Most of the howto’s or tutorials we came across about this problem all mention to install suphp and run php as a cgi through it. We weren’t happy with this solution, so we did something different. Basically the problem is: Plesk runs apache as “www-data:www-data” while the users are “username:psacln”. So, uploading via sftp or [...]
Here’s a simple way of changing your Ubuntu server so it won’t be using the splash screen. Great for seeing console, if you’re not using VESA or just plain being old school. first: # sudo nano /etc/grub/menu.lst look for # defoptions= quiet splash change it to – important leave the # in the line. # [...]
It’s easy, once you have nagiosadministrator installed, you’ll probably notice there’s no easy way to actually reach nagios. To add a quick button to the toolbar to do this, follow these steps: 1. SSH to server running nagios/nagiosadministrator 2. Go to your nagios administrator directory, ours is /var/www/nagiosadmin 3. Now, edit the menu file [...]
Tonight we decided we’d had enough of VMWare Server 2.0′s issues and shakiness. We started getting the following error, because as it turns out (we’re stupid for not thinking of this ahead of time – lesson learned) VMWare server beta’s have an expiry date, along with it’s bugs. Today we started getting this error: “VCommand [...]
Here’s a little howto on merging multiple apache log files when you are migrating servers or want to consolidate your logs into one place. This works on ubuntu and debian, but your mileage may vary on other OS’s. Here’s the howto: Login to old server scp old log files over, to the admin home directory, [...]
Many of us need to run Support Software to keep on top of client needs and requests, as well as remove some of the burden from our support staff. Because of this need, we are using Kayako SupportSuite for our helpdesk application. While setting it up, we noticed that the latest release has a little [...]
