Category: Cpanel
How to renable the tempurl in latest Cpanel
As some of you have noticed the new cpanel by default has a bunch of new default settings that nobody likes.
FTPserver is not configured out of the box.
TempURL is disabled for security reasons. Under certain conditions, a user can attack another user’s account if they access a malicious script through a mod_userdir URL.
So they removed it by default.
They did not provide instructions for people who need it. You can easily enable it BUT php wont work on the temp url unless you do the following
remove below: and by remove I mean you need to recompile easyapache 4 the following changes.
mod_ruid2
mod_passenger
mod_mpm_itk
mod_proxy_fcgi
mod_fcgid
Install
Mod_suexec
mod_suphp
Then go into Apache_mode_user dir tweak and enable it and exclude default host only.
It wont save the setting in the portal, but the configuration is updated. If you go back and look it will look like the settings didnt take. Looks like a bug in cpanel they need to fix on their front end.
Then PHP will work again on the tempurl.
How to do a full volume heal with glusterfs
How to fix a split-brain fully
If you nodes get out of sync and you know which node is the correct one.
So if you want node 2 to match Node 1
Follow the following setps:
- gluster volume stop $volumename
- /etc/init.d/glusterfsd stop
- rm -rf /mnt/lv_glusterfs/brick/*
- /etc/init.d/glusterfsd start
- “gluster volume start $volumename force”
- “gluster volume heal $volumename full”
You should see a successful output, and you will start to see the “/mnt/lv_glusterfs/brick/” directory now match node a
Finally you can run.
- gluster volume heal $volumename info split-brain (this will show if there are any splitbrains)
- gluster volume heal $volumename info heal-failed (this will show you files that failed the heal)
Cheers
How to upgrade mysql 5.1 to 5.6 with WHM doing master-slave
How to upgrade MYSQL in a production environment with WHM
Okay, so if you have a master slave database setup with large innodb and myisam, you probably want to upgrade to mysql 5.6. The performance tweaks make a difference especially with utilizing multicores.
Most of the time Cpanel is really good at click upgrade and it works, however with mysql if you’re running a more complex setup, then simply clicking upgrade in cpanel for mysql isn’t going to do the trick. I’ve outlined the process below to help anyone else trying to do this.
- Making a backup of the database using Percona and mysqldump
- The first thing you need to do is make a backup of everything, since we have large innodb and myisam db’s, using mysqldump can be slow.
- Using percona this will backup everything
i. Innobackupex /directory you want everything to backed up to (this will be uncompressed backup. (See my blog on multithreaded backup and restores using percona for more details on how to use Percona Backup)
ii. Next you need to make a mysqldump of all your databases
- Mysqldump –all-databases > alldatabases.sql (old school)
- I do it a bit differently. I have a script that makes full dump of all the databases and creates separate sql files for each db in case I need to import a specific database after that fact.
http://nicktailor.com/files/mysqldumpbackup.sh (Here is the script edit according to your needs)
2. Now you need to upgrade mysql, so log into WHM and run the mysql upgrade in the mysql section of whm. If your running a db server and disabled apache, renable it in WHM temporarily, because WHM will be recompiling php and easyapache with the new mysql modules, once its done you can disable it.
- If your mysql upgrade fails check your permissions on mysql or you can run the upgrade from command line forced.
/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/mysqlup –force
And after that run
/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/easyapache
3. Since WHM upgrades /var/lib/mysql regardless if you specified another directory for your data we’re going to have to do a little bit of extra work, while were doing this were going to shrink ibdata1 file to fix any innodb corruption and save you a ton of space.
- Find your mysql data directory if its different from /var/lib/mysql, if it’s the same then you don’t need to do these steps.
i. Delete everything inside the data directory
ii. Copy everything from /var/lib/mysql to mysql datadirectory
cp –ra /var/lib/mysql /datadirectory
iii. Try to start mysql, if you get an error saying myqsl cant create a pid, its probably due to your my.cnf, some setting no longer work with mysql 5.6, easiest way to figure out is just comment stuff out until it works. I will provide a sample one that worked for me. Also its easier to start up in safe mode to avoid all the granty permissions simply uncomment the #skip-grant-tables in the my.cnf file
http://www.nicktailor.com/files/my.cnf.sample (this sample has the performance tweaks enabled it)
iv. Once mysql is started, now ya want to fix up the innodb while you got a chance, if you weren’t using /var/lib/mysql as your data directory then the upgrade will have already created new ibdata1, ib_logfile0 & ib_logfile1 files. If however this is not the case, simply rename those files and restart mysql and mysql will create brand spanking new ones
v. Now we need to restore everything, now I have SSD drives and if you have large DB’s you should only be using SSD’s anyway. You need to do a mysqldump back to mysql using the all-databases.sql file you created earlier.
- Mysql –u root –p<password> < all-databases.sql (best to run this in a screen session on linux as it will take awhile and you don’t want to loose your connection during this)
vi. Once the dump is complete you now need to run mysql_upgrade to upgrade all the databases and tables that didn’t get upgraded to the new version, followed by a mysql-check
- Mysql_upgrade –u root –p<password>
- mysqlcheck –all-databases –check-upgrade –auto-repair
Now you should be able to set grant permissions and things, if you miss the mysql_upgrade step, some of your sites may work and some may not, in addition you will probably be unable to set grant permission in mysql, you’ll get a connection error most likely.
4. If you have a slave db, then you can continue reading. So the next piece is fixing our slave now. Thanks to percona we can do this quick. You will notice that your ibdata1 file is tiny now and clean, so the backup will be super fast.
- You need to back-up full backup using percona
i. Innobackupex /directoryyouwanttobackupto
- Now you need to copy the uncompressed backup to your slave server, you can either scp or rsync, whatever works for you. I have gige switch so I sync over
i. rsync -rva –numeric-ids –progress . root@192.168.0.20:/backupdirectory (this is just a sample)
i. Stop mysql
a. /etc/init.d/mysql stop
ii. Delete the data directory on the slave
b. rm -f /mysqldatadirectory/*
iii. Do a full percona restore
c. Innobackupex –copy-back /backupdirectory
5. Once mysql is restored change your permissions on mysql files to mysql:mysql, edit your my.cnf and startup mysql and you should be good to go. You will need to fix replication, read my mysql failover setup post on how do that if you’re not sure.
chown -R mysql:mysql /mysqldatadirectory
How to fix horde DB connect failed error with cpanel
The easiest way to see whats wrong is see if horde is able to connect to mysql
cat /usr/local/cpanel/base/horde/config/conf.php | grep conf | grep sql
This should show what horde is using for mysql user and pass
Then run
mysql -h <host if remote> or localhost -u horde -p<password>
If you get an error of some kind, then you need log into mysql and run the following below
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO ‘horde’@’whatever host the error said or use localhost’ identified by ‘whatever password it said above’;
Example
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO ‘horde’@’localhost’ identified by ‘password’;
Next run
Mysql> flush privileges; <–at the mysql prompt
test your mysql connect again with the first step if it works try in a browser, it should work now.
Cheers
Nick Tailor