Unable to unsuspend a domain in Plesk
If you perform a Plesk upgrade, you may notice you are unable to unsuspend a domain from the Plesk control panel resulting in the following message: Warning: The domain is still suspended for the...
View ArticleTomcat failure after Apache rebuild in CPanel
After rebuilding Apache in CPanel using easyapache or WHM there are many things that can go wrong even if you use a stable branch of CPanel. For example Tomcat that was installed from CPanel can fail...
View ArticleHow to Optimize and Secure a Virtual Private Server (VPS) and Virtual...
This article covers a wide range of methods for securing and optimizing your VPS/VDS. We do not provide any warranty for this article, so if you are not sure what you are doing please make sure you...
View Articlecentos 6.2 install mod_perl error
Q: i install new directadmin on centos 6.2 x 64 and after install # cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild # ./build clean # ./build mod_perl and…. error File already exists: mod_perl-2.0.4.tar.gz MD5...
View ArticleHow to fix Broken RedHat up2date support on Parallels Plesk
In Parallels Plesk Panel 10.0.1 installed on RedHat 4 OS try upgrading any component through Autoinstaller in Parallels Plesk interface. The following error is shown: There was an error downloading: ……...
View ArticleDisk Usage is showing 0.00
*** Note: If you’re running a VPS with a “simfs” file system, quotas usually cannot be enabled with normal means. Contact yoru VPS provider to enable quotas for you. DirectAdmin relies on the system...
View Articledefer_router defer (-1): All deliveries are handled by MailScanner
You suddenly realize that the emails on your server are not working and the mail logs shows the following messages: 1MnfEt-0007pQ-Tn == xyz@abc.com R=defer_router defer (-1): All deliveries are handled...
View ArticleHow to fix ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
Q: I have Reinstall DA in my Server, but I login squirrelmail with some error, “ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.”, Please help me fixed this error A: cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild...
View ArticleFailed domain creation: mailmng failed
If you receive “virtual.db: No such file or directory” error message while adding a domain in Plesk control panel, you need to create the virtual.db file and place it in the proper location. The...
View ArticleI’ve deleted /home, how do I recreate the directories?
Generally, this isn’t the best thing to have happen because all of the data is stored there. You’ll need to recreate all of the directory structures, as well as a few files required for DA to run: 1)...
View Article/usr/bin/crontab permissions are wrong (6755)
While adding a cron job from cPanel, you may see an error message as /usr/bin/crontab permissions are wrong (6755). Please set to 4755. The reason is quite simple, the “crontab” executable have...
View Articlequeueprocd failed @ xxx. A restart was attempted
After the recent cPanel update your mailbox may be filling up with the “queueprocd service failed” emails. For example: ( queueprocd failed @ Fri Jan 1 00:00:00 2010. A restart was attempted...
View ArticleDirectAdmin Modify Multiple Users
Past that, I’d use a script, similar to what Peter mentioned. I tend to just write simple perl regex’s to work right on the user.conf files. eg: disable spam: cd /usr/local/directadmin/data/users perl...
View ArticlePlesk: componentUpdate failed: Unable to exec utility packagemng
You may see an “Unable to exec utility packagemng” error message while accessing the Plesk control panel. The error generally occurs after performing a Plesk control panel upgrade and the complete...
View ArticleHow to find/locate a Spammer on a Linux Plesk server?
If you feel emails are saturated in the Plesk Qmail mail queue, there is a possibility that your Plesk server is been used for sending spam emails. On a Plesk server relaying is not allowed by default...
View ArticleHow to install PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 together on cPanel server?
Although PHP 5.2 is becoming outdated, still a lot of applications and custom scripts still works on PHP 5.2. However, as per cPanel PHP 5.2 is “End of Life” and may stop offering it soon. So here is...
View ArticleFatal! Write Failure: /etc/valiases/domain.tld
You may see error “Fatal! Write failure” error message while adding email forwarders OR setting a catchall email address from cPanel >> “Email Accounts” section. The error is: Fatal! Write...
View ArticleCorrecting ownership of all cPanel Users
If you mess up with the ownership of all the users on a cPanel server, following script will help you to correct the ownership: for i in `cat /etc/trueuserdomains | awk ‘{print $2}’` do { /bin/chown...
View ArticleChange Hostname of Cpanel Server
This task is very simple and can be done in two steps: 1.) Login as root and change your server hostname: hostname newhos.name.tld Note: Don’t forget to create an A entry for your new hostname,...
View ArticleUnable to delete an email account from cPanel
The e-mail address postmaster@mydomain.com deleted successfully. Sorry, you do not have access to the domain mydomain.com The error message is displayed when you delete an email account of a domain...
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