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May 13, 2020 by dev Leave a Comment

DB Error: Column ‘first_name’ cannot be null

Increase “max_input_vars” from 1000 to your desired count.

This will solve the issue.

May 3, 2020 by dev Leave a Comment

Upgrading and Downgrading DirectAdmin users.

Upgrade a User to a Reseller. Assume that user name is ‘staysafe’.

cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts
./user_to_reseller.sh staysafe

Upgrading a Reseller to an Admin. Assume that reseller name is ‘bdtopten’.

cd /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/bdtopten
perl -pi -e 's/usertype=reseller/usertype=admin/' user.conf
cd /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin
perl -pi -e 's/^bdtopten\n//' reseller.list
echo bdtopten>> admin.list

Downgrading a Reseller to a User. Assume that reseller name is ‘kitedubd’ and ‘kitedubd’ has no users.

Change user type at user.conf

vi /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/kitedubd/user.conf

Change as follows
```
usertype=user
```

Update admin reseller list, remove ‘kitedubd’

vi /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/reseller.list

Update admin user list, add ‘kitedubd’

vi /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/admin/users.list

Done!

May 2, 2020 by dev Leave a Comment

Empty Sent-folder : Roundcube | DirectAdmin

Go to

vi /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/options.conf

Change webapps_inbox_prefix ‘no’ to ‘yes’

webapps_inbox_prefix=yes

Restart roundcube

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build roundcube

Check Roundcube.

May 2, 2020 by dev Leave a Comment

How to change reseller’s domain name on DirectAdmin

Sometime it requires to change domain url of reseller accounts. You can do it easily as follows

Login as reseller
Change account level from Reseller to User.
At user level click on ‘Domain Setup’.
You will find option to rename domain.
That’s all!

May 2, 2020 by dev Leave a Comment

How to change UID and GID? chown

UID = User ID
GID = Group ID

We can change UID and GID with command ‘chown’ login with SSH.

chown -R newuserID:newgroupID folder_name

For example, to change myfolder UID and GID

chown -R bdhostit:bdhostit myfolder

or to change maildir UID and GID. Here, “bdhostit” is account’s username.

chown -R bdhostit:mail /home/bdhostit/domains/Maildir