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October 18, 2012

Blank login page with Parallels Plesk

A recent micro-update from Parallels seems to have broken the login page on some Parallels Plesk servers. In my case, it was a Plesk 9.5.4 server running on Linux. If you look in the Plesk web server (“sw-cp-server”) error log at “/var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log” then you should see entries such as: (mod_fastcgi.c.2582) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_failure_redirect_url() in...

Plesk Comments: 0

May 21, 2012

Parallels Plesk Atmail and Error: Password file could not be found

When logging into the Atmail webmail interface used by Parallels Plesk, you might receive the following error: Error: Password file could not be found If you take a look in the log files for the Atmail vhost (/var/log/atmail/error_log) then you should see something along the lines of: PHP Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/etc/psa-webmail/atmail/.atmail.shadow) is not within the...

Plesk Comments: 0

May 2, 2012

4GB of RAM on a Juniper J-Series router (J6350)

Officially the Juniper J-series routers such as the J6350 only supports a maximum 2GB of RAM. The J6350 comes with 1GB of RAM installed and if you want to add more then you have to buy your RAM from Juniper at inflated prices, however as the J-series are standard x86 machines with Netburst era Celeron and Pentium 4 processors you...

Juniper Comments: 0

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...

Nginx/SolusVM Comments: 0

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...

Plesk Comments: 0

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...

Linux/Plesk Comments: 0

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...

Nginx/SolusVM Comments: 0

February 5, 2012

Disabling highlighting of objects in Zimbra web UI

Zimbra has a couple of Zimlets (plugins) that highlight parts of messages when viewed in the Zimbra Web Console such as dates, phone numbers and e-mails and turn them into special contextual links. Whilst this functionality is often quite useful, sometimes you just need to see the raw, unadulterated e-mail without your client interfering with the content – particularly if...

Zimbra 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...

Nginx/SolusVM Comments: 0

October 5, 2011

RIP Steve Jobs

RIP Steve Jobs, you have truly changed the face of both computing and society in general. Few people have had such a great and positive impact on the world as you did. You will be sorely missed. Apple have a brief tribute to the great man over at http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

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