Category Archives: Linux
cPanel/WHM logs and locations
Many times you will run across an issue and are unsure what is happening/happened. cPanel has many logs available to the user, but it’s finding the location of these logs that is important. In this post, we will be talking about cPanel logs, and what is in the logs. You can always use the grep …
How to migrate an OpenVZ container to another hardware node
If you have a container that you want to move to another hardware node to help load balance your servers, this walk-through will explain how. The first thing you need to do is setup SSH keys. On the server that you are going to move a container FROM, run the following command: wget http://files.soluslabs.com/solusvm/scripts/keyput.sh chmod …
Installing ImageMagick on a cPanel server
If you have a client asking for ImageMagick to be installed on a server, do the following. First, make sure that it is not already installed. To do this, SSH to the server, and type the following: which convert This command will tell you where the convert (the main image magick binary) file is located …
How to reset the Miva Admin password in Miva 4.x and 5.x
If you have a client that has lost their Miva admin password, you can reset it quite easily. To do so, do the following. Miva Merchant 4.x In /home/$username/mivadata (or where ever they have their mivadata setup) create a file called pre-provide.dat In this file, put the following line MERCHANT|||ACTION|DOMAIN_ADD_UPDATE_USER|,|temp,Hg8nFi!23,Y,Y,N,1000,N Set the ownership to …
How to enable Passive FTP mode on cPanel
If passive mode is not enabled on your FTP server, then a customer who’s trying to use passive mode will timeout when trying to get a directory listing. To enable passive mode on your ftp server on a cPanel server, do the following: Pure-FTP SSH to the server as root (or another user, then su …
Setup quota on OpenVZ VPS containers
It seems that out of the box, OpenVZ with cPanel, disk quotas do not work. You can set quotas on clients accounts inside the WHM, but they don’t actually calculate, so essentially, everybody on that server has unlimited disk space. To correct this, you need to make the following changes on the VPS hardware node. …
Deciphering CSF blocked messages on a cPanel server
Often a client will get their IP address blocked on CSF (http://configserver.com/cp/csf.html). The blocked messages will tell you why it was blocked, however it’s usually quite vague stating it was blocked for failed passwords to the POP3 server. What it doesn’t tell you however is which account caused the block. Here is my cheat sheet …
How to get a listing of all Joomla installs on your server, and their versions.
This how to applies to Linux based, cPanel, and Plesk servers. If you are looking to find out who on your server is running old insecure versions of Joomla, then the following commands will help to track them down. This will scan through all your users home directories, find out who has Joomla installed, and …
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