June 25, 2026
The server was not allowing login to server even when ssh keys were saved On rebooting server I could see it and error on screen “chown: Invalid username: root:Disk” On troubleshooting found error to be due to corruption of /etc/passwd as this is where all users are saved and due to corruption the user root […]
Read MoreNormal rule in .htaccess to parse html files as php on easyapache 3 are not working on easyapache 4 #AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html #<FilesMatch “\.(htm|html|php)$”> #SetHandler application/x-httpd-php56 #</FilesMatch> Below is the code which will need to be added In cpanel, multiphp manager will add the following for force a specific version of […]
Read MoreWhile working on one of the issues came across the error cannot connect using curl_init in rvsitebuilder The issue was a simple fix by skipping DNS checking by creating below file using command touch /var/cpanel/rvglobalsoft/rvsitebuilder/var/skip_validate_domain The issue got resolved with this fix
Read MoreWhile working with one client I was getting below error in DNS DNS error bad owner name (check-names) /tmp/cpanel So I went ahead and checked DNS zone file using below command root@vps [/var/named]# named-checkzone onlinecsource.com /var/named/onlinesource.com.db /var/named/onlinesource.com.db:56: _autodiscover._tcp.cheapsalesleads.onlinesource.com: bad owner name (check-names) /var/named/onlinesource.com.db:57: _autodiscover._tcp.cheapsalesleads.onlinesource.com: bad owner name (check-names) zone onlinesource.com/IN: loaded serial 2017030209 OK […]
Read MoreWhile adding rDNS file in cpanel server I was getting below mentioned error Sorry, the domain xx.xx.104.in-addr.arpa is owned by another user (nobody) I have found that at one point in the past this domain was present on this server. I have removed remnants of the domain from /var/cpanel/users/system and removed references to it from […]
Read More-bash-4.1# mysqldump satmn13_drup189 > satmn13_drup1891.sql mysqldump: Got error: 1146: Table ‘satmn13_drup189.dr_cache_admin_menu’ doesn’t exist when using LOCK TABLES -bash-4.1# mysqldump satmn13_drup189 –ignore-table=satmn13_drup189.dr_cache_admin_menu > satmn13_drup1891.sql
Read MoreWhile working on one clients vps for incorrect disk usage stats for mails While the default cpanel has no emails the usage stats showed 750MB. After going through I found a issue which was causing this The file causing this issue was maildirsize maildirsize is the file which shows stats information for each account root@vps […]
Read MoreWe do get complaints of emails going to spam folder most of the times while working. The solution to such a issues depends on 3 things rdns for the IP address and matching A record for the domain name in question. Need to setup right SPF Need to setup right DKIM a) To setup SPF […]
Read MoreThe issue when you open “Email accounts” in cPanel, it sometimes doesn’t show up the list of Email accounts the domain have but only just a blank page without any email account No Email Accounts”! This happens due to bulk of cache, temp files etc present in the .cpanel directory of domain. In order to […]
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