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SupportSages http://www.supportsages.com/blog Technical Support and Server Management : Musings in the fox hole. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:34:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en who manages domain names & ip addresses IANA & ICANN -------------------- The assignment of identifiers such as addresses and names, to ensure that they are created and allocated in a way that is acceptable to all is the main factor for the success of the Internet. So some sort of centralized organization is required. The organization originally responsible for this task was Internet Assigned Names and Numbers (IANA). IANA was originally charged with the task of managing which IP address blocks had been assigned to different companies and groups, and maintaining periodically-published lists of Internet parameters such as tcp and udp port no.s. It also was in charge of ...]]> http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2010/03/who-manages-domain-names-ip-addresses/ MSSQL – Two common issues while restoring a backup and it’s solutions First error System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing 'user_database' database. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.Smo) Solution for First error

Connect to the database server

Go to the restore option and select Restore Database

On the Restore page that loads up, make sure that the Destination for restore has the database you want to restore and in the Source for Restore, choose From device: ...]]> http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2010/02/mssql-two-common-issues-while-restoring-a-backup-and-its-solutions/ HTTP 405: The HTTP verb used to access this page is not allowed Start --> Run --> ...]]> http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2010/02/http-405-the-http-verb-used-to-access-this-page-is-not-allowed/ SSH passwordless login and sudo user root. 2. Run the command ssh-keygen -t rsa If the key already exists you can either go to step 3 or you can generate a new key by overwriting existing key (see image). It would be better to overwrite the existing key if you ...]]> http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2010/01/ssh-passwordless-login-and-sudo-user/ Postgresql issues with a cPanel server Cpanel::AdminBin::adminrun(postgres) set error in context postgres [2010-01-16 12:24:18 -0500] warn [postgres::listdbs] Encountered error in postgres::listdbs: Error from postgres wrapper: PostgreSQL has not been configured by the administrator. Unable to locate pgpass file. This was fixed by doing these, Login to WHM => SQL Services => Postgres Config => Click on “Install Config”. Login to WHM => SQL Services => Postgres Config ...]]> http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2010/01/postgresql-issues-with-a-cpanel-server/ Bad Request (Invalid Hostname) when accessing via IP Run -> inetmgr -> Expand the (+) -> Websites -> Right click on the ...]]> http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/12/bad-request-invalid-hostname-when-accessing-via-ip/ Rebuilding Software RAID cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] 1052160 blocks [2/2] ...]]> http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/12/rebuilding-software-raid/ Enabling mod_rewrite in Apache 2.2 [root@cave html]# httpd -V Server version: Apache/2.2.3
[root@cave html]# httpd -M Loaded Modules: core_module (static) mpm_prefork_module (static) http_module (static) so_module (static) auth_basic_module (shared) auth_digest_module (shared) .... ....... .... rewrite_module (shared) proxy_module (shared) proxy_balancer_module (shared) proxy_ftp_module (shared) proxy_http_module ...]]> http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/12/enabling-mod_rewrite-in-apache-2-2/ Magento Suhosin Values http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/12/magento-suhosin-values/ How to redirect non ssl (http links) traffic to SSL (https links) RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
I assume when you directly access https://www.domainname.com , the site loads fine. ]]> http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/12/how-to-redirect-non-ssl-http-links-traffic-to-ssl-https-links/