Not satisfied with the server sphinx instance? Need sphinx on your own? Try this.

Install wordpress and get the sphinx plugin from http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-sphinx-plugin/

Once the plugin is activated, you need to install and start searchd through wordpress.

One of our customer wanted to delete all messages from mailman archives. He had around 101 mailing lists and hence manually deleting them was not possible. I wrote a small script to delete the contents and attachments  – and Bingo – all cleared !! :- )

Check out the script here

First I took the list details into a file called ss

For a given mailing list, the path “/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/archives/private” contains two folders namely listname_abc.org and listname_abc.org.mbox . listname_abc.org contains a folder called ‘attachments’ which contains the attachments and files of following three types.

2013-April 2013-April.txt 2013-April.txt.gz

Our intent is to delete all such files a...

Sometimes you won’t be able to send/receive emails. Telnet may mention a temporary problem as follows.

Upon checking the error log, I noticed the following error displayed.

2013-07-24 03:11:48 SMTP connection from [122.174.199.157]:58121 (TCP/IP connection count = 1)
2013-07-24 03:11:48 no IP address found for host abts-tn-dynamic-157.199.174.122.airtelbroadband.in (during SMTP connection from [122.174.199.157]:58121)
2013-07-24 03:11:48 H=[122.174.199.157]:58121 temporarily rejected connection in “connect” ACL: “Host is ratelimited due to multiple failure only connections (7.9/1h max:5)”

To overcome this error, I did t...

You wake up one day and realize that your site is dead. You try to reboot your server, nothing happens, your hard disk is gone 🙁 🙁

You wish if there was an alert to notify of the disk problem. See a sample script below with software raid which will alert you when disk fails.

Ouff, sphinx!!!! I used to sigh when someone talks to me about sphinx. But now I find it easy. Try it yourself.

yum install sphinxsearch  should do the trick normally.

If the above didn’t work, download the sphinx rpm from http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/release/

My machine is centos5/32bit so I downloaded http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/accept.php?file=sphinx-2.0.8-1.rhel5.i386.rpm

Now you can use yum to install this.

Once it is installed, the sphinx config is available at /etc/sphinx.conf

You can start/stop sphinx using /etc/rc.d/init.d/sphinx start/stop

Indexer can be run as

/usr/bin/indexer –all

Installing sphinx from the source file is mentioned here. Installation with yum is available here

Download the sphinx source from http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/release/

If you are unable to get it through direct wget, you can download it to your local machine and ftp/scp to the server.

Now untar the file.

This will install sphinx search engine. You can find if it is the correct version as follows.

# /usr/local/sphinx/bin/searchd -V
Sphinx 2.0.8-release (r3831)

You installed it at /usr/local/sphinx and the binaries are present at /usr/loca...

When you access the phpMoAdmin to manage your mongo databases, sometimes you may get the following error.

This is because mongo is installed, but the mongo extension for php is not installed. You can install it using pecl.

Once it finishes, add the mongo.so file to your php.ini and restart apache.

You can find your php.ini as follows.

php -i | grep ini and check for the following line

“Loaded Configuration File => /usr/local/lib/php.ini”

Now open that file and make the changes

Now clear the browser cache and try accessing the phpMoAdmin once again, it shou...

Install mongodb in CentOS

Depending on the architecture, add the mongo repo to your system.

1)First find if your machine is 32 bit or 64 bit as follows.

uname -m

i686 – it is 32 bit
x86_64 – it is 64 bit.

2) Create the mongo repo as follows.

If it is a 64bit machine, use the following.

3) Now you can use yum to install mongo.

Refer To APE installation in cpanel server here

1) In order for APE to work with stunnel, make sure that the stunnel version in the server should be less than 4.3. Centos and RHEL 5 will most probably have stunnel installed already. If not, install stunnel.

2) Now we need to create a conf for ape.
vi /etc/stunnel/ape.conf and add the following to it.

Create a file for stunnel log.

3) Now generate a CSR and key for *.ape.divya.com

The ...

Version Installed – 1.1.1 and 1.1.2-dev are installed. Can switch as needed.
Config file – /usr/local/src/APE/bin/ape.conf

6) This will start APE. You may issue a Ctl+C and edit the file ape.conf in the same location as follows.

7) Now we need to assign a dedicated IP address for ape.abc.com from WHM -> Edit DNS -> abc.com

8) DNS Functions -> Edit DNS zone -> abc.com and add the following entry