Posts published during July, 2009
Posted by
ksanders
Many webhosts, such as Mediatemple and ourselves, offer several versions of PHP. Both PHP4 and PHP5 are provided in our case. PHP4 is still the default, so you may get error messages or improper behavior when you run a script written for php5. The solution is simple, just create a .htaccess file in the root of your site (or in a subdirectory if you wish to run different versions on different parts of your site.) with the following line in it:
AddHandler php5-script .php
That will cause all .php files in the scope of the .htaccess to run with the PHP5 interpreter, instead of version 4.
Posted by
ksanders
For those having issues with newer releases of Zimbra and Godaddy and/or Starfield Tech SSL certificates, here’s what worked for us.
Likely you are getting a: “Your certificate was not installed due to the error : system failure: XXXXX ERROR: Unmatching certificate” error message. Zimbra is trying to tell you, in it’s own ineloquent way, that something is missing from the cert chain.
You’ll need three certificates,
Certificate: [domainname].crt (the one with your domainname in it that you downloaded)
Root CA: sf-class2-root.crt
Intermediate CA: sf_bundle.crt
You can get the sf-class2-root.crt root certificate and sf_bundle.crt from the Starfield Secure Certificate Services Repository here: https://certs.starfieldtech.com/Repository.go#root_der
Once they’re all downloaded plug all three of them into the install certificate screen as listed above.
The steps for renewed GoDaddy ssl certs should work in a similar way.
Posted by
ksanders
We will be upgrading our Zimbra infrastructure to 5.0.18 this weekend.
ZCS 5.0.18 contains many important enhancements and bug fixes, including:
- Critical security updates (Already patched in our setup as soon as the security update was published.)
- Outlook 2007 rules are now run automatically. If an Outlook rule and a Zimbra rule act on the same message, the Outlook rule will run first. Note that Outlook 2007 has a local rule called Clear Categories on Mail that is turned on by default. If this rule is enabled, it will clear categories on messages. This rule should be disabled. To disable, in Outlook, go to Tools->Rules and Alerts…, and uncheck Clear categories on mail.
- Out-of-office replies can now be set in Outlook This feature is accessed from Tools->Out of Office Assistant.
- Appointment reminder pop-ups now work as expected
The maintenance window is from 8pm to 10pm PDT Friday night, expected downtime is 30 minutes or less.
Posted by
JFarmer
Hello all,
My name is John Farmer, President of Letushostu.com.
First of all I would like to thank all of our existing customers for choosing Letushostu for your hosting needs and hope that you have been satisfied with our solutions and even more our Customer Service.
I hope that this blog will be useful not only to our customers but ones that are passing by looking for answers to their questions. We will try to answer and post comments as often as possible.
Until next time,
John Farmer
Letushostu.com
Posted by
ksanders
I got notified late this afternoon about a critical security vulnerability in zimbra. The email a bit short on details stating only:
This vulnerability allows unauthorized, remote access to files that are readable by the “zimbra user” account on the ZCS Mailbox Server (also known as mailbox service, or “mailboxd”).
All released versions (including the 6.0 betas) are affected. There is a link in the e-mail and also at support.zimbra.com.
Assuming you downloaded the patch to /tmp and are on Ubuntu and running ZCS 5.0.x (other linux ymmv), issue these three commands as root on each of your mailbox server.
#mkdir /opt/zimbra/save-07012009/ ; /etc/initd.d/zimbra stop
#mv /opt/zimbra/lib/jars/dom4j-1.5.jar ; /opt/zimbra/save-07012009/dom4j-1.5-lib.jar ; mv /opt/zimbra/jetty-6.1.5/common/lib/dom4j-1.5.jar /opt/zimbra/save-07012009/dom4j-1.5-common.jar ; cp /tmp/dom4j-1.5.jar /opt/zimbra/lib/jars/dom4j-1.5.jar ; cp /tmp/dom4j-1.5.jar /opt/zimbra/jetty-6.1.5/common/lib/dom4j-1.5.jar ; chown zimbra:zimbra /opt/zimbra/lib/jars/dom4j-1.5.jar ; chown zimbra:zimbra /opt/zimbra/jetty-6.1.5/common/lib/dom4j-1.5.jar
#/etc/init.d/zimbra start
Total downtime for us was less than 3 minutes per mailbox server.
There is no other information on the support pages and oddly enough no one in the forums seems to be talking about this either. I will update as I get more information.