Category: Apache

Joomla / Plesk

August 6, 2006

Here’s a vhost.conf that makes Joomla happy:

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/somedomain.com/httpdocs >
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on
php_flag display_errors on
php_admin_flag safe_mode off
php_admin_value open_basedir none
</Directory>

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on

php_flag display_errors on

php_admin_flag safe_mode off

php_admin_value open_basedir none

</Directory>

And here are the ownership/permissions:


chown --recursive user.psacln administrator cache components editor help images includes installation language mambots media modules templates *.php *.php-dist *.txt

chmod --recursive go+w administrator/backups/ administrator/components/ administrator/modules/ administrator/templates/ cache components/ images/ images/banners/ images/stories/ language/ mambots/ media/ modules/ templates/

touch configuration.php
chown user.psacln configuration.php
chmod og+rw configuration.php

chown --recursive user.psacln administrator cache components editor help images includes installation language mambots media modules templates *.php *.php-dist *.txt

chmod --recursive go+w administrator/backups/ administrator/components/ administrator/modules/ administrator/templates/ cache components/ images/ images/banners/ images/stories/ language/ mambots/ media/ modules/ templates/

touch configuration.php

chown user.psacln configuration.php

chmod og+rw configuration.php

Turn on register_globals on Plesk site.

June 23, 2006

Here’s a quick bit of apache config that can be placed in the conf/vhost.conf file of a Plesk site to turn on register_globals restrictions: < Directory /var/www/vhosts/somedomain.com/httpdocs > php_flag register_globals on </Directory> And then do: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a -v

Netem

March 31, 2006

Emulating wide area network delays Add delay of 100ms: tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 100ms Remove delay: tc qdisc change dev eth0 root netem delay 0ms Change delay to 1000ms: tc qdisc change dev eth0 root netem delay 1000ms Add random variation to 100ms delay of +/- 10ms: tc qdisc change dev eth0 root netem delay 100ms 10ms Add random variation to 100ms delay of +/- 10ms with 25% correlation: tc qdisc change dev eth0 root netem delay 100ms 10ms 25%

mod_jk for Plesk

October 1, 2005

Download and unpack mod_jk source package to /root/archive or other location as desired: wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/tomcat-4/source/\ jakarta-tomcat-connectors-4.1.27-src.tar.gz tar -xvzf jakarta-tomcat-connectors-4.1.27-src.tar.gz cd jakarta-tomcat-connectors-4.1.27-src/jk/native2 Prepare the configure script: chmod 755 buildconf.sh ./buildconf.sh Run the configure script: ./configure –with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs \ –with-java-home=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/ make libtool –finish /usr/lib/httpd/modules Copy the new modules to the apache modules directory: cp ../build/jk2/apache2/*.so /etc/httpd/modules/

Pre-delegation access to FrontPage managed site with Plesk

September 30, 2005

On a server using Plesk, it is possible to setup event handlers that will create a host in the primary domain so that a client’s domain can be managed with FrontPage prior to delegation of the client’s domain name. For example, if the primary domain is “hosting.net” and the client domain is “acme.net” with an FTP user of “acme” then the “acme.hosting.net” can be created and used until “acme.net” becomes active. Place the following script in the cgi-bin folder of the primary domain:


#!/bin/sh

PDOMAIN=hosting.net

DOMAIN=$1
USER=$2
IP=$3

logger "Starting create-domain handler."
logger "Domain: $DOMAIN"
logger "User: $USER"
logger "IP: $IP"

# add user.hosting.net a record
/usr/local/psa/bin/dns.sh --add $PDOMAIN -a $USER -ip $IP

# add vhost.conf file
echo "ServerAlias $USER.$PDOMAIN" >> /home/httpd/vhosts/$DOMAIN/conf/vhost.conf

# add frontpage config file
FPCONF="/usr/local/frontpage/$USER.$PDOMAIN:80.cnf"

echo "vti_encoding:SR|utf8-nl" > $FPCONF
echo "servertype:apache-2.0" >> $FPCONF
echo "sendmailcommand:/var/qmail/bin/sendmail" >> $FPCONF
echo "authoring:enabled" >> $FPCONF
echo "extenderversion:5.0.2.2634" >> $FPCONF
echo "frontpageroot:/usr/local/frontpage/version5.0" >> $FPCONF
echo "serverconfig:/usr/local/frontpage/conf/$USER.$PDOMAIN.fp.80.cnf" >> $FPCONF

# add frontpage server config file
FPSERVER="/usr/local/frontpage/conf/$USER.$PDOMAIN.fp.80.cnf"

echo "Port 80" > $FPSERVER
echo "ResourceConfig /dev/null" >> $FPSERVER
echo "AccessConfig /dev/null" >> $FPSERVER
echo "ServerRoot \"/etc/httpd\"" >> $FPSERVER

echo "NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1" >> $FPSERVER

echo "<VirtualHost   127.0.0.1:80>" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        ServerName      $USER.$PDOMAIN" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        User            $USER" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        Group   psacln" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        DocumentRoot    /var/www/vhosts/$DOMAIN/httpdocs" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        <Directory \"/var/www/vhosts/$DOMAIN/httpdocs\">" >> $FPSERVER
echo "                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks" >> $FPSERVER
echo "                AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options" >> $FPSERVER
echo "                Order allow,deny" >> $FPSERVER
echo "                Allow from all" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        </Directory>" >> $FPSERVER
echo "</VirtualHost>" >> $FPSERVER

echo "<VirtualHost   127.0.0.1:80>" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        ServerName      $USER.$PDOMAIN" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        User            $USER" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        Group   psacln" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        DocumentRoot    /var/www/vhosts/$DOMAIN/httpdocs" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        <Directory \"/var/www/vhosts/$DOMAIN/httpdocs\">" >> $FPSERVER
echo "                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks" >> $FPSERVER
echo "                AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options" >> $FPSERVER
echo "                Order allow,deny" >> $FPSERVER
echo "                Allow from all" >> $FPSERVER
echo "        </Directory>" >> $FPSERVER
echo "</VirtualHost>" >> $FPSERVER

# rebuild apache config
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a -v

# restart apache
/sbin/service httpd restart

logger "Finished create-domain handler."

exit 0

#!/bin/sh

PDOMAIN=hosting.net

DOMAIN=$1

USER=$2

IP=$3

logger "Starting create-domain handler."

logger "Domain: $DOMAIN"

logger "User: $USER"

logger "IP: $IP"

# add user.hosting.net a record

/usr/local/psa/bin/dns.sh --add $PDOMAIN -a $USER -ip $IP

# add vhost.conf file

echo "ServerAlias $USER.$PDOMAIN" >> /home/httpd/vhosts/$DOMAIN/conf/vhost.conf

# add frontpage config file

FPCONF="/usr/local/frontpage/$USER.$PDOMAIN:80.cnf"

echo "vti_encoding:SR|utf8-nl" > $FPCONF

echo "servertype:apache-2.0" >> $FPCONF

echo "sendmailcommand:/var/qmail/bin/sendmail" >> $FPCONF

echo "authoring:enabled" >> $FPCONF

echo "extenderversion:5.0.2.2634" >> $FPCONF

echo "frontpageroot:/usr/local/frontpage/version5.0" >> $FPCONF

echo "serverconfig:/usr/local/frontpage/conf/$USER.$PDOMAIN.fp.80.cnf" >> $FPCONF

# add frontpage server config file

FPSERVER="/usr/local/frontpage/conf/$USER.$PDOMAIN.fp.80.cnf"

echo "Port 80" > $FPSERVER

echo "ResourceConfig /dev/null" >> $FPSERVER

echo "AccessConfig /dev/null" >> $FPSERVER

echo "ServerRoot \"/etc/httpd\"" >> $FPSERVER

echo "NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1" >> $FPSERVER

echo "<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>" >> $FPSERVER

echo " ServerName $USER.$PDOMAIN" >> $FPSERVER

echo " User $USER" >> $FPSERVER

echo " Group psacln" >> $FPSERVER

echo " DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/$DOMAIN/httpdocs" >> $FPSERVER

echo " <Directory \"/var/www/vhosts/$DOMAIN/httpdocs\">" >> $FPSERVER

echo " Options Indexes FollowSymLinks" >> $FPSERVER

echo " AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options" >> $FPSERVER

echo " Order allow,deny" >> $FPSERVER

echo " Allow from all" >> $FPSERVER

echo " </Directory>" >> $FPSERVER

echo "</VirtualHost>" >> $FPSERVER

echo "<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>" >> $FPSERVER

echo " ServerName $USER.$PDOMAIN" >> $FPSERVER

echo " User $USER" >> $FPSERVER

echo " Group psacln" >> $FPSERVER

echo " DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/$DOMAIN/httpdocs" >> $FPSERVER

echo " <Directory \"/var/www/vhosts/$DOMAIN/httpdocs\">" >> $FPSERVER

echo " Options Indexes FollowSymLinks" >> $FPSERVER

echo " AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options" >> $FPSERVER

echo " Order allow,deny" >> $FPSERVER

echo " Allow from all" >> $FPSERVER

echo " </Directory>" >> $FPSERVER

echo "</VirtualHost>" >> $FPSERVER

# rebuild apache config

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a -v

# restart apache

/sbin/service httpd restart

logger "Finished create-domain handler."

exit 0

Now from the Plesk control panel goto Server -> Event Manager -> Add New Event Handler In the Event field select “Physical hosting created”. In the Command field enter: /home/httpd/vhosts/hosting.com/cgi-bin/create-domain-handler.sh <new_domain_name> <new_system_user> <new_ip_address>