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Installing SSL Certificate in Glassfish 4

Glassfish uses Keystores (.jks), the certificate files need to be imported into the keystore with the corresponding private key before installation. After Installing SSL Certificate on your Domain, and downloading the SSL Files (Private Key, SSL Certificate, and Intermediate Certificate), we need to upload our SSL files to the Server, and prefer where Java is…

Configuring custom mail server in Plesk with Linux. (The basics) Cloud VPS & Full Cloud & BMC.

To start you will need a domain registered by you that you own, or have control over. The first thing you will do is create a subdomain… Typically, mail.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. (Note: YOURDOMAIN.TLD is an example, and should be replaced with your domain name). Set the A record for mail.YOURDOMAIN.TLD to your server’s IP address. Set the…

Increase LVM Partition to Take Up Remaining Space

This is the process of increasing the LVM Partition to fill use up added disk space after a cloud server is reconfigured. Overview: Remove and Recreate physical LVM Partition(/dev/sda2) Extend LVM Physical Volume(pvresize) Extend LVM Logical Volume(lvresize) Extend Filesystem into remaining space(xfs_growfs//resize2fs) In this example a Cloud Server configuration: Configuration: CPU: 2 vCore RAM: 2…

Linux Server Backups using HiDrive Pro

In this guide we will configure a nightly server backup running Bitnami with HiDrive Pro for FTP storage. Please note that only HiDrive Pro supports FTP access. Lower tariffs will not work with this setup: https://www.ionos.com/office-solutions/hidrive-cloud-storage Before we get started login to your HiDrive Pro account at https://hidrive.ionos.com Go to Settings > Account. Under “Access…

Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 upgrade – Network fix

If after a upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 you notice that networking did not come back online please reference the steps below: systemctl enable systemd-networkd systemctl enable systemd-resolved systemctl start systemd-resolved rm /etc/resolv.conf ln -s /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf vi /etc/systemd/network/20-dhcp.network  Add the following: After this is completed restart the server and networking should be back…

Centos 7 w/WHM cpanel running CSF firewall (SSHD non-standard port) – Unable to create cpanel users & postgres failing to start

After modifying SSHD.conf to the new port, and restarting SSHD, per other documentation… Some errors after doing the above… (XID 4f29va) The PostgreSQL service is down. at /usr/local/cpanel/Whostmgr/Accounts/Create.pm line 1226 Failed to start PostgreSQL database server. Unit postgresql.service entered failed state. postgresql.service failed. postgresql has failed. Contact your system administrator if the service does not…