Month: March 2012

The website might throw error as follows hosted on cPanel control panel

Template Error: The template file must be given.

and you may wonder whats gone wrong suddenly with the website.

The fix to the problem  is very easy.

The problem occurs when the IP in virtualhost entry of Apache configuration file is messed up.

1) Login in server as a root user through SSH.

2) Check the IPs present on server

# ifconfig

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Most of the times you find  DNS server of your ISP less reliable or slow and in this case you are looking for an alternate good, free DNS servers.

The list of best & free public DNS servers will help you in selecting the reliable DNS server as per your requirements.

 

Provider	First Server	Second Server
Regular Best Free Public DNS Servers
Google	8.8.8.8	8.8.4.4
Level3	209.244.0.3	209.244.0.4
OpenDNS	208.67.222.222	208.67.220.220
DNS Advantage	156.154.70.1	156.154.71.1
DNSResolvers.com	205.210.42.205	64.68.200.200
OpenNIC	74.207.247.4	64.0.55.201
Public-Root	199.5.157.131	208.71.35.137
SmartViper	208.76.50.50	208.76.51.51
Dyn	216.146.35.35	216.146.36.36
Free Public DNS Servers with Safe-Browsing Shield
Norton ConnectSafe 1	198.153.192.40	198.153.194.40
Norton ConnectSafe 2	198.153.192.50	198.153.194.50
Norton ConnectSafe 3	198.153.192.60	198.153.194.60
Comodo Secure DNS	8.26.56.26	8.20.247.20
Securly	184.169.143.224	184.169.161.155
ScrubIT	67.138.54.100	207.225.209.66

If any feedback, queries are always welcome!

Plesk uses Qmail as mail server on a Linux server.

Here are some useful commands related to Qmail mail server.

Hope you find them informative and helpful ! 🙂

1) Start Qmail service

service qmail start

2) Stop Qmail service

service qmail stop

3) Status of Qmail service

service qmail status

4) Qmail log on Plesk server

/usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog

5) To view the amount of messages currently in your outbound queue

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat

6)To list out all messages in your outbound queue

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread

7) To read the entire contents of an email

Including headers, where NNNN is the 8 digit ID specified on the /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread command

find /var/qmail/queue -name NNNN| xargs cat | less

8) To remove specific mails from mail queue

qmail-remove -r -p
qmail-remove -r -p xyz.com

This will remove all emails in queue with “xyz.com” in it
Note: It requires qmail-remove install on server

9) Mailbox location in Plesk

/var/qmail/mailnames/

If any feedback, queries are always welcome!