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Plesk 10 Upgrade – WWW Site Prefix Shows Default Page

Nick — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:41:44 +0000

A recent upgrade from Plesk 9 to Plesk 10 resulted in us experiencing an issue where the Plesk Default Page is shown for the WWW prefix for a number of sites. Turns out it is a documented issue however the Parallels suggested solution hardly scales.

This is frustrating, very frustrating. Someone might want to send a copy of the relevant DNS RFC to Parallels as its also plain wrong.

Disclaimer: I won’t be held liable for any data loss, downtime or customer angst as a result of the following. While this will work in most environments, YMMV. Backup your PSA database before starting.

First step is to create a small shell script (Ie. vim /root/fixissue.sh) containing the following

#! /bin/csh foreach domain (`cat /root/domains`) /usr/local/psa/bin/dns --add $domain -cname 'www' -canonical $domain /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/httpdmng --reconfigure-domain $domain echo $domain Fixed end

Following this, complete the following. This could also be scripted without effort.

echo "select host from dns_recs WHERE host LIKE 'www%' AND type = 'A';" | mysql -N -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` psa > /root/domains


sed -i 's/^.\{4\}//g' /root/domains
sed -i 's/\.$//' /root/domains 
echo "delete from dns_recs WHERE host LIKE 'www%' AND `type` = 'A';" | mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` psa
chmod u+x /root/fixissue.sh
/root/fixissue.sh

WHMCS ANZ eGate Payment Module

Nick — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:07:29 +0000

Version 2 of the ANZ eGate Payment Module for WHMCS is now available. Thankyou to everyone who provided feedback on the first release, especially Haumanto. The following changes have been made;

• Feature: PAY NOW button added to generated invoices within Client Area
• Bug Fix: Update to the rounding used when calculating amount to process
• Bug Fix: Updated validation on data sent to ANZ, specifically checking for spaces in card number
• Bug Fix: Updated validation to ensure the card CCV is within the expected CCV field as opposed to WHMCS “Card Issue Number” field

Disclaimer: Myself, nor anyone else associated with this gateway work for ANZ or WHMCS. I, nor any associated party will be held liable for any data loss, leaked financial data including but not limited to Credit Card numbers or incorrect data being processed by your merchant facility.

Download:
• Download File Here
• Extract tar (tar -xvf anzegatewhmcs.tar)
• Move anzegate.php to your WHMCS payment gateways directory
• Configure your merchant information from the Payment Gateways section of the WHMCS admin area

SMTP Access when Port 25 is blocked

Nick — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:57:32 +0000

I have noticed an increase lately of customers asking if we can provide SMTP access on a port other than 25, specifically for those who are traveling internationally and their motel will not allow SMTP through. While I want to try and keep this blog as factual as possible, I do not believe that proivders should be offering SMTP on any other port with the intention to circumvent these port restrictions.
These restrictions were originally put in place by ISP’s to attempt to limit the number of zombie PC’s out there acting as either relays or spam senders. Every email provider will acknowledge that spam is a huge problem, however by opening these additional ports we are simply contributing to the problem.
My 2 cents worth.