How to Fix PHPMyAdmin 403 Forbidden Error

If you have installed phpMyAdmin in your linux server (centos/RHEL/debian), and tried to access phpMyAdmin in most cases you will get this 403 forbidden error. I have seen this issue very often if you are installing phpmyadmin using yum or by apt-get. By default phpmyadmin installed path is /usr/share/phpmyadmin and the apache configuration file is located in /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf

Spamd child process causing high server load

Sometimes, spamd child process for a particular user can cause high server load. This is a bug with spamassassin :

To fix the issue, apply the patch mentioned in the bug.

For cPanel servers, run the following scripts:

/scripts/autorepair spamd_dbm_fix
/etc/init.d/exim restart

Wordpress admin login issue -due to siteurl

During the wordpress installation, customers set the Site URL as http://www.domainName/wordpress. But in the configuration file (or wordpress folder) it will be "WordPress". Due to this customer can't login wordpress admin using http://www.domaName/WordPress/wp-login.php.

Fix: In that case you need to modify the wordpress database table entry.

Use the word press database and the following update:
select * from wp_options where option_name="siteurl"G;
update wp_options set option_value="http://www.domainName/WordPress" where option_name="siteurl";


Note: Replace the domainName by corresponding domain name. The wordpress prefix wp_ will change a
ccording to the situation.

Perl mail script

#!/usr/bin/perl

# This is a simple script to test sendmail.
# Replace "me" with a from address and "mydom.com" with the #sending domain.
# Replace "you" with a username to send to and "yourdom.com" #with the recipient's domain name.
# Upload this to the public_html folder as mailtest.pl and CHMOD it to 755
print "Content-type: text/plainnn";
unless(open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t")) {
print "error.n";
warn "Error starting sendmail: $!";
}
else{
print MAIL "From: me@mydom.comn";
print MAIL "To: you@yourdom.comn";
print MAIL "Subject: test subjectnn";
print MAIL "Perl Sendmail is working, please check your code.";
close(MAIL) || warn "Error closing mail: $!";
print "Mail sent.n";

}