Log in to tumblr, open Settings inside Account drop down menu. Choose ‘use a custom domain name’ and type a domain name or a subdomain name. Save our new settings. We may need to wait up to 72 hours or less for the change to take effect.

Check ‘root’ user crontab
crontab -l

output : 7 4 * * * /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics >/dev/null 2>&1

Check cron logs for records about the statistic utility executions
vi /var/log/cron

Check apache logs size. Make sure no bigger than 2GB.

Check database directories (mysql : /var/lib/mysql) have read/write permissions to ‘mysql’ user

If every conditions above fit with your settings, then we must Run :
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics (for all sites in one server)

or

usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics ?calculate-one ?domain-name=domain.com (only for one specific domain)

• take a look /var/log/messages file for detailed error reports.
• the server hostname may not be resolved. In this case you should put the record like “SERVER_IP SERVER_HOSTNAME” into /etc/hosts.
• Make sure that inetd/xinetd is running.If inetd/xinetd is not running you also may be experiencing problems with sending mail (SMTP). Easy checking by sending mail. Or do :
  ps -aux | grep inetd
  or
  ps -aux | grep xinetd
• Check following configuration in /etc/proftpd.conf :
  
IdentLookups Off
UseReverseDNS Off

No problem found in the log, the server hostname resolved, i don’t have a problem sending email so i’m pretty sure that inetd/xinetd is running, proftpd.conf is correct. Something must blocked out FTP.
Last solution : Check firewall settings to be sure that ftp ports are opened.

Note : this can be tricky in plesk, since its firewall modules says it’s opened. Check a system firewall.

There are many ways to do backups. Here is a series of Backups :
I’m starting with Virtuozzo. Virtuozzo backups all system, files and databases

Make Backup
VPS Management > Maintenance > New Backup

Restore Backup
VPS Management > Maintenance > Check Backup Data, Then Restore Backup

Renew Backup/Replace Old Backup with New One
VPS Management > Maintenance > Check Backup Data, Then Renew Backup

Delete Backup
VPS Management > Maintenance > Check Backup Data, Then Delete Backup

• Download phpMyAdmin version 2.9.x or above
• Extract phpMyAdmin and upload to server. Create a ‘not easy guess” folder name
• Change config.sample.inc.php to config.inc.php. Fill in a blowfish secret word and empty username and password in config.inc.php
• Don’t give ‘root’ password, create user and password for each member.
• Protect folder
  CPanel : Site Management Tools > Web Protect
  Plesk : Domains > Hosting > Directories (Protected Directories)
• Don’t give username and password for Protected Folder or Protected Directory to people who doesn’t have right to access the folder.

I stopped httpd and plesk/psa and, started them again after yum update on how to Update Plesk 7.5.4 (Plesk 7.5 Reloaded) PHP and MYSQL (i have new information, read this post).This must be working in a situation below :

• CentOS/RHEL 4.x
• Non VPS

The actions will be different in CentOS3/RHEL3 and VPS

• Stop MySQL first before starting all process
  # /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld stop
• Check yum packages available before running yum update
  # yum check-update
• No need to update Open SSL, it depends on yum packages available
• stop httpd only, do not stop psa/plesk after updating
  # /etc/init.d/httpd stop
  Stopping psa/plesk causing psa off
• Add this : old_passwords=1 in /etc/my.cnf

Note : –nodeps needed to avoid ‘failed dependencies’ warning

For Plesk 7.5 Reloaded without PHP version 5.0 (still in original version) :
# wget http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

# rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

# wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/libmcrypt/libmcrypt-devel-2.5.7-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

# rpm -i libmcrypt-devel-2.5.7-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

# wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/libmcrypt/libmcrypt-2.5.7-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

# rpm -i libmcrypt-2.5.7-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

# wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/libmhash/libmhash-0.9.1-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

# rpm -i libmhash-0.9.1-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

# wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/libmhash/libmhash-devel-0.9.1-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

# rpm -i libmhash-devel-0.9.1-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phprpms/php-mhash-4.3.9-3.2.1.i386.rpm?download

# rpm -i php-mhash-4.3.9-3.2.1.i386.rpm

# http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phprpms/php-mcrypt-4.3.9-3.2.1.i386.rpm?download

# rpm -i php-mcrypt-4.3.9-3.2.1.i386.rpm

This installation produced “/etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini” as an additional .ini files which contains extension=mcrypt.so. mcrypt.so?is?in /usr/lib/php4 directory. You should copy mcrypt.so to /usr/lib/php/modules (# cp mcrypt.so /usr/lib/php/modules)

Update PHP, MYSQL and OpenSSL
# yum update php
# yum update mysql
# yum update openssl

Stop httpd
# /etc/init.d/httpd stop

Stop plesk/psa
# /etc/init.d/psa stop

Start all of them (httpd,named and psa)
# /etc/init.d/psa start

Check PHP version
# rpm -q php

Check mySQL version
# rpm -q mysql

Update php and mysql library
libphp5.so located in /usr/lib/httpd/modules
mysql.so located in /usr/lib/php/modules

PHP
edit # vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .inc .php5 .php .php4 .php3 .phtml

MySQL
edit # vi /etc/php.ini
in paths and directories
extension_dir = /usr/lib/php/modules
in dynamics extensions
Dynamic extension=mysql.so

edit # vi /etc/php.d/mysql.ini
extension=mysql.so

MySQL
edit # vi /etc/my.cnf
old_passwords=1

Stop httpd and psa, then start again (restart)

Use deinstall plesk command
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/deinstall.sh deinstall

Since plesk isn’t a clean and perfect installation (too many components missing), then above command doesn’t work at all. Perhaps this is a special case, in normal situation above command probably work

So use ‘manual’ removal.
Look in to system startup to check whether there are any services belongs to plesk
# chkconfig --list

If there are no services status ‘on’ in system startup, let’s remove plesk (if there is services status ‘on’, stop services)

Since I don’t know what components (the titles of RPM packages) from plesk in the system, find that first
# yum search psa

Now removal process :
# rpm -e psa psa-qmail psa-proftpd psa-autoinstaller psa-hotfix2 psa-pylibplesk psa-proftpd-xinetd psa-selinux psa-courier-imap-add psa-libpam psa-api psa-imp psa-mailman-configurator psa-tomcat-configurator psa-spamassassin psa-locale-base-en-US psa-logrotate psa-php4-configurator psa-horde

There are dependencies error, removal process stop

# rpm -e --nodeps psa

The –nodeps option tells the rpm command to skip the test of dependencies. Only psa removed in command, since dependencies error said psa needed by all components, and psa removed first. Then there is error: %trigger scriptlet failed warning, use :

rpm -q psa --triggers

this –triggers check what happen

then remove using :
rpm -e psa --notriggers

–notriggers ask rpm to remove psa without running the triggers

Plesk is really messed, above command doesn’t work also (i don’t know what my colleague did when he handled that server) so:

rpm --force -e psa
PSA removed, then remove other components (packages)

rpm -e psa-qmail psa-proftpd psa-autoinstaller psa-hotfix2 psa-pylibplesk psa-proftpd-xinetd psa-selinux psa-courier-imap-add psa-libpam psa-api psa-imp psa-mailman-configurator psa-tomcat-configurator psa-spamassassin psa-locale-base-en-US psa-logrotate psa-php4-configurator psa-horde

Shows up %preun and %postun scriptlets error, then

rpm -e --noscripts psa-qmail psa-proftpd psa-autoinstaller psa-hotfix2 psa-pylibplesk psa-proftpd-xinetd psa-selinux psa-courier-imap-add psa-libpam psa-api psa-imp psa-mailman-configurator psa-tomcat-configurator psa-spamassassin psa-locale-base-en-US psa-logrotate psa-php4-configurator psa-horde

Plesk components or packages removed

In normal situation, according to SWSOFT, to deinstall plesk just do following :
1. Need to know the titles of RPM packages
2. To deinstall run the command rpm -e

Now after plesk components removed,
1. Check and delete all databases and database tables used by Plesk
drop database psa;
drop database horde;
2. Open /etc/psa/psa.conf and look up the value assigned to the ‘HTTPD_VHOSTS_D’ variable, and delete : # rm-rf /directory-name/*
3. Delete all data related to mailboxes
# rm -rf /var/qmail/mailnames/*
4. Delete other directories used by plesk
# rm -rf /usr/local/psa
# rm -rf /etc/psa
# rm -rf /var/mailman
# rm -rf /var/drweb
# rm -rf /var/lib/wabalizer
# rm -rf /var/tomcat4 or # rm -rf /var/tomcat5


DNS Zone template located in System > Server Administration > Services > DNS.

. NS ns.. . A  . MX (10) mail..  / 24 PTR . ftp.. CNAME . mail.. A  ns.. A  webmail.. A

DNS Zone Template only have one ns (nameserver) by default. Changes template for 2 nameserver, for example

. NS ns1.. . NS ns2.. . A  . MX (10) mail..  / 24 PTR . ftp.. CNAME . mail.. A  ns1.. A  ns2.. A  webmail.. A

DNS Zone can be seen in General > Domains > Domain Name > DNS. If you want to change values, just do it in a domain DNS Zone, not in DNS Zone template.