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This little tutorial is describing how to install a secure server certificate ( SSL ) on your Linux server using shell comands Here’s what to do First the site needs a dedicated IP and if does not have one you must assign one. Your certs are located in /usr/share/ssl/certs Read moreInstalling and Configuring your OnApp…
It seems no matter which flavor of linux / unix you are running and which control panel software that setting up custom name servers is always a problem. This How-To will be for installing name servers on a Linux CPanel server. Custom Name Servers are great because you can provide your webhosting customers with ns1.yourcompany.com…
Had problems with our RPMs and our sys-admin Tim Hass came up with the perfect answer ! First of all You just need to be sure that no rpm processes are running! Then delete /var/lib/rpm/__db.* and then run the command: Read moreInstalling and Configuring your OnApp Cloudrpm –rebuilddb -vv Nice one 🙂 Thanks Tim
While many people use the grep command through a pipe | there are more efficient ways of using it. I have nearly killed a server on many occasions by running cat filename |grep some-term while the command tries to list a huge file. Instead simply use egrep which is more efficient in terms of speed…
DDOS check via number of connections A quick and usefull command for checking if a server is under DDOS is That will list the IPs taking the most amount of connections to a server. It is important to remember that the ddos is becoming more sophistcated and they are using fewer connections with more attacking…
So ever since Apache moved to modular in version 2 you need to change your tune ups and modification for Apache in MPM instead of directly in apache
The Domain Name System, or DNS, is one of the most essential parts of the modern web. Whenever you enter a domain name into your browser’s URL bar, DNS facilitates the translation of this request by name servers into a server-routable IP address. This process is what makes browsing the web so easy to do….
>We’ve all been faced with the problem of weak passwords. As much as you inform users about password security, they want to use something they can easily remember. So, we end up with passwords like ‘ilovejohn’ and ‘toyota90210’. Even with the new password strength meters in cPanel, it is important to go that extra step…
Sometimes you manually need to run the logs for one account in cPanel , you can easily do this via SSH
Rsync is another very powerful command that is used to sync 2 directories between servers and only transfer the new files to the server. This is a great method for backups as it is low on bandwidth and it is also commonly used to keep clustered servers working together. The ending slashes are very important…
The replace command is a very simple but VERY powerful command that comes as part of mysql. It can be used to quickly replace entries within a group of files. Generally I find it useful for mass-modification of an IP for dns or TTL for dns.
Found an interessting post on the cPanel forum and though it might be of use for some, this is a sumary of the content: What is kernel panic on a Linux server ? Andy explains: A kernel panic is a message displayed by an operating system upon detecting an internal system error from which it…
If you are running your or your clients are running their own private exchange server in the office and need an external mail server set up from the cPanel server pointing to your exchange server then you will need to follow those steps below
In this article, Rais offers insights why Windows hardware failures may be causing some to update or replace devices that are still operational. Instead, he shows how powerful a tool Linux can be in tracking down hardware problems and validating some inherent issues with Windows device support… Complete articleD
A project has come around that’s finally got me working in Flash (a web animation software package, for those that don’t know) again – which is nice. What with the drive to simplicity and accessibility, Flash animations tend to be specified less than they used to by clients – and in fact this is a…
Even on Linux it sometimes happens that processes wear out their welcome and stick around longer than you would like them to. They simply ignore your request to close up and go away. Fortunately you have a powerful gun at your disposal that will clean out anything that doesn’t get a hint: The Arnold Schwarzenegger…
Charles Sweeney writes : This is how to get your server to send you a daily email showing the status of your APF firewall. In other words, letting you know if it’s running or not! APF firewall. Daily automated email showing firewall status
If you need more info on your CPU performance just simply run this shell command: cat /proc/cpuinfo
An update to the osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 version has been released that addresses security related issues and bug reports that exist in the released version.
In addition to understanding the threats, and implementing general defensive strategies, it is important to know more specific details about security in Joomla, as well some specific examples of how to implement security strategies.