How to Clear Your DNS Cache
Overview Your DNS cache stores the locations (IP addresses) of web servers that contain web pages that you have recently viewed. If the location of the web server changes before…
Could not connect to Server in FileZilla-SOLVED
Is FileZilla showing Critical error: Could not connect to the server? We can help you fix it. Usually, FTP clients like FileZilla shows a connection error due to the incorrect…
Bad Magic Number In Superblock
Bad Magic Number In Superblock The Server will go down due to issues in disks attached. Sometimes fsck in disks ends up in an error “Bad magic number in Superblock while…
How to add a SRV record
SRV records provide a standard way of allowing services to use different values, and for a program to determine what those connection values are. how to add a SRV record…
Multi-server DNS Clustering in DirectAdmin
This feature is often thought as being much more complex than it really is. What is does, is transfers any zones on the given machine to the DA machines you…
How to lower your TTL just before an IP change
As of DA 1.37.0, a User can edit their TTL value via:User Level -> DNS Management -> TTL (bottom) Global method This method will only work if you temporarily disable…
How to Optimize MySQL
IMPORTANT CentOS There is a default my.cnf that comes with mysql (4+5) that will make mysql run a bit quicker if you have 2+ gig of ram cp -f /usr/share/mysql/my-large.cnf…
Backup SQL files with CustomBuild 2.0
Before any changes, or for regular intervals, you might want to make backups of your database, which are not specific to the normal DirectAdmin User backup system. This guide will…
Error connecting to MySQL: Access denied for user: ‘da_admin@localhost’ (Using password: YES)
When connecting to the MySQL screens in DirectAdmin, if this error appears, that would indicated that the “da_admin” user has not been setup correctly. To resolve this do the following.Desired…
SSL Certificate Locations in DirectAdmin
General information for default certificate locations for various services.The order will be cert,key, ca/chain, combined (cert+ca)and their related directadmin.conf settings, where applicable. Apache/LiteSpeed apachecert=/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crtapachekey=/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.keyapacheca=/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.ca OpenLiteSpeed openlitespeed_cert=/usr/local/lsws/ssl.crt/server.crtopenlitespeed_key=/usr/local/lsws/ssl.key/server.keyopenlitespeed_ca=/usr/local/lsws/ssl.crt/server.ca Nginx nginx_cert=/etc/nginx/ssl.crt/server.crtnginx_key=/etc/nginx/ssl.key/server.keynginx_ca=/etc/nginx/ssl.crt/server.ca/etc/nginx/ssl.crt/server.crt.combined Exim +…