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Virtualmin Changes binding from ip:80 to *:80 and breaks older configs … FIX
We have found some virtualmin installs will change the format of new virtualhosts from ip:80 to *:80 sometimes which breaks virtualhosts as the *:80 overrides the ip:80. This can result in websites showing another website content, and usually shows up right after you add a new domain in virtualmin.
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Lets Encrypt with Virtualmin
Virtualmin now supports Let Encrypt, this means you can easily get multiple SSL certificates easily and free if needed. Here is how you can set that up. Step 1: Login to your virtualmin, select the domain from the drop down in the top left. Step 2: Click ‘Edit Virtual Server’ , under the ‘Enabled Features’…
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Keeping your hosting panel updated
From time to time hosting control panels (Such as Plesk) get updated by their creators. Those updates may often include patches to critical vulnerabilities, so its a good idea to keep track of those. We try to keep our customers informed. One example is a recent notification from Parallels affecting some older versions of Plesk.…
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PCI compliance – a basic HOWTO
A lot of people are wanting to be PCI compliant these days, and this is generally a good thing. PCI compliance is not just a server spec, but a list of procedures, policies, controls over access to data. Therefore the server side is only one part of the process. It can be expensive and time…
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Migrating VPS with virtualmin – Multiple DNS changes
We have had a customer move from one host to a new one with Virtualmin, this is usually ok, except in this case he had DNS hosted on his own VPS, most of it pointing to his old IP address. The task was to update all DNS records on his VPS without manually clicking each…
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Virtualmin on the command line
We often encourage our users to use software which is better, and does things in a standard way. When it comes to control panels we prefer Virtualmin. It works with the distro you are using and the packages that come with it rather than setting up things in its own odd way and tieing you…
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Virtualmin and Webmin upgrade errors & the fix
We had a customer email in saying they were having a problem upgrading. The error was fairly verbose, but the general gist was this –> Processing Dependency: /usr/libexec/webmin for package: wbt-virtual-server-mobile –> Processing Dependency: /usr/libexec/webmin for package: wbm-virtualmin-mailman –> Processing Dependency: /usr/libexec/webmin for package: wbm-ruby-gems –> Processing Dependency: /usr/libexec/webmin for package: wbm-ruby-gems –> Finished Dependency…
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Postfix problems that keep popping up
We have had several customers with postfix problems and they seem to be all of a similar nature, so i thought i would blog a couple. The most common one is trying to use both aliases and virtualhosts for a domain. Especially with Virtualmin which tries to do both. The main symptoms are something in…