How to find the External IP if it is Natted If you are behind a NAT and want to find the real / external IP from the server then execute one of the below command from the server: [code]root@server[#] curl -s…

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Linux Plesk

[HOW TO] Upgrade MySQL 5.5 to 5.6

April 10, 2016

NOTE: Upgrade can be performed by using the instructions below at your own risk: For Ubuntu 12.0.8 and 14.04, Debian 7: Ubuntu 14.04 is shipped with MySQL 5.5 by default. Create a full server backup and server snapshot…

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Linux Plesk

How to upgrade Plesk MySQL from 5.1 to 5.5 on Linux

April 8, 2016

Ref. Link: https://kb.plesk.com/en/125589 Applies to: Plesk 12.5 for Linux Plesk 12.0 for Linux Plesk 11.0 for Linux Plesk 11.5 for Linux Plesk autoinstaller gets packages from base repositories of an operating system…

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Linux CloudLinux

base class package cpanel easy utils cloudlinux is empty

March 23, 2015

Base class package Cpanel::Easy::Utils::CloudLinux is empty While executing EasyApache on my server, I was getting the error “Base class package “Cpanel::Easy::Utils::CloudLinux” is empty” and I tried executing upcp and…

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Linux

VirtualBox Commands

March 23, 2015

How to show the VirtualBox VM information. [code]root@server[#] VBoxManage showvminfo <vmname>[/code] How to show the VM Harddrive info. [code] root@server[#] VBoxManage showhdinfo <filename>[/code] How to list…

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Linux

How to Secure /tmp

March 17, 2015

This will cover securing /tmp /var/tmp and /dev/shm Secure /tmp: Step 1: Backup your /etc/fstab file Code: cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak Step 2: Make a 3GB file for /tmp parition and an ext3 filesystem for tmp: Code: dd…

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