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plesk9 icons missing on VZPP

VZCP packages on the service VE (VE #1) should be upgraded to the latest available one, icons are provided since vzcp-3.0.0-16.10. It can be upgraded via vzup2date or vzsveupgrade. It is also possible to copy icon files manually from any Plesk 9 VE (ex. 118)  skins directories: /vz/root/118/usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/skins/*/images/nav_home.gif To corresponding service VE skins...

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remove plesk install from Virtuozzo Power Panel (VZPP)

if you have cpanel on a virtuozzo node vps you really want to disable plesk install . This cannot be done for selected VPSes, only for node-wide. In order to remove ‘Install Plesk’ link from the customer’s Parallels Power Panel, it is required to modify /vz/private/1/root/etc/vzcp/pp/menu.xml (on the node) file or /etc/vzcp/pp/menu.xml (in Service VPS).   There is an item looking like     item...

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Plesk Qmail Queue Exploding From Possible Webform Attack

The qmail queue on my server (running Plesk on CentOS 5.2) balloons up to 120,000+ messages in the queue overnight. The messages in the queue are obviously spam. I’ve cleared them out over the last day using qmHandle, but I can’t determine how they are still being sent. The email address they are sent from has even been added to the qmail badmailfrom file (and I’ve tested through Telnet that it does indeed block email from that...

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How to restore PLESK 8 backup on PLESK 9

Copy backup to plesk9 server and run: /usr/local/psa/bin/pre9-backup-convert -v convert -d /var/lib/psa/dumps/  /root/plesk8-backup-file then go to plesk 9 panel and restore the backup from the client and/or precreated domain.

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Plesk database utils

List Plesk username and password for a client: mysql -u admin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` use psa; select clients.login , accounts.password from clients left join domains on clients.id=domains.cl_id left join accounts on accounts.id=clients.account_id where domains.name="DOMAIN"; List FTP username and password for a domain: mysql -u admin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` use psa; select sys_users.login, accounts.password from accounts...

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nginx installation on PLESK

wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.0.15.tar.gz Unzip the files with the following command: tar zxvf nginx-1.0.15.tar.gz Change directory to the nginx folder: cd nginx-1.0.15 Run the following commands: ./configure If you get no errors, you’re all set, go on with the next couple of commands. If you get an error, try to make sure all the libraries are installed. make make install sh generate_nginx_conf.sh   Test the configuration...

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