Add Gzip to Plesk Server

Instructions Login to your Plesk server. Select the domain you wish to enable gzip for from the left hand side. Click in Apache and nginx settings: Down the bottom, add the following to the “Additional nginx directives” field: Click OK to save. Verify with GTMetrix.com Another way is to set up deflate. First you need … Read more

R1Soft error Failed to backup LVM/MD Configuration

R1Soft error will resemble something like – “Failed to backup LVM/MD Configuration” with running LVM based commands from R1Soft. Usually due to an upstream vendor or repo update of the LVM binary that conflicts with the R1soft native configuration “lvm.static” command. Error: Failed backup of LVM configuration Failed to execute command ‘lvm.static pvs -o pv_fmt,pv_uuid,dev_size,pv_name,pv_mda_free,pv_mda_size,pv_all,seg_all,pvseg_all,vg_all,lv_all … Read more

Error 401: Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials

When getting an error in Windows 2008 R2, Error 401: Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials See – https://www.codeproject.com/Answers/418802/Unauthorized-Access-is-denied-due-to-invalid-c#answer1 Specifically Solution 6 with a minor adjustment. Right click on the folder in Explorer and choose Properties. In Security tab add ‘IIS_IUSRS’ and ‘NETWORK SERVICE’ and give full control to both user. Also check … Read more

Fix the Meltdown on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Oracle/Scientific Linux

How to Fix the Meltdown on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Oracle/Scientific Linux Always keep backups. So backup now to an offsite location. Note the Linux kernel version running the following command: Fix the Meltdown on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Oracle/Scientific Linux Type the following yum command: You must reboot your Linux server using shutdown/reboot command: Run the following dnf command if … Read more

Meltdown And Spectre Security Flaws

Articles and Information regarding the Meltdown And Spectre Security Flaws Links: https://meltdownattack.com/ https://hothardware.com/news/researchers-disclose-meltdown-and-spectre-cpu-vulnerabilities https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ Patches: VMware https://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2018/000397.html https://esxi-patches.v-front.de/ESXi-5.5.0.html#2017-09-14 How To’s Fix the Spectre on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Oracle/Scientific Linux Fix the Meltdown on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Oracle/Scientific Linux

Install Proftpd in CentOS 7

How to Add Proftpd in CentOS 7 for ftp access. Step 1: Add the EPEL Repository ProFTPD is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), which is a community repository of non-standard packages for the RHEL distribution. First, we’ll install the EPEL repository: Step 2: Install ProFTPD Let’s update first: Then let’s install ProFTPD … Read more

View Apache Statistics with Apache mod_status module

The Apache mod_status module is something that can be very useful when troubleshooting high CPU or Memory usage with Apache. Taken it directly from the Apache documentation: – The number of worker serving requests. – The number of idle worker. – The status of each worker, the number of requests that worker has performed and … Read more