Recently I upgraded a VestaCP server running on an Amazon Lightsail server. Upgrade resulted in a change of the internal IP address of the server, this made site hosted on the server stop working. To fix the problem, I run the command /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-ip NEW_IP_HERE NEW_IP_HERE – replace with actual IP. If your server is behind … Read more
In VestaCP, each packages have option to specify how many backups it can take. First you need to click on packages, then change number of backups allowed for each package. If backups allowed is more than 0, set it to 0. Users are created with these Packages. For all existing users, you need to manually … Read more
To install PHP 7. you need to first enable epel and remi repo. yum install -y epel-release rpm -Uvh http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm Remove existing PHP yum -y remove php Install PHP 7.3 yum –enablerepo=remi-php73 install php73-php php73-php-mbstring php73-php-mysqlnd php73-php-gd php73-php-fpm php73-php-intl php73-php-cli php73-php-xml php73-php-opcache php73-php-pdo php73-php-gmp php73-php-process php73-php-pecl-imagick php73-php-devel start php-fpm service php-fpm stop service php73-php-fpm start … Read more
In VestaCP server, MySQL root password is stored in file /usr/local/vesta/conf/mysql.conf, to find MySQL root password, run cat /usr/local/vesta/conf/mysql.conf
To update VestaCP server, run v-list-sys-vesta-updates v-update-sys-vesta-all Example [root@backendz ~]# v-list-sys-vesta-updates PKG VER REL ARCH UPDT DATE — — — —- —- —- vesta 0.9.8 26 x86_64 yes 2019-09-30 vesta-php 0.9.8 26 x86_64 yes 2019-09-30 vesta-nginx 0.9.8 26 x86_64 yes 2019-09-30 [root@backendz ~]# v-update-sys-vesta-all [root@backendz ~]#
On CentOS 7 VestaCP install PHP 5.6 by default. This is very old version of PHP. To upgrade PHP to latest version 7.x, you can install remi repo. Install EPEL repo yum install -y epel-release Install yum-utils yum install -y yum-utils Install remi repo rpm -ivh http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm Select PHP version you need yum-config-manager –enable remi-php73 … Read more
To always force webmail to use HTTP on VeataCP, edit file vi /etc/roundcube/defaults.inc.php Find $rcmail_config[‘force_https’] = false; Replace with $rcmail_config[‘force_https’] = true;
VestaCP install self signed SSL for mail server by default. To install valid SSL, login to VestCP, go to sites. You will see a site with your sites hostname. If you don’t see it, create a site with your server hostname. Make sure DNS edited so hostname resolve to server IP. Now you should be … Read more
To change server hostname in VestaCP control panel, login to SSH as user root, run /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-change-sys-hostname HOSTNAME_HERE Example /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-change-sys-hostname server1.serverok.in Related Posts vestacp
To reset VestaCP admin password, loign to SSH, run v-change-user-password admin NEW_PASSWOARD if above method did not work, try passwd admin See VestaCP Free Hosting Control Panel
VestaCP Free Hosting control panel compromised again. Hackers where able to get access to VestaCP infrastcuture server, allowing them to modify installation script, so it sent root password of servers to hacker. Here is post from VestaCP on their forum I’m sorry about inactivity in this post from our side. It was a complex issue … Read more
On 07 April 2018, many servers using VestaCP got hacked. Hacker was able to get root acceess on these servers. Hacker installed some trojan software known as Chinese Chicken that is used to DDoS other servers. To see if your server is hacked, check if file /etc/cron.hourly/gcc.sh is present in your server. ls -l /etc/cron.hourly/gcc.sh … Read more