Lost MySQL Password
If you have accidentally lost or mis-placed your MySQL password, you may reset it as follows: 1. Login to your server as root. 2. Stop MySQL: /etc/init.d/mysqld stop 3. Start...
Linux
Mount the /tmp partition with ‘noexec’ and ‘nosuid’ options
On Linux servers (especially web servers) it is recommended to create /tmp as separate partition and mount it with ‘noexec’ and ‘nosuid’ options. ‘noexec’ disables the executable file attribute within...
How to change the default Plesk Control Panel port
By default Plesk uses TCP port 8443 to allow access to the control panel, for example: http://server1.domain.net:8443. For security reasons, its recommended to change the default port to a non-standard...
Installing PHP 5.2.x on CentOS
At the time of writing, PHP 5.1.6 is the “current” version shipped with CentOS 5.4. While I’m sure there is valid (?) reason for CentOS still distributing 5.1, many web...
VMware ESXi – Fatal out of memory reading…
During a recent VMware ESXi 4.0 deployment I experienced an error while installing: “VMware fatal out of memory reading” This occurred around ~4 minutes into the installation process whilst image.tgz...