Phew .. updated plesk to Plesk 9.2.2. Maybe they have fixed the backup issue I have?
It shuts down the httpd daemon and than it’s always finger crossing to see it restarted again. and it did yeah !
Server-Status
Server Status
Oeps. Today I noticed that the server was not working anymore. Damn. No space on HDD left. (stupid Backups!)
SSH saved the day and everything is working again .. Good lesson!
Server Message: RSS feed fixed
Chris mentioned to me in e-mail that my rss feed was broken. As long time evangelist for RSS feeds some years ago I did not look into rss for a long time. My feed is running through feedburner and I was thinking all was ok.
An update I made on the blog last week caused some empty spaces in a configuration file. This caused the feed to be invalid (a empty line as first line).
If you read this through your RSS feed reader it means the feed is up running again. Sorry for the delay. It’s possible that you will see some advertisements in the feed. It’s an experiment to see if this weblog can earn some money through feeds.
Server stuff
Server was offline for a couple of hours. No Idea what was causing the lock down. Bandwidth stat showed some wierd behaviour. I’m now checking stuff.
Ah .. reason found .. the reason why your server was offline: the APC connector was loose .. Duhhhhhhh
Plesk 9.01 & Firewall activation issues
the update of Plesk 9.01 is causing a serious issue on the firewall.
Trying to activate the firewall is causing an error message: proc_close() failed: mktime()
Unfortunately 2 IP’s I configured to use SSH were changed: 1 DSL IP due to moving our office and 1 DSL IP due to change at my ISP. oh oh .. no IP allowed to use SSH anymore.
With the help of Tommy Leushuis of Leaseweb I managed to turn off the firewall (yeah). Stopping the firewall made me able to use SSH again.
problem lays here: /usr/local/psa/var/modules/firewall/
the file firewall-active.sh is not updated. Changing manually the file and run it is activating the correct configuration again. Using the firewall commands from the plesk web interface is not possible. Cause all changes made by another script is overwritten by the firewall-active.sh again.
I changed the firewall-active.sh ran it and started the firewall again. Problem Solved!
Server Up
After 1 hour trying, pressing multiple times the powercycle button in the service-center I am up again
of course the firewall is not ok yet ;-)
Nieuw IP
Message to self: xs4all wijzigt IP adressen van een x-aantal klanten waaronder ik. Dus volgende week DNS onderdelen omzetten en herconfiguratie server onderdelen naar een nieuw IP ..
updated PHP
update php 5.1.x to php 5.2.8. Needed by some applications on this server. Seems to work fine .. Fingers crossed on this new server ..
Overzetten Server(s)
Zo … bezig met het overzetten van een stuk of 5 / 6 databases voor aroundtheworld.net straks als de DNS is overgezet maar even kijken of alles weer goed werkt.
Daarna maar eens wat websites van familieleden zien over te zetten.
Backup data from Server A to B with RSYNC
rsync -avz -e ssh [username]@www.domain.com:/path/to/get/data/from/ /path/to/mirror-location/
I’m not really happy as it’s still a little unknown to me how to do this unattended (storing authorized keys is a little abacadabra for me) ..