Posts by Shinzan

  • How to unblock a user from their control panel login (SOLVED)

    So I have users that from time to time forget their password and get blocked for 30 minutes. I must confess its even happened to me twice lol. Is their a quick way to unblock their ip address, is this part of the imscp database that i can just delete a record of the block? Clearly its not a session cookie or domain cookie (didn't really expect it to be)


    When a customer calls and asks for an unblock I'd like to be able to give them the customer service they are looking for an jump in the backend and remove their block.


    Any thoughts?


    David

  • [solved] Apache wont start after reconfiguring with new ssl cert

    I-MSCP Version 1.1
    UBUNTU 12.10


    I like 2/3rd of the internet was affected by the heartbleed bug, so I rekeyed my cert and re ran the setup


    # cd /var/www/imscp/engine/setup
    # perl imscp-setup --debug --reconfigure


    setup completes with no errors but apache does not start:


    Code
    1. root@ispcp:/var/log/apache2# /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting web server apache2 Action 'start' failed.The Apache error log may have more information. [fail]root@ispcp:/var/log/apache2# tail -n 100 error.log



    Now if i reconfigure and do not use ssl then apache starts, so i know its an issue with the new .crt but not sure what


    I rekeyed the cert by issuing the commands
    openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout yourdomain.key -out yourdomain.csr


    Then i selected the key file, the bundle and the actual .crt in the setup gui but apache wont load.


    UPDATE SOLVED
    This was my fault I was selecting the wrong private key in the process, so redoing it all from scratch and clearing out the directory with my crts solved my issues.



    Thanks,


    David

  • Gmail spam

    I had to call my ISP to create a reverse DNS for all of my static IP addresses.


    The DKIM with IMSCP helps a lot too but a great resource to see all the problems with your email is:


    mxtoolbox.com


    mail-tester.com


    David

  • Improved Backup System

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    The backup feature will be renewed in the next version (1.2). But the idea with an ftp upload is new. Maybe you can extend the ticket with an entry?


    Can you tell us a little more about whats coming with backups in 1.2?


    That sounds great, I'd really be interested to see the customer be able to setup an auto upload of their backups to an offsite / cloud location, like you can do in virtualmin, I think that would be a great features thanks for the constructive feedback @Ninos, I really appretiate it when the project leaders consider my feature requests after asking for them it really makes me feel like I'm part of the community.


    Cheers!


    David

  • Improved Backup System

    Yeah I totally asked for a plugin to help me go to the toilet.... you totally zinged me @bilogist well played indeed. Stupid me trying to answer a thread about a feature I'd like to see....


    I find it kind of stupid that these threads exist to solicit requests for features then someone ridicules them, thats really awesome.


    Take a look at the virtualmin open source hosting control panel for their backup system its what im talking about, I have already written a script for myself, thats easy. But the ability to make a customer have a gui and an interface to do this sort of off site backup for themselves.


    https://www.virtualmin.com/book/export/html/12150


    This is my suggestion flame me if you want.


    David

  • Improved Backup System

    The backup system is good, but an awesome feature would be the ability to specify an ftp / dropbox / amazon cloud or other remote location to upload database backups.


    Example:


    Backup destination ftp.myremoteserver.com
    user
    pass
    port
    passive


    and boom it uploads those backups to a cloud service.


    Alternatively even a bash script (perhaps I should research this) to itterate though /var/www/virtual/../backup and then upload all files that have term SQL in it to the ftp of my choice.


    Hmmm challenge accepted...

  • Error with bind (relaying denied for email on secondary ip)

    Ubuntu 12.01
    IMSCP 1.1.0


    Upgrading from IMSCP RC4 to 1.1.0


    Encountered a problem with upgrading.


    setup script failed with the following error msg:


    Quote

    /etc/imscp/bind/working/mydomain.org.db failed: CNAME and other data
    Servers::named::bind::_addDmnDb: Unable to install mydomain.org


    This apparently was caused by customdns records added by me via the domain control panel interface, and the fact that setup now validates and rebuilds zone files and errors out when they are not correct.


    To get my server up and running as quickly as possible i copied a domain.db from a working domain overtop of the non working domain.db and modified the ips to make the zone valid. Then I re-ran setup and all was processed with no errors, however any email to that 2nd domain was bouncing email back with a relay access denied error.


    Solution:
    I deleted my custom dns records in the database (domain_dns) but I could not get the domain to display a green check on status.


    A maual update on the domain table of update domain SET domain_status = 'tochange' where domainid = [the domain id of the problem domain]


    Once that was done rerunning the setup rebuilt all files and all is right with the world again.


    A Big thanks to Nuxwin who helped me resolve the issue, I did not know that setup ignored domains with problems and you needed to set those statuses to 'tochange' I hope this helps someone else if a similar situation is encountered.


    David