Since ISPConfig 3.2.12, the password can be reset using ispc command: Reset the password of the admin user. The command is: ispc user set-password admin ISPConfig before 3.2.12 On older systems, you can use the following method to temporarily setting a new password. If you lost your ISPConfig 3 administrator password, you can reset it ... Read more
This short tutorial describes the steps to optimize the performance of a MySQL database with the mysqltuner script. This tool can be used for MySQL and MariaDB. Install mysqltuner The mysqltuner High-Performance MySQL Tuning Script is available as a package on Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04, install it with at: sudo apt install mysqltuner For ... Read more
This guide shows you how to solve the error message "Connect to MySQL server 127.0.0.1: Too many connections". The error can appear in any log file of a service that connects to the MySQL server. This may e.g. be the /var/log/mail.log file if your email system uses a MySQL database. The error means that the ... Read more
The following steps describe the procedure to reset the MySQL root password on Linux. The same procedure works for MariaDB too. 1) Stop the MySQL server service mysql stop 2) Start the MySQL server manually without permission tables which allows us to login as root user without password: mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables & 3) Login into MySQL ... Read more
One way to create a backup of a MySQL database on the shell is to use the mysqldump command. Mysqldump creates a dump of the database in form of sql commands, which can be easily restored using the mysql command or PHPMyAdmin. Backup a MySQL Database mysqldump -u root -p mydatabase > /tmp/backup_mydatabase.sql This command ... Read more
The following guide shows how to disable and remove mysql replication from two or more mysql servers. These steps can be used for master/slave and master/master mysql setups. The following SQL commands have to be be executed in phpmyadmin or with the mysql commandline program. It is just important that you are logged in as ... Read more