Linux

The Virtuozzo Control Panel firewall and service features do not work, however the firewall and services can be managed from the ssh command line. Cause The Virtuozzo Control Panel firewall and service features are based on the CentOS 5 template and as a…

Issue Yum is not installed.. Cause Parallels do not include it in the default packages for a CentOS container/VPS. Solution **NOTE** Content inside the grey boxes in the following sections can be copied and pasted to your command line. 1. Login to your container/VPS…

Issue The firewall does not automatically load when the server starts. Cause Debian/Ubuntu servers do not have any default IPTables configuration files or /etc/init.d scripts. Solution Create /etc/iptables.up.rules. Example below to allow SSH (22), SMTP (25),…

Issue Some iptables modules are missing and are not defined in the modules.dep file Cause We have a default set of iptables modules defined as not every user needs the full list. This saves VPS memory for those users who only need basic firewalling functionality.…

Issue You have encountered an issue installing an application or PHP Module that is attempting to execute files that have been copied into the /tmp directory. Reason As a security precaution, /tmp and /var/tmp are mounted with noexec, nsuid and nodev to prevent…

Issue Some Ubuntu VPS servers do not come with an /etc/sources.list file. (Version 8.04 includes this in the /etc/apt directory) Solution. A generic template file is used for creating VPS servers and as such, the sources.list file is left for customers to…