Category: Control panels

February 20, 2012

SolusVM Nginx PHP bug

It looks like there is a bug in the SolusVM Nginx installer which means that the php_cgi service doesn’t start on a reboot. It seems that the installer sets the unused “spwan-fcgi” process to start, but not the “php_cgi” service that is actually used to handle SolusVM. Luckily, this is easy enough to fix by running two commands on any...

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February 11, 2012

Missing Parallels Plesk for Linux updates

If you’re using Parallels Plesk 9.x with Postfix as the MTA, there appears to be a bug which can stop Plesk from displaying important updates that are available, including the micro-updates which provide important bug fixes and security updates. If you are using the Updates section of the Plesk web interface, then no error message is displayed, so it just...

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February 6, 2012

Regenerate statistics in Parallels Plesk for Linux

Every night Parallels Plesk for Linux servers run a cron job to process various log files and generate statistics. This includes generating the HTML for the AWStats or Webalizer log analysis packages used for the Plesk “web statistics” features as well as updating the disk usage and bandwidth usage for each domain. Sometimes you need to re-run this task, such...

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February 6, 2012

Commercial SSL certificates with SolusVM

When you install SolusVM it generates a self signed SSL certificate for use with the end user control panel and admin interface, however it would be wise to purchase a certificate from a commercial certificate authority to prevent man in the middle attacks (and get rid of annoying browser warning messages). There are two different methods of installing SSL certificates...

Categories Nginx/SolusVM Comments: 0

February 4, 2012

Convert SolusVM from Lighttpd to Nginx

Historically the brilliant SolusVM VPS control panel have used the Lighttpd web server on their master and slave nodes, however it is now possible to use the popular Nginx as an alternative web-server. I’m a big fan of the performance and flexibly of Nginx, not to mention that in my opinion the Nginx configuration files are just much easier to...

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September 29, 2011

Unable to send attachments in Horde

I recently came across a bizzare issue in the version of Horde webmail shipped with Parallels Plesk 9.5.2 where it would allow you to attach files to an e-mail you are composing, but when you send the e-mail the attachment never arrives. Sending the same attachment via the Atmail webmail client or a traditional SMTP client wasn’t a problem and...

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June 27, 2011

Parallels Plesk and Atomic Secured Linux

If you are experiencing HTTP 500 Internal Server Error messages from the license management part of the Parallels Plesk control panel when running on Atomic Secured Linux, then you are probably running into some buggy anti-reverse engineering code that Parallels have built into the Plesk software. It seems that Parallels are using ptrace to determine if someone has attached a...

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June 19, 2011

Remove CDP 2.0 cPanel integration

A handy feature of R1Soft CDP Server 2.0 (now known as Enterprise Edition) is that it can integrate with cPanel so that your users can restore their own files from your backups using a self service interface. If you want to remove this integration for any reason, then R1Soft provide a BASH shell script to do this for you: /usr/lib/buagent/control-panels/cpanel/remove-cpanel-integration.sh...

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April 28, 2011

Missing kernel initial RAM disk with SolusVM and Xen

If for any reason your /boot/solus-vmlinuz symlink as well the /boot/solus-initrd.img initial RAM disk are missing or incorrect in Dom0 on one of your SolusVM Xen slaves, then you can force SolusVM to regenerate them using the latest Xen enabled copy of the kernel installed on the server using the following command in Dom0 on the slave: php /usr/local/solusvm/includes/xenkernel.php This...

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February 9, 2011

Parallels Plesk 9 and SSL certificates signed by an intermediate Certificate Authority (CA)

Parallels Plesk 9 doesn’t seem to like installing certificates signed by an intermediate Certificate Authority (which is becoming more and more common and will be all certificates in the next year or two) through the SSL certificates part of the Plesk interface available to both administrators and end users. A work around to this seems to be to install the...

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