If your mail server stops working (neither incoming nor outgoing email works) and you find the following error message in the mail.log file: fatal: open database /var/lib/postfix/smtpd_scache.db: File exists then the smtpd_scache.db might got corrupted. Postfix will recreate this file if it does not exist. So it can be removed to solve the issue: /etc/init.d/postfix ... Read more
Dovecot is watching the whole server filesystem for modifications and removed or added sub filesystems. If you get errors similar to this one on your server: Aug 30 09:10:23 server1 dovecot: master: Warning: /var/www/clients/client1/web1/log is no longer mounted. If this is intentional, remove it with doveadm mount (the directory path may vary), then you can ... Read more
If you use the apache mod_security module on your apache server, you might encounter wrong 403 errors for several URL's of the cms systems. Here are some exception rules to avoid that: For WordPress Blogs <locationmatch "/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"> SecRuleRemoveById 300013 SecRuleRemoveById 300015 SecRuleRemoveById 300016 SecRuleRemoveById 300017 </locationmatch> <locationmatch "/wp-admin/page.php"> SecRuleRemoveById 300013 SecRuleRemoveById 300015 SecRuleRemoveById 300016 SecRuleRemoveById ... Read more
To connect to a system's terminal with a static network IP and an SSH-Server installed, open a terminal and enter following command, exchanging the network IP with the one of your SSH-Server: ssh root@192.168.0.110 Enter the target SSH-Server's root password afterwards. To exit the server's shell, enter exit
To change the language of the website statistics generated by AWStats on a Debian Linux server to e.g. german (de), edit the /etc/awstats/awstats.conf file: nano /etc/awstats/awstats.conf and change the value of the "Lang" variable. To change the languge to e.g. German, cahnge: Lang="auto" to Lang="de" The website statistics are generated nightly on a ISPConfig 3 ... Read more
If you get the error "/dev/zero: No space left on device" in the apache error.log on a OpenVZ virtual machine, then the shared memory size in the xcache.ini is too high or the xcache.mm_path is set wrong. Edit the file /etc/php5/conf.d/xcache.ini vi /etc/php5/conf.d/xcache.ini and check the mm_path. On a OpenVZ virtual machine it should be ... Read more
The /tmp and /dev/shm directories of a OpenVZ virtual machine shall be mounted without suid and exec permissions. To achieve this, create a a shell script on the host server for every virtual machine which contains the commands to remount the directories. This script will be started automatically by openvz when the VM is started. ... Read more
If you recently updated to or installed WordPress 3.0, you might wonder where the menu for Multisite feature is. By default, these new functions are disabled after a WordPress update, to enable them, edit the file wp-config.php and add the line define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true); On your next login, you will see a new menu labeled "Super ... Read more
The spamassassin installation on a ISPConfig 2 server is normally updated together with ISPConfig. Here are the steps iIf you want to update spamassassin manually without updating ISPConfig 2: Download the latest Spamassassin sources and unpack the tar.gz file cd /tmp wget http://ftp.fernuni-hagen.de/ftp-dir/pub/mirrors/\ www.apache.org/spamassassin/source/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1.tar.gz tar xfz Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1.tar.gz Configure, make and install spamassassin cd Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1 perl ... Read more
Many webmasters want to redirect users that access their websites with "domain.tld" automatically to "www.domain.tld". If you use the Apache web server, you can do this by using Apache rewrite rules. Add a .htaccess file with the following content in the root directory of the website: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301] ... Read more