart  

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How To Update Apache To Latest Version On DirectAdmin Server?

Here are the steps to update Apache to latest version for direct-admin server First check current version of apache: / usr/sbin/httpd -v CustomBuild – current If you’re using custombuild (as most new boxes are), run the following cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild ./build update ./build apache ./build php n ./build rewrite_confs CustomApache – end-of-life If you are using customapache with the 1.3 version of apache to the most recent, run the following: cd /usr/local/directadmin/customapache ./build clean ./build update ./build apache_mod_ssl If you’re using apache 2.x, use “./build apache_2” isntead of apache_mod_ssl. This should update both the configure options and the [...]

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Upgrading MySQL From 5.5.29 To 5.5.30 On DirectAdmin Server

Upgrading MySQL From 5.5.29 To 5.5.30 On Direct Admin Server I am not sure if the following error gets fixed by doing a MySQL upgrade to the latest version, But it did worked for us So you can give a try. [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Sort aborted: Server shutdown in progress Problem appears with sites not being able to access database and some times later it starts working. TO fix the problem Just follow the simple steps provided below to upgrade mysql. Login into the [...]

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How To Check Plesk MTA And How To Switch From QMail To Postfix And Back?

There are two MTA that are supported by Plesk since version 9: – Qmail – Postfix Each time, only one of them is used by Parallels Plesk Panel.The MTA that is currently used by Parallels Plesk Panel is shown on the Services management page at Home -> Services Management: SMTP Server (Postfix) or SMTP Server (QMail) And you can also check the through command line: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mailmng --features | grep SMTP_Server $features[‘SMTP_Server’] = “QMail“; $features[‘SMTP_Server_package’] = “psa-qmail“; OR /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mailmng --features | grep SMTP_Server $features[‘SMTP_Server’] = “Postfix“; $features[‘SMTP_Server_package’] = “Postfix“; You can switch the MTA from Qmail [...]

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How To Manage QMail Queue In Linux Plesk?

Plesk server uses qmail as a mail server. Following are some of the qmail commands for Plesk server. 1) To check the mail queue in plesk from command line, you can use the command : # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat messages in queue: 10 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 2) You can examine the queue with qmail-qread. # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread 3) From the qread command you get the message’s id . In the above example , one of the id is 524514 . Now you can [...]

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cPanel To DirectAdmin Migration Conversion Tool

Its now quite easy to migrate accounts from cPanel to DirectAdmin using conversion tool Before proceed,  First we will need to download conversion tool  and you can download it from here :: STEPS TO FOLLOW :: 1) Download and extract the version URL (from above) that you wish to use. (wget and tar xzf) 2) Create import and export directories for the tool to use. (mkdir import export) 3) Copy your cPanel user backups into the import directory. 4) Edit [...]

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FTP Error “530 Valid Hostname Is Expected”

When connecting to IIS7 ( Internet Information Server – the default web server for windows servers ) using FTP you get the following error. Response: 530 Valid hostname is expected. Error: Could not connect to server Reason When you set up name-based FTP services IIS7 wants the site name defined with the username so that IIS7 can associate the username with the site they wish to log in to. If you are having more than one FTP site on your VPS you will need [...]

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Register 32-Bit Dynamic-Link Library (DLL) On 64-Bit Windows 2008 Server

Here is the method on how to register a 32-bit DLL file on a 64-BIT  Windows 2008 server. When you attempt to run Regsvr32.exe to register a 32-bit dynamic-link library (DLL) on a 64-bit version of Windows via command prompt, you may receive certain error messages, This behavior occurs because the Regsvr32.exe file in the System32 folder is a 64-bit version. When you run Regsvr32 to register a DLL, you are using the 64-bit version by default. So what you need [...]

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Adding .svc Extension With IIS – Windows 2008

To verify that the svc file type is mapped correctly in IIS 7.0 1.         Open a command prompt window and type start inetmgr to open the Internet Information Services (IIS) MMC snap-in. 2.         In the left pane, expand the node with the computer’s name, then expand the Web Sites node, and then select the Default Web Site. 3.         Double-click Handler mappings in the Features View. 4.         In the list of application mappings, verify that the .svc file is mapped to the aspnet_isapi.dll. If the [...]

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Upgrade MySQL On Plesk CentOS Linux

We had successfully upgraded from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.1.47 along with PHP on one of our Plesk server. Please use this solution if you notice any package conflicts, or other concerns with using 5.1 in your environment. Like PHP, this will be a full change to the newer packages and the 5.0 series will be retired. The procedure is quite simple 1.) wget -q -O – http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh | sh 2.)  To upgrade: yum –enablerepo=atomic-testing upgrade MySQL That’s it,  And if you simply [...]

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