How to Manually Remove a cPanel account
Here is how you remove a cPanel account or remaining parts of cPanel account: 1. Remove the cPanel user account: #userdel -r CPANEL_USERNAME #groupdel GROUPNAME 2. Delete the following file:...
View ArticleDisable Mod_Security for an Individual Account
Mod_security is an open source web application firewall module for Apache. Apache 2.x uses mod_security2, while Apache 1.x uses mod_security1. In Apache 1.x, to disable mod_security for a domain, all...
View ArticleAdd SPF and DKIM Email Authentication Through the Command Line on cPanel Server
To add an SPF record for a single user, use the following command: # /usr/local/cpanel/bin/spf_installer CPANEL_USER To add SPF records for all the users on a cPanel server, use the following...
View ArticleSafe SSH Restart with cPanel Autofixer
Sometimes you are not able to login to your server via SSH because your SSH configuration got messed up, or SSH is running on an unknown port. The cPanel autofixer is designed to kill off the existing...
View ArticleList Current PHP handler on a cPanel Server via Command Line and in WHM
To list the current PHP handler in WHM, navigate to: WHM >> Home >> Service Configuration >> Configure PHP and suExec To list the current PHP handler via Command line run the...
View ArticleChange the PHP Handler on a cPanel Server in WHM or via Command Line
PHP handler determines how PHP is loaded on the server. PHP handler is what actually loads the PHP libraries so that they can be used for interpretation. Different types of PHP handlers are DSO, suPHP,...
View ArticleDatabases Showing 0MB in cPanel
Here is how to include the databases in cPanel user’s disk usage calculations. From WHM navigate to: WHM >> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings >> SQL >> enable “Include...
View ArticleRedirect HTTP to HTTPS using .htaccess file
To redirect all the pages on your site from http to https, simply add the following code to the .htaccess file in the document root of your site: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule...
View ArticleGenerate a Self-Signed Certificate/CSR with SHA-256 instead of SHA1
The transition from SHA-1 to SHA-2 is coming soon. On November 7th, 2014, Google Chrome will stop displaying the security indicators such as the green padlock and/or green address bar for any...
View ArticleReinstall/Install RVSKin
If you notice any issues with RVSkin in cPanel, you can just try to reinstall them. 1. Uninstall RVSkin: perl /root/rvadmin/uninstall.pl 2. Install RVSkin: rm -rf /root/rvadmin mkdir /root/rvadmin cd...
View ArticleBlock Access to xmlrpc.php on a cPanel Server
To block access to xmlrpc.php on a cPanel server, you will need to: 1. Edit /etc/httpd/conf/includes/pre_main_global.conf 2. Add the following to the bottom of this include file: <IfModule...
View ArticleWHM/cPanel Server Time Doesn’t Sync
If you need to manually sync the server time in WHM/cPanel with the server time run the following commands: rm -f /etc/localtime ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime Hope this helps!
View ArticleHow to clear eximstats database
To clear your eximstats database follow these steps: 1. Login to MySQL: mysql Then run: mysql> use eximstats; mysql> delete from sends; mysql> delete from smtp; mysql> delete from failures;...
View ArticleWhere are all the inodes being used?
To find out where are all the inodes being used, run: find / -xdev -printf '%h\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k 1 -n Hope this helps!
View ArticleHow to Hide Apache Version
To hide Apache version to remote requests, two settings in Apache’s configurations will have to be adjusted ServerTokens and ServerSignature. The Apache server banner can provide too much valuable...
View ArticleHow to Hide PHP Version
To hide the PHP version to remote requests in order not to disclose undesirable information and to suppress the PHP banner X-Powered-By, locate the php.ini file and the the line containing “expose_php...
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