Archive for December 6th, 2011

How to configure email address in Outlook Express

Here is how to configure your email address in Outlook Express: 1)Click Start, point to All Programs, and then click Outlook Express 2)On the Tools menu, click Accounts. 3)Click Add, and then click Mail 4)Type Your name in Display name as you would like it to appear. 5)Type your email address people use to send […]

Rkhunter Installation

RKHunter – (RootKit Hunter) is a security scanning tool which will scan for rootkits, backdoors, and local exploits. It is an intrustion detection program for Linux OS which has been widely used by many server administrators. Sometimes there is a false alarm but most of the time you need to check the problematic areas Rkhunter points […]

ffmpeg.so: undefined symbol: av_free_static

This is a common error when we hit “php -v” over command line or when we browse a phpinfo.php on a site. To fix this problem you will need to recompile your ffmpeg-php again. To fix this: Go to the source directory ffmpeg-phpXX.XX #vi ffmpeg-php.c remove/comment the call to av_free_static() Save. Now rebuild ffmpeg-php and place the […]

FFmpeg error

After installing FFMpeg , when you execute the command : ffmpeg or ffmpeg -v, you may receive an error.   ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavformat.so.50: Solution : Execute the following command :   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:LD_LIBRARY_PATH But this value will be cleared once you log off that session. So it is recommended to save […]

Error from domain wrapper: domain.com is owned by another user.

Error: Error from domain wrapper: domain.com is owned by another user. If you are getting this error when trying to add subdomains from your cPanel, here is how to fix it: 1. Remove domain.com from /var/cpanel/users/cpanel-username 2. Run /scripts/updateuserdomains as root user on the server. 3. Remove the virtualhost for domain.com on /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf 4. Remove /var/named/domain.com.db if […]

#2002 – The server is not responding (or local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured).

#2002 – The server is not responding (or local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured). While accessing PhpMyAdmin you may see the above error. This is due to the missing socket file in the location /tmp. Here is how to fix it: The socket path which is specified in the phpMyAdmin configuration file is […]

How to access your database remotely on a cPanel hosting.

How to access your database remotely on a cPanel hosting First of all, it is important to explain how the database & database user names are formed. The names consist two parts — your cPanel username and the actual database username name. For example — if your username is “user” and if you named your […]

Horde Webmail error – Warning: Failed opening ‘Net/Socket.php’ for inclusion

The Horde webmail interface may throw an error as – Warning: Failed opening ‘Net/Socket.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/share/pear’) in /usr/share/pear/Net/SMTP.php on line 93 Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: net_socket in /usr/share/pear/Net/SMTP.php on line 95 To fix this, you can do the following – First check if the Pear package Net_Socket is present on the server. […]

Mail Error message: Error 550 The recipient cannot be verified

On servers running cPanel, you may find that mail sent to valid user is bounced back will an error message which will be similar to the following: PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550-”The recipient cannot be verified. Please check all recipients of this550 message to verify they are valid. If this is occurring, you will […]

“ffmpeg headers not found” error while installing ffmpeg on cPanel servers

The error received is: checking for ffmpeg support…checking for ffmpeg headers… configure: error: ffmpeg headers not found. Make sure you’ve built ffmpeg as shared libs using the –enable- shared option This is due to missing header files in  “/usr/local/include/ffmpeg” directory. Check whether the directory “/usr/local/include/ffmpeg” exists else create it. mkdir /usr/local/include/ffmpeg Then copy the header […]