Category Archives: Servers

Linux : vsFTPd 550 Permission denied error

Have you encountered the following error while doing upload or delete operation with vsFTPd server? 550 Permission denied error Open your vsFTPd configuration file : /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf Or : /etc/vsftpd.conf 1. Locate the following parameter : write_enable=YES Set to YES or make sure it is not commented # (remove comment and reload the daemon). 2. If… Read More »

Linux : Shutdown MySQL with MySQLadmin

When using the usual service shutdown is not enough (MySQL is still active, even though you have issued “service mysqld stop” or “/etc/init.d/mysql stop”), you can use this alternate method for a graceful shutdown : mysqladmin -uroot -p -h127.0.0.1 –protocol=tcp shutdown Or : mysqladmin -uroot -p -h127.0.0.1 shutdown

Linux : Binary location for [/usr/bin/host] in csf.conf is either incorrect, is not installed or is not executable

The following error may occur while reloading CSF (csf -r) : *WARNING* Binary location for [HOST] [/usr/bin/host] in /etc/csf/csf.conf is either incorrect, is not installed or is not executable *WARNING* Missing or incorrect binary locations will break csf and lfd functionality In this particular case, CSF was installed on a CentOS 7 server and there… Read More »

Linux : Redirection with Apache Web server

Here is a two different redirection type you can do with Apache. There is quite a few more method possibles such as with rewrite rules as well which will be covered later. Redirect request made to a specific domain to a strict URL or domain. This will basically send the requests as is to the destination domain… Read More »