If you run a firewall on your Linux server and want to use passive FTP connections, you have to define the passive port range in pure-ftpd and your firewall to ensure that the connections don't get blocked. The following example is for pure-ftpd on Debian or Ubuntu Linux and ISPConfig 3. Set Passive Port Range ... Read more
The ISPConfig update script is an easy way to update an ISPConfig 3 installation. If you want to make a manual backup of ISPConfig, see the instructions at the end of the article. This tutorial applies to ISPConfig 3.0, ISPConfig 3.1, and also ISPConfig 3.2. To update ISPConfig 3, log in as root user on ... Read more
The following article describes the steps that need to be taken to debug ISPConfig 3 server scripts. This procedure applies to all ISPConfig 3 versions incl. ISPConfig 3.1 and ISPConfig 3.2. Enable the debug Loglevel in ISPConfig Login to the ISPConfig interface and set the log level to Debug under System > System > Server ... Read more
The Nginx web server has a max. body size limit of 1 MB for requests as default. This might be too low for file uploads in scripts and you will see the following error message when you try to upload a file: 413 Request Entity Too Large The configuration variable for this option is "client_max_body_size" ... Read more
In case of configuration changes do not get written to disk in ISPConfig 3, you should enable the debugging mode. Login to ISPConfig and go to System > Server config > Server (name of the server) > Server and set Logelevl to Debug. Old Versions: If you use an ISPConfig version < 3.0.2, then debugging ... Read more
There are three ways that an ISPConfig email user can use to change his email password (when he has no client login). Use the Mail user login in ISPConfig Email users can login to ISPConfig with their email address and mailbox password by using the normal ISPConfig GUI login. They will get logged into a ... Read more
Jailkit is an easy-to-use tool to create and maintain jail environments for shell users on Linux. In this guide, I will show you how to move PHP and its dependencies into the jail so that the jailed user can execute PHP scripts inside the jail on an ISPConfig server. Edit the jailkit .ini file and ... Read more
This guide shows you how to solve the error message "Connect to MySQL server 127.0.0.1: Too many connections". The error can appear in any log file of a service that connects to the MySQL server. This may e.g. be the /var/log/mail.log file if your email system uses a MySQL database. The error means that the ... Read more
The following steps describe the procedure to reset the MySQL root password on Linux. The same procedure works for MariaDB too. 1) Stop the MySQL server service mysql stop 2) Start the MySQL server manually without permission tables which allows us to login as root user without password: mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables & 3) Login into MySQL ... Read more
HTTP connections can be redirected to HTTPS using the apache mod_rewrite module. Mod_rewrite should be available in every apache installation. Apache HTTP to HTTPS Redirect Create a file with the name .htaccess in the website root directory which contains the following lines: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} If you use ISPConfig 3, ... Read more