Change SSH port in CyberPanel

CyberPanel is a free open source control panel for web hosting. It use OpenLiteSpeed web server. You have the option to use Commercial LiteSpeed web server with CyberPanel.

To change SSH port on CyberPanel server, login to CyberPanel, then go to

Securiy > Secure SSH

From the left side menu. On next page, you will get option to change SSH port.

Once port is changed, click on “Save Changes” button. Now your SSH port changed to non standard port.

Fix Web Terminal

On side bar, you have “Web Terminal” that allow you to access sevrers terminal. If you change SSH port, this feature stop working. To get Web Terminal work again, you need to edit file

vi /usr/local/CyberCP/WebTerminal/CPWebSocket.py

Find

DEFAULT_PORT = 22

Replace with

DEFAULT_PORT = 3333

3333 – replace with your actual SSH port.

Now you need to restart the cyberpanel, for this find the CyberPanel process with command

ps aux | grep CPWebSocket

Kill the process with

kill -9 PID

Example

[root@musiverse ~]# ps aux | grep CPWebSocket
root     188833  3.2  3.4 412708 35684 ?        Sl   17:19   0:41 /usr/local/CyberCP/bin/python /usr/local/CyberCP/WebTerminal/CPWebSocket.py
root     189672  0.0  0.2 112808  2364 pts/2    S+   17:40   0:00 grep --color=auto CPWebSocket
[root@musiverse ~]# kill -9 188833
[root@musiverse ~]# 

It will auto restart once you killed and Web Termianl on CyberPanel will work with custom SSH port.

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