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Benchmarking an Plesk managed server using ApacheBench?

Is it possible to benchmark a Plesk-managed server by using ApacheBench ? The following console command only takes local URL's as parameter, but I have no idea on what the URL is for my domains in Plesk... ab -c 10 -t 60 http://xxxxxx ...

Automated incremental backups from Plesk on Centos to Amazon S3

Hi, I've done a far bit of research on this via Google and there seems to be quite a few ways of possibly doing this. I'm looking to incrementally backup new and updated files in two directories on my Plesk run Centos 5.2 server: /backups and /var/www/vhosts (preferable only httdocs within each vhost) Has anyone got some great feedback...

How to extract files from Plesk backup under Windows?

I created a backup file in Plesk panel, downloaded it. Renamed file to .zip and uncompressed with WinRar. Opened unzipped file in Thunderbird email client and extracted "site.httpdocs" file. How do I extract actual files from it? It seems like it is some sort of text document with all files dumped together. Thanks. ...

upgrade .net framework in Plesk

The plesk panel has .net framework 2.0, I would like to upgrade it to 3 Please help ...

Removing the default pages when adding a domain via Plesk

Hi, whenever I add a new domain into my new Plesk control panel on my dedicated server it creates a whole bunch of test files in the cgi-bin, httpdocs and httpsdocs. There must be some setting somewhere where I can tell Plesk not to do this? I've done a good Google search but must now turn to the StackOverflow masses :) Yours, Chris ...

Webservice won't accept JSON requests

Hi, The main issue is that I cannot run a webservice that accepts requests in JSON format. I keep getting a 500 Server error stating that the "request format is invalid." My ASP.NET AJAX extensions are installed. My server is running Plesk Control Panel 8.6 which is undoubtedly causing these problems. The default handler for this s...

PHP - Plesk - Cron - Allowed memory size exhausted?

ini_set('max_execution_time',0); ini_set('memory_limit','1000M'); These are the first two lines at the very top of my script. I was under the impression if I ran something via cron memory limits didn't apply, but I was wrong. Safe mode is off and when I test to see if these values are being set they are but I keep getting the good ol'...

Can't get websrvmng to run in Plesk SSH terminal.

I am following this MediaTemple KB article and stuck at the last step. When I try to run the websrvmng (using the ssh terminal in Plesk) using the code the KB references: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -v -a I receive a 'File or Directory not found' error. I am a n00b when it comes to this stuff and would really appreciate any ad...

How to upgrade php on server running Plesk Virtuozzo!?

How on earth does plesk actually work? I have a VPS which is on centos 5.2 and has php 5.1.6. I have updated plesk to version 9.52 and it claimed to do some form of php update but it hasn't as far as i can see. How can i update to php 5.2 (centos 5.4) without breaking plesk Virtuozzo?! Plesk seems to be some kind of crazy black magic th...

using mod-rewrite to redirect requests for jquery.js to GoogleAPI cache

Hi All, Our Linux server with Apache 2.x, Plesk 8.x hosts a number of e-commerce websites. To take advantage of browser caching we would like to use Google's provided copy of jquery.js. Hence in the vhost.conf file of each we can use the following RewriteRule RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} jquery.min.js [nc] RewriteRule . http://ajax...

PHP script cannot be read in PLESK

Dear All, Any help would be appreciated since I really can't figure out what happen. I made some PHP scripts that are working normal locally, but when I upload into PLESK suddenly the code inside the tag is not being read and the same goes to the HTML code below it (only the html code that is above the php tag is being read). Thanks ...

Java connect to SSL site (problem with plesk Certificate)

Hi, I'm trying to connect to one of my servers through ssl, with java. I tried a lot of options here is my best try: I generate a jssecacerts with the recommendet script: http://blogs.sun.com/andreas/resource/InstallCert.java with the command: java InstallCert ssl.someUrl.de changeit after this I did the command a second time: Loadin...

Adding mcrypt to Plesk

Hello, I am running Plesk v8.2.0 and I have a program that needs mcrypt module installed but I cant find any relevent infromation on how to get mcrypt setup on Plesk. It is on a Unix based server. Does anyone have any ideas on how to set this up? Any infromation would be greatly appreciated ...

Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: Unable to access / Plesk issue

I've just upgraded my server to version 9.3 of plesk from parallels. Now all my joomla sites ( and others) are showing a Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: Unable to access / "file location" error. Any ideas what I can do to resolve it?? thanks ...

Ioncube on Centos with Plesk failed loading

This took me a few hours to solve so I hope it helps someone else. My gotcha was one of the addition PHP ini files was loading an old version of ioncube. It was simple looking back... If you are installing Ioncube Loader on Virtual Private Server with Plesk checkout http://blog.ucvhost.com/?p=126 Get correct ioncube version from ht...

File not found log error .. What is triggering it? How to fix it?

I have this log error: [Wed Jul 21 10:40:17 2010] [error] [client 195.229.242.57] File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/kranichs.com/httpdocs/products, referer: http://www.kranichs.com/products/Kranichs/ring-2194 I am assuming this has something to do with the page's URL is really something like kranichs.com/product_p...

Can Only Access Site Via Localhost

Have a have a Windows VPS using Plesk 9. Until today I have been using the http://myIPaddress:8443 method of accessing Plesk Panel but now I can't access via a browser. This is the Google Chrome error (Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error). If I use an RDC connection and open a browser window and connect via http://loc...

Is it possible to split a .htaccess file?

Ok, here is my issue and the reason I want to split up the .htaccess file into two parts: I have a local developing machine with windows as well as a test and a productive system running on the same machine on openSUSE. That causes me some trouble: I use a htaccess auth mechanism which need an absolute AuthUserFile path I use a rewrit...

Creating an FTP user in Plesk

I need to set up a temporary FTP account for a user who is going work on my server. Plesk only seems to allow me to create one that can only access a single directory. How do I create one that gives access to more? (And for those with more experience than me, does Please suck?) ...

Does ASP.NET configuration tool Available on real Servers

Hi all I started learning asp.net but i just want to engage in real world experience I need to know what are the deficiencies i'll face when deploying my projects to a real server Can i find the ASP.NET configuration tool ? what will be available and what will be NOT available ? Also is there any differences between Windows server...