Monday 22 September 2008

FTP error 530 Login incorrect

First of all check which FTP is using the Cpanel proftpd or pureftpd

If it is using the proftpd, do the folowing to fix the 530 error
1. First of all try the /scripts/ftpupdate
2. grep /etc/proftpd/passwd.vhosts (here is the domain username)
3. If it is not present there then grep /etc/proftpd/
4. Check details and cat >> /etc/proftpd/passwd.vhosts
5. Paste the main ftp account details in this file
6. /scripts/restartsrv_ftpserver

Note: please be careful in doing it. If you have specified cat > /etc/proftpd/passwd.vhosts, it w
ill overwrite the whole content.

If it is pureftpd:
Do the above 6 steps
7. Sometimes you need to rum "/usr/sbin/pure-uploadscript -B -r /usr/local/bin/ftpfilter" also

Saturday 20 September 2008

Installing MySQL from Source

Get the source code
tar -xzf mysql-5.0.XX.tar.gz
% cd mysql-5.0*
% ./configure
--enable-thread-safe-client
--with-big-tables
--with-fast-mutexes
--with-extra-charsets=all
--with-innodb

and if you want some more engines
--with-archive-storage-engine 
--with-blackhole-storage-engine
--with-csv-storage-engine
--with-example-storage-engine
--with-federated-storage-engine

% make
% make install

Then:
chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/var
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/mysql/var

path could also be:
chown -R mysql /usr/local/var/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/var

Also run :

/usr/local/bin/mysql_install_db /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe &

Dont forget to change the admin password :

mysqladmin -u root -p password 'new-password'

On Linux/CentOS/RedHat :

1. Copy mysql.server.sh from the src directory /support-files to /etc/init.d and rename it to mysqld 2. Enter it into the startup scripts :

chkconfig –add mysqld chkconfig mysqld on

3. Edit the /etc/init.d/mysqld script so that the correct parameters (basedir , datadir, etc) are filled in and run the script to test it

4. Start and stop the service with : service mysqld stop service mysqld start

Wednesday 10 September 2008

Setting Google site map generator script for domain

You can setup the Google sitemap generator script in the domain using the help of following URL:

The config.xml file should be edited according to the need of the customer domain. All steps are
specified in the URL. The python version should be 2.2 or above.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html