Published on : September 21, 2014 by George K.
Have you ever forgotten the root password on one of our clients MySQL servers? No worries, please follow these five steps to do the MySQL root password reset. 1. Log in as root and stop the mysql daemon. Now lets start up the mysql daemon and skip the grant tables which store the passwords. Or […]
Published on : September 20, 2014 by Arnold Pablo
There could be many situations where you do not have a root password for many of the servers you interact with where you can not SSH directly in as the root user. Also, the ssh daemons are wisely configured with ‘PermitRootLogin’ set to ‘no’ so a password would be moot anyway. Let us see how […]
Published on : September 17, 2014 by Vipin R.N
Disable Mod security for an account was easier in Mod_security v 1.x, you just had to add the following lines in the .htaccess file for that account’s public_html directory : SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPost Off This will no longer work as Mod_security 2.x was been started to use in newer WHM/cPanel versions. In this article, we […]
Published on : September 16, 2014 by Vipin R.N
Scenario A customer says he needs to turn off PHP magic quotes ( magic_quotes_gpc ) in his account. Pre-Requisite Information PHP version 5.3.22 Server API CGI/FastCGI Solution An absolute walk in the park if you know it, otherwise 🙁 PHP.net says “Since PHP 5.3.0, PHP includes support for .htaccess-style INI files on a per-directory basis. These […]
Published on : September 15, 2014 by Felix
Once our client opened a ticket saying that he cannot login DirectAdmin control panel. This is actually a simple troubleshoot but I have googled it a lot and gone mad for hours to find it . Note that this was almost a year back and I think now it can be googled easily. When logging into […]