Whether you’re running Plesk on a dedicated machine on your network or in a virtual environment, you’ll want to setup test domains and work with them as if they were live – just like it was running in a data centre. It’s not as easy as I thought, which is why I took some notes … Read more
When you deploy Plesk to various instances on your local network you can save the world (and yourself) from a lot of internet traffic by creating a local mirror. This is a duplicate of the original installer files needed to deploy Plesk which are downloaded once and can then be used from a machine on … Read more
I was pulling my hair out the other day trying to connect to a VM in Parallels Desktop. It’s fairly straightforward, yet rather complex at the same time. Here’s how to do it step by step. In this example I’m running Parallels Desktop 8 under Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and my Guest OS CentOS … Read more
There is a lot of help available for Plesk which comes to you straight from the developers. A few years ago all we had was the Parallels Forums – that’s changed dramatically and if anything will only increase in the future. Here’s a list of sources I know to check for free support and updates … Read more
I’ve just snazzed up the blockquotes styling on a couple of my P2 sites and thought I’d share the code that did it. Here’s an example of the final result in P2: This is a block quote. You can create one by adding blockquote tags to the beginning and end of a block of text … Read more
Did you know that you can run PHP directly from the command line? Here’s how: Running a command Let’s run a one-liner and see the output displayed in our console. We’ll use phpinfo() because we know it should generate a lot of text. We need to start our line with php, use the -r switch … Read more
I’ve just tried to update one of my CentOS 6.2 servers that was built from an older AMI, only to find that the yum update command stopped unexpectedly with several dependency errors. They all pointed to something called “qpid”, and I must admit that I’ve never heard of it – nor did I know that … Read more
Version 6.x of Apple’s AirPort Utility displays all your wireless client’s IP addresses, but it doesn’t show you wired devices. The old version 5.6 did, but without a hack it no longer runs on Mountain Lion. There is however a simple way to display all clients using the command line tool arp. Open up a … Read more