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Plesk Default credentials

feonix83 — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:26:21 +0000

Because I always forget, the user is ‘admin’ sans quotes and the password is ‘setup’ sans quotes. And I change them immediately.

Microsoft DNS Server, MMC could not create the snap-in

feonix83 — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:11:10 +0000

I had to upgrade adminpak.msi and could then move forward, Installers found here:

32 bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=86B71A4F-4122-44AF-BE79-3F101E533D95&displaylang=en

64 bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=514BD06E-F3BC-4054-8429-C49F51E2190B&displaylang=en

sudo: must be setuid root

feonix83 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:37:38 +0000

to fix:
when logged in as root, run this:
chmod 4111 $(which sudo)

The certificate chain did not validate, no local certificate found

feonix83 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:09:06 +0000

Common example errors:

Unable to authorize payment: The certificate chain did not validate, no local certificate found, Cert Path = c:\pfpcerts\, Working Directory = c:\windows\system32\inetsrv

Result Code: -31
Response Message: The certificate chain did not validate, no local certificate found, Cert Path = c:\pfprocerts, Working Directory = c:\windows\system32\inetsrv
Transaction ID:
Auth. Code:

I’m Sorry, there was a problem with your transaction.

Transaction Result:
The certificate chain did not validate, no local certificate found, Cert Path = certs, Working directory = c:\winnt\system32\inetsrv

Well, as of January 4, 2010, your Payflow Pro SDK expires permanently and your payment processing will stop if you are using an outdated SDK. You can see this on their website here:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/gateway_update_FAQ

Depending on the method or scripting language you are using this can be an easy or difficult thing to get around. As I am Miva Merchant savvy, If you are using Miva Merchant 5, run your updates. If you are running Miva Merchant 4, you can get an updated version of the Payment Module and instructions for instillation at https://support.mivamerchant.com/supportsuite/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=46&nav=0,12. Zen Cart forums make reference to this change here http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=823250#post823250. Anyway, if you have a hand coded cart, visit the top link I supplied for more information. If you find specific articles or information for specific carts, please comment. I will gladly update this post.

SSL Test Page Update

feonix83 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:10:20 +0000

All validation error codes have been accounted for with extended information, pulled from the openSSL documentation pages here:

http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/verify.html

More to come later.

Manually resetting the admin password on a Plesk Linux server

feonix83 — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:13:51 +0000

This can be accomplished with the ch_admin_passwd binary.

[root@plesklinux root]# cd /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/

[root@plesklinux bin]# ./ch_admin_passwd —help

./ch_admin_passwd: Utility to set Plesk adminstrator’s password

Gets password from the environment variable PSA_PASSWORD

Password should be from 5 to 16 symbols and should not contain login name,

whitespace, quotes or national characters

Usage: ./ch_admin_passwd

-h, —help

display this help and exit

We must export the variable before running the binary. We will unset the variable when we are done.

[root@plesklinux bin]# export PSA_PASSWORD='newpass'

[root@plesklinux bin]# echo $PSA_PASSWORD

newpass

[root@plesklinux bin]# ./ch_admin_passwd

[root@plesklinux bin]# export PSA_PASSWORD=

[root@plesklinux bin]# cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow

newpass

[root@plesklinux bin]#

New Script Added to My Tools Page

feonix83 — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:47:49 +0000

I have just added a script to my tools page, it can be found here: Default Document Locator
It hits a site of your choosing, for common default documents. This is very useful where a site has had false documents uploaded to it and you need to locate the correct one quickly as all pages giving a 200 response code are shown in an iframe.

Error: An exception occurred when performing document processing. The cause of this exception was that: coldfusion.tagext.lang.DocumentTagException: An exception occurred when performing document processing.

feonix83 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:37:48 +0000

After restarting ColdFusion, and seeing it not a performance issue, I realized the file I was trying to save to was to a folder that did not exist.

So my pam stack is hosed?

feonix83 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:23:43 +0000

Runtime error in lib/db.mvc @ [00000164:00000024]: lib/dbprim/stores.mv: Line 202: MvOPENVIEW: mysql_stmt_bind_results: Using unsupported buffer type: 246 (parameter: 27)

feonix83 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:46:28 +0000

Runtime error in lib/db.mvc @ [00000164:00000024]: lib/dbprim/stores.mv: Line 202: MvOPENVIEW: mysql_stmt_bind_results: Using unsupported buffer type: 246 (parameter: 27)

I run into this one once in a while and always have to remember to upgrade the MySQL driver to the latest.