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How to Install Apache Web Server Apache, and all the other packages that we’re going to use here can be installed either via pkg(8) or via FreeBSD ports . To install Apache 2.4 via pkg: sudo pkg install apache24 To…
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To display the current configuration for the network interfaces on your FreeBSD server, type the following command: # ifconfig How Do I Configure the Network Card Under FreeBSD? You need to use the ifconfig command as…
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Create Virtual Switch on Main Server Hyper-V Get All IP Configurations on the main server by running IPconfig/ALL command. In the Hyper-V Manager Create New Virtual Switch . Set Connection Type to External . Select the…
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OVH template uses MBR for disk partitioning which has a limitation of an inability of utilizing more than 2 TB disk space of the single drive. We’ll illustrate the problem with an example and suggest its solution…
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Vulnerability CVE-2020-13166 was discovered in myLittleAdmin Remove myLittleAdmin from Plesk: Remove myLittleAdmin from Plesk: Log in to Plesk Go to Tools & Settings > Updates > Add/Remove components and uncheck…
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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…
Read Article![An operation fails in Plesk: SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry 'X' for key 'PRIMARY'](/blog/uploads/2020/05/plesk-windows.jpeg)
Symptoms When adding a customer, subscription, mail account, mailing list, IP address, changing domain hosting type or installing a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate in Plesk, the operation fails with one of the following…
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In order to optimize PHP performance on Windows Server, the following steps can be performed: Using FastCGI - extension to the CGI protocol that provides high performance for all Internet applications without any of the…
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Cannot start PHP FPM service: systemctl status php5-fpm.service ... ERROR: [pool example.com] cannot get uid for user 'john.doe' ERROR: FPM initialization failed php5-fpm.service: main process exited, code=exited…
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