What is Virtfs in cpanel ? How it is created ? The /home/virtfs is a file system for the jailshell shell in cPanel servers. A jailed shell is used for restricting the access for the user. In a normal shell most binaries and libraries are available to user. It can cause security issues on your … Read more
Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority launched on April 12, 2016. It provides free X.509 certificates for (TLS) encryption using an automated process designed to eliminate the current complex process of manual creation, installation, and renewal of certificates for secure websites. Using Let’s Encrypt the web administrators can turn on and manage HTTPS with simple commands. Let’s Encrypt make … Read more
DirectAdmin is one of the control panel available for hosting websites. In this blog article we are describing how we can generate CSR For a website through DirectAdmin control panel. Login to the DirectAdmin control panel. Click the User Level option from the right hand Menu. Click website name you wish to generate CSR Click … Read more
ImageMagick is a tool used to convert, edit, compose bitmap images. It has libraries available for common programming languages like PHP, .net, Python etc. At this moment the latest version of ImageMagick ( ImageMagick-7.0.1 ) allows attacker to execute his own command remotely. We can prevent this venerbility by preventing HTTPS, TEXT. MVG etc in … Read more
If we are missing ‘Quotas and limits’ option in the Virtualmin, please follow below steps. Login to Panel >> On Left side click “system settings” >> Click Re-Check VM configuration.
Sometimes you may come across with such an error displayed while going to webmail interface. This can be for both horde or roundcube. DATABASE ERROR: CONNECTION FAILED! Unable to connect to the database! Please contact your server-administrator To Fix this issue , you need to update the rouncube or horde user password in mysql.user table … Read more
If every server had plenty of RAM in the real world that does not happen. If for some reason you have a server with too little SWAP or you are hitting the max of the swap. Here is a quick way to add 1GB swap to the server. dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swapfilesys bs=1024 count=1024000 mkswap /usr/swapfilesys … Read more
Change Site IP via WHM Go to WHM > Change site’s IP Address , select the account, then select the IP Change Site IP via Command Line in cPanel /usr/local/cpanel/bin/setsiteip -u $USER $IP For moving all accounts in a server from one Ip to another using the following script; #! # https://www.nixtree.com # Contact [email protected] … Read more
Today we found such a strange error with one of the servers, and it was preventing us from accessing its cPanel. Though someone has intentionally did it to prevent server from renewing the certificate automatically, I thought to share this as someone may meet this error with some crazy servers 🙂 . So the file … Read more
Applies to : Parallels Plesk 11.0.9 Debian 6.0
Symptoms
We are getting the following error while adding subscription from Plesk
Error: No secure shell available
Cause
Issue caused because psa got corrupted, so try repair the psa database.
Resolution
Take backup of the plesk database “psa”