Plesk for Linux since version 11.5 supports third-party builds and variants of MySQL server, PHP packages and PHP-FPM. For example, you may install MariaDB or Percona Server in place of OS vendor MySQL packages. Or you may install PHP packages…
CheckPassword authentication in Dovecot: a practical example in Shell
In this post I’ll show how to set up authentication in Dovecot via custom CheckPassword script written in Shell. While this is not generally suitable for any kind of production deployment for performance reasons, employing CheckPassword authentication is great for…
Dovecot in Plesk for Linux 12.0!
In Plesk 12.0 previews we present full-fledged Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server support with server-side mail filtering via Sieve. The community asked and we deliver!
Introducing ‘plesk installer’ (Linux)
Have you ever felt that using Parallels Installer from command line is somewhat daunting? It has a lot of options and you usually need to get required “spell” from KB articles or official forums. For example, to manually install latest…
MariaDB installation guide
Plesk uses MySQL as both admin and client RDBMS. Plesk 11.5 for Linux and higher allows for MySQL alternatives (such as MariaDB or Percona Server) to be used as drop-in replacements for it. Upgrade from installations with drop-in replacements is…