There are two ways to install micro-updates for Parallels Plesk Panel. Using the Command Line Interface: #$PRODUCT_ROOT_D/admin/sbin/autoinstaller Note: The “$PRODUCT_ROOT_D” variable in the command should be replaced with its value according to Plesk variables. The exact value of path variables can be known from /etc/psa/psa.conf file on Parallels Plesk Panel server. Or use the following [...]

Latest update of the openssl package from CentOS breaks Parallels Panel 9.x. Errors are displayed in the /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log file when Panel is trying to start. The problem has been fixed since version 9.5.0. Download the appropriate package using the wget utility. Example for CentOS 5 x86: #wget -c http://kb.parallels.com/Attachments/12669/Attachments/sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386.rpm Install the downloaded package. Example for [...]

A flaw in the popular ProFTPD FTP server potentially allows unauthenticated attackers to compromise a server. The problem is caused by a buffer overflow in the pr_netio_telnet_gets() function for evaluating TELNET IAC sequences. ProFTPD bug report: http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3521 Fixes for the vulnerabilty and exploit. Parallels has used its micro-update patch functionality in Plesk 9.5x, Plesk 10, [...]

Parallels Business Automation Standard 3.4 does not support the licenses for Parallels Plesk Panel 10 To make Parallels Plesk Panel 10 licenses issuing possible, we need perform the following actions: Note: This solution should be installed on Parallels Business Automation – Standard 3.4 only. You can damage your installation if you install it on the [...]

When customer tries to see statistics from watchdog, an error message appears Internal error: failed to adjust system time in accordance with daylight savings time change. Also Watchdog’s cron job reports the error ERROR: WDExc Error occurred while processing database query: ‘MySQL query failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual [...]

PHP open_basedir errors occur when a script tries to access a directory outside of httpdocs. For security reasons Plesk only allows access to the httpdocs and tmp directories. So what if you need to access a different directory? The easiest way is to amend the vhost.conf file of the specific domain. Open the vhost.conf file [...]

The common method to manage a Linux server remotely is through CLI interface via SSH, which many people often find it difficult as they are not familar with the Linux commands. The solution is to install a KDE Or GNOME Desktop on the Linux server and access it through VNC. VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is [...]

Introduction Zimbra is a collaboration suite very widely used in the world. Users can share folders, contacts, schedules and other things, using a very rich web interface. Click here to know more about it. One important note is that we’re using CentOS 5 64bits, that is not oficially supported by Zimbra team (only RHEL and [...]

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to configure PureFTPd to accept TLS sessions on a CentOS 5.5 server. I do not issue any guarantee that [...]

This tutorial shows how to configure and use Network UPS Tools (NUT) software with an USB (Uninterruptible Power Supply) on CentOS 5.5. NUT is a software which supports several thousand models. To check if your UPS is supported, this is the link to the HCL: http://www.networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html Install NUT dependencies: yum install net-snmp-libs gd httpd Download [...]