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When transfering domains from one server to another, sometimes the emails get delievered to the old server after the DNS has been updated. When that happens, you can run the following script to forward the emails to the other server, or to a different email address.

While trying to download and upload files via FTP, I was getting

Oct 11 15:19:39 209443-www2 xinetd[12269]: EXIT: smtp status=1 pid=8309 duration=0(sec)
Oct 11 15:19:39 209443-www2 xinetd[12269]: FAIL: ftp per_source_limit from=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

In order to fix this I had to modify the /etc/xinet.d/ftp_psa file. I did so by adding the bold lines to the file:

To get a list of uid's and passwords for web users run the following query:

SELECT su.login AS "Web User", a.password AS "Password"
FROM web_users AS wu
JOIN sys_users AS su ON wu.sys_user_id = su.id
JOIN accounts AS a ON su.account_id = a.id
JOIN domains AS d ON wu.dom_id = d.id
WHERE d.name="domain.tld"

Procedure

1. Create a backup of the account that you want to migrate for testing purposes:
   1.  Login to the server via ssh
   2. Get the user account that you want to backup, for example paulusworldadmin. 
   3. To backup a user account with all data:

      # /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup clients paulusworldadmin /path/to/backup

PHP's open_basedir limits a script's ability to open files to specified directories.  This setting can only be modified within an httpd.conf file or in the php.ini.
When specifying more than one directory to be accessible by php scripts, use a semicolon for Windows, and a colon for all other systems. It's also important to note that directories within the open_basedir are actually prefixes and not a directory name. For example: