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Secure FTP by changing FTP port.

Gunjan — Sun, 01 May 2011 17:12:11 +0000

In recent few months FTP brute force attacks increased on most the cPanel servers. To avoid such attacks, we can simple default FTP account or change FTP port. If you are shared server then client won’t be happy after disabling default FTP which is cPanel login details. There for simply change the FTP port number by using following steps.

server@root[~]pico /etc/pure-ftpd.conf

Search for following line and change it

From

#Bind 127.0.0.1,21

Bind 0.0.0.0,121

It means all ip will connect to FTP service on port 121 but make sure that you have opened a port 121 in server firewall and restart the FTP service.

FTP connection issue on Plesk server.

Gunjan — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:14:54 +0000

On new server mostly,we are not able to connect FTP.In that case refer following steps.

Loin in to server as root user and check logs while connection FTP

[root@server]# tail -f /var/log/messages

Mar 22 00:39:15 server proftpd[14539]: server.localhost.com – Failed binding to ::, port 21: Address already in use
Mar 22 00:39:15 server proftpd[14539]: server.localhost.com – Check the ServerType directive to ensure you are configured correctly.

Mar 22 00:39:15 server xinetd[14353]: EXIT: ftp status=0 pid=14538 duration=0(sec)

Open file proftpd.conf

[root@server]# nano /etc/proftpd.conf

Replace following line from

ServerType standalone

ServerType inetd

Now restart the xinit service.

/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

service xinetd restart

After restarting xinit service try to connect FTP from command line.

E:\Users\>ftp 111.111.111.111
Connected to 111.111.111.111.
220 ProFTPD 1.3.2e Server (ProFTPD) [111.111.111.111]
User (111.111.111.111:(none)):

SERVICE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE Error No. [0x01F4] – RoundCube

Gunjan — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:48:45 +0000

Mostly we received following error aftre browsing RoundCube

SERVICE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE Error No. [0x01F4] – RoundCube

As well as RoundCube error logs showing following logs

[06-Oct-2008 08:34:56 -0400] DB Error: _doQuery: [Error message: Could not execute statement]
[Last executed query: PREPARE MDB2_STATEMENT_mysql_8c77e0752a8db2da365c3c7a19fe8842c84663aa7 FROM 'INSERT INTO messages\n (user_id, del, cache_key, created, idx, uid, subject, `from`, `to`, cc, date, size, headers, structure)\n VALUES (?, 0, ?, now(), ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, FROM_UNIXTIME(), ?, ?, ?)']
[Native code: 1064]
[Native message: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '), ?, ?, ?)' at line 3]
in /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/program/include/rcube_mdb2.inc on line 265
[06-Oct-2008 08:35:20 -0400] DB Error: _doQuery: [Error message: Could not execute statement]
[Last executed query: PREPARE MDB2_STATEMENT_mysql_d6ee872839dbf41a18e11e2f09d1f4d9790e462d7 FROM 'INSERT INTO messages\n (user_id, del, cache_key, created, idx, uid, subject, `from`, `to`, cc, date, size, headers, structure)\n VALUES (?, 0, ?, now(), ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, FROM_UNIXTIME(), ?, ?, ?)']
[Native code: 1064]
[Native message: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '), ?, ?, ?)' at line 3]
in /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/program/include/rcube_mdb2.inc on line 265

The error is occur becasue Mysql could not insert the values from UNIXTIME. To avoid this error simply open file

/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/program/include/rcube_mdb2.php and replace following code

From

return “FROM_UNIXTIME($timestamp)”;

To

return sprintf(“FROM_UNIXTIME(%d)”, $timestamp);

Now clear cache from your local machine refresh RoundCube error page.

Connect Dreamweaver with FTP account?

Gunjan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:14:09 +0000

You can create new FTP account for your domain and configure it with Dreamweaver.Refer following snap shot and configure the new FTP account with Dreamweaver

FTP account settings in Dreamweaver

Connect Dreamweaver with cPanel login details?

Gunjan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:11:02 +0000

You can connect Dreamweaver with the cPanel user name and password please read the settings carefully in following snap shot and follow it and if you are still having any problem than its better if you contact your hosting provider as every hosting provider having different rules set on there server like few hosting account do not allow default FTP account which is cPanel user name due to that in that case you need to create FTP account for your hosting account from cPanel.In that case refer following tutorial to configure new FTP account from your cPanel

cPanel user with Dreamweaver

You can also refer following tutorial “How to configure new FTP account with Dreamweaver?”

Create new FTP account from cPanel?

Gunjan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:01:12 +0000

In now a days most of the hosting provider is not allowing to use default FTP user (cPanel login) to access FTP in that case we need to create new FTP account from cPanel but new user having problem to create it from cPanel in that case follow the steps..

For X theme cPanel.

First login into cPanel and select “FTP Manager”

Second “Add FTP Account”

X Theme

Third insert the information as per your requirement in following section.

X Theme

For X3 theme refer the following steps

X3 Theme

Second insert the login details as per your requirement.

X3 Theme

Connect and publish files by using Frontpage

Gunjan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:24:21 +0000

Following are the steps to connect the Frontpage and publish the sites files/folders.

1.Begin by starting Microsoft FrontPage Explorer from your Windows Start Menu.

2.Select Open Web… from the File… menu. This will open the Open Web dialogue.

3.In the Open Web dialogue, select the My Network Places icon.

4.Now, enter http://www.yourdomainname.com into the Web Name field. Click Open to continue.

5.You will now be presented with a pop-up window entitled Enter Network Password.Enter your cPanel or FTP Username and Password without any space. Click OK to continue.

6.FrontPage Explorer will open a Folder List window at the left-hand edge of the Explorer screen that will contain the entire directory structure for your webspace.

7.To edit pages using FrontPage, double-click any of the web pages listed in the Folder List. A new FrontPage window will open for each page you select.

8. To upload newly-modified pages to the web, select File… then save… from the FrontPage Explorer tool bar. Your web pages will automatically reflect your latest changes.

Frontpage problem

Gunjan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:23:14 +0000

If anyone facing problems with the FrontPage installation then first uninstall the installed FrontPage from shell /home/user/public_html (Change the user to your user name)
Then run the following commands one by one.

rm -rf .htaccess.*
rm -rf _vti_pvt/
rm -rf _derived
rm -rf _private
rm -rf _vti_*

If server is SuExec enabled then first disable it from the WHM
And install FrontPage for the specific domain where you have seems the problem and then try to publish site by using Frontpage. If you are still facing the problem then

remove all the .htaccess.* from/home/user/public_html and remove all _* (private,vti,etc)one by one carefully.

Now try to install it and check for the permission and ownership of public_html folder

Permission and ownership need to be as follows

chown user:user public_html -R
chmod 755 public_html -R

if the problem still persists then check whether the permission of public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd is 600 or not?

(try even setting an attr and set the permission to 600)

ie
chmod 600 service.pwd
chattr +i service.pwd
chattr -i service.pwd

It will sort out your problem enjoy

Install and uninstall Frontpage for single domain from Shell.

Gunjan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:17:34 +0000

First you need to login into your server with the root login details and then run followings commands one by one

/scripts/setupfp5:

What is the servername you want to setup? www.****.org
Saving .htaccess file: /home/****/public_html/.htaccess
Using Upgrade Mode
Saving .htaccess file: /home/****/public_html/_private/.htaccess

For remove /scripts/unsetupfp4

What is the servername you want to setup? www.****.org
Saving .htaccess file: /home/****/public_html/.htaccess
Using Upgrade Mode
Saving .htaccess file: /home/****/public_html/_private/.htaccess

Thats it enjoy

Reinstall Frontpage extensions on the domain?

Gunjan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:32:40 +0000

You can reinstall the Frontpage extension for single hosting account / domain by using following command from shell.

cd /usr/local/frontpage/version5.0/bin

./owsadm.exe -o install -u cpanel_user_name -p 80 -m www.domainname.com -servconf /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf -xuser cpanel_user_name