PowerDNS with BIND named.conf syntax
Tell PowerDNS to use your Bind Zone
You need to edit your pdns.conf file, edit or add the following lines:
launch=bind
bind-config=/etc/named.conf
bind-check-interval=300
Important notes are:
launch tells to use the bind backend
bind-config tells where the manifesto is
bind-check-interval tells to check the zones each 300 seconds, if you do a change you don’t need to restart …Read More
Remove Billing And Support Integration CPanel
To remove billing and support from cpanel, you can run below command
whmapi1 –output=json remove_integration_group user=$user group_id=whmcs
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cd /var/cpanel/users for user in *; do /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_knowledgebase; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_announcements; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_tickets; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_emails; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_downloads; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_product_details; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_shopping_cart_domain_register; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_invoices; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_upgrade; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_submit_ticket; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_shopping_cart_domain_transfer; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_profile; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_billing_info; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_knowledgebase; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 remove_integration_link version=1 user=$user app=WHMCS_clientarea_network_status; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/whmapi1 --output=json remove_integration_group user=$user group_id=whmcs; mv -v /home/$user/.cpanel/datastore/AVAILABLE_APPLICATIONS_CACHE_en_paper_lantern /home/$user/.cpanel/datastore/AVAILABLE_APPLICATIONS_CACHE_en_paper_lantern.bak done |
Rebuild caches just in case:
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/update_appconfig_apps
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/rebuild_sprites
Introducing ZoneCloud
ZoneCloud, DNS Clustering for Web servers done right.
What is zonecloud?
ZoneCloud (or zCloud) is the very first panel agnostic and distribution independent solution. – It consists of three parts:
ZoneCloud Controller receives DNS records from your web servers and pushes them to DNS servers (Nodes / zCloudNode).
ZoneCloud Agent The Agent …Read More
Apache httpd hardening
Introduction
Apache is one of the most widely-used and popular web servers. It is also one of the most secure web servers available. In this article, I will explain some tips and tricks that will secure your Apache server.
This is a generic ‘quick n dirty’ hardening profile.
Hide version:
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Turn Off Server-Side Includes …Read More
htaccess https simple redirect
How to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS using an .htaccess file
The below code when added to an .htaccess file will automatically redirect any traffic destined for http: to https:
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RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L] |
This is generic code, no domain or page or subfolder needed in the htaccess code.
Redirect From Old Domain to New Domain *keeping* …Read More
Common HTTP Error codes and fixes
Here’s a list with the most common HTTP error codes and solutions for each one.
Error 500: Internal Server Error
Cause 1: Syntax error in .htaccess
Cause 2: Invalid files/directories permissions
Other causes
Errors 502: Bad Gateway & 504: Gateway Timeout
Error 503: Service Unavailable
Error 508: Resource Limit Is Reached
Error 500: Internal Server Error
Error 500
Cause 1: …Read More
Installing Virtualmin
What is Virtualmin?
Virtualmin is a powerful and flexible web hosting control panel for Linux and BSD systems. Available in an Open Source community-supported version, and a more feature-filled version with premium support, Virtualmin is the cost-effective and comprehensive solution to virtual web hosting management.
Requirements
Any of the below OSes and architectures:
Rsync: Copy files from and to your server
Rsync is a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool.
The rsync command is a very handy and straightforward tool if you want to copy files/folders between your machine and a remote one.
Let’s see some use cases:
Copying local files/folders to a remote computer
Let’s say we have a folder named foo and …Read More
Setting up Linux Containers (LXC)
What are LXCs?
Containers are a lightweight virtualization technology. They are more akin to an enhanced chroot than to full virtualization like Qemu or VMware, both because they do not emulate hardware and because containers share the same operating system as the host.
Installing lxc
First of all, you have to install lxc …Read More
Installing docker with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Mint 17 and CentOS 7
Installing docker with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Mint 17 and CentOS 7
A brief introduction to virtualization
Today we will learn installing docker with Ubuntu, mint and CentOS 7 Linux, Before the evolution of the concept of virtualization, to run one application one dedicated server was required, if you wanted to run 20 …Read More
Maintaining a clean Ubuntu system
How to maintain a “clean” Ubuntu
Ubuntu is (unfortunately) the most popular GNU/Linux distribution (I still prefer Fedora), as it has been the easiest to use for many years now, making it an obvious choice for every newcomer. As most new users don’t know if and how they are supposed to …Read More
Things to do after installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Things to do after installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
To have a fully functional and smoothly running Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop users need to have some services application running before they start working with this fresh flavor of Ubuntu, although it depends upon nature of services for which system will be utilized, we …Read More