Technical guides and operational notes filed under directadmin.
Technical guides and operational notes filed under directadmin.
Overview Your DNS cache stores the locations (IP addresses) of web servers that contain web pages that you have recently viewed. If the location of the web server changes before the entry in your DNS cache updates, you…
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Is FileZilla showing Critical error: Could not connect to the server? We can help you fix it. Usually, FTP clients like FileZilla shows a connection error due to the incorrect protocol or incorrect login credentials…
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Bad Magic Number In Superblock The Server will go down due to issues in disks attached. Sometimes fsck in disks ends up in an error “Bad magic number in Superblock while trying to open /dev/sdb”. What do you mean by…
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SRV records provide a standard way of allowing services to use different values, and for a program to determine what those connection values are. how to add a SRV record to your domain's DNS configuration. SRV records…
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This feature is often thought as being much more complex than it really is. What is does, is transfers any zones on the given machine to the DA machines you add to the list. So, if you have server A and add the IP for…
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As of DA 1.37.0, a User can edit their TTL value via: User Level -> DNS Management -> TTL (bottom) Global method This method will only work if you temporarily disable per-record TTL values by setting dns_ttl=0 in the…
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IMPORTANT Always make full backups of all of your databases before making any changes to your my.cnf. Avoid changes to your InnoDB settings unless you are very familiar with making those changes. Many of the InnoDB…
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Before any changes, or for regular intervals, you might want to make backups of your database, which are not specific to the normal DirectAdmin User backup system. This guide will explain how to backup the .sql files on…
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When connecting to the MySQL screens in DirectAdmin, if this error appears, that would indicated that the "da_admin" user has not been setup correctly. To resolve this do the following. Desired root password: Desired…
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General information for default certificate locations for various services. The order will be cert,key, ca/chain, combined (cert+ca)and their related directadmin.conf settings, where applicable. Apache/LiteSpeed…
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