Is Plesk 9 in ART?

laughingbuddha · Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:18 pm

Hey,

Well just read my email and Plesk 9 is out. Lucky my server doesn't go up till Friday/early next week.

Has Plesk 9 been added to the ART channel, and more importantly as I'm going to take up ASL is it supported under Plesk 9?

Thanks,

Matt

aus-city · Unread post by **aus-city** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:52 pm

Right now Plesk 9 works on ASL I have got a updated server.

The only issues I have now is:

asl-web-gui is broken get can't run outside of plesk. Scott is aware and a fix will happen.

mod_security, etc, etc all are running just fine. The only thing I have noticed is the emails have no subject or sender, but it is there in the body. So you still get all the emails and reports.

What is weird is rkhunter works perfectly the emails. So that is a clue for Scott. Its something to do with using localhost. My guess is the user must exist on the system or to do with domainkeys used on incoming and outgoing mail (and goodnews domainkeys work, its killing off spam now

)

All in all its working good apart from the gui and some of the emails have blank senders and subjects.

laughingbuddha · Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:08 pm

Thanks for your reply.

I set the server up using 8.6, but I'm getting CentOS 5.2 down now, so I'll spend an hour or sound doing a reinstall. Server hasn't gone live so it's not an issue. I'm having to use CentOS 5.2 i386 as I tried installing 64bit but even though my Proliant DL360 G3 has 2 xeon 2.8Ghz processors and 4GB of memory, the CentOS install said it didn't support x64. Odd.

I plan to use a bare basic install of CentOS 5.2, install plesk 9 via art yum, qmail-scanner, clamd, psa-firewall (I like the web interface), lock down ssh disabling root login and using only protocol 2 and allowing only 2 ips to access port 22 via the firewall.

The web services side of my business is new so I can't afford to get anyone in to manage the server, but hopefully ASL should keep it secure enough with regular yum updates and back ups.

Matt

laughingbuddha · Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:10 pm

On another note, do you recommend domain keys on both incoming and outgoing emails?

Matt

aus-city · Unread post by **aus-city** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:30 pm

Yes! I am getting spam killed as its faking email from my own domains from a wrong IP of course and it fails thanks to the sender IP has not got a valid domainkey to match the dns so it WORKS

Also I am getting all the denyhosts and ossec emails so I can just as easily keep a check on the server.

All in all I am happy. Some nice new features on Plesk 9.

The bugs are small like blank sender / subject and the gui for ASL, but you know fixes will be coming as there will be customers buying Plesk 9 and will need ASL to work properly.

laughingbuddha · Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:54 pm

Cool, is there anything special you need to do in regards to the domains? And does it effect outgoing and incoming emails from domains that don't use or support domain keys?

The versions of Plesk I use on my other 2 vps units are pre-domain keys so I've not come across them yet.

Matt

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:11 pm

laughingbuddha wrote:I'm having to use CentOS 5.2 i386 as I tried installing 64bit but even though my Proliant DL360 G3 has 2 xeon 2.8Ghz processors and 4GB of memory, the CentOS install said it didn't support x64. Odd.

I'd try to sort this one out. A 32-bit OS isn't going to be able to address 4 GB of RAM and PAE is a performance hit, and not supported in the latest ASL kernel I believe.

laughingbuddha · Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:17 am

If the installer won't allow me to install 64bit on the server, surely there's nothing I can do. Well short of dropping 1GB of memory which I'm not happy with doing.

Matt

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:15 am

laughingbuddha wrote:If the installer won't allow me to install 64bit on the server, surely there's nothing I can do.

Do you know of others are running CentOS 5 64-bit on the same hardware? Do you get some kind of error message? Have you tried the troubleshooting section in the Installation Guide? Did you post a bug report to the CentOS bug tracker? Did you try older CentOS 5 64-bit installers (5.1, 5.0)?

laughingbuddha · Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:22 am

No
Yes
I've posted an error on there forums.
No
It was on an older version of CentOS 5.

Matt

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:53 am

So you haven't tried intalling CentOS 5.2 64-bit yet? I'd try that then.

Unread post by **scott** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:29 am

5.2 would have the newer kernel, supporting more hardware. Ive had the exact same problem with AOOI installs on some of the newer 1&1 boxes.

laughingbuddha · Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:35 pm

I'll give that a go in the morning.

Thankfully now I has ADSL2+ from O2 (well actualy it's be internet) I'm pulling 16mbps, which out my way is fast.

I will report back tomorrow.

Matt

laughingbuddha · Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:14 am

Right, I've checked for firmware updates and there isn't any for my server. I have also checked bios settings to find out if anything like "VT" setting is present (read on the VMware forums) and it isn't.

I can only asume that the DL360 G3 didn't support 64bit OS. I find this a little odd as the server has a max memory support of 8Gb, so why would a server platform that supports that much memory, be limited to use a 32bit OS, unless it's down to the processors.

So though a post I did on the CentOS 5 forum, a nice chap called AlanJBartlett sugested that I install the PAE kernal using the following method:-

(1) execute a yum install kernel-PAE command
(2) edit your /etc/sysconfig/kernel file so that the last line reads DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-PAE

My next question is, will this effect ASL, or more to the point will ASL disable it duing it's install?

Thanks,

Matt

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:18 pm

ASL installs its own kernel, so it's important that that one works on your hardware. After booting the ASL kernel, the stock CentOS kernel is not used anymore. I think the 32-bit ASL kernel had PAE support, but I believe it was removed recently (because of problems?). I'd check that with ASL support, but if that's true, you won't be able to use 4 GB or more with the 32-bit ASL kernel at the moment.