By default Plesk on Linux uses Postfix for outgoing email, and by default listens on port 25 for outgoing SMTP mail. Some service providers do not allow to send emails on that port, and tragedy occurs: clients can’t send email with their Plesk servers. Not good. Other SMTP ports will usually work, such as the … Read more
I have previously described how to adjust the values that the Plesk Health Monitor uses to determine when an email should be sent out. There is also a way to switch these emails off entirely. Here’s how: To turn off the daemon that is responsible for sending these emails, issue this: /etc/init.d/psa-health-monitor-notificationd stop No more … Read more
Some of my servers have a weird habit of throwing an Apache error after a restart: NGINX is running fine, but Apache can’t start and all websites are down. I have no idea why some servers do it and some do not. But when they do, it’s just plain annoying. Here are two ways to … Read more
CentOS 7 has a very funky text-based user interface that allows editing several important network connection settings. It’s called nmtui. Type the command without any parameters to get started: nmtui Now use this handy interface: Your system may require a full restart for all settings to take affect. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Networking_Guide/sec-Networking_Config_Using_nmtui.html
The default directory for all web files in Plesk on Linux is /var/www/vhosts. Usually this works well, but if you’d like to use another partition instead, you’ll be pleased to hear that you can! Parallels (or Odin as we call them now) have written a handy script which moves the content and patches the relevant … Read more
It’s not quite as easy to get up and running with Jekyll as the Quick Start Guide makes it sound. But it’s not super difficult either – if explained from one human to another. Here’s how I got Jekyll working on a vanilla CentOS 7 instance. Installing some necessary packages Before we can install Jekyll … Read more
I’ve just installed a LAMP stack on my Nook Tablet using Debian. However I’ve been using CentOS since 2008 and I’m so used to how things are done there that it was a bit of a culture shock doing relatively simple things “on the other side”. It’s like a country whose language you don’t speak … Read more
Sometimes you know you need a package, but when you try to install it with yum you’ll get a message like “No matches found”. Yet you’re sure the package exists because you’ve used it before. This can happen if the package in question is part of a set which installs multiple packages. The net-tools package … Read more
