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How to add DKIM records to an existing account(s) on a cPanel server

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:04:19 +0000

How to add DKIM records to an existing account(s) on a cPanel server This article will show examples of how to add DKIM records automatically to an existing customer(s) on your cPanel/WHM server. Add DKIM record for a single account /usr/local/cpanel/bin/dkim_keys_install

How to add SPF records to an existing account(s) on a cPanel server

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:04:42 +0000

How to add SPF records to an existing account(s) on a cPanel server This article will show examples of how to add SPF records automatically to an existing customer(s) on your cPanel/WHM server. Add SPF record for a single account /usr/local/cpanel/bin/spf_installer

cPanel page access by port

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 17 May 2014 01:10:22 +0000

cPanel page access by port cPanel Interface (will redirect from once the domain is propagated) https://example.com:2083/ http://example.com:2082/ WHM Interface (will redirect from once the domain is propagated) https://example.com:2087/ http://example.com:2086/

Apache/PHP Configuration under cPanel

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:08:00 +0000

Apache/PHP Configuration under cPanel cPanel makes use of it's proprietary “EasyApache” system for manging Apache and PHP (and related modules). It is currently in it's third iteration, commonly referred to as EA3. EA3 allows you to easily enable support for all kinds of Apache and

How to use the Apache Distiller to Save Changes to Apache Config

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:48:09 +0000

How to use the Apache Distiller to Save Changes to Apache Config By default, cPanel will rebuild the Apache config file when cPanel runs updates, which is nightly by default. When the Apache config file is rebuilt any manual changes made will be removed as it's overwritten. By running the Apache distiller before rebuilding the Apache config file, manual changes can be saved.

cPanel/WHM does not reload Apache when adding new accounts

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:27:56 +0000

cPanel/WHM does not reload Apache when adding new accounts When adding new accounts, sub-domains, or addon-domains if Apache is not reloading it's configuration it's probably due to the Apache service being disabled under the service manager. Log into the WHM, click on 'Service Manager' and make sure that the enabled check box is checked for the Apache service. It is also recommended that you check the 'Monitor' check box but it's not required.

Cannot Delete Mail Forwarders in cPanel

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:39:43 +0000

Cannot Delete Mail Forwarders in cPanel When trying to delete a mail forwarder in cPanel, you may run into an error like the following: unable to locate the forwarder This may be caused by a known bug with older cPanel themes. To correct this issue, use WHM to change the cPanel account theme to Paper Lantern and hit save.

Clean up /etc/remotedomains using this one liner

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:59:11 +0000

Clean up /etc/remotedomains using this one liner Some times you end up with domain in /etc/remotedomains that really don't belong there. The mailserver will realize this but because they are in that file the MTA will not except mail for that domain. This quick little one liner can be run from the command line and will help you remove the domains from /etc/remotedomains that probably don't belong there.

cPanel Backup Restoration Stuck with Message Restoring Backup

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 17:40:22 +0000

cPanel Backup Restoration Stuck with Message Restoring Backup When a backup restoration in cPanel goes wrong, it can get be aborted or have the process killed but still show restoring backup in the restoration queue. This is causing by the backup restore manager

Troubleshooting cPanel update failure with Yum error

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:20:40 +0000

Troubleshooting cPanel update failure with Yum error When trying to update cpanel, you may see the following error: [2016-04-07 17:26:02 +0000] [20439] checkyum version 22.3 [2016-04-07 17:26:07 +0000] [20439] Loaded plugins: fastestmirror [2016-04-07 17:26:07 +0000] [20439] [2016-04-07 17:26:07 +0000] [20439] The system failed to execute yum with the arguments “-y -c /etc/yum.conf update” because of an error: The subprocess “/usr/bin/yum” reported the “EPERM” (1) erro…

Creating a cPanel Account in the WHM

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:41:26 +0000

Creating a cPanel Account in the WHM This article describes how a cPanel user account can be created through the WHM interface. This procedure assumes that you have already installed cPanel, that you have configured the name servers your account will use in the edit setup section of the WHM, and that your system is configured to use the default /whm and /cpanel redirects.

How to make /scripts/createacct non-interactive

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:06:24 +0000

How to make /scripts/createacct non-interactive If you're going to create a script that is going to execute /scripts/createacct you'll notice that the createacct script asks you questions that require you to interact with it. The following ENV will stop createacct from asking you questions.

Using Custom php.ini with PHP5 under FastCGI

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:04:34 +0000

Using Custom php.ini with PHP5 under FastCGI When using FastCGI (FCGI) as the loader for PHP, traditional php_values in the .htaccess file as well as custom php.ini files in the public_html directory no longer work. Instead we must create a wrapper for the main FCGI binary that causes the php.ini to be loaded from it's current working directory instead of the server-wide one.

Delegate Subdomain to a Different Nameserver (cPanel)

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:32:14 +0000

Delegate Subdomain to a Different Nameserver (cPanel) There are many examples where you may need to have a specific subdomain's DNS be managed by a different nameserver. cPanel makes this very easy. Log into WHM. Click on DNS Functions, then Edit

How to Disable WHM Security Questions from the CLI on a cPanel server

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 00:28:19 +0000

How to Disable WHM Security Questions from the CLI on a cPanel server This article shows how to use 'sed' to do an inline replacement of the SourceIPCheck variable in the cpanel configuration file. Changing this variable from 1 to 0 and restarting the cpsrvd the cpanel service daemon will disable the WHM security questions, re-enabling it can then be done by changing the 0 back to a 1 and restarting cpsrvd.

Can't change PHP and Suexec settings in WHM after running EasyApache

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:43:13 +0000

Can't change PHP and Suexec settings in WHM after running EasyApache Very rarely, after successfully completing an EasyApache script, you will see the following message in WHM when trying to change your PHP and Suexec settings. EasyApache is currently upgrading your Apache and PHP installation. Please wait for this process to finish before changing your PHP and Suexec settings.

Email Archiving with cPanel and Exim

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:45:10 +0000

Email Archiving with cPanel and Exim If you're interested in saving a copy of all incoming and outgoing mail for a particular domain, look no further! This idea can be expanded a little further to include all domains on the server or other stipulations, however we are going to include the config for a single domain.

How-to Enable SuPHP in cPanel

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:54:23 +0000

How-to Enable SuPHP in cPanel SuPHP is strongly recommended by NDC Host due to the inherent security of the module. SuPHP takes PHP scripts that normally run under the user the webserver runs them (nobody) and instead runs them as the effective owner of the

Exim

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:47:55 +0000

Exim index

Enabling Extended Exim Logging in cPanel/WHM

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:09:24 +0000

Enabling Extended Exim Logging in cPanel/WHM When troubleshooting mail or attempting to discover the source of spam originating from your server, it is often useful to enable extended Exim logging. This can be done from from inside the WHM with no additional mailserver tweaking needed.

Fixing PostgreSQL

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:29:58 +0000

Fixing PostgreSQL cPanel's PostgreSQL support is still a bit rudimentary, and as of 11.25 RELEASE there still is one major bug with the installation. After following the PostgreSQL installation steps on in the documentation, existing users still will not have the ability to create databases. You will see the following in the error log indicating this:

Fix Missing Domains in Awstats

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:06:49 +0000

Fix Missing Domains in Awstats If you are missing domains in Awstats, they can be rebuilt automatically or by hand if the automatic process fails for any reason. Forcing Update in WHM Log into WHM. Go to Server Configuration >> Statistics Software Configuration.

FTP Server Selection

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 00:41:46 +0000

FTP Server Selection cPanel offers three ftp server options that you can choose from. You can either log into the WHM and choose between these options or do it from the CLI. Both methods are explained below. Your FTP server options cPanel offers three different nameservers options. If you want to see the advantages and disadvantages of each you should log into the WHM and view the '

How to Change Nameservers on all Zones in cPanel

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:46:52 +0000

How to Change Nameservers on all Zones in cPanel Sometimes you may need to to change your Nameservers for your zone files. Using the following commands, you'll make the needed changes to have your server switched over to the new nameserver. Change default nameserver in cPanel

How to Install and Configure Attracta SEO Tools

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:43:54 +0000

How to Install and Configure Attracta SEO Tools This guide will walk you through installing Attracta SEO tools and setting them up through cPanel. Installing Attracta SEO tools Log in to your server through SSH. As root, run the following commands:

How to install Ioncube loader on cPanel servers

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:54:16 +0000

How to install Ioncube loader on cPanel servers First thing you need to do is figure out if you need IonCube installed for your cPanel/WHM scripts or for your Apache/PHP scripts. Figuring this out is simple, if you need IonCube to use a script on your website then you need to install IonCube for your Apache/

Howto Install ImageMagick PHP extensions on your cPanel server

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:59:18 +0000

Howto Install ImageMagick PHP extensions on your cPanel server We will show you how to install and enable the ImageMagick PHP extensions for all versions of PHP installed on your server. This process can be done using the command line or through the WHM.

cPanel

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:14:39 +0000

cPanel cpanel index

How to Install Fantastico

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:07:09 +0000

How to Install Fantastico To install Fantastico on your cPanel/WHM server, SSH to your server and enter following commands, one per line (you may also copy/paste): Now go to WHM -> Add-Ons (Plugins on v11.x or higher) -> Fantastico De Luxe WHM Admin (scroll down the left menu). Follow the on screen instructions. If you get a Source Guardian error when you go to Fantastico for the first time, just run this command:

How to install the latest version of Image Magick on your cPanel Server

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:34:32 +0000

How to install the latest version of Image Magick on your cPanel Server Although most distributions contain a packaged version of ImageMagick it's often a old version lacking new features. This article will show you how to compile ImageMagick from source and have it's installed in the same location it would normally be in.

SMX Plugin Installation Guide

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:38:49 +0000

SMX Plugin Installation Guide Currently our SMX plugin requires a server with cPanel's free DNSONLY control panel to be installed and functional prior to installation. Installing cPanel DNSONLY Please follow the generic cPanel installation guide under the

How to install WordPress in cPanel

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:27:48 +0000

How to install WordPress in cPanel WordPress is the most popular content management system on the web, with over 40% of all websites using it. This tutorial will describe two ways to install WordPress on your cPanel server. Install using Site Script

cPanel Installation Guide

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:19:55 +0000

cPanel Installation Guide Pre-Install Notes In order to run the cPanel software you must first be running a supported OS. cPanel lists their supported operating systems on their website at http://www.cpanel.net. Although there are many to choose from not every OS listed works flawlessly. If you're looking to have the least amount of problems and ease of administration we highly recommend you choose CentOS as your distro. CentOS is a recompile of RedHat Enterprise, and our research has shown th…

How to make /scripts/killacct non-interactive

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:01:05 +0000

How to make /scripts/killacct non-interactive If you want /scripts/killacct to no longer ask you if your sure you want to kill the account you need to pass it the --force arg. unfortunately the killacct script doesn't handle arguments correctly so the placement of the accounts username and

Mail::SPF Fails to Install

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:08:50 +0000

Mail::SPF Fails to Install In recent 11.25 cPanel builds, MAIL::SPF refuses to build resulting in error messages mailed by cPanel to the administrator and the possibility of SPF-related cPanel functions being broken. There is a simple fix for this for the time being until it is fixed upstream in CPAN:

Mailserver Selection

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:21:09 +0000

Mailserver Selection cPanel offers you a couple options of mailservers to choose from. You can either log into the WHM and pick and choose or do it from the CLI. Both ways are methods are explained below. Selecting a mailserver through the WHM First you need to log into the WHM as the user root. Once logged in scroll down the left side navigation until you see the 'Service Configuration' category. From there click on the 'Mailserver Selection' link. You will now be presented with your ma…

MariaDB (MySQL) Fails to start over InnoDB issue in 10.2.28

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:27:58 +0000

MariaDB (MySQL) Fails to start over InnoDB issue in 10.2.28 A recent cPanel update to MariaDB from version 10.2.27 to 10.2.28 has caused an issue with the service is not starting for some users. A quick fix for this issue is to downgrade your MariaDB, this can be done using the yum package manager with the following commands:

Name Server Selection

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:18:16 +0000

Name Server Selection cPanel offers you a couple options of name servers to choose from. You can either log into the WHM and choose between these options or do it from the CLI. Both methods are explained below. Your name server options cPanel offerings three different nameservers options. If you want to see the advantages and disadvantages of each you should log into the WHM and view the 'Nameserver Selection' area where these are outlined. As of May 25, 2014 the three options to choose f…

Native SSL on `hostname` Failed

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:21:47 +0000

Native SSL on `hostname` Failed If you are getting an email from cPanel that reads like the one below, then we have the fix for you! SSL When running the script mentioned in the email above, you may get the following error. If you do, then continue reading as this article is for you!

How to add the Pagespeed Module for cPanel Easy Apache

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 22:39:41 +0000

How to add the Pagespeed Module for cPanel Easy Apache The Pagespeed module for Apache is developed and maintained by Google. The module is designed to speed up page load speed and optimize code by filtering HTML through the web server. Installation

PHP Extension Manager on cPanel/WHM servers

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:53:36 +0000

PHP Extension Manager on cPanel/WHM servers The PHP extension manager makes it possible for you to easily install PHP extensions. Available Extensions To get a list up-to-date list of extensions available for installation using the PHP Extension Manager run the following command:

How to Fix the Poodle Vulnerability by Disabling SSLv3 in cPanel, Apache, Exim, and Dovecot

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:43:30 +0000

How to Fix the Poodle Vulnerability by Disabling SSLv3 in cPanel, Apache, Exim, and Dovecot Apache Log in to WHM -> Service Configuration -> Apache Configuration -> Global Configuration -> SSL Cipher Suite Change to a Custom Cipher Suite with the toggle button then change the line to be the following:

Why does cPanel not send quota notification emails?

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:55:39 +0000

Why does cPanel not send quota notification emails? The first thing to check if these are not being sent is if the appropriate options are enabled. In Main >> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings there is a section for Notifications in which you will want to enable the various options as to your liking, e.g.:

Rebuild Named Zone Files

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:20:25 +0000

Rebuild Named Zone Files This script will rebuild all your /var/named/*.db files. It first pulls every client from /var/cpanel/users and grabs each users domain and ip address. It then pulls the first 2 nameservers from /etc/wwwacct.conf and rebuilds the zones to how they would be if you just setup this account.

Recommended cPanel Version Tree

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:29:42 +0000

Recommended cPanel Version Tree We recommend you use the CURRENT tree. A few reasons why we recommend this: * This tree will receive important security patches right away where as STABLE many times does not. * We have found this tree to be the most stable and bug free release. The STABLE tree is just too old and many times ends up broken because of this while EDGE is just too new and has too many bugs.

How To Restore a cPanel Server

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 02:00:56 +0000

How To Restore a cPanel Server This article will guide you through the necessary steps to restore your data from a previous cPanel environment that is no longer functional. Examples are when a harddrive is dying and is no longer bootable, when a system is compromised via root, or even if you are moving from an old server to a new one (although the

Roundcube Log Location (cPanel)

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:31:57 +0000

Roundcube Log Location (cPanel) When trying to diagnose Roundcube errors the log files can tell you exactly whats going on. Below are the locations of log files that may be useful to diagnose Roundcube errors on cPanel/WHM servers. Roundcube-specific Logs

sMX Server has a Few Stuck Messages

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:50:13 +0000

sMX Server has a Few Stuck Messages This is a typical result of the sMX configuration. The sMX by default is a very passive mail configuration, it runs a basic Exim installation and does not run all the same filters that your cPanel machine does. This is in part to ensure the sMX does not block mail you otherwise would have wanted and had your regular mail server accepting, and also to enable it to act as a mail fail over for multiple cPanel machines, each of which may have different mail restr…

DNS Zone Template for sMX

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:22:07 +0000

DNS Zone Template for sMX Our sMX panel makes use of secondary MX record entries to facilitate mail delivery to the sMX server. MX records include a 'weight' value and this value is used to determine the priority of mailserver delivery. Secondary MX entries are determined by having a higher relative weight than the record associated with the primary mailserver. The numbers themselves are not relevant as absolute values so much as they are as compared to other weights. For instance, consider for…

How to Uninstall the AccountDNScheck plugin

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 28 May 2015 19:26:22 +0000

How to Uninstall the AccountDNScheck plugin An uninstall script is included with the installer, you can download the installer and extract it without running it by passing –noexec to it. to download the installer extract it then run the uninstall, use the following commands:

How to uninstall the Clean Backups cPanel/WHM Plugin

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 28 May 2015 19:22:09 +0000

How to uninstall the Clean Backups cPanel/WHM Plugin An uninstall script is included with the installer, you can download the installer and extract it without running it by passing –noexec to it. to download the installer extract it then run the uninstall, use the following commands:

How to uninstall the WatchMySQL cPanel/WHM Plugin

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 13:35:33 +0000

How to uninstall the WatchMySQL cPanel/WHM Plugin An uninstall script is included with the installer, you can download the installer and extract it without running it by passing --noexec to it. to download the installer extract it then run the uninstall, use the following commands:

Upcp Script Throws "Undefined Subroutine" Perl Error

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:47:59 +0000

Upcp Script Throws "Undefined Subroutine" Perl Error Normally upcp is used as a silver bullet for many cPanel-related problems, but what happens when upcp itself has a problem? If you're seeing an error like the one below when running this script, then continue reading!

Optimizing your CentOS Virtual Server running the cPanel/WHM software

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:25:16 +0000

Optimizing your CentOS Virtual Server running the cPanel/WHM software Virtual servers are not known to have a ton of memory, and when you install something like cPanel/WHM on the server you now have many services running all wanting to use that limited memory. Below is a list of things that can be done to help optimize your virtual server.

Unable to log in to Webmail inside of cPanel (Horde, Roundcube, Squirrelmail)

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:41:27 +0000

Unable to log in to Webmail inside of cPanel (Horde, Roundcube, Squirrelmail) If you are unable to log in to any of the webmail clients, start by checking the secure log. tail /var/log/secure If you see something like the following: dovecot-wrap error changing uids: error: 1 (Operation not permitted)

WHMXtra Installation/Removal Guide

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:58:31 +0000

WHMXtra Installation/Removal Guide Installing WHMXtra Installing WHMXtra is easy, just log in through SSH and run the following commands: cd /home wget http://whmxtra.com/pro/pro.sh sh pro.sh Then login to WHM, go to Plugins, select WHMXtra and continue with the installation.

How to make /scripts/wwwacct non-interactive

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:00:18 +0000

How to make /scripts/wwwacct non-interactive If your going to create a script that is going to execute /scripts/wwwacct you'll notice that the wwwacct script asks you questions that require you to interact with it. The following ENV will stop wwwacct from asking you questions.