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As a system administrator, it's hard for me to imagine a quiet life without Fail2ban. This service tracks logs of many services, such as a web server, mail server, openssh-server and so on. In case of suspicious activity (as a rule, many unsuccessful authorizations), it automatically blocks (using iptables rules) for some time the ip-address from which these authorizations were. ...

It is not always convenient for mail to be located at /webmail. But this configuration is in Vesta CP by default. While the developers of the panel have not done the same thing that we are going to do, this will have to be r...

There are a lot of changes after upgrade Sphinx search from version 1 to 2. Queries on the command line no longer work through searh, many directives were removed from the configuration file, and more. We'll figure out. Setup Sphinx 2.2.11 on Ubuntu / Debian и RHEL / CentOS 7 First we need to install the package: Ubuntu/Debian: aptitude install sphinxsearch...

Task: setup SSL (https) settings in Nginx config file in order to get grade A+ there: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ Best way - edit the /usr/local/vesta/data/templates/web/nginx/default.stpl (the more, so if you will edit something from the panel, than Vesta CP will overwrite any changes made manually in the configurati...

So, after the Nginx update on Debian some of the business functions of the portal Bitrix stopped working. It turned out: the problem is that there was a previos nginx version where the necessary module was compiled manually. Decision: rebuild fresh nginx with the push-and-pull module (nginx-push-stream-module) configure that it is not updated Let's sta...

As we see in owncloud.org -> install - there are several options for installation - an archive file, a web installer and packages for various systems. I decided to install the package to be able to put updates and to automatically satisfying the dependencies. For Debian 7.0, you must first run the following commands (as root,...

Sometimes, you need to figure out which request comes from cms / cmf or another script to the Mysql server. For example, I had to deal with the jqgrid-php library. It was unclear which query comes to the mysql server from the script. You can, of course, install and configure mysql-proxy, but there is a simpler solution: Login to Mysql-se...

I tried to send an email to gmail on my Debian server (with the Vesta panel installed). I received this error: SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [2a00:1450:400c:c01::1b]: 550-5.7.1 [2001:41d0:8:e974::1] Our system has detected that this message does 550-5.7.1 not meet IPv6 sending guidelines regarding PTR records and 550-5....

Go to the official site and download the forum source here: http://download.simplemachines.org/ and the language you need is here: http://download.simplemachines.org/?smflanguages;lang=russian (Only you need to be careful when choosing an archive with...

I wanted for my site to get free ssl to use https. A search on the net brought me here:https://www.startssl.com/. After registration, I got it, but it's a completely different story ... By the way, it turned out that it was very easy to get a s / mime certificate for your mail (no matter which domain). How to get a free s/mime certificate? ...

Problem: Viber Desktop does not start on Debian Linux. When we running the command /opt/viber/Viber in the terminal, we can see the error: /opt/viber/Viber: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /opt/viber/Viber) /opt/viber/Viber: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /opt/viber/Viber) /opt/viber...

This information is suitable for sphinx versions 2.0.9 and below (also sphinx 1.x). If you need to install and configure version 2.2.x (2.2.11, for example), then see here >> [1] How to install sphinx on centos 5 Where to sear...