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How to extract a .war file

If your hosting provider supports Tomcat, but not .war files, then you can extract .war file in your public_html folder to run your Tomcat application from there.

How to Setup Reseller Private Nameservers in WHM

First we need to register the name servers before we set them up on the server.
Resellers can also have their own private name servers for their own clients making the server provider more anonymous.

Login to your WHM account as root.
Click on Reseller Center on the left hand side.
Under Edit Reseller Privileges/Nameservers, select the reseller account you want to provide with private name servers.
Scroll down to the very bottom of the page until you see: Primary Nameserver.

In the Primary Nameserver field enter the primary nameserver.
Click “Assign IP Address”
Click “Add an A Entry for this nameserver”
In the Secondary Nameserver field enter the secondary.
Click Save

mod_flvx FLV Progressive download streaming for Apache 2

If you are using cpanel server you should have already installed Apache. Make sure that you have apache 2.2 version on the server or else you might have errors during compiling mod_flv.

Download mod_flvx.c from http://github.com/osantana/mod_flvx

wget http://github.com/osantana/mod_flvx/blob/master/mod_flvx.c

Compile and install module:

Add the following handler in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

Reload configuration:

or

Sometimes we may see the mysql database size as zero in cPanel

This can be fixed as follows: SSH to the server as root and edit the cpanel.config file

search for

and then make change to

If the parameter is not present, add it. Save the file and execute the following command:

This may take few minutes to get fixed if you have a large number of users with databases, but once done, we should be able see the database disk usage show up accurately in cPanel.

How to include the crond service to chkservd

First we need to create a crond file under the chkservd.d directory where all the services files are placed:

Add the following line to the file:

Now we need to edit the chkservd configuration file and enable the crond service for monitoring

add the following line at the end of the file

Restart the chkservd service for the new changes to take affect:

Stop the service manually and watch chkservd logs to verify auto-restart.

You should notice that the crond service is restarted automatically.