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Now that RVSiteBuilder has been around a while for DirectAdmin and ealy issues have been ironed out, we are offering the de-facto Site Builder, with more than 950 templates and 4000 designs, it’s  unmatched.

Of course along side Scriptaculous and its ability to automatically install/deploy the top 250+ top scripts, this means sites have never been quicker to deploy or design.

We recently had an issue where some users were not able to FTP into their hosting accounts and others were.

An investigation into the problem showed that the odd IP, although registered in DirectAdmin, had not registered in ProFTPd.

Each of our hosting servers has hundreds of IPs, so rather than try to detect which ones were working and which weren’t I quickly put a rough and ready script together which will fix the problem.

As is our usual way, I thought I would provide this, not very elegant, but particularly useful script.

#!/bin/bash
#
# ReCreate ProFTPd vhost.conf
#

NET_DEV="eth0"
LOCAL_CFG="/etc/proftpd.vhosts.conf"

cat /dev/null > ${LOCAL_CFG}

echo "<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>" >> ${LOCAL_CFG}
echo '        ServerName              "ProFTPd"' >> ${LOCAL_CFG}
echo "        ExtendedLog             /var/log/proftpd/127.0.0.1.bytes WRITE,READ userlog" >> ${LOCAL_CFG}
echo "        AuthUserFile            /etc/proftpd.passwd" >> ${LOCAL_CFG}
echo "</VirtualHost>" >> ${LOCAL_CFG}

for i in $(ifconfig -a | grep "${NET_DEV}:" | awk '{print $1}')
do

ip=$(ifconfig ${i} | grep addr: | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}')

echo "Writing ${i} -> ${ip}"

echo "<VirtualHost ${ip}>" >> ${LOCAL_CFG}
echo '        ServerName              "ProFTPd"' >> ${LOCAL_CFG}
echo "        ExtendedLog             /var/log/proftpd/${ip}.bytes WRITE,READ userlog" >> ${LOCAL_CFG}
echo "        AuthUserFile            /etc/proftpd.passwd" >> ${LOCAL_CFG}
echo "</VirtualHost>" >> ${LOCAL_CFG}

done

Mashable has an article showing what can happen when you don’t pay your designer.

Now we think you should always, pay your designer, but if you don’t at least have the sense to not host with them!