Recently we received a ticket where the client pointed out that his MySQL server was not starting. Upon investigation, we found out that the client used our MySQL Optimization tool to optimize and enhance MySQL performance. Our MySQL optimization tool set the value of innodb-buffer-pool-size size depending upon the available ram on the server. The current formula sets its value…
MySQL: Can’t create/write to file ‘/tmp/#sql_3c6_0.MYI’ (Errcode: 2)
This error have multiple shapes and forms, this can come on cPanel or other normal servers when you have no space left on “/tmp” directory of your server, and mysql can not write to it. There is another possible reason, your disk space might not be full. But you are still getting this error, it is because your INODES are…
Combine Python Graphical User Interface with SQL Injection
Python is great language for penetration testing, I saw that people mostly develop python applications with command line versions only. How ever python have such a beautiful library named Tkinter to develop a graphical user based application, in this article we will combine Tkinter with sql injection to create a small GUI application that can check a website for SQL…
How to move Website + Database from cPanel to vestaCP!
In our previous article, we explained how to use vestaCP and explored some of its features. If you haven’t already read the article you can go and read at cPanel Alternative: VestCP. But if you already have an idea on how to use vestCP than its fine to continue with this article. In this article, we will see how to…
How to use sqlmap to hack a website through SQL Injection!
Disclaimer: This article is only for educational purposes, please only perform this penetration test on the site you are authorized to pen test. I know this method has been discussed alot many times already on many blogs and sites, but still I would want to explain it a little differently. Tools or softwares that you need to perform this tests…
How to install Nginx, PHP, PHP-FPM and MYSQL from source to run a wordpress site on Ubuntu 16.04
Many Linux package managers have built in packages for nginx, php and mysql, they are good if you have less experience with Linux, but installing from source will give you more control our installation locations, settings and much more. So today we will see how we can install Nginx and PHP-FPM (from source) and mysql from the package manager and…