Introduction Plesk is a web hosting control panel used to manage websites, domains, mail services, and server configurations. For system administrators, knowing backend file locations helps in troubleshooting and managing services efficiently. Prerequisites Before accessing Plesk backend files, ensure you have: Implementation 1. Plesk Core Files Restart Plesk: /etc/rc.d/init.d/plesk restart… Continue Reading Plesk Backend Files and Paths

FOR BOTH LINUX AND WINDOWS SERVERS:In a shared server(both linux and windows), it is quite tedious to determine the email password for email accounts if you are not much familiar with MySQL. But you can use the following command to retrieve all the email password for a domain. =======SELECT mail.mail_name,… Continue Reading Plesk + Retrieve EMAIL account password

Search Engines plays a bigger role in advertising the site and increasing the visitors to the site. Along with that, Search engine sometimes brings out the files that are to be hidden. In order to prevent the files from indexing in Search Engine, here are the steps you need to… Continue Reading Prevent files from Indexing in Search engine

Redirect http to https Apache secure connection  Let us say you have webmail sub-domain called http://mail.nixcraft.com and you would like to redirect it to https secure connection i.e. https://mail.nixcraft.com. This will help you protect user privacy and sensitive information such as username and password remotely. So how do you configure… Continue Reading Redirect http to https

FileZilla is a free, graphics based FTP client that turns FTP into a simple drag-and-drop and right-click and select environment. You can download FileZilla from http://filezilla-project.org/download.php. Once you have FileZilla downloaded and installed, run it. A window will open that will have boxes for your host and login details and… Continue Reading FTP experience much more pleasant and friendly, is using an FTP client- “FileZilla”

Catching Spammers on cPanel Servers: Follow the steps given below to catch Spammers sending mails from scripts ( nobody emails 1. Edit /etc/exim.conf 2. On the second line add (After hostlist auth_relay_hosts = * ) : log_selector = +address_rewrite +all_parents +arguments +connection_reject +delay_delivery +delivery_size +dnslist_defer +incoming_interface +incoming_port +lost_incoming_connection +queue_run +received_sender… Continue Reading Catching Spammers on cPanel Server -EXIM (MTA)

I have a server and running with Apache. I know that the cPanel has the bandwidth limit but the user should not exceed the normal limit of band width for a day or hour. How should I do that using Apache. You can use mod_bw on apache2 to limit the… Continue Reading Limit apache bandwidth per user

Forward Outgoing email in cPanel———————————————— I like to forward all incoming and outgoing email from my domain to another gmail or yahoo account. I am running with cPanel server. How should I do this. Also the emails that are being forwarded should not be know to any one. Unseen delivery… Continue Reading Forward Outgoing email

451 Temporarily unable to process your email. Please try again later.————————————————————————————————– I was trying to send emails. The mails are sent out from my account. But It didn’t deliver. I am not sure what was the reason. I have checked my logs in the cPanel server. My mail server is exim. When… Continue Reading 451 Temporarily unable to process your email. Please try again later.

Clobbering the files will  helps in keeping the files safe from Accidental over writing. It can be too easy to mistype a filename and find that you’ve redirected output into a file that you meant to save. To be on safer side you can set clobber for your important files… Continue Reading Clobbering a File