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Assign Multiple IP Addresses on One Account

Posted by Vanessa | Tagged under , | Posted on May 14, 2010

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By default, cPanel supports the usage of one dedicated IP per account. However, you can get around this by editing just a few files on the server. Here are the steps:

1. Edit /var/cpanel/userdata/$USER/$SUBDOMAIN.$DOMAIN for each subdomain (for addon/parked domains you’ll usually edit the file for the subdomain associated with the addon/parked domain) and change the ip value to a ‘dedicated’ ip.

2. Run /scripts/rebuildhttpdconf

3. Edit the dns zone for the subdomain (which will likely be attached to the parent domain) and update the a-record to point to that IP as well. Then syncronize the zone out to the DNS cluster, if one exists:

/scripts/dnscluster synczone <parentdomain>

4. Edit /etc/domainips and add an entry for that sudomain to point to the IP and run /scripts/rebuildippool to make sure the IP is marked as taken.

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Comments (7)

Mike D said on Nov-29-2010

Hey, Thanks for the post. I can’t seem to get the last step to work. I have added the entry for the domain and ip address but it dosn’t show the address as taken. Any Suggestions?
Vanessa said on Nov-30-2010

Did you rebuild httpd.conf? Try also /scripts/rebuildippool to update the ip pool
Charles said on Dec-10-2010

I did this and cPanel shows the addresses are being used, but when I ping the web address, it still comes back to the original IP.
Peter said on Apr-07-2011

This depends on if you got shared or vps hosting? Cause i have shared hosting and i’ve studying how to have mupltiple ip on one cpanel.

Thanks for reply
Kerry said on Aug-23-2011

I ran into the issue of it saying:

/scripts/rebuildhttpconf

Wasn’t a file.

After a little research, I saw other places saying to do “httpd” not “http”:

/scripts/rebuildhttpdconf

And it worked.
Hector said on Nov-06-2011

Just as a heads up, there is a typo. Script:

/scripts/rebuildhttpconf

should be:

/scripts/rebuildhttpdconf

(notice the D in httpDconf)
Vanessa said on Nov-10-2011

Fixed – thanks for pointing it out

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