MySQL partition is full

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

MySQL databases are located on /var/lib/mysql, if you create a partition for /var and and big enough to hold your databases MySQL will stop working because not enough space to put the data. Below is the easy way to fix it:
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Fantastico Problem

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

First, Joomla is not listed on Fantastico, tried to update Fantastico
WHM >> Plugins >> Fantastico De Luxe WHM Admin >> Update/Get files
Failed!! Below Error showed up when opening Fantastico from cPanel

The server was not able to find the document (./frontend/x3/fantastico/index.php) you requested. Please check the url and try again. You might also want to report this error to your web hosting provider.

Access WHM >> Plugins >> Fantastico De Luxe WHM Admin again, this time it asked to re-install. Done that. But I still get the same error.
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[cPanel] “.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable”

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

User complain he can’t access his site, with site error shows “403 Forbidden Error”.
When I check his cpanel error log, I get

[Sun Jul 13 01:15:32 2008] [crit] [client 218.208.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: /home/mydomain/public_html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

I thought it was .htaccess issue, so I trying to delete it. But .htaccess is can’t be deleted. After Googling I found From Techie Corner’s blog. And this is what I’ve done
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[cPanel] Account Locked Out

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Error on cPanel Login

Brute Force Protection. This account is currently locked out because a brute force attempt was detected

Info from 24x7ServerManagement:
Flush DB will remove all blocked IPs:
WHM -> Security Center -> cPHulk Brute Force Protection -> Click on Flush DB

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cPanel – Webmail (cpanelro) Highload

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

From cPanel Forum:

CPU Process has a high load, with many cpanelro user taking the cpu time. Below is script to kill cpanelro’s process

#!/bin/sh
for ROUND in `ps aux | grep roundcube | awk -F " " '{print $10}' | awk -F ":" '{print $1}'`;
do
if [ $ROUND -ge 20 ]; then
pkill -u cpanelroundcube
echo "kill roundcube process roundcube";
fi
done

Put in crontab and run it every 15 or 30minutes. Or you can edit RoundCube file to fix a never ending loop caused when trying to log in with an invalid account

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