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How do I find out what mail-server my host has installed for me?

I'm using MediaTemple's (dv) hosting service. How do I determine what mail-server is installed? Should I use the shell? If so, what command would be used? ...

Uploading Rails Apps with MediaTemple

Any recommendations of a recent tutorial, or guide, on uploading Rails applications to a (gs) rails container? I've followed a couple tutorials already, both of which haven't worked. ...

How do I port forward a MediaTemple server to redirect a port to a directory?

I've just become a proud owner of a MediaTemple virtual-dedicated server. My question is: How can I forward a port to redirect it to a directory? For example, I would like to redirect port 6783 (e.g., http://www.imagreedybastard.com:6783) to the directory /usr/directories/admin/ ...

Why isn't Capistrano copying my files?

I am currently deploying a Rails application using Capistrano. Cap deploy:update_code usually works just fine to copy over application files from the SVN to the rails container, however when I do it now, it copies the folders but they are all empty. Any ideas of why this would happen or how to fix it? ...

make server auto-append @domain.com to ftp account

I have a client who, printed 10,000 advertisements with a specific password for an FTP account written on it lets say: horses1, for many reasons I have had to migrate her over to a new host, she chose mediaTemple, and bought an account. The Login is now [email protected], which is a problem, becuase of all her print ads. I'm think...

Which Knowledgebase app is used by MediaTemple?

Does anyone know if MediaTemple did this development in house or is a software we may know? http://kb.mediatemple.net/ Thanks ...

Installing rails w/ mongrel cluster on Media Temple DV Server

First, I'm a complete newb to rails - I've been trying to get my feet wet, but ran into some trouble here. I've followed http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/279/Ruby+on+Rails+using+Mongrel+Clusters to install rails, everything worked except one of the last steps: "cp /var/www/vhosts/testapp.mt-example.com/rails/testapp/public/.htaccess...

Trouble installing Rails App on MediaTemple?

I am having some trouble installing an app on MediaTemple's Grid Servers... I'm deploying with cap and github... everything seems to go ok with those, but the app won't start up. There seems to be a problem with my database.yml file? I've checked for space errors and those all look good. Here is a copy of the console when I try and st...

MediaTemple cron jobs working on 1&1 Internet?

I've having to get a cron job that's currently working on MediaTemple (Grid Service) to work on a new 1&1 Internet account. I've yet to do this yet, but is there anything I need to take into consideration? Or... effectively... cron jobs are cron jobs, they'll work where ever? It's a cron job to send out a mailing list from a database. ...

Ruby on Rails getting HTTP 500 with no error logged (hosted on Media Temple)

Hi, I am trying to deploy my Ruby on Rails application on Media Temple. The application starts fine (Mongrel starts up fine) but I keep on getting a HTTP 500 error. The problem is that nothing gets written to the log, so I do now know what might be causing this problem. I have 256M of memory available so I do not believe memory is a...

using curl to cronjob a url

Hi , I have an application on php-Codeigniter hosted on MediaTemple and I want to have a cron job runing a controller, the support told me to use CURL I tried using without any succes, example: curl http://mydomain.com/admin/action/get My controller inserts some information to a database, the curl doesn't display error but the ins...

Connect to slicehost from MediaTemple with a PHP Script (GS Hosting)

Hi, I want use a Redis server with a PHP Site hosted on a MediaTemple GS hosting. MT allows PHP Sockets to contact an external server (slicehost)? ...

Cakephp Shell Cronjob Controller Action Media Temple Server

Hi All, I'm trying to create a cron job that will send a weekly newsletter. I tried creating a shell task following what Cakephp manual says. Then I go to the Media Temple Cron jobs and type in the following: php /home/#####/domains/domain.com/html/cake/console/cake -app /home//#####//domains/domain.com/html/vendors/shells newslette...

cloning a git repo (on a media temple server)

Hello all, I've got a media temple server which already has git installed. How can I clone files from a repository I have hosted on github? ...

Rails apps blew up on mediatemple's (dv) server

i managed to fix this issue but i wanted to document it here for any others whom might have similar problems. I'm running a mediatemple (dv) rage server. monit started sending me alerts that i was having resource limitations on the server. logged into plesk and the CPU was pinned at 99.9%. Rebooted the server, catastrophe avoided... ...

NGINX, Unicorn, Mediatemple dv server

Anyone every try to set up nginx & unicorn for their rails apps on a mediatemple dv server? Did you document it? ...

Help getting Mercurial running on a Media Temple (gs)

I've installed Mercurial per MT's knowledge base file here. Working with it server side using ssh from my Mac works fine. I can initialize repositories and the like, but pulling from the server or pushing from my Mac produces an error I don't understand. Here's what I get when call hg push from my local installation (hash marks represe...

How would I construct a terminal command to download a folder with wget from a Media Temple (gs) server?

I'm trying to download a folder using wget on the Terminal (I'm usin a Mac if that matters) because my ftp client sucks and keeps timing out. It doesn't stay connected for long. So I was wondering if I could use wget to connect via ftp protocol to the server to download the directory in question. I have searched around in the internet fo...

PHP CLI version issue

I am trying to use Zend Tool on my media temple Grid Server account. The problem is that the installed CLI version of PHP is 4.4.8 and Zend Framework needs PHP5. On an account basis its possible to choose PHP 4 or 5 but not so for CLI. Its possible to globally select to use PHP5 by using the extension .php5 but in the case of Zend Tool w...

Not being prompted to download CSV file.

I've created a custom solution in WordPress that will generate a CSV file to be downloaded by clicking a simple hyperlink, linked directly to this file. Instead of being prompted to download the file to the computer; the CSV opens in the the browser window instead. FWIW I'm on Media Temple using a vanilla install of WordPress. ...