Fix Getting $_FILES ERROR 3

Alright. its been a year of resting and facing the normal issue which I could easily google and get the answer out of everyone (as usual), but recently I faced this issue where my customer upload fails 'sometimes' and the error they are getting from $_FILES is 3 which is "The uploaded file was only partially uploaded."

Now, this is all good and great and should be easily be resolved but in the end, you get stuck for a long long time. Some of the solutions you can try are the following,

Ensure your PHP setup are correct. Such as the below config

upload_max_filesize=80M
post_max_size=80M
file_uploads = On
upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
max_file_uploads = 20
memory_limit=-1

and if these are correctly configured and you are still getting an issue and you are suspecting maybe its AWS load balancer or you might have a load balancer, you can forget that idea since its 'partial upload' error meaning, its uploaded but it gets 'terminated' suddenly. So the next possible candidate here would be the web server.

And since the customer was using an apache2 server. Do check the following to ensure they are not set to '0'. 

Timeout 3000
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 1000

My issue was that someone set Timeout to 0 and it causes this issue consistently. The other issue that you may face and get stuck would be that Timeout or MaxkeepAliveRequests is too short which cause error 3 to show up due to the web server cutting your users off during upload but not everyone gets cut off. Hence, you guys were unable to reproduce this consistently.

Hope this helps!

getting  infront of json api call

After i migrated a server from apache to docker nginx, i notice that all the request coming from this nginx setup has a  infront that is not visible to the browser but when you do a script call, your script will complain about invalid json format.

What is 

Well, first of all, this characters that we can't see is actually UTF-8 BOM or Byte order mark with the byte sequence 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF at the front of the file.

What to do

Lucky, There is 2 solutions for you. You can either change all the file format to UTF-8 and i meant all of it in the folder since any file included with UTF-8 BOM will cause this problem. Hence, all the file will need to be convert to UTF-8 or remove the byte sequence 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF

You can use the following script to run recursively on your root folder which will convert all the file from utf8 BOM to utf8.

find . -type f -exec sed -i.bak -e '1s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//' {} \; -exec rm '{}.bak' \;

Personally, this works best but you'll need to work a little bit before its completed depending on how big your folder is.

The other solution is to remove BOM on the receiving end. so once you've grab your api content, remove the BOM with the following script,

        function remove_utf8_bom($text)
        {
                $bom = pack('H*','EFBBBF');
                $text = preg_replace("/^$bom/", '', $text);
                return $text;
        }

or you can just do this

                $raw_body = str_replace("\xEF\xBB\xBF",'',$raw_body);

both works pretty much the same. Then you should be able to parse your json_decode normally.

For more details file replacement you can visit muzso blog. Hope it helps!

easy resize kvm without lvm

Basically i have a chance to resize a kvm without lvm / lvm2. Adding size to a kvm is pretty straight forward, all you need to do is the following,

qemu-img resize vmdisk.img +40G

and if you boot up your machine, you'll see 10G if you hit the following command,

fdisk -l

now, we need to increase this partition so that our existing partition will increase from 60GB to 100GB.

[root@test ~]# fdisk /dev/sda

WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
         switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
         sectors (command 'u').

Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First sector (2048-2097151, default 2048): 
Using default value 2048
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-2097151, default 2097151): 
Using default value 2097151

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders, total 2097152 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2dbb9f13

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1            2048     2097151     1047552   83  Linux

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Once you've done that you should have a bigger partition of 100GB

Resize your filesystem with resize2fs

now just do the following and your size should increase to 100GB

root@test:~# resize2fs /dev/sda1
resize2fs 1.43.5 (04-Aug-2017)
Filesystem at /dev/sda1 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 8, new_desc_blocks = 13
The filesystem on /dev/sda1 is now 26214144 (4k) blocks long.

pretty straight forward i must say!

 

List of Useful Proxmox Command

It's been some time since i wrote something in this blog. I've been pretty busy with product building till i lose track of time. Time sure pass quickly. Recently i've a chance to work on Proxmox again. It is still as powerful as ever and many more version came up and so are the problems. Hence, i figured to list down those command that i come across that might be useful one day. I'll bring it into a few sections for easy navigation in the future.

Proxmox Command

  1. Get a quick overview on how fast your system is: pveperf
  2. Verify the subscription status of your hardware node: pvesubscription get
  3. Start a backup of machine 101: vzdump 101 -compress lzo
  4. PVE Cluster Manager - see "man pvecm" for details.
  5. Restart every single Proxmox services: service pve-cluster restart && service pvedaemon restart && service pvestatd restart && service pveproxy restart
  6. Proxmox VE version info - Print version information for Proxmox VE packages. : pveversion
  7. Find next free VM ID: pvesh get /cluster/nextid
  8. View sum of memory allocated to VMs and CTs: grep -R memory /etc/pve/local | awk '{sum += $NF } END {print sum;}'
  9. View sorted list of VMs like vmid proxmox_host type: cat /etc/pve/.vmlist | grep node | tr -d '":,'| awk '{print $1" "$4" "$6 }' | sort -n | column -t
  10. View sorted list of vmid: cat /etc/pve/.vmlist | grep node | cut -d '"' -f2 | sort -n

KVM Command

  1. List all your KVM machines: qm list
  2. See how much memory your machine 101 has: qm config 101 | grep ^memory
  3. List the memory setting of a kvm: qm config 101 | grep ^memory
  4. restore KVM vzdump backups - see "man qmrestore"
  5. backup utility for virtual machine - see "man vzdump"
  6. unlock kvm: qm unlock 101
  7. Restore a QemuServer VM to VM 601: qmrestore /mnt/backup/vzdump-qemu-888.vma 601

LXC Command

  1. forcefully start lxc: lxc-start -n 101 -F
  2. mount lxc virtual disk: pct mount 101
  3. unmount lxc virtual disk: pct unmount 101
  4. repair virtual disk: pct fsck 101
  5. check configuration of lxc: pct config 101
  6. Remove container: pct destroy 101
  7. Restore a container to a new CT 600: pct restore 600 /mnt/backup/vzdump-lxc-777.tar

OpenVZ Command

  1. utility to control an OpenVZ container - see "man vzctl"
  2. vzctl wrapper to manage OpenVZ containers - see "man pvectl"
  3. display top CPU processes: vztop
  4. cat /proc/user_beancounters
  5. vzlist
  6. backup utility for virtual machine - see "man vzdump"
  7. restore OpenVZ vzdump backups - see "man vzrestore"

if you got anything to share or have any awesome command useful for your day to day Proxmox management, do let me know!

Awesome Useful cPanel Commands

Here are a list of useful commands for everyone under the sun to do their work easily with cPanel

cPanel Resource Usage Stats

To view cPanel’s stats you can run this command via SSH:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/dcpumonview

This will show all processes, users, etc.

Get cPanel Resource Stats for X Days

If you want to get the stats for a user for say the past 5 days or so, run this command in SSH:

domain="thedomain.com"; for i in `seq 1 7 `; do let i=$i+1 ; let  k=$i-1 ; let s="$(date +%s) - (k-1)*86400"; let t="$(date +%s) - (k-2)*86400"; echo `date -Idate -d @$s`; /usr/local/cpanel/bin/dcpumonview `date -d @$s +%s` `date -d @$t +%s` | sed -r -e 's@^<tr bgcolor=#[[:xdigit:]]+><td>(.*)</td><td>(.*)</td><td>(.*)</td><td>(.*)</td><td>(.*)</td></tr>$@Account: \1\tDomain: \2\tCPU: \3\tMem: \4\tMySQL: \5@' -e 's@^<tr><td>Top Process</td><td>(.*)</td><td colspan=3>(.*)</td></tr>$@\1 - \2@' | grep $domain -A3 ; done

Script to find cPanel account and its corresponding IP address

cat /etc/userdatadomains | perl -pi -e "s/^.*? //," | perl -pi -e "s/==.*==6/ 6/," | perl -pi -e "s/:80==//," | sort | uniq

cPanel script to assign IP via shell: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/setsiteip -u username IPaddress

Courtesy of https://sites.google.com/site/pleskylinuxcom/bash-scripting

If you want to just monitor a specific user and not access the logs you can do so with these commands:

Monitor specific user using TOP

top -c d2 -u username

Monitor all users using TOP

top -c d2

Alternately you can use htop instead of top if you have it installed.

Script to delete Big file

#!/bin/bash
find /home -name '*.DS_Store' -type f -delete &
find /home -name '*.swp' -type f -delete &
find /home -name '*.swo' -type f -delete &
find /home -name 'error_log' -size +10M -type f -delete &
find /home -type f -name '*' -size +500M -exec rm -if {} \; &

In case you are wondering, anything bigger than 500M

find spammer script in cpanel

grep cwd /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep -v /var/spool | awk -F "cwd=" '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

the above will look for script that is spamming your cpanel server

find 10 biggest disk user in cpanel

find /home -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {}

the above will search for the 10 biggest folder used by your user

Clear Exim Mail Queue

exiqgrep -zi|xargs exim -Mrm

this will clear all your exim queue to sparkling clean.

Delete cPanel email more than 2 years

find -P /home/*/mail/*/*/cur -mtime '+729';find -P /home/*/mail/*/*/new -mtime '+729'

firing above will delete all email that is bigger than 729 day

check for all unique ip connected to your server

netstat -atun | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sed -e '/^$/d' |sort | uniq -c | sort -n

useful when you are getting DDOS