Updated 06/02/2012 For just under a year now i’ve been getting a daily mail from the Plesk daily maintenance script titled Parallels Panel key update deferral notification With the following in the body of the message. Unable to update . An error occurred while processing your key. You can try updating it later. This problem… Continue Reading
I quite regularly need to take quick backups of a WordPress installation while working on a Plesk server. Here’s a script I created that will dump the DB as well as backup the WordPress directory where the site files are in. The concept is easy, execution was a little more complicated since Plesk can now… Continue Reading
Mailman is a great mailing list manager. It’s a shame it doesn’t provide a way for you to export Member lists within the Mailman interface itself. Sure if you had SSH access you could do this quite easily. But most web hosts won’t provide you with SSH access. So what do we do? With the… Continue Reading
Updated 06/09/2011 Trying to run a PHP site in FastCGI mode and wondering why Safe Mode won’t turn off even though its unticked in the panel? Yeah, it had me tearing my hair out too. Turns out that when running a site in PHP FastCGI mode, the Safe Mode setting in Plesk will NOT affect… Continue Reading
Debian 6.0 has transitioned over to dependency based boot sequencing. This now allows sysinit scripts to specify dependencies between one another. This is done via an LSB header added to the top of the script. Here’s what the header looks like in /etc/init.d/apache2: ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: apache2 # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network… Continue Reading