On a Cpanel Server, when you visit a shared IP address used by multiple websites, you will see the website of the first VirtualHost entry. This is not good when you have multiple customer websites as your other customers may visit the IP and see the site associated with the first VirtualHost entry and complain […]
How To Add an Additional IP Address in cPanel Server
Cpanel servers allow you to add multiple IP addresses. Additional IP addresses are useful for running name servers, hosting sites on different IP addresses (many use dedicated IP for SEO), and mail servers. Before you can add additional IP addresses to a server, you need it purchased from your server provider. To add an IP […]
CPanel SSL Renew on password protected site
We have a site where we host demo websites that we do for our customers. We don’t want search engines to index these sites or strangers to see them. So it is password protected. The problem is Cpanel Auto SSL needs to access URI like /.well-known/ for SSL domain validation. With password protection, SSL domain […]
Cpanel Mail Server
To see the current mail server setup on the Cpanel server, run
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[root@server78 ~]# /scripts/setupmailserver --current Current mailserver type: dovecot Current storage format: maildir or mdbox [root@server78 ~]# |
Cpanel Provide Following Mail servers
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SMTP: <a href="https://serverok.in/exim">exim</a> POP/IMAP: courier, dovecot |
Roundcube mail logs in Cpanel
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tail -f /var/cpanel/roundcube/log/errors |
See exim mail server, Cpanel Server […]
How to Enable WordPress Toolkit in Cpanel/WHM
To install WordPress Toolkit in Cpanel/WHM, first install it with command
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curl https://wp-toolkit.plesk.com/cPanel/installer.sh | sh |
After installation, you will be able to see WordPress Toolkit in CPanel. You can enable/disable WordPress toolkit under Feature Manager in WHM.
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WHM > Packages > Feature Manager |
How to install WordPress using WordPress Toolkit This video will show how to install WordPress using WordPress Toolkit in Cpanel […]
Check if Cpanel Server need reboot from command line
To check if Cpanel/WHM server need reboot from command line, run
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whmapi1 system_needs_reboot |
Example On a server with latest kernal
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[root@ns522466 ~]# whmapi1 system_needs_reboot --- data: details: {} needs_reboot: 0 metadata: command: system_needs_reboot reason: OK result: 1 version: 1 [root@ns522466 ~]# |
On a server that need reboot
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[root@server22 ~]# whmapi1 system_needs_reboot --- data: details: kernel: boot_version: 3.10.0-962.3.2.lve1.5.42.el7.x86_64 running_version: 3.10.0-962.3.2.lve1.5.39.el7.x86_64 updates: glibc: 2.17-323.el7_9 linux-firmware: 20200421-80.git78c0348.el7_9 openssl-libs: 1:1.0.2k-21.el7_9 needs_reboot: 1 metadata: command: system_needs_reboot reason: OK result: 1 version: 1 [root@server22 ~]# |
See Getting WHM Access from SSH on Cpanel Server […]
Roundcube Webmail Logs in Cpanel Server
Roundcube logs that are located at the following paths:
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/var/cpanel/roundcube/log/errors /var/cpanel/roundcube/log/sendmail |
/var/cpanel/roundcube/log/sendmail have logs for every email sent. See Cpanel […]
How to Disable Mailman in cPanel?
Mailman is a mailing list management software that comes by default on Cpanel Servers. Most websites don’t need this feature. Most small sites don’t need email discussion features provided by Mailman, mostly used by large scale open-source software for email discussion. To disable Mailman, login to WHM Method 1 In WHM, search for “service manager”, […]
Disable cPHulk Brute Force Protection
Cpanel Servers have a bruceforce attack detection module called cPHulk Brute Force Protection. In case your server have another bruteforce detection software like ConfigServer Security & Firewall, you may need to disable cPHulk Brute Force Protection as you don’t need 2 software for same purpose running on the server. To disable cPHulk Brute Force Protection, […]
Modify Apache Virtual Host for a site in Cpanel Server
On Cpanel server Apache configuration file get recreated every time you modify or add a new web site. In cause you need to modify VirtualHost entry for a web site hosted in cpanel, you should not edit /etc/apache2/conf/httpd.conf file. If you open /etc/apache2/conf/httpd.conf and check virtual host entry for a web site, you will see […]