Many server providers setup server with smaller / partition like 20 GB. This is fine for normal Linux Servers, you will need more disk space on Cpanel Servers. Many use CloudLinux on Cpanel Servers, this will require you to have more free disk space on / partition. The partition i use for Cpanel Servers are […]
To install mod_remoteip in Cpanel Server, run
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yum install ea-apache24-mod_remoteip |
Edit file
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vi /etc/apache2/conf.modules.d/370_mod_remoteip.conf |
Add
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RemoteIPHeader X-Forwarded-For RemoteIPTrustedProxy 127.0.0.1 PROXY_SERVER_IP_HERE |
Restart Apache.
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systemctl restart apache2 |
At this stage, PHP applications will show proper visitor IP address. Apache access logs will still show proxy server IP. To fix this, edit Apache configuration file. Find
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LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined |
Replace with
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LogFormat "%a %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common LogFormat "%a %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined |
Restart Apache
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systemctl restart apache2 |
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On a cpanel server, PHP scripts can’t sent email. Incoming and outgoing emails for email users (mailbox) are working properly. To debug, loggged in to SSH as one of the cpanel user.
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su - CPANEL_USER |
If SSH access is not enabled, enable SSH in WHM. Once logged in, verify sendmail works.
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[sabtempco@buffalo ~]$ sendmail -f noreply@serverok.in admin@serverok.in sendmail: Not running with correct effective GID. Is sendmail binary setgid mailtrap? sendmail: Not running with correct effective GID. Is sendmail binary setgid mailtrap? [sabtempco@buffalo ~]$ |
I get above error message. […]
phpSHIELD is an encoder that encode PHP scripts so no one can read your source code. https://www.phpshield.com/ They actually resell SourceGuardian Encoder, so you can install Sourceguardian loaders. Cpanel Servers come with sourceguardian loader, to install follow the instructions here. […]
To install sourceguardian PHP loaders in Cpanel server, run
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yum install -y ea-php56-php-sourceguardian.x86_64 ea-php70-php-sourceguardian.x86_64 ea-php71-php-sourceguardian.x86_64 ea-php72-php-sourceguardian.x86_64 |
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Cpanel will provide Free SSL for server hostname if server hostname resolve to servers main IP address and server have valid cpanel license. Cpanel will check for hostname SSL when upcp runs. This is run once everyday. You can manually run SSL check by running
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/usr/local/cpanel/bin/checkallsslcerts |
If you have a paid SSL, you can install […]
To create new hosting account in Cpanel/WHM, login to WHM at http://yourserverip/whm Now to go
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Home » Account Functions » Create a New Account |
You can also use the search box on left top side of WHM. Search for “create”, then click on “Create a New Account” link. On “Create a New Account” page, you need to enter your domain name. User name […]
On an Amazon EC2 server running Cpanel, i had to restore from Snapshot as some data was missing. Once restored, i changed Elastic IP to new EC2 instance. But sites did not work. This is because Internal IP of EC2 instance got changed when you restore from snapshot. In httpd.conf VirtualHosts where using old internal […]
When hosting Cpanel server behind NAT like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud etc.. where you have internal IP and external IP, you need to enable NAT so cpanel will map external IP to internal IP. First make sure external IP is not added to your server. Now run
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rm -f /var/cpanel/cpnat /scripts/build_cpnat |
On AWS, this generate a file like […]
One of the customer email account as getting too much incoming emails from [email protected] First i tried to block the sender IP, but they are using too many IP. To stop this incoming email, i edited
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vi /etc/exim.conf |
Find
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acl_smtp_rcpt |
Add below
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deny message = SPF: $sender_host_address is not allowed to send mail from $sender_address_domain spf = fail |
Restart exim
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service exim restart |
Now watch the mail log with
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tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep "is not allowed to send mail from" |
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