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Add Domain Name to Hosting on Plesk CLI

June 12th, 2012 Comments off

Hello Dear Readers,
It is the Summer season and I finally have more time to post stuff right after I do it.
Today I had to create a new domain in hosting under Plesk control panel command line and since I never kept notes for the previous times I did it, I had to undergo some documentation reading.
The best resources online are provided by Parallels themselves. It is one of the most well documented APIs that I have come across in the hosting world, have to give them that!
The URL is http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PP10/10.1.1/Doc/en-US/online/plesk-unix-cli/index.htm
All I had to do is issue the following two commands in order to create the domain in hosting and then to create a database related to it:

1. Creating a new domain name in Hosting on Plesk CLI

[root@216-55-186-14 bin]# /usr/local/psa/bin/domain --create domainname.me -owner Client1 -ip 216.55.186.14 -status enabled -hosting true -hst_type phys -dns false -login domain_user -passwd temp_pass -shell /bin/bash -cgi false -php true -php_safe_mode true

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ls xargs rm

June 4th, 2012 2 comments

I keep forgetting the proper xargs arguments when I need them.
My intention today was to list old backup files based on the year time stamp and remove them.
Here is the one liner that works specifically because I have named my backups with the dd-mm-yyyy convention:

[root@webserver1 httpd]# ls -latf|grep 2009|xargs -L 1 rm

Here is a better approach that is independent from the file naming convention:

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