Plesk – How to Set up a Secondary DNS Server

First, zone transfer for the secondary DNS server should be allowed in Plesk. To do it list secondary DNS server’s IP in NS records for all zones on Plesk server or add it to Access Control List (ACL). ACL is managed under Server > DNS Settings > Common ACL.

For non-Plesk secondary DNS servers:

  1. Create all DNS zones on the secondary DNS server in /etc/named.conf (this file location may differ depending on OS) with slavetype. For example:zone “example.com” { type slave; file “example.com.zone”; masters { 192.168.0.1; }; }

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Install MariaDB on CentOS 6

Step 1. Setting up the MariaDB Repository

You should ensure that the available packages are up to date. For that, simply run the following command in terminal:

yum -y update

Now, add the MariaDB CentOS repository.

Create a new MariaDB repository file /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo with nano:

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo

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How to show your apache status

You can also  check and monitor Apache server’s current status on the web page without using log files. Modify httpd.conf file and add the following code into it:

ExtendedStatus On
<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Deny from all
Order deny,allow
Allow from localhost 192.168,1,56
Allow from .anotherdomain.com
</Location>

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Cannot Add a new Domain

A DNS record for the domain you are trying to add already exists in the Plesk database, so a new domain with the same name cannot be added.

Resolution

Try finding a record with a similar name in the DNS settings of the existing domains.

If it is difficult to find this manually:

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