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A few days ago one of my servers noticed me about the process da-popb4smtp which had stopped working. I looked into it and found that it was not service but just a process being run by DirectAdmin. I don't know how this process is started or restarted and could not find any documentation about...

I installed a new server and have set the license I bought to auto-detect the IP address. After installation I can see there is 1 session on the license and it shows a IPv6 address. The server works like it should, no problems there. In the DirectAdmin controlpanel under licensing there is a...

My webalizer statistics don't update. The DirectAdmin Task Queue Log tells me the following: Which is a little weird since this is a newly installed server. It is running Debian 11 (Bullseye). I installed DirectAdmin on a fresh Debian installation with this command: bash <(curl -fsSL...

We are monitoring our DirectAdmin servers to check if they are up and running. One of the tests is a simple HTTP call to the IP address of the server and check the content of the reply. This is a very simple test because the content should always be "Apache is functioning normally". But there...

I used this guide to setup a smart route for my server (server A). It should relay all e-mails from all domains to server B. The relay host is also a DirectAdmin server (server B). On server B I created an e-mail account on a random domain that is hosted there for authentication. I used that...

I use Nginx_apache as webserver because in my opinion this is a useful for serving static content through Nginx at high speed while Apache takes care of dynamic content like PHP (like the documentation says). I was looking into some performance issues for my server and I was curious how I could...

Let's Encrypt is going to revoke certificates that where validated with the TLS-ALPN-01 challenge. Does DirectAdmin use this type of challange? Revoking starts at 16:00 UTC on 28 January 2022.

I have added IP address to the BFM skiplist from within the DirectAdmin controlpanel. According to this documentation these IP addresses should also be added to the csf.ignore file. But when I check the file, it is empty. The documentation says: I installed CSF using the install scripts in...

My server was under attack by one and the same IP for multiple domains. Normally this IP would get blocked very soon because the Brute Force Monitor scans the Wordpress logs. Except, this one didn't. I blocked the IP manually and went looking for the source of the problem. The access log looked...

What I do is go to the domain settings and then click the "PHP settings" button. I then change memory_limit from 128M to 256M and click "Save". After that the page shows me the red outlined part that the memory limit has been overriden. Now I expect the memory limit from phpinfo() says...

I have a backup from a domain that comes from another DirectAdmin server. The backup restores fine but there the mail accounts do not show their e-mails. The accounts do show that diskspace is being used. When I check the files that are being stored in the mail location for a specific user I can...

Is it possible to scan access-log files from all users for SQL injection attacks? I want to block attackers after X amount of malicious URL requests if possible. One of my users was attacked and the rate of the attack got the server on his knees. The "Web Usage Log" showed me requests like...

I tried installing PHP 8.0 as a second PHP release and it stopped here: /bin/sh /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/php-8.0.0/libtool --silent --preserve-dup-deps --mode=compile cc -std=gnu99 -Iext/exif/ -I/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/php-8.0.0/ext/exif/...

Nginx fails to start after it updated to version 1.17.8. Directadmin updated to version 1.60.0 at the same time. Maybe the problem is related? When starting Nginx it fails instantly. This is the log. And indeed, the file "/usr/local/directadmin/data/users/apache/nginx_php.conf" does not exist...

Good morning and a happy new year to all who's reading this. This morning I had a problem with a brute force attack on one of our servers. I checked the Brute Force Monitor and saw that the monitor stopped notifying. This means that my custom script is also not being run and the attacker won't...

I have turned on DKIM with this guide. After that I enabled DKIM for one domain. I can see that the x._domainkey DNS record is added in the DNS Administration but after waiting a long time the records was still not found with a DNS lookup. I then changed the TTL for all records through the DNS...

I want to setup a second DirectAdmin server but the client does not like to login on 2 different servers to administer his domains. I have no experience with the Multi Server Setup so my question is: after the server are "linked" together, can I login to server A to create an account/domain on...

Blocking IPv6 addresses works just fine. But whenever I want to unblock a blocked IPv6 address I get the following error message: I have checked my custom unblock_ip.sh script but it works like expected. I guess DirectAdmin itself tries and fails to validate the IPv6 address. Is this a bug...

I need to restore a backup from an FTP server (this FTP server has disabled secure FTP so transfers are in plaintext). The credentials are good and the "Secure FTP" option is set to "No". When I click the "Update files" button the file list contains 2 lines with numbers, but no file names...

So I enabled IPv6 for Exim and I want to start sending email from PHPmailer through localhost. But Exim refuses to relay because the IPv6 localhost is not on the whitelist. The log says: 2018-07-11 11:59:08 H=localhost (mail.myhost.nl) [::1] F=<[email protected]> rejected RCPT...