Your Server Guide

First, make sure you have install PostgreSQL on your DirectAdmin, or you can install it using this howto.

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Howto Install phpPgAdmin on DirectAdmin

This how to will guide you on installing PostgreSQL 8.1.5 on DirectAdmin
There are two ways to install it:

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Howto Install PostgreSQL on DirectAdmin

We’ll describe possible ways to send emails from the command line. Of course there are much nicer ways to do it, but you may be in the situation (such as the one that drove me to do a deeper research and come out with this solution) and will need an easy and fast way to send mails from the prompt.

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Howto Sending Emails from Command Line

Many users are reporting that spamd occationally goes into a 100% cpu usage loop which doesn’t stop until completely killed and restarted. The problem is mainly reported with Ensim, but since the SpamAssassin (SA) version used by Ensim is generic it could probably happen for other platforms as well.

It appears this is caused by SA’s Bayes subsystem, and by disabling Bayes we have found the problem so far to have disappeared. The Bayes subsystem is just one of a range of checks applied by SA so while there is a small loss of functionality it’s minor and at least the rest works.

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Howto Fix Looping spamd (Spamassassin)

Many peoples have asked for this to be done so here’s a howto for installing.
List to be installed:

• FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu)
• FFmpeg-PHP (http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net)
• Mplayer + Mencoder (mencoder is now built into the mplayer svn release )
  (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html)

• flv2tool ****REQUIRES RUBY ON RAILS**** (http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2)
• LAME MP3 Encoder (http://lame.sourceforge.net)
• Libogg + Libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/downloads)

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Howto Install Video Hosting Requirements

ISPConfig Requirements

Operating System:
Linux (Kernel 2.2.x or later with glibc6) (the following distributions are supported: Mandrake/Mandriva Linux starting version 8.1 or later, RedHat Linux version 7.3 or later, Fedora Core 1 - 6, SuSE Linux version 7.3 or later, Debian Linux version 3.0 or later, Ubuntu 5.04, 5.10, 6.06, and 6.10, CentOS 4.1 - 4.4)

• Apache Webserver version 1.3.12 or later / 2.0.40 or later
• Sendmail or Postfix
• Procmail
• Quota Package
• ProFTP as standalone version or vsftpd as inetd/xinetd/standalone version
• PHP 4.0.5 or newer as Apache module
• MySQL data base
• a POP3/IMAP daemon that supports either the traditional Unix-Mailbox format (e.g. gnu-pop3d, qpopper, ipop3d, popa3d or vm-pop3d) or the Maildir format (e.g. Courier-Imap)
• OpenSSL and mod_ssl for the creation of SSL virtual hosts
• BIND8 / BIND9
• iptables or ipchains
• gcc and cpp, the c and c++ compilers

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Howto Install ISPConfig

Example:
A reseller wants to set his primary domain from www.xxx.com to www.aaa.com

Instructions:
You’d have to create another user for the User Level data.

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Change Reseller’s Primary Domain