How To Set Up an HTTPS Service in IIS

Configuring Your Web Server for SSL

To enable SSL in IIS, you must first obtain a certificate that is used to encrypt and decrypt the information that is transferred over the network. IIS includes its own certificate request tool that you can use to send a certificate request to a certification authority. This tool simplifies the process of obtaining a certificate. If you use Apache, you must obtain the certificate manually.
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How To Disable IIS Services

Disable IIS Services in IIS 4.0

  1. In Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, click Start, click Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Services.
  2. Scroll through the list of services, click to select the service that you want to disable, and then click Startup.
  3. Click to select Disabled, and then click OK.
  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each service that you want to disable.
  5. To exit, click Close, and then close Control Panel.

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How to set up an IIS Website

Configure a default Web site

When you install IIS, it is preconfigured to serve as a default Web site; however, you may want to change some of the settings. To change the basic settings for the Web site and to emulate the steps that are required to set up Apache for the first time by using the configuration file:

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cPanel Recover InnoDB table Corruption

InnoDB force Recovery, There are many reasons available to get database corrupted. Make sure that you maintain a good backup schedule by running a cpanel backup in case of serious corruption or data loss issue or refer with Mysql knowledgebase.

InnoDB corruption can cause all of the databases running on that server to be inaccessible. Unfortunately some times you need to recover MySQL data from ibdata1. It’s many reasons why your getting corrupted Innodb files that cannot automatically be restored of the mysqld daemon. We can recover innodb table corruption in your  cpanel server.

 

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cPanel MySQL Performance Tuning

MySQL Performance Tuning Shell Script, This script takes information from “SHOW STATUS LIKE…” and “SHOW VARIABLES LIKE…” then attempts to produce sane recommendations for tuning server variables. It is compatible with all versions of MySQL 3.23 and above.

In your huge traffic cPanel server you can use the following MySQL performance tuning script to optimize the mysql performance.

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Cpanel Database Automatic backup Shell script

We can backup our databases using different methods, Here is the shell script used for automatic backup MySQL databases using mysqldump in your cpanel server. The following instruction can be used to backup any database. The only requirement is that you are using a Linux server to host your files and mysql user privileges. Use this Database Automatic backup Shell script  via cron job.
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Files tab is not shown in Control Panel

Symptoms

Cannot manage the subscription. The plesk agent exception are thrown when accessing subscription management options:

  1. When opening the ‘Files’ tab:
    Error message or description of the request: In response to the HTTP-request to the agent at 'https://203.0.113.2:8443/agent.cgi' An invalid HTTP-code '502 '
    File JsonRpc.php
    File    JsonRpc.php
    Line    273
    Type    Service_Agent_Exception
    

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POODLE Attack Exploiting SSL 3.0 Fallback

Information
A CVE-2014-3566 vulnerability in the SSLv3 protocol was identified by the Google security team. There is an additional whitepaper available from OpenSSL that also describes this vulnerability.

You can check if you are vulnerable using the following script. For the parameter, specify your server IP:

# wget http://kb.odin.com/Attachments/kcs-40007/poodle.zip
# unzip poodle.zip
# chmod +x poodle.sh
# for i in `echo 21 587 443 465 7081 8443 993 995 `; do /bin/sh /root/poodle.sh $i; done
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How to change shared IP address to dedicated IP in Plesk PPA

Information
Parallels Plesk Automation (PPA) version 11.1 does not have direct way to change shared IP address to dedicated IP address for the domain on customer’s subscription.
Dedicated IP address can be assigned on the subscription only during creation.

The article describes workaround which can be used for assigning dedicated IP address on the existing subscription without recreating it.

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