Wednesday 30 April 2008

Plesk Installing Components - fastcgi

I had some hosting for my wow guild website. I learned to use rails by making a guild portal. It was a bit clunky but it was a nice learning project and it got us going. Recently we switched to the more 'powerful' dkpsystem.com, which is useful but a bit clunky.  but its proved v useful.
So

My virtual server was empty, and I have 4 other sites being hosted on different hosting company servers... bit silly.   I've held back from putting stuff on the server, but when my main website went down due to a changed cc number, I decided i should start pushing 
them all onto the one as it was pretty good. Sadly last time I used it I remembered that it was a bugger to find out how to add fastcgi tho it was there if you looked hard enough.  So I logged in, reset the VPS, nothing like a clean slate eh. 

But

I could only add 1 client and 1 domain, which wasnt right. Next i tried reloading the vps to see if I missed anything.  No change, 1 client, 1 domain and no option for cgi...  many wasted hours ensued and length waits in queues for tech support.  

So
I thought, well maybe I know more this t
ime round. Let me just order a new vps and I'll close the others account. Which I did, but the new server was also missing the same components.
 Meanwhile tech support fixed the domain/client issue on the old server. doh....
... but I was unhappy with that one. Who knows what mess I already made of that.

HERE IS THE ANSWER...  so that if I ever have to do this again.... i know
Go into Plesk. ( not Virtuozzo) and select System:Server:(Services):Updater.  




If your lucky you should see an update package.



Click on this.
Inside you should find a list of things to update AND install if they aren't already.


THERES THE SOLUTION. 

How helpful am I !?


Now. Im adding some nice tags so people can find it  ( including myself )

mod_fcgid psa_mod_fcgid-configurator

and some pics ( ooh blogger is way better )