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How to manually Check for Package Updates

The following command prints a list of packages that need to be updated:

To actually install these updates, run:

Will manually updated MySQL,work with cPanel & WHM?

Yes, but you will need to disable MySQL updates on the Update Preferences screen:

1. Go to Main >> Server Configuration >> Update Preferences.
2. Under cPanel Package Updates >> mysqld, click Never.
3. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

There may be compatibility problems with any software you choose to install manually.

Cpanel only supports MySQL versions that they supply with cPanel & WHM.

How to install a Panel template on a Parallels Containers hardware node manually

Obtain the template from the Parallels Web site and upload it to the target Parallels Containers hardware node.

Install the application template by running a command in the following format:

For example, the following command installs Qmail RPM:

Reference: http://parallels.com/

How to extract web files, databases etc from Plesk backup manually?

If you have not so big dump file, for example 100-200MB, you can unzip it and open in any local Email client. Paths of the dump will be shown as attachments. Choose and save needed one then unzip it.

Other Way - It can be done using mpack tools to work with MIME files. This packet is included into Debian:

For other Linux systems you can try to use RPM from ALT Linux:

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Sisyphus/files/i586/RPMS/mpack-1.6-alt1.i586.rpm

or compile mpack from the sources: http://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/.
- Create an empty directory to extract the back up file:

and copy backup into it.By default Plesk backup is gzipped (if not, use cat), so run zcat to pass data to munpack to extract content of directories from the backup file:

In result you get the set of tar and sql files that contain domains’ directories and databases. Untar the needed directory. For example if you need to restore the httpdocs folder for the DOMAIN.TLD domain:

Reference: http://parallels.com/

How to remove a website manually in Ensim Pro Control Panel

Sometimes, the site is not fully removed from the server so it should be deleted manually. Here are all steps that should be done, but please note that after deleting the site can not be restored back.

Everything should be done from under root user.

Check which siteX the site corresponds to:

and what adminX is responsible for it:

Let’s say siteX is site handler for the necessary domain, and adminX is the owner.

Remove user content physically from the server:

And remove the records from the system database:

Finally, you need to go through all the files in /etc/virtualhosting/mappings and check if any of them refer to the site you’re deleting. You can use grep to quickly see if/which files might refer to the site to be deleted:

And finally - restart ensim CP:

Reference and Credit : http://parallels.com/