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.htaccess to redirect domain to subfolder

Mark Muyskens — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:47:06 +0000

Here’s a quick htaccess edit that will redirect your domain to a subfolder;

RewriteEngine On

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} www.domainname [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domainname

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subfolder/

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subfolder/$1 [L]

Keep your clocks in sync

Thor Erik — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:13:32 +0000

An issue I’ve come across a lot is that clocks don’t stay correct for a long time…

Now some smart heads thought up a way to fix that, it’s called NTP, Network Time Protocol.

Setting it up is easy:

on RHEL/Fedora/CentOS:

centos ~ # yum install ntp

on Debian and debian based distributions:

debian ~ # apt-get install ntp

(everything is root of course)

on debian you are done now, NTPD should be started, of course if you want to specify your own NTP server or NTP pool, you just edit /etc/ntp.conf

on RHEL it’s just a few more steps:

chkconfig ntpd on

ntpdate pool.ntp.org

/etc/init.d/ntpd start

and that should be it, please do know that if it’s a VPS forget about NTP, the system time is inherited from the host, unless you run it on a windows host(ex. Windows 2008 or in my debian server’s case, Windows 2008 R2 and using Hyper-V)

The error you get will be something like this:

ntpdate[18411]: step-systime: Operation not permitted

after trying to run ntpdate pool.ntp.org

On Windows it’s all a hell lot easier(in gui that is)

Right click on the clock and choose Adjust time and date

go to the Internet time tab.

then click the button saying Change settings.

make sure the checkbox is checked, and if you prefer a different ntp server, change it from time.microsoft.com (but it’s good as well, NTP takes latency into account when setting clock)

Windows does not support ntp pools, so please define a proper NTP server.

.htaccess Generator

Mark Muyskens — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:29:22 +0000

Simple script I made the other day that will generate the exact code you need to password protect a directory. Path is set for a plesk user’s httpdocs folder but can be modified as needed.

http://server-monkey.com/htaccessgenerator

Reset Plesk Admin Password from Shell

Mark Muyskens — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:53:15 +0000

./ch_admin_passwd is Plesk’s utility to set the admin password.

“Gets password from the environment variable PSA_PASSWORD
Password should be from 5 to 16 symbols and should not contain login name, whitespace, quotes or national characters”

[root@ServerMonkey bin]# export PSA_PASSWORD=’newpass’

[root@ServerMonkey bin]# echo $PSA_PASSWORD

newpass

[root@ServerMonkey bin]# ./ch_admin_passwd

[root@ServerMonkey bin]# export PSA_PASSWORD=

[root@ServerMonkey bin]# cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow

newpass

[root@ServerMonkey bin]#