Category Plesk

CentOS 6, Plesk

Nginx dead / Nginx disabled in config – Plesk 12

One of my server recently rebooted by itself, but Nginx refused to start when it came back online. Manually trying to restart Nginx alternately threw the following errors error 1: nginx dead but pid file exists error 2: Not starting…

theshell
September 8, 2015

CentOS 6, Plesk

Fix Timezone in Horde – Plesk

Horde for some reason doesn’t pick up the system timezone and defaults to UTC, to fix this you’ll need to edit Horde’s own php.ini at Add the following line (affixed with the your desired timezone) date.timezone = Asia/Singapore Now restart apache…

theshell
June 29, 2015

CentOS 6, Plesk

Recalculating Disk Usage for Subscription – Plesk

It happens, rarely as it may, that Plesk will not report the correct disk usage for a subscription. To get it recalculate things issue the following at shell /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics --calculate-one --domain-name DOMAIN.TLD Credit:

theshell
June 27, 2015

CentOS 6, Plesk

Change NGINX port – Plesk 12 / CentOS 6.6

We started experimenting with Varnish in a bid to tackle load instead of adding full blown replicated web server nodes. Once we were done with testing we ran into trouble implementing the set up on Plesk. There isn’t a whole lot…

theshell
February 9, 2015
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CentOS 6, Plesk

Install Memcached and Memcached for PHP – CentOS 6.6

Make sure you have the epel repo installed on your system #This is for CentOS 64-bit wget wget rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm Install Memcached yum install memcached With installation done, we’ll need configure Memcached now # Running on Port 11211 PORT="11211"…

theshell
January 19, 2015

CentOS 6, Plesk

Remove drweb from Plesk

Drweb can get really annoying because of it’s resource usage even on a brand new Plesk server. Run the following to remove drweb from your system: rpm -qa | grep drweb | xargs rpm -e credit: Update your mail…

theshell
January 19, 2015

CentOS 6, Plesk, WHM/cPanel

Nginx – Cron – 301 Moved Permanently – Moved Permanently

I really haven’t been able to get to the bottom of why this occurs by I’m posting a solution that worked for me below: For us, this occurred when running the following while set in cron /usr/bin/curl After looking…

theshell
December 12, 2014

CentOS 6, Plesk

Install subversion 1.8.10 on CentOS 6.5 – Plesk 12

Install the wandisco repo to get the latest version of subversion for CentOS [WandiscoSVN] name=Wandisco SVN Repo baseurl= enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 Issue the following at shell yum install subversion mod_dav_svn Restart httpd, it’ll do it itself while installing but go ahead…

theshell
November 14, 2014
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CentOS 6, Plesk

“session_start(): open(/var/lib/php/session/sess_s… failed: Permission denied” After enabling Nginx reverse proxy – Plesk 11.5.30 / CentOS 6.5

Got the following error right after I enabled Nginx reverse proxy on a Plesk box For us it was as simple as issuing the following to fix this error: chmod 1733 -R session

theshell
April 21, 2014

Plesk

Update Plesk to 11.5

The data center we use hasn’t updated it’s OS images to include the latest version of Plesk, 11.5. This is how we went about upgrading the panel. First off, make sure you backup everything. We work off of the…

theshell
February 17, 2014