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The above error appears with recent versions of apache (>2.2.13) despite the fact that apache has SSLCertificateFile and other SSL configuration correctly set. Not sure what is the problem, but the solution is quite simple but difficult to find, specially most people with that error have wrong ssl configuration, but if you are sure it is not your case and you’ve correctly configured SSL options for apache you might try to replace
Listen 443 with Listen 443 http

Awstats is a very nice log file analyzer, written in perl, does produce website statistics. However recent perl (>5.14.0) upgrade broke most of the configuration options of awstats version 7.0, as a consequences awstats is dropping all record when using SkipHosts options, which is an option to tell awstats to don’t include specific host (like localhost, 192.168.**, etc…).
Many other options are broken as well, see this link for more details.

You can use this patch, alternatively a patched archlinux package of awstats can be found here which includes also the missing swf.png file from the original package, if you want you can just use this repository with pacman

[archost]
Server = http://repo.archost.org

Archost is an open source hosting control panel written in php and designed for archlinux based servers. Archost is not aimed to be a classic hosting control panel (admin, reseller, client), it is a control panel aimed to ease server administration for hosting personal, family, friends and company websites and mails.

Archost comes with an installer to ease server configuration, please see archost web page for more details

Recently i started having problem with my own hosted mails, i’m no longer able to send mails directly from my server, checking postfix mail.log when sending mails to gmail revels this error

The IP you’re using to send mail is not authorized to 550-5.7.1 send email directly to our servers. Please use the SMTP relay at your 550-5.7.1 service provider instead.

As usual, googling this error will shows a lot of useless results and forums posts with people asking the guy having the problem, Do you have reverse dns set ? Check your spf record, etc…

Reverse dns can only be set for static ip addresses, which is my case, any mail server running with a dynamic ip addresses has to relay its mails to another smtp server, because the mails will go to the spam, so people that with dynamic ip addresses should not ask why the mails are not passing.

For the spf record is nothing to do with the problem, so having a static ip with reverse dns with correct spf it is hard to find the solution out of all these useless forums posts.

The problem is just that spamhaus blacklisted your ip for some reason, it can be because they blacklisted a list of ip addresses that they are not typical for servers, or maybe your server is misconfigured and have been used as a spam source, you can check in their site to see what is the problem, and you can proceed for a request to remove your ip addresses from the blacklist, it is recommended to do that only if you really need, in my case i do need since i host a group ware that uses mails to notify users, once you do the removal request (they ask you to have a mail addresse hosted at your own, ie user@yourserver, so you should have a correct mail server), the removal takes about 30 minutes and you’ll be able to send mails again.