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Help with Plesk and Virtuozzo

I I have just moved to a virtual server to host my websites and the service comes with Plesk and Virtuozzo. The documentation is pretty poor and I can find no books on the subject. Does anyone have a simple introduction to Plesk with an idea of what you can do, how you should do it etc. Specifically, I would like to set up a website with...

Plesk Rebranding Web Hosting

Hey I recently bought the new Plesk software and im unsure on how to re-brand the site to our company logos and themes. Does anyone know the steps to changes these settings or a manual that would answer my questions? Regards, Oliver James ...

Unable to deploy .NET 2.0 web app to a Plesk VPS - "The ~/ directory does not exist."

I've set up an ASP.NET 2.0 web app in VS 2008 (it's 2.0 as it contains some legacy code) and I'm now trying to deploy it to my new VPS. I've created the domain in Plesk and set up the FTP account. I can FTP the server using the command line and all works well, however, if I try to use the "copy website" option in VS 2008 I get "The ~/ d...

Email aliasing with qmail

I'm trying to set up email domain aliasing in qmail (I'm on a Plesk server). What should happen is that emails sent to [email protected] get sent to [email protected] (regardless of what user is). I would like this to happen without having to set up redirects and mess around with that sort of thing. I've followed the details on this fo...

subversion web interface

I have recently installed subversion onto a linux server (CentOS) and everything works great. I am wondering if there are any web interfaces available for managing the repositories i.e. create / delete repositories, manage users and permissions, view revision history etc. The idea is that I can do everything via a web interface instead...

Plesk alternative for windows

Hi, I'm searching for a free alternative to Plesk for my windows server 2003. Anybody knows an alternative. Kind regards. Christian ...

SSH to debian server instantly logs out

I'm trying to help someone with their Debian server. They have Plesk. I made myself an user with Plesk and enabled SSH access. I can log on ... but only for one second. I see the MOTD, I see a Debian disclaimer, then I'm logged out again. "Connection closed". The only thing I could think to try is to change the shell settings, Plesk h...

Intercept QMail SMTP emails

Hello Here is the situation, we have a linux web server that runs Plesk and I need a way to intercept emails sent to and from the server. Plesk uses qmail to send and receive emails. We have sorted the receiving emails problem by adding a mailgroup to each email address that includes an "archive@" address. Then we use a PHP script to r...

Understanding Plesk Watchdog statistics

We have Plesk 8.3 installed. I've started using their Watchdog module to track server useage. Our server routinely has trouble with the amount of traffic we have and I think our MySQL queries need to be smarter. Anyway, looking at the stats from Watchdog, it seems like MySQL usage is low compared to so something else making up the "ov...

Single MySQL Database Username on Plesk

My sys admin has me working on a server with Plesk, which requires me to have a unique username/password for each MySQL database I create. This is very annoying, does anyone know how to create a universal username login? ...

PHP safe_mode default value in PLESK 8.4 is ON. WHY?

Hi, I am wondering why is the default value of the PHP safe_mode ON in PLESK. I suspect it is a security issue but how exactly is this useful? p.s. As an inexperienced web-developer I spend some hours wondering why the .php files were downloaded instead of run on my server. The reason was that this php default safe_mode was ON and I fou...

Access to Parallels Business Automation - Control Panel (Plesk?) wants port 8843 - Firefox okay, IE6/IE7 results 502 Proxy Error

Background info: We are a small company with a Microsoft server ISA 2000 configured by an external technician for our company network. Though computer professionals, web hosting and networking is NOT our strength! Our ISP uses Parallels Business Automation - Control Panel (Plesk?) to allow us to administer our websites. We are given a UR...

How many MySQL database can be created in a single domain in Plesk control panel?

Do you have any experience about this question? I have currently 1900 MySQL databases in a single domain in my plesk control panel and I wonder if my MySQL server gets overloaded or out-of-service due to such high number of databases in the system. Do you have any suggestions? Each database is for a user in my service by the way. ...

Protect Plesk login page from search engine eyes

Hi Folks, I was wondering if would it be possible to protect the "https://www.DOMAIN.com:8443" URL from search engines listing perhaps using the htaccess to redirect the 8443 port from "DOMAIN" to elsewhere? This is the VZPP Plesk - Login Login to Plesk. Please enter your login information. Username. Password. Interface Languag...

formalizing centralized web hosting in a University setting

Our Foobar University is currently in the planning stages of moving their web hosting services to an enterprise hosting automation panel system like Plesk or cPanel. Is anyone out there in a University environment that has gone down this path and has a roadmap with resource requirements, pitfalls, and issues? Is there another product on ...

Plesk 9.01/Centos - how do I create a directory I can upload to via PHP?

How do I create a directory I can upload to via PHP in Plesk, considering all my PHP.INI file is correctly setup to allow uploads? Step by step instructions would be appreciated. ...

Accessing CPanel and Plesk password via custom module.

I am making a custom CPanel and Plesk module that assists in logging into a Web application using the user's login and password for CPanel and Plesk. How would I use the module's API calls to retrieve the password? Thanks. ...

Using a Wildcard SSL Cert for subdomains in Plesk (IIS)

I'm using Plesk running on Windows Server 2003. I have the following domain name on an exclusive IP, for which I have purchased a Wildcard SSL certificate from RapidSSL: webvitality.eu This works fine in both http and https. Should display "Web Vitality Dev Server". Now I have the following subdomain: garyparkerhearing.webvitality.eu...

create ftp account in plesk using php

i will create ftp account in plesk using php that ever user register in site can have an ftp account with his username and password . i found many php api for cpanel but in plesk i can't find any thing ? can you help me ? thank you so a lot before ! ...

w3wp.exe and Page Faults

Hi all, I am having problems with a web server that I am working on, and I just can't seem to figure this one out. The server is running Server 2003 and IIS6. My w3wp process on a medium traffic site has hit 100% CPU usage, and is having huge page faults (PF Delta is around 15k). At times where we have around 800 users online, the pr...