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Setting up a VPN connection for IPMI

Friday, March 9th, 2012

The following steps are valid for our global range of servers (US, EU, SG). Please contact support to setup your VPN and IPMI details if required. To connect to the server via VPN and then open IPMI, please follow the steps below On Windows: Please download the IPMIView Software from the link below http://www.nettigritty.com/downloads/IPMIView20-Win32_v2.7.15_Build100720.exe You […]


Change ownership of (chown) a symlink

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

The standard command to change ownership of any file on Linux is chown. However passing this normally with user.group does not change ownership of a symbolic link. To do that, pass the command with the -h flag like in the example below. chown -h username.groupname symlinkname


DNS zone of a domain alias cannot be edited because the domain alias is turned off

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Sometimes activating the DNS zone of a domain can give the error “DNS zone of a domain alias cannot be edited because the domain alias is turned off”. To correct this, open up command prompt in Remote Desktop and type the command cd %plesk_bin% Next, enter the command below (in one line) replacing domain.com with […]