PCI was failing due to expired certificates on TCP ports: smtp (25), urd (465), imaps (993) and pop3s (995)
System running Plesk 9.2 and imaps and pop3s was handled by courier.
Updated the self signed certs for courier pop3s and imaps by:
[bash]# cd /usr/share/courier-imap
[bash]# cp imapd.pem imapd.pem.old
[bash]# cp pop3d.pem pop3d.pem.old
[bash]# ./mkimapdcert
[bash]# ./mkpop3dcert
[bash]# /etc/init.d/courier-imap restart
Stopping Courier-IMAP server:
$ Stopping [...]
Entries from February 2010
PCI expiring SSL certificates with Plesk
February 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Control Panels · Linux · Operating System
Windows Plesk 8.6 webmail missing
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments
After migrating a full backup from one Plesk node to another Plesk node and restored on a fresh 8.6 installation horde webmail wasn’t working.
Going to Domains > testdomain.com > Mail > Preferences
WebMail was listed as “None” and couldn’t update it.
To fix this we needed to goto Server > Plesk Components Management > Webmail in the [...]
Tags: Control Panels · Operating System · Windows
Plesk backup failing with runtime error
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
For some reason Plesk 8.6 backups stopped working on Linux (Ubuntu 8.04.3) with the error:
Runtime error: Can’t use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /opt/psa/PMM/agents/PleskX/SiteApp.pm line 292.
Ran the following command, which, errored at the client that was causing the problem.
/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all /root/backup/test
This errored after when it reached the problem client account. Then [...]
Tags: Control Panels · Linux · Operating System
Plesk 9.x for Windows Fatal error: Call to undefined function of_get_key_by_product() in C:\Program Files\Parallels\Plesk\admin\plib\common_func.php3 on line 4501
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
A clients disk filled up and Plesk was starting but going to the login page prompted:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function of_get_key_by_product() in C:\Program Files\Parallels\Plesk\admin\plib\common_func.php3 on line 4501
Going to “C:\Program Files\Parallels\Plesk\admin\repository” the registry.xml file was 0 bytes in size. Renamed this to registry.xml.old and restarted Plesk.
Plesk came up and the login page worked fine without [...]
Tags: Control Panels · Operating System · Windows
Calculating the cost of running a computer
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments
How much does your computer cost to run?
The following equation will help work out the cost to run your computer, if, you know how many Watts it is using and how much you pay per unit of electricity:
((Watts x Hours Used) / 1000) x Cost per kilowatt-hour = Total Cost
Here in the UK at the [...]
Tags: Hardware