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I tried to secure my server with a let's encrypt SSL according to this instruction: https://docs.directadmin.com/webservices/ssl/service-ssls-and-le.html But now the server is secured with one of the customers certificates. How do I remove it and do secure the server properly?

Hi, I need to move my servers to a new datacenter, and there for new IP addresses. What would be the best way to be able to set the new IP's ahead of the actual shutdown and move? With the IP manager I can set an additional IP address, but it's than bound to a reseller(s). But the old IP can...

We have a fast increase of usage on one of the websites. It uses large amounts of PHP (1.3GB) and MySQL (1GB) resources. So now I'm looking for tips on how to boost the performance of both to handle this traffic. Maybe even starting with the ground rules to have a new and refreshed look at this...

Hi, If I get such email warning, there's a list with the Connection counts. There are some IP's which are being referenced as leechers/spammers etc. Is there a possibility to: 1) see such list real time? 2) an option to block IP's when they have more than x connections? 3) or the receive an...

Hi, Is there a way to stop these mails from being send? Time: Thu Mar 9 08:18:12 2023 +0100 IP: xxx.xxx.xxx (US/United States/-) Failures: 5 (sshd) Interval: 3600 seconds Blocked: Permanent Block [LF_SSHD]

Hi, for testing purpose I would like to reset the last system backup date, as it will not backup again ones it has run during that day. I tried to find where this date is stored, or how it is determined that is has run all ready. But no luck. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks

I've setup the domains on the server to use DKIM. In the DA DNS settings per domain I can see the DKIM key being generated. In the external DNS tool I've added the same key for the domains. While going through the exim/mainlog after the customers complain that email is not delivered to gmail...

Would it be possible for backup purposes to send a copy of each outgoing email to another emailaddress? This should only work for one package, not the entire server (accounts) Like you would do if you add a bcc in your email client (ie outlook). But instead of leaving this task to the email...

[Solved] Not able to connect to mySQL database from external server I've got the situation that we connect from desktops to the webservers mySQL server. And that has been working great for ever and still is working. I needed to add the host of the local pc to the MySQL hosts and the connection...

Hi, Is it save to add SLL to mysql, without disrupting other users who do not need a SSL connection? And if so, can Let's encrypt be used for this purpose? Domé

Hi, We got one user who get's his email on a mac-like device (iPad or Mac). When connecting to his mail server he gets a warning about the certificate. It shows that the certificate is from the server hostname, and not the one of the user. On other non Apple devices it doesn't give this...

Hi, I've got a user with many domain pointers. Let's say 15 pointers. Suppose I want to start using LE for this user. Than I think that at least it takes 2 entries per domainname for LE. So 16 domains in total are 32 entries. With the max of 20 per week, it sounds like a problem? How to deal...

Some of our servers run on various versions of Centos6. What would be the best technical or best practical solution. Move users to new centos 7 server while updating the V6 to V7 server or keep centos 6.

Hi, I've got a backup server to which I scp-ing my Directadmin system backups to. This works fine for all servers, exept for the latest server. It keeps telling me that the Connection is refused. As all other server still have access to the backup server, it must be an issue on the new centos...

Hi, On the index page of DA, CB 2.0 shows 8 updates available. But going in CB page for updating, there no entries. Clicking on both "Update customBuild" and "update customBuild script and versions" made no difference. How do I get the available updates visibel again?

Hi, I've got this issue that on most of our servers the roundcube updates keeps being shown as an update. How can we solve of this issue?

Running Centos 7 with MariaDB 10.2.9 and trying to access the database from an external client Error message: Host 'xxx.xx.xxx.xxx' is not allowed to connect to this MariaDB server Found this instruction: https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=690 Suggests this sql command: ALTER TABLE...

Hi, Still struggeling with let's encrypt. I followed the installation instructions. Tried to create a certificate for a domain (and subdomain without www). And getting the error: Getting challenge for domain.com from acme-server... Error...

Hi, on one of my servers I get this error message with each function I use with custombuild. Executing /usr/local/directadmin/plugins/custombuild/admin/build set_fastest Warning: Wrong parameter count for strstr() in /usr/local/directadmin/plugins/custombuild/admin/tools/BackgroundProcess.php...

Hi, I'm having a problem with the delivery of email. The sender always uses outlook.com or (hosted) office 365 (but I'm not sure if this is actually related). Their mail server is sending the email with strict(-all) spf. It goes through an external hosted spam filter (cluster) and than gets...