How to disable root login through SSH

How to disable root login through SSH.

Before you do this make sure you have created another user in the wheel group.

To disable root login through ssh, edit the following file:

# /etc/ssh/sshd_config

browse to the following line:

PermitRootLogin yes

and change to:

PermitRootLogin no

Save the file and restart ssh.

# /etc/init.d/ssh restart

If you are ssh'd into the server with root when this is done, your connection will fail on the restart of ssh.

To get admin password of plesk

Login to the server through ssh.

# cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow

How to install Ioncube On Plesk VPS

1) Login into shell through root

2) cd /usr/localDownload the tar.gz file which is compatible with your server from http://downloads.ioncube.com/wget http://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_…lin_x86.tar.gz

3) Untar the file.tar -zxf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz

4) chown -R root:root /usr/local/ioncube/

5) vi /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini (or whatever your path is)In Plesk the path is

/usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini

/etc/php.ini

Add the following line before any other zend_extension

zend_extension=/usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_4.4.so

It would go between these two entries

zend_optimizer.version=2.5.10a

zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so

Save changes, then:

6) /etc/init.d/httpd restart

PHP upgrade on plesk ?

Hello,
How to upgrade php on Plesk 8.1.x ?

>>Make sure that you have YUM installed on your plesk server. If so then do the following steps
Step 1) Set up the atomic channel:wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh sh
Step 2) Check all the updated modules version using >>yum update
Step 3) Upgrade the php to the latest version 5.2.x using the following command >>yum update php
Step 4) Replace the PHP 4 ini with PHP 5.2.x's (if applicable)mv /etc/php.ini.rpmnew /etc/php.ini
Step 5) Step 4) Replace the php.conf with the PHP 5.2 php.conf (if applicable)

mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf.rpmnew /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf

Thats all... :)

Combat with spamming On plesk

1. Log into the Plesk >Click- 'Server' > 'Mail'

2. Inside 'Server-wide mail preferences' option-> In the 'Relaying' section - Confirm you have selected 'authorization is required' option and you have ticked the POP3 and SMTP option

3. Check that you have added all local and virtual domains to /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts . Never leave the file rcpthosts as blank as this will lead to an open relay

Where is Internal Plesk Database

Plesk Database installed as a different instance of MySQL and it is running on a different TCP IP port: 8306. It has a database named PSA.
Use the following command to connect to psa database:
mysql -uadmin -p psa -P8306.

Plesk Qmail logs

Plesk Qmail logs
tail -f /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog
tail -f /var/log/messages
/var/log/mail.info

You can edit the /etc/xinetd.d/smtp_psa file and add -a to exclude the IPs which you dont want to be blocked by the RBL lists:
e.g:
server_args = -Rt0 /usr/sbin/rblsmtpd -a 59.93.244.0 -r relays.ordb.org ..

How make safe_mode=off for a domain in plesk

How make safe_mode=off for a domain in plesk

Login in to plesk select the domain
Domains > domain.com > setup
PHP support (PHP 'safe_mode' on ) untick it to make safemode off

How to access the site by ip address (Plesk)

How to access the site by ip address (Plesk)

To make site browse Ip address
Server > IP Address > Hosting > select the site domain.com > Set As Default

To change Ip address of domain
Login to pleskDomains > domain.com > setup > ipaddress

How create subdomain ssl in plesk

Create it as a normal site. ie secure.site.com as a normal site. Then you will see the ssl options. As a side note you need to make sure you have a static IP for that domain to use the with a ssl cert.

Unable to change ownership of file

Error
# chown ftp.domain.org.psacln .htaccess
chown: `ftp.domain.org.psacln': invalid group

FIX
# chown ftp\.domain\.org:psacln .htaccess
Please put \ before the dot as there are too many dots in the ownership

Dns entries on plesk for domain

/var/named/run-root/var/domain.com

Cannot FTP to a domain after its physical hosting has been recreated

After that it's impossible to login by ftp to the domain, the FTP server returns an error:
530 User fp1 cannot log in, home directory inaccessible.
CAUSE
IIS cache causes this problem.
RESOLUTION
Here is two possible ways to resolve:

1. Clean up IIS FTP service cache. To reset FTP cache restart IIS FTP
servicenet stop MSFTPSvc
net start MSFTPSvc

2. Disable IIS FTP cache. To completely disable caching set the following parameter:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\InetInfo\Parameters\DisableMemoryCache DWORD 1

Web Based MSSQL manager not working

Web Based MSSQL manager not working

Error

Web Based MSSQL manager is not working when I goes to http://mssql.domain.com after opening when click on any links it is not taking me to login page.

FIX

The problem with SQL admin has been caused by disabled ASP.NET 1.1 as web service extension. I went to IIS > Web service extensions > Allow ASP.NET 1.1. After that I got sql admin working