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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 [...]

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If you are struggling to connect to your IMAP mailboxes but other machines on the same network are working fine, then chances are you are hitting the rather restrictive max connections per IP setting that is the default with Courier IMAP and Plesk. As standard it is limited to only 4 connections per IP. For [...]

If you are trying to modify your mod_security configuration on a plesk server and have tried using htaccess files you have probably realised that it won't work. That's a good thing, it makes it harder for people to screw up your server by turning off this protection. Instead the way to do it is to [...]

If you are administering a plesk server running version 8.x then you are likely dealing with phpMyAdmin version 2.8.x.x which has a bug that prevents you from performing database copy operations due to one missing space in the generated SQL. One possible solution here is to simply install phpMyAdmin in its own right and of [...]