Archive: plesk

So you have a plesk backup file and you want to extract and open the files from it? No problem. This blog will show you how. The file is a mime file. The "mpack" package will let you unpack it. First we install the "mpack" package PLAIN TEXT CODE: sudo apt-get install mpack Let's imagine [...]

There's a little-known trick to using the plesk admin user password to access the mysql database that works on many a plesk machine. Effectively the plesk admin password is stored in /etc/psa/.psa.shadow - in plain text. This means that the following commands for instance work very well as root : mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` mytop [...]

While recently migrating a client from a dedicated server which was proving a little too expensive over to one of the great value Linux Virtual Private Servers offered by Web Fusion, I found myself frustrated with the 2mb upload limit apparent in the control panel side of things. So I went and edited the php.ini [...]