HOWTO: Setup SSL certificates for mail services (pop3s, imaps, smtps) on Plesk / Courier-Imap / Qmail

This howto will show you how to setup an SSL certificate on a Plesk server so that it will be used when people connect through secure pop, smtp and imap. Read the rest of this entry »

HOWTO: Backup and restore a Plesk domain from the command line

This HOWTO shows how to use the Plesk command line utilties to backup and restore a single domain. This can be useful, among other reasons, as a way to move a site between servers (though now they have the Migration Manager for that) or as a way to make a final backup of a domain before removing it (though to be safe you should make other backups and have regular periodic backups as well). Read the rest of this entry »

php 5.1.2 rpms for centos 4 (rhel 4)

php 5.1.2 rpms for centos 4 (rhel 4) have been added to the rpm download page. These are based off of the current fedora core 5 test 3 rpms with the following security changes for shared hosting environments:

  • removed posix functions (were enabled for cgi, cli and apache module)
  • removed pcntl functions (were enabled for cgi)

This build does have cgi compiled with fastcgi support (the fedora php5 releases have that).