Category: Plesk

Creating a MySQL user under Plesk

January 24th, 2012
Plesk has a comprehensive web interface but every now and again you just want to get at the nuts and bolts or you have loads to do. This article shows us how to create a database, add a user and set up their permissions. I've always found MySQL's per… more »

Fixing problems caused by updating Plesk

August 16th, 2011
I have so many blog articles relating to updating Parallels' Plesk that I'm creating this one to join them all together. I'll keep it up-to-date as I add them. Upgrading from Plesk 8.2 to 8.3 Plesk Awstat forgets the monthly statistics Upgrad… more »

Upgrading Plesk from PSA_10.2.0 to PSA_10.3.0

July 9th, 2011
I had just had a bit of an "oh shit" moment! So thought I'd blog how I got out of it. Parallels is the company that produces Plesk. On the whole it's a pretty good bit of server software which helps to manage a single machine that supports many virtu… more »

Installing Python 2.7 with MySQL support on Plesk CentOS 5.5

July 7th, 2011
CentOS 5.5 is dependant on Python 2.4. Everything will break if you change it, so we must install a newer version of Python in a different place. Surprisingly my 1&1 CentOS didn't come with gcc installed so I had to install it myself. yum -y i… more »

B2Evolution Bad Request Illegal value received for parameter

March 20th, 2011
I suddenly started getting a very strange error message in my B2Evolution installation after restarting the web server. The error message read:Bad Request!The parameters of your request are invalid.If you have obtained this error by clicking on… more »