Even though this seems an easy task, when you add IP’s with different gateways, you have to route the IP’s for the correct gateways. Let’s say you have two networks, 192.168.80.128/25 192.168.90.128/25 This means your gateways are 192.168.80.129, 192.168.90.129 and you have these IP addresses respectively : 192.168.80.130-254, 192.168.90.130-254 Lets assign the 192.168.80.x IP’s to […]
This is a complete working solution to build Apache (httpd-2.2.25), MySQL (MySQL-5.6.14) and PHP (PHP-5.5.5) from the sources. Article tested many times on CentOS 6.4 and you can directly copy & paste the commands below to build the lastest releases. We advise you to use a freshly installed OS as compiling may corrupt or delete […]
Most of the yum repos doesn’t include PHP5.5.X on current releases for the time being. So if you need PHP5.5.X, you need to compile and build it for your self. Advise: First of all, you should consider removing php packages from your server before compiling php, but beaware your codes will be visible till you […]
If you need to connect to an MS Sql Server remotely from your DirectAdmin server via php, you need to rebuild PHP with necessary components. Get the latest stable release of FreeTDS and install it. cd /root wget ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/freetds/current/freetds-current.tgz tar -xvzf freetds-current.tgz cd freetds-dev.0.92.377 ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/freetds make make install Now we should tell Direct Admin’s […]
In our case, we were using postfix via iRedMail and every incoming mail had a delay around 7 minutes. The problem was fixed by disabling the chroot operation in the settings. Edit the file /etc/postfix/master.cf It probably looks like this # ============================================================= # service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command # (yes) (yes) (yes) […]
This can get quite important when your mail server is blacklisted, or if you somehow want to simply change the outgoing IP address. First of all, check that you DO have another ip address on another interface at the server. Either by ifconfig or anything else. To change the outgoing IP on a postfix mail […]
If you use our LAMP installer script and want to add a new domain afterwards, we’ve created a simple script to ease up the process. This script creates a new user, adds the domain settings for Apache, adds a new MySQL Database and user, restarts necessary services. Simply get our script from here or on […]
If you struggled to cope with disk I/O on virtual host machines which runs on Centos or RHEL, there is a great system performance tuning tool named TUNED, comes with different profiles. for installing tuned; yum install tuned -y starting the service permanently; service tuned start chkconfig tuned on service ktune start chkconfig ktune on […]
Everything started with a few queries of isc.org thrugh open DNS servers located at our data center. Searching through the net we found that we are not the victims but a part of uncomprimised sources of a huge DDoS attack. A 60 byte query will turn into 50 times larger data directed to victims IP […]
Here on this article we’ll discuss some basic methods to quickly apply to the iptables service so that you can basically get things running up. First of all, there are a couple of ways to edit the iptables infrastructure. One way is to use the /sbin/iptables binary file to append each line, or you can […]