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Account DNS Check plugin for cPanel/WHM
Overview This plugin gives administrators the ability to easily get a list of domains on their cPanel/WHM server that do not resolve to the correct IP.
Adding trim function to ssd and Mounting MySQL on a SSD Solid-State Disk
Install a new drive, format, partition and mount it, for example as: “/ssd” It is recommended that the SSD drive be setup in EXT4 format. EXT4 format supports TRIM when used with “discard” mount option.
Auto fix for file permissions and ownership?
suPHP and FastCGI require files and folders to have a specific set of permissions/ownership from other handlers.
Backup Entire Account in Client Portal?
You don’t have to login to cPanel to create an entire backup of your files. You can easily backup all your files by navigating to the backup feature listed under your service.
CPanel CDN Enabler Plugin
Requirements A cPanel installation. As latest as possible. Perl Modules: JSON PHP Modules: curl json Note that, installation of Perl modules are already handled by the installation scripts.
CPanel Drive Warning: /dev/sda3 (/var) is 88% full !!!
More research: df -h Code: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 2.0G 242M 1.7G 13% / /dev/sda1 99M 12M 83M 12% /boot none 504M 0 504M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda8 130G…
CPanel webmail not working? webmail error connection timed out 110 Can’t open SMTP stream
webmail error connection timed out 110 Can’t open SMTP stream If the webmail on cPanel server is giving error as bellow ======================================= ERROR: Message not sent.
Check apache version on a linux dedicated cpanel server
You can find the server information about your server such as MySQL and PHP version or how many domains your are allowed on the cPanel account by viewing your cPanel stats.
Clean Backups plug-in for cPanel/WHM
Overview cPanels backup script will not remove backups for accounts that no longer exist and these backups will remain on the backup drive until removed.
Configure DNS for Office 365 in cPanel?
To set up Microsoft Office 365, login to cPanel, then add/update the following DNS records for the domain(s) in question: example.com.au. 300 MX 0 example-com-au.mail.eo.outlook.com. example.com.au.
Core Dumps What they are and how to disable
Core dumps are files the system creates when a process running in memory does not finish. The portion of memory that the process was using is then dumped to a file. This can be quite helpful when debugging your scripts.
Cpanel update failure by using this command /scripts/upcp –force Failed! returns exited with code 25 (signal = 0)
Most of time cpanel update will fail when its missing the version of the rpm if you get any errors and the output shows Running `/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/updatenow –upcp…
Cpanel update failure in upcp –force
upcp errors on your cpanel update Most of time cpanel update won’t get any errors. If you getting the following error when cPanel tries to update.
Domains Statistics cPanel/WHM plugin
How to setup your Domains Statistics cPanel plugin Version Status 3.5.0r Stable Release System Requirements * cPanel/WHM 11.38.1+ server * Security Tokens = On “WHM » Main »…
Dovecot Issues on cPanel 11.40
For anyone that has csf installed and running the latest version of cpanel you will notice that you are recieving emails that the process is not restarting and running over the alloted time of 1800.
Exim Remove All messages From the Mail Queue?
Question: I’m using Exim mail server under CentOS Linux. How do I remove all messages from the Exim mail queue using a shell prompt? Answer: Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems.
FFmpeg installer that works for cpanel?
FFMPEG Auto Installer ffmpeginstaller is a free software completely written in bash shell script. The purpose of this script is to build a video streaming platform in your Gnu/Linux server.
Hacked Website?
The most common reasons for a hacked (defaced) website include: – Outdated web application. Every popular web application (Joomla, WordPress, PhpBB…) has had security problems and…
How do I change cPanel’s style?
There’re many themes to choose from in cPanel. You can change your style by performing the following steps. Access cPanel through one of the various methods. Click the Change Style icon.
How do I change my email’s password in cPanel
Changing your password in cPanel is easy, and takes only a minute. First, make sure you’re logged into cPanel. Find, and click Email Accounts.
How do I create a MySQL database?
To create a MySQL database, you’ll first have to be logged into cPanel. When you’re logged in, follow these instructions. In cPanel, click MySQL Databases.
How do I create an FTP account?
To create an FTP account in cPanel, you’ll first have to login. Once you’ve accessed your account, follow the instructions below. Click FTP Accounts. In the Login field, type the username of your FTP account.
How do I create an email account?
To create an email account, you’ll first have to be logged into cPanel. When you’re logged in, follow these instructions. In cPanel, click Email Accounts.
How to Install Config Server Firewall (CSF) For cPanel/Whm?
You should have basic knowledge on accessing SSH to proceed any further. Read the PuTTY Setup And SSH Access article for assistance in setting up PuTTY / SSH access.
How to Limit Connections per IP using mod_limitipconn on cPanel
Problems one of our clients had on their cPanel servers was that some people were using download managers to download files from the server, so hundreds and sometimes thousands of…
How to change MySQL data directory to a new drive SSD in this case with minimal downtime?
Install a new drive, format, partition and mount it, say as ‘/ssd’. 1. Change directory to new partition/location # cd /ssd 2. Create new MySQL directory. mkdir mysql 3.
How to change my document root folder using an .htaccess file?
By default your website is loaded from the public_html folder of your account. The public_htmldirectory is also called web root folder or document root folder.
How to check cPanel CPU and Memory usage for a specific user with Bash scripting
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bourne_Shell_Scripting/Appendix_C:_Quick_Reference #!/bin/bash = Starting line echo “print text” $X = Read the value of X if [ -n $X ]; then # -n…
How to clean my files from malicious code?
If your website has been hacked and malicious content has been inserted into your files, you should clean them as soon as possible to prevent further damage to your hosting account.
How to install CPanel MailScanner Install/Upgrade Package
Please read this whole page before downloading the package Through our experience of installing, configuring and upgrading MailScanner for many clients we have decided to publish…
How to install ClamAV with MailScanner
These instructions will configure ClamAV to use the clamd daemon: Make sure clamavconnector is NOT installed in WHM > Manage Plugins as this will break MailScanner If you would…
How to install ConfigServer Explorer (cse)
(fomerly know as WHM File Manager/Console) This is an exclusive! and free! add-on product for cPanel/WHM. The product provides you with a full featured Filesystem explorer and a…
How to install ConfigServer Mail Manage (cmm)
This is an exclusive! and free! add-on product for cPanel/WHM. The product provides you with an interface to the cPanel user accounts email configuration without having to login to their accounts.
How to install ConfigServer Mail Queues (cmq)
This is an exclusive! and free! add-on product for cPanel/WHM. The product provides you with a full featured interface to the cPanel exim email queues from within WHM.
How to install ConfigServer ModSecurity Control (cmc)
This is an exclusive! and free! add-on product for cPanel/WHM. The product provides you with an interface to the cPanel mod_security implementation from within WHM.
How to install enable SPF & Domain keys using SSH cPanel
Please follow the following steps to install and setup SPF and DKIM For : SPF Record (Sender Policy Framework) Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an email validation system designed…
How to install mysqli in cpanel
To install mysqli using EachApache: 1. Login to WHM as ‘root’ user. 2. Either search for “EasyApache” or go to Software > EasyApache 3. Scroll down and select a build option (Previously Saved Config) 4.
How to reduce the number of inodes my account uses?
The number of inodes represents the number of files/folders you have on your web hosting account. The more inodes your account uses, the more system resources it consumes.
How to restore cPanel system backup files?
Then ask why cpanel never added the function of restoring the system configuration files that are generated with the cpanel backup feature?
How to restore from your old drive in cpanel with rsync
This article will explain how to copy your old data using rsync from a failing drive to a fresh reload of cPanel on a new drive. WARNING!!!
How to setup an apache status page
You can also check and monitor Apache server’s current status on the web page without using log files. Modify httpd.conf file and add the following code into it: ExtendedStatus On…
How to stop/fight spam?
If you are receiving too much spam in your mailbox, please consider enabling Spam Assassin. You can do this from: cPanel -> Mail -> SpamAssasin -> Enable SpamAssassin Spam…
How to update apache to the latest version?
Check the current version of apache by running httpd –v Then execute the following commands: How to Rebuild Apache via command line for directadmin cd…
How to update mysqltuner.pl to latest version
Login to your system ssh with root 1: Move the old version of mysqltuner.pl mv /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/mysqltuner.pl /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/mysqltuner.pl.old 2…
LogView is an exclusive add-on product for cPanel
To install Logview: # wget http://www.logview.org/logview-install # chmod +x logview-install # ./logview-install # rm -f logview-install Login to WHM, go to the plugin option and…
Manual WordPress Installation Guide
1.0: Document Purpose The purpose of this document is to provide instructions for the manual extraction and installation of the WordPress publishing and blogging platform. 1.1: What Is WordPress?
Migration from Exchange to Cpanel
Step 1 – You need to setup “Split domains” for your email to do this you will need to contact your old host. This will allow you to migrate clients on a per mailbox basis without…
PHP.ini Manager
(phpinimgr) is a WHM plugin designed to help you manage custom php.ini files for your users. It will list all php.ini files in the users root and www folder.
Partnering with CloudFlare!
How CloudFlare increases speed and security of your site This is a guest post written and contributed by CloudFlare. CloudFlare makes it easy for any site to be as fast and secure as the Internet giants.
Plugins are missing from WHM?
Issue : plugins section is not displaying in WHM though I have already installed csf as well as clamav but the option is still not there.
Steps to Install Suhosin under different Linux Distributions? (RHEL/CentOS / Fedora)
Please refer the following steps : a.Download latest version of Suhosin # cd /opt # wget http://download.suhosin.org/suhosin-0.9.37.1.tgz Check the latest version by going to…
Steps to resolve the error “semget: No space left on device”
If apache does not start , then please check the error logs with cpanel. The error “semget: No space left on device” shows that that your server has run out of semaphores.
Update Serial cPanel/WHM Script
Overview This script will go through and update the serial on all your Bind/Named zone files. This is useful for administrators who may have ran sed, replace, or some other home…
Updating ionCube PHP loader to the latest version on cPanel?
You can know the current version of the ionCube PHP loader by executing the following command. ========= php-v ========= You can get the latest version of ionCube PHP loader in…
WatchMySQL plugin for cPanel/WHM
Overview This plugin gives administrators the ability to monitor concurrent user connections to MySQL. The WatchMySQL daemon can be configured so that when a user exceeds theire…
What is An INODE?
An INODE is every file, email, image, and page you have hosted on your account(s). They can come in many sizes, but for the most part they’ll be the same throughout the system.
What is The Public_HTML Folder?
The public_html folder is a directory accessible by anyone who visits your website. It’s where you store your public files such as web pages, images, and secured scripts.
What’s the fastest way to upload files on cPanel hosting?
The fastest way to upload files is through the cPanel file manager if you’ve only got a couple files, however if you have a lot of uncompressed files, an FTP client would be the best choice.
What’s the fix for the error [notice] child pid 21446 exit signal File size limit exceeded (25)”
Archive for Apache Log Files If you find the error messages in /etc/httpd/logs/error_log as follows :- [Tue Mar 29 05:29:42 2006] [notice] child pid 21446 exit signal File size…
Which ports should be open if my cPanel server is behind a firewall?
You must open the following ports to run cPanel behind a firewall: FTP Port Service Details 20 FTP TCP inbound/outbound 21 FTP TCP/UDP inbound/outbound Server administration and…
cPanel mod_fcgid: couldn’t bind unix domain socket
After you change PHP 5 Handler to fcgi mode in cPanel, Home » Service Configuration » Configure PHP and suEXEC You can find the following error in the apache error log.