In addition to the correct chmod of files and folders (see part 1), you must ensure that all public_html files and folders have the correct (user and group) ownership. The following Perl code will eliminate nobody/root ownership. Place the Perl script into your /home directory and execute it. #!/usr/bin/perl -w my @dirs = grep -d,<*>; [...]
If you get Invalid License File when you login to cpanel after a hostname or IP change you need to update your cpanel license file by: Login to shell and run the following from command line: /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt
The following command can be used to repair and optimize all tables in a MySQL database. This can be useful on a busy server with many tables after a hard reboot or otherwise unclean shutdown. mysqlcheck -u root -p –auto-repair –check –optimize –all-databases
Cpanel w/suphp – how to fix and properly set permissions of all user files and folders so they execute properly.
The following command can be used to create a .tar.gz archive, commonly referred to as a ‘tarball’ file. tar -pczf name_of_your_archive.tar.gz file1 file2 directory1 directory2 ect…
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We have a unique setup at my work. All of the webhosting appliances have built in spam-filtering software. However, we have external spam-filtering appliances that are 99% more effective. It makes sense to keep CPU intensive spam filtering off of the webhosting servers which should be focusing their efforts on serving up PHP and MySQL [...]
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So I spend nearly half of an otherwise productive day fighting dependency hell with LiquidSoap. I haven’t tested it yet but here’s a cleaned up and organized command history of how it happened: ## Liquid soap install cd /usr/src rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm yum install automake pkgconfig ncurses ncurses-devel ocaml ocaml-camlp4 ocaml-labltk libtheora libtheora-devel libao libao-devel [...]
Warning! If you don’t have a full backup of the data on your server, DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS! If you’re not familiar with basic disk utilities (fdisk, grub, ect) DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS! If you don’t have KVM access in case something goes wrong, DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS! Although I have checked my instructions for [...]