Sys Admin Guides, How To's, etc by Marios Maravelias

When you use phpmyadmin provided by plesk and you try to export a large database you may encounter the problem that it will always give you to download a file 0 kb.

This happens when the database is big and you need to increase some options in php.ini to make it work.

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If you try to install moodle in a Plesk server (99% it will have open_basedir enabled in php) and you get an error when you define what is the Data Directory (The ‘Data Directory’ you specified could not be found or created.) you have to

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They way to do such change in plesk 7,5 and in 8,x is different so follow the instructions below:

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If you try to login to the administration of Joomla and you get the error: Invalid Session
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If you face the error:

1016 Can’t open file: ‘phpbb_sessions.MYI’. (errno: 145)

then you will have to (more…)

here you can find various ways of sending emails with .NET 2 / .Net 1 CDONTS / Persist’s AspEmail / VB / PHP etc

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