HTTP ERROR 500

Problem accessing /service/home/admin@domainname/Notebook. Reason:

    system failure: wiki formatter failure

Sounds like you don’t have Documents enabled,You can use following steps to enable it.

All you need to do is re-initalize the notebook template for the renamed wiki user (wiki@domain.com)

1. login to the zimbra server.
2. Shell into the zimbra account (su – zimbra)
3. run zmprov in wiki@domain.com
4. look for the following output: Initializing folders

Regards

Alex P

Could not send message to SMTP server. Check that you have access to send messages via the server and that all To/CC/BCC addresses are valid\nError: SMTP Server rejected mail. Returned:553

What may cause the problem?

Solutions :

Seemed like atmail didn’t authenticate when trying to send the email. After searching through the sources found that in the @mail config file (/var/www/atmail/libs/Atmail/Config.php) there is an option to authenticate with an username/password

’smtpauth_password’ => ”,
’smtpauth_username’ => ”,

by default they’re empty.
if you put here a valid username and password, the messages will be sent.
The problem is that I wanted that the users authenticate with their own credentials when sending messages.

So here’s the way I fixed it:

Open the file /var/www/atmail/libs/Atmail/SendMsg.php

Search for the line “// Optionally authenticate with the SMTP server”

Add below line :

$auth =& $atmail->getAuthObj();
$pref['smtpauth_username'] = $auth->Account;
$pref['smtpauth_password'] = $auth->password;

That’s it. This will override the auth settings from Config.php with the credentials the user used to log in.

After that try to send an email it will work.

This post looks at what caused the issue and how to fix it.

Clearly there’s something wrong with the way phpmyadmin sessions are being used. Cpanel work with is own internal PHP and store the application session files in different folder for security reason.

On Cpanel server, every application as his own php configuration setting like phpmyadmin , php configuration file is /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/phpmyadmin/php.ini , roundcube (/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/roundcube/php.ini)

PHPmyAdmin session files are store in /var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/ folder.  The /var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/ folder ownership should be cpanelphpmyadmin.cpanelphpmyadminn  /var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/ in order to get phpmyadmin work perfect.

root@server [/var/cpanel/userhomes]# chown cpanelphpmyadmin.cpanelphpmyadmin cpanelphpmyadmin/ -R

If session folder owned by any other username rather than cpanelphpmyadmin then you will get “Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly” error.

root@server [/var/cpanel/userhomes]# ll
drwxr-xr-x  4 cpanel           cpanel            4096 Dec 11 23:04 cpanel/
drwx--x--x  4 cpanelhorde      cpanelhorde       4096 Sep 24  2009 cpanelhorde/
drwx--x--x  4 cpanelphpmyadmin cpanelphpmyadmin  4096 Sep 24  2009 cpanelphpmyadmin/
drwx--x--x  4 cpanelphppgadmin cpanelphppgadmin  4096 Sep 24  2009 cpanelphppgadmin/
drwx--x--x  4 cpanelroundcube  cpanelroundcube   4096 Sep 24  2009 cpanelroundcube/
root@server [/var/cpanel/userhomes]#

Regards

Alex P

Whenever you are trying to upload an image using the flash uploader in Wordpress and received a “HTTP error”? and uploading images status stuck in crunching ……..

Here solutions::

The problem has something to do with mod_security, which is basically a web application firewall that protects your website from a range of attacks. So you shouldn’t turn off this module as it protects your site from such malicious attack , You can add a special rule in .htaccess file which can be found in the root folder of your Wordpress installation to get work the flash uploader.

Open the .htaccess file in your website document root and add the following lines:

• For Apache 1.X
  

  <IfModule mod_security.c>
  <Files async-upload.php>
  SecFilterEngine Off
  SecFilterScanPOST Off
  </Files>
  </IfModule>

• For Apache 2.X
  

  <IfModule mod_security2.c>
  <Files async-upload.php>
  SecRuleEngine Off
  SecAuditEngine Off
  </Files>
  </IfModule>

Then try to upload the images it should be work like charm D:

Today I came across a neat, but pointless shell command. By running the following in shell, it will hide any commands you run.

root@server2 [/]# stty -echo

In order to disable this mode, simply remove the “-” before echo.

root@server2 [/]# stty echo

I guess there really is no point to the command, though you could always mess with your coworkers if they leave their shell prompt open

Cheers.

Hello,

If you having trouble compiling any application manually using “configure” , here simple fix for this error.

Error ::

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

Solution::

• Centos/Fedora/RHEL

  yum install gcc gcc-cpp gcc-c++

• Ubuntu/Debain

  apt-get install gcc gcc-cpp gcc-c++

Regards

AlexP

mysql_pconnect() will maintain a persistent connection to the database. Whenever your script calls the connect to database function, it first searches already existing connections to the database and if exists it will use the same connection to connect to the database, if not it will open a new connection to the database. ie. Connection is Persistent

where as mysql_connect() function will establish a new connection whenever a connection to database needed, and after executing the script, this function disconnects the connection. ie. connection is not a persistent one.

mysql_pconnect() function is used where your site has a Heavy Traffic and where as mysql_connect() function is used when there is moderate/less traffic to your site.

Regard’s

Alex P

System Administrator.

First you will have to uninstall/remove exiting RoundCube files/folder/database on your server,

• Uninstall/remove exiting RoundCube

cd /usr/local/cpanel/base
rm -rf roundcube*
mysql -e 'drop database roundcube';
/scripts/upcp

Now follow the following steps to  update/install latest roundcube  version ,we need to get Roundcube before we can use it. The easiest way to get it is to visit http://www.roundcube.net and click on “Downloads” or just go to http://roundcube.net/downloads. Wait for it to download and then unzip (using WinZip or ZipGenius or tar -xzf roundcubemail-0.1.tar.gz) in the current directory.

• update/install latest roundcube

cd /usr/local/cpanel/base
wget -O roundcube.tar.gz http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/
roundcubemail/roundcubemail-0.2.1.tar.gz
rm -rf roundcube.tar.gz
mv -f roundcubemail-0.2.1/ roundcube
cd roundcube
chmod -R 777 temp
chmod -R 777 logs

• Database Configuration

Create the database, database user and install the intial sql file. The following commands will do this for you.

mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE roundcube;"
mysql -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcube.* TO roundcube@localhost IDENTIFIED BY
'DATABASEPASSWORD';"
mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
mysql -e "use roundcube; source SQL/mysql.initial.sql;"

You will have to replace the roundcube password with ‘DATABASEPASSWORD’ field.

• Configuring RoundCube

cd config
mv db.inc.php.dist db.inc.php
mv main.inc.php.dist main.inc.php

then open database configruation file  db.inc.php in your favroite editor like vi or pico or nano
vi db.inc.php
Find following line

$rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcube:pass@localhost/roundcubemail';

Replace it with

$rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcube:DATABASEPASSWORD@localhost/roundcube';

Now Open main.inc.php

vi main.inc.php

Find

$rcmail_config['default_host'] = '';

Replace with

$rcmail_config['default_host'] = 'localhost';

Last steps , restart the mysql, cpanel services on your server. That’s it ,Have fun with your new Roundcube installation!!

Regards

AlexP

memcached is a high-performance memory object caching system intended to speed up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

memcached is meant to work in concert with something like the MySQL query cache, not replace it. The two implementations excel at vastly different things: memcached is an object cache, while MySQL provides a query cache.

memcached is extremely fast. It uses libevent, which provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor, to scale to any number of open connections. On a modern Linux system memcached utilizes epoll, is completely non-blocking for network I/O, ensures memory never gets fragmented, and uses its own slab allocator and hash table to achieve 0(1) virtual memory allocation.

How it install it on Linux server ?

• Install dependency software (Libevent)

#curl -O http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.9-stable.tar.gz
#tar -xzvf libevent-1.4.9-stable.tar.gz
#cd libevent*
#./configure
#make
#make install

• Now let’s download the newest Memcached source

#curl -O http://www.danga.com/memcached/dist/memcached-1.3.0.tar.gz
#tar zxf memcached-1.3.0.tar.gz
#cd memcached-1.3.0
#./configure
#make
#make install

• Then add /usr/local/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your .bash_profile

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

How it Works

First, you start up the memcached daemon on as many spare machines as you have. The daemon has no configuration file, just a few command line options, only 3 or 4 of which you’ll likely use:

Run Memcached as a daemon (d = daemon, m = memory, u = user, l = IP to listen to, p = port)

#memcached -d -m 1024 -u root -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 –u nobody

This starts memcached as a daemon (-d) on the IP address and port specified with -l and -p, respectively, running as the user nobody (-u), allocating 1024  for object storage (-m). You should adjust the amount of storage to suit your needs; many memcached installs run with 4 GB. Once you are comfortable with your startup options, add the appropriate command to your startup scripts.

Create a /etc/init.d/memcached file and add above line to start memcached when the server boots

With memcached installed and running, it’s time to get PHP talking to the object cache. While multiple PHP API exists, the one in the PECL repository is recommended. If you are running a newer version of PHP, installation is as simple as:

# pecl install memcache

Or you can use following steps to install PECL memcache manually.

#cd /usr/local/src
#curl -O http://pecl.php.net/get/memcache
#tar zxvf memcache*
#cd memcache-*
#phpize
#./configure
#make && make install

Now we have to make sure PHP loads the newly built memcache.so library by adding the following line to php.ini:

extension=memcache.so

Now restart Apache:

Service httpd restart

Once it sucussfully install you can create phpinfo() on your webserver should now confirm that memcache is installed.

Regards
AlexP

Svn(subversion) is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly-compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS).

It is very easy to install subversion client on linux OS using yum. You can us following command to install subversion client.

root@server [~]# yum install subversion

while installing subversion if you are getting following error  then it seem sot be perl-URI package is not installed on your server so you will have to install first before installing subversion client.

Please follow the following steps to install perl-URI package

You’ll login via SSH as root and run this command:

root@server [~]# yum install subversion

and then you may get this error:

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package subversion

Here’s what you do next (copy/paste):

root@server [~]# wget  ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.fedoraproject.org/
fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/
perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch.rpm 

root@server [~]# rpm -i perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch.rpm

root@server [~]# yum install subversion

Installed: subversion.x86_64 0:1.4.2-4.el5 subversion.i386 0:1.4.2-4.el5

Dependency Installed: neon.x86_64 0:0.25.5-10.el5 neon.i386 0:0.25.5-10.el5

Complete!

That’s it subversion client is successfully installed on your server you can check it using following command.

root@server [~]#svn --version
svn, version 1.1.4 (r13838)
compiled Aug 21 2005, 20:56:55

Copyright (C) 2000-2004 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV) protocol.
- handles 'http' schema
- handles 'https' schema
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
- handles 'file' schema
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
- handles 'svn' schema

Regards

Alex P