IUSR_computername User Getting Deleted Automatically
Jul 18, 2009
I am facing a problem with one of my Windows 2003 servers. The websites hosted on the server use IUSR_computername user for anonymous authentication for the websites. Please note that I have anonymous authentication disabled for FTP. The problem is that every night the IUSR_computername user gets deleted automatically and all the websites start asking for password as there is no user for the anonymous browsing of the websites. I checked the event log, but could not find anything. How do I find why the user is getting deleted automatically?
I have a very strange problem concerning iptables. First I created some rules to accept INPUT to ssh for my home ip address. I also added rules for RELATED,ESTABLISHED (input chain) and NEW for chain output. When I enter iptables -L it shows the rules I just created. However, when I look again to the chains, the list was empty again with no rules showing, so seems like it deleted them automatically? How is that possible?
One) allow users to register at the homepage. Then give them automatically a URL such as username mydomain com
Two) A catch-all subdomain so that if someone browses to xxxx mydomain d0t com and xxxx is not registered by any user; then it is redirected to www mydomain com
Three) All registered subusers details to be maintained in Mysql database (this seems to be easy)
Four) If possible, impose individual quota on each registered user (not really critical).
Which hosting plan should I go with for this? VPS? Shared hosting? Something else?
any particular company? what's the best approach for automatically creating the subdomain for each user upon registering at the site?
I thought I knew enough about my .htaccess stuff to do this, but I can't seem to work it out. What I want to do is if a user visits domain.com/folder, we check to see if the folder exists. If so, show as normal (IE domain.com/support)
If a user visits domain.com/dynamicusername (dynamicusername is not a physical folder), redirect to dynamicusername.domain.com
we compile a php 4 with all the modules that we require. However, after a day or so, it automatically becomes a fresh compilation of php 5. We then recompile to php 4, but same thing, after a day or so it become php 5 again. We've checked cron, and there's nothing to do with recompiling php.
We are running cpanel on one of our servers. Several cron jobs were deleted from the cron panel of one acct. I have no idea of the paths to re-enter these jobs. Is their a log file on the server that will show cron job history from previous runs so I can recover the proper paths?
the caching directory I created for eaccelerator deleted by itself. There are 2 copies of eaccelerator, one for apache and one for litespeed. The one for Apache got deleted today. Could it be due to the fact that the directory hasn't been modified or accessed in nearly 2 weeks? It's been that long since Apache was used.
I created a backup script to backup data to a separate drive using Robocopy. I used the /mir switch without knowing that it purges all the files and folders which are not present in the source directory. How do I recover the lost data? I tried using EasyRecovery professional, but it could not retrieve the deleted data.
I was getting segmentation fault errors in logwatch, so I asked them if this is a problem with the server.
They suggested an fschck. No problem, I suggested they do this because I am not technically-inclined enough to trust myself.
They inform me they need to unmount to prevent corruption or data loss.. fine. they inform me there's an application or configuration that is preventing them from doing so. No problem. I asked them to restore my sites (which began showing as 404 since they began)... they didn't seem to know what I was talking about.
Now my ticket as been escalated to tech support. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. No scan was performed! All of my accounts were WIPED. My sql databases are still there... but EVERYTHING relating to any account on my server is EMPTY.
I'm attempting a home backup restore now. I have backups of everything, but this was not my choice of events for a Monday morning at 3am!
I should also mention I am getting chargebacks up the wazoo right now, because my customers are thinking I took their money and ran!
My /var partition is getting full and most of the problem seems to be with the files in /var/cache/logwatch/ using up all the space. Can those be deleted?
I have delete my old ssl key, now will apache not start...
I have this error show
Fout: Unable to make action: Unable to manage service by apache_control_adapter: Service /etc/init.d/httpd failed to start Service /etc/init.d/httpd failed to start ('--start', 'web')
I'm not 100% sure where to ask this, so feel free to move it to a more appropriate place if necessary.
At present, my webhost provides me with some statistics about my website through "AWStats". The problem I have is that if I don't update the 'stats' everyday, then I lose that day's records and I have a gap in my statistics.
is there a way I can automate the updating of the AWStats?
I use rfxnetworks.com/sim.php on my cpanel server and it all worked fine until the last week where each morning 6am GMT I get a status warning telling me that XINET was down and that it had to restart it.
Has something changed? Is there now something weird about XINETD and cpanel? My cpanel is stable and set to automatically update.
In fact it looks like something ALWAYS shuts it down and then SIM restarts it looking at a section of messages:-
I manage a website which runs on the cpanel/whm interface and was wondering if there was anything my host could do to prevent DoS attacks on the server...at the moment we are having huge DoS attacks on our website therefore taking the whole website down for quite long periods of time.
My host just seems to be manually blocking the DoS'ers IP's manually but this is just too tedious and not efficient enough.
Is there any program for example that he can install which will block andy ip which sends a certain amount of requests within a given time period?
Is there a way to automatically remove files from a folder on a schedule, say daily, and move them to the Recycle Bin? Can the Recycle Bin files be deleted daily on a schedule? If so, how?
I have Microsoft Office Professional 2007 running on a Windows 2003 Server.
I accidentally deleted the columns_priv table in mysql database. How can I bring it back can anyone show me the structure of that table so I can build it back.
I wanted to post about a site I'm very concerned and frustrated with, HostJury.
It's simple. The other day, one of our web hosting customers posted our HostJury URL in our customer forums. Since then, a few of our customers saw followed the link and decided to submit reviews about us, which was very pleasing.
Friday night, I saw we had our first 4 reviews. Suddenly yesterday (Saturday) afternoon I checked on the page, and saw all of them had been deleted.
But I looked up the reviewers. They were all posted by legit customers of ours which I was able to find in our customer database, so the reviews are definitely legit.
I am especially frustrated as those 4 had rated us very high, so these are important reviews that have been removed by HostJury.
I don't understand what's going on here...
o Legit reviews o We didn't ask them to review us, they did it on their own o We didn't bribe our reviewers o We didn't reward our reviewers
So what's the problem, HostJury? These kind of instances are interfering with honesty in the hosting industry.
