Running your commands/scripts in background – screen !

At times, it is required to run your scripts or commands in the background rather than doing it directly over SSH. There can be a situation when your internet connection can get unstable and things get shaky. Every important stuffs you execute in your server is...

Unable to retrieve license keys in Plesk ?

When trying to retrieve license keys from Plesk panel, are you getting an error : Licensing Server Unreachable: Unable to connect with licensing server. Please make sure that your network allows communication to ka.parallels.com:5224. Login to your server via SSH and...

Disable CGI scripting in your cPanel server !

We might decide to disable CGI on the server because of the consequences that weak CGI scripts can have on our server security. If any vulnerable holes are found and the hacker uploads and runs a CGI script, they can get even root access to the server. Well then, how...

Finding an issue with Zend Optimizer ?

When you open your webpage, are you getting the message that “Zend Optimizer not installed”, when you are pretty sure that it is installed in your server ? You are also sure that nothing has changed in the server and you get this message all of a sudden....

Unable to upgrade Plesk from 11.5.x ?

When trying to run an upgrade from Plesk panel or via scripts from the back-end, does this process gets halt due to the error given below ? Tpsa-proftpd-1.3.5-6.el5.art.x86_64.rpm | 1.7 MB 00:00 warning: xxxx: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 signature: NOKEY, key ID xxxxxx Fatal...

EasyApache failing to rebuild ? -Part 1

Is EasyApache failing to rebuild Apache/PHP with the following error codes ? ext/pcre/php_pcre.o: In function `pcre_get_compiled_regex’: php_pcre.c:(.text+0x31b): undefined reference to `pcre_info’ collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: ***...

Virtuozzo – Not able to start/stop a mounted VPS ?

There are many situations in which you may find a VPS in its mounted state. Usually a # vzctl start VEID, would attempt to start the container back. But there are situations in which this task would be hung in the system memory. You may get something an error similar...

Adding mod_proxy_fcgi module to httpd via EasyApache !

mod_proxy_fcgi is the FastCGI support module for mod_proxy. Using the module mod_proxy, Apache can be configured as both a forward and reverse proxy. mod_proxy_fcgi makes this possible via the protocol FastCGI. You can read more about mod_proxy from the official...

How do I train SpamAssassin in a cPanel VPS ?

Getting incoming spam mails to your server can be very annoying, especially if you have already configured many settings to stop the rate of spams. In this post, let us have a look through the SpamAssassin (SA) training which has been found very useful in cutting the...