Plesk

OpenSUSE 11.1 and Plesk 9.2.1 update

After more than three years of using Suse 9.3 with Plesk 8.1 on one of my VPS, I decided that it is time to update to OpenSUSE 11.1 with Plesk 9.2.1 control panel. The update process went very well, here are the steps involved:
1. create a full backup of your vps (databases, websites, accounts, emails, [...]


How to check that RoR is working in Plesk 8.1.1

I had the possibility to upgrade my Plesk instalation from 8.0.1 to 8.1.1 without to pay additional money . In the new release notes they mentioned that Ruby on Rails is supported, so I tried it to see. The upgrade was fine, and now I have RoR installed.
To activate it you have to add [...]


How to install Subversion on Plesk 8.1

I will try to explain step by step how I installed Subversion on a Virtual Private Server wich runs Plesk 8.1.1 as control panel and Suse Linux 9.3 as operating system:
First step is to download subversion package, now the latest version is 1.4.4. It is very nice that they offer also a package with [...]


How to use vhost.conf in Plesk

Maybe you need to do some specific configurations for a domain or subdomain and you tried to do directly in httpd.include file. You saw that it works for the momment but plesk will delete again your specific configurations from this file. So, in this case the answer is vhost.conf file. This file will be placed [...]


Panache and Peril with Plesk (Spamassassin instalation)

This is a copy of the original article, see it here
With this new dedicated server, I chose Plesk as a control panel solely because I hated it less than Ensim or cPanel. Normally I’d do all the installation, configuration, and tweaking of a server myself, but I just don’t have time for that [...]