To get rid of the horrible facebook like button and promo’s in your plesk panel do the following.
1. Create or edit a file with you favourite editor called:
/opt/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini
And add the following content:
showLikeLink=false
[rating]
enabled=false
[promos]
enabled=off
Thats it no more facebook and rubbish in your admin interface enjoy.
The Plesk interface does not support the webdav protocol. But Apache does support webdav. Webdav can be used as an iDisk under MacOS X. Webdav can also be used with Linux or Windows. Here are the steps to get webdav up and running. These instructions should work on Debian based system. But similar commands should work with all major Linux distributions:
First activate the webdav Apache modules and restart apache:
a2enmod dav
a2enmod dav_fs
service apache2 restart
Then create a vhost config for the domain you are using adding webdav. Please replace domain.tld with you domain. And check the directory line:
vi /var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/conf/vhost.conf
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/httpdocs>
DAV on
</Directory>
To get Plesk to include our custom configuration we must reconfigure the domain with the httpdmng.
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/httpdmng --reconfigure-domain domain.tld
This will make Plesk include the file vhost.conf in our Apache configuration adding the webdav directive.
You should be able to connect to the web share (webdav) now. Using the user name and password of the domain user in Plesk. You can either use the MacOS X finder (connect to server). Or you can also connect through most Linux desktops using Nautilus for example. If you experience any problems writing to the share. You may need to change the permissions on the folder so that the Apache user has write permissions:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/httpdocs/
Thats it you have created your own web share.
Create a file called “vhost.conf” in the directory “/var/www/vhosts/example.com/conf/”
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs>
php_admin_value safe_mode off
php_admin_flag register_globals on
</Directory>
Rebuild the domain config for the particular vhost with:
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/httpdmng --reconfigure-domain example.com
Or rebuild all vhosts if you changed more than one with:
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/httpdmng --reconfigure-all
You can also change other settings this way here are some examples:
php_admin_value post_max_size 20M
php_admin_value upload_max_filesize 20M
php_admin_value open_basedir none
After upgrading a plesk install yesterday. From 10.1 to 10.3.1 the admin panel started redirecting me from myserver.com:8443 to myserver.com:8443/relay. Which resulted in a 404 error with no plesk panel. During the upgrade plesk must have activated the sso component which stopped the webinterface from working. To fix this issue do the following:
/usr/local/psa/bin/sso --disable
generate a new private key and matching Certificate Signing Request (eg to send to a commercial CA)
openssl req -out MYCSR.csr -pubkey -new -keyout MYKEY.key
-add -nodes to create an unencrypted private key
-add -config if your config file has not been set in the environment
decrypt private key
openssl rsa -in MYKEY.key >> MYKEY-NOCRYPT.key
generate a certificate siging request for an existing private key
openssl req -out MYCSR.csr -key MYKEY.key -new
generate a certificate signing request based on an existing x509 certificate
openssl x509 -x509toreq -in MYCRT.crt -out MYCSR.csr -signkey MYKEY.key
create self-signed certificate (can be used to sign other certificates)
openssl req -x509 -new -out MYCERT.crt -keyout MYKEY.key -days 365
sign a Certificate Signing Request
openssl x509 -req -in MYCSR.csr -CA MY-CA-CERT.crt -CAkey MY-CA-KEY.key -CAcreateserial -out MYCERT.crt -days 365
-days has to be less than the validity of the CA certificate
convert DER (.crt .cer .der) to PEM
openssl x509 -inform der -in MYCERT.cer -out MYCERT.pem
convert PEM to DER
openssl x509 -outform der -in MYCERT.pem -out MYCERT.der
convert PKCS#12 (.pfx .p12) to PEM containing both private key and certificates
openssl pkcs12 -in KEYSTORE.pfx -out KEYSTORE.pem -nodes
add -nocerts for private key only; add -nokeys for certificates only
convert (add) a seperate key and certificate to a new keystore of type PKCS#12
openssl pkcs12 -export -in MYCERT.crt -inkey MYKEY.key -out KEYSTORE.p12 -name "tomcat"
check a private key
openssl rsa -in MYKEY.key -check
add -noout to not disclose the key
check a Certificate Signing Request
openssl req -text -noout -verify -in MYCSR.csr
check a certificate
openssl x509 -in MYCERT.crt -text -noout
check a PKCS#12 keystore
openssl pkcs12 -info -in KEYSTORE.p12
check a trust chain of a certificate
openssl verify -CAfile MYCHAINFILE.pem -verbose MYCERT.crt
-to check for server usage: -purpose sslserver
-to check for client usage: -purpose sslient
Confixx is a fairly popular Admin Panel in Germany to change certain settings in Confixx you can use an option called http special. Here are a few examples of values you may modify:
PHP Safe Mode (this is not recommended):
php_admin_flag safe_mode Off
PHP Memory Limit:
php_admin_value memory_limit 128M
PHP Max Execution Time / Max Input Time:
php_admin_value max_execution_time 120
php_admin_value max_input_time 120
PHP Max Upload Size / Max File Size
php_admin_value upload_max_file_size 32M
php_admin_value post_max_size 32M
PHP Open Basedir:
php_admin_value open_basedir /path/##user##
PHP Session Save Path:
php_admin_value session.save_path /path/##user##/phptmp
Confixx Mod Rewrite:
<Directory /var/www/##user##/html>
Options +FollowSymLinks +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +Multiviews
</Directory>
Disable PHP functions:
php_admin_value disable_functions popen,escapeshellcmd,system,exec,passthru
The variable: ##user## will match your current user if you are changing settings for more that one user this is extremely helpful
This howto shows you howto create a self signed SSL certificate without a passphrase. Using openssl with one single command:
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout mykey.key -out mycert.crt
After you have answered all the questions you should have two files one key file and one crt file. Please make sure to enter your domain name when asked for your common name. This can also be an ip address if you don’t have a domain name to use. You can change how long the cert is valid for by changing the value days. If you prefer to have your cert and key in one file normally called a pem file please use the following command:
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 1095 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout mycert.pem -out mycert.pem
As you can see the only thing i changed is instead of using two file names one for the key and one for the cert. You just repeat the first name which will create the cert and the key in one file called mycert.pem in our example.
1. In the directory
/var/www/vhosts/example.com/conf create a file called vhost.conf
2. Edit the file with a text editor and add the following line:
Documentroot /my/new/DocumentRoot
3. Then execute the following command
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -–reconfigure-vhost -–vhost-name=example.com
4. Okay thats it reload the apache webserver
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
A cron is run every 30 minutes to check on virus database updates via /etc/cron.d/drweb-update, which sends an email every 30 minutes to the plesk server admin. Most of our customers don’t like the behavior.
To resolve, direct the output to /dev/null or to a log file instead if you need to keep a watch on the updates.
1. Edit /etc/cron.d/drweb-update redirecting the output to /dev/null
vi /etc/cron.d/drweb-update
2. Add the following line
*/30 * * * * drweb /opt/drweb/update.pl >/dev/null 2>&1
This would direct all out put from the drweb update script to /dev/null (trash)
This howto describes howto get rid of the horrible mboxes for mail which confixx uses by default. Converting all your mailboxes to the maildir format also allows you to use imap. Please make backups of your confixx installation before you begin with this howto you have been warned:
1. Edit your confixx main.conf
vi /root/confixx/confixx_main.conf
When your finished this is what it should look like:
$maildrop = ‘HOMEDIR/Maildir/’;
$mailBoxName = ‘Maildir’;
$pop_homeDir = ‘/var/mail’; //specify folder where you want maildirs to be stored. the folder must exist
$mail_realHome = ’1?;
2. Edit your postfix main.cf
vi /etc/postfix/main.cf
And add the following line:
home_mailbox = Maildir/
3. Edit your procmailrc
vi /etc/procmailrc
And add the following line:
DEFAULT=”$HOME/Maildir/”
4. Run the confixx counterscript
/root/confixx/confixx_counterscript.pl –fa -dbg
5. Convert existing Mboxes to Maildir. Confixx provides a script for doing this. Run the script and make sure to answer all the questions. Or except the defaults which should be ok.
/root/confixx/admin/contrib/convert_mb2md.pl
6. If you are using qpopper uninstall it and install courier pop and imap if you need imap. This is for debian and ubuntu:
aptitude purge openbsd-inetd qpopper
aptitude install courier-pop
aptitude install courier-imap
Thats it check you log files send a test mail and enjoy.