5 / 5 ( 4 votes ) Having SSL problems? One of the most common issues our team handles is related to websites not properly displaying over HTTPS, whether it be the website either not loading entirely, or just not showing the green padlock: If you’re sure that the SSL certificate is installed properly, but…
Read more2.8 / 5 ( 40 votes ) If you’re on a cPanel server, you’ve probably noticed a sizable folder called ‘virtfs’ sitting in /home, which would appear at first to be using a ton of space. Your first inclination might be to delete it, but don’t! Most likely, the files in that folder are actually…
Read more4.2 / 5 ( 9 votes ) cPanel allows you to easily create custom Exim filters by simply dropping the rules in /usr/local/cpanel/etc/exim/sysfilter/options/ and running: /scripts/buildeximconf service exim restart Here are a couple useful examples of filters we’ve created for our customers: Prevent email delivery to certain domains: if (“$h_to:, $h_cc:” contains “@domain.com”) or (“$h_to:, $h_cc:”…
Read more4 / 5 ( 26 votes ) If you have more than a few cPanel servers in your network, it may be a good idea to set up your own mirror to serve the files necessary to run cPanel updates. Doing this could save time and bandwidth, as well as prevent problems caused by mirrors…
Read more4.9 / 5 ( 19 votes ) Update! cPanel supports LetsEncrypt, but you just need to install the plugin for it to work. To do this, run: /scripts/install_lets_encrypt_autossl_provider Once installed, Let’s Encrypt will appear in WHM’s Manage AutoSSL interface (Home >> SSL/TLS >> Manage AutoSSL) where you can enable the provider. At the time of…
Read more3.7 / 5 ( 3 votes ) The cPanel update fails due to a problem installing RPMs, but is not specific about what the problem is: [20160203.180007] Testing if the newly downloaded RPMS can be installed without conflict [20160203.180007] Testing RPM transaction [20160203.180012] [20160203.180012] ***** FATAL: Test install failed: [20160203.180012] The Administrator will be notified…
Read more3.5 / 5 ( 2 votes ) When attempting to create a user or restore a backup you may see this error: This system already has a database owner named___ To fix this, edit the following files on the system and remove entries for the user in question: /var/cpanel/databases/users.db /etc/dbowners…
Read more5 / 5 ( 1 vote ) If your server is using a NAT setup and for some reason isn’t properly showing the correct public IP that should be mapped to the private IP on your server, you can easily fix this by creating a script to tell cPanel what the public IP should be.…
Read more4.5 / 5 ( 23 votes ) Note: This is an update from our 2011 post. If you’ve taken a peek at your PCI scan results lately, you may have noticed that your scan provider is now requiring OpenSSH 6.6 or higher due to CVE-2014-2532 – a version that is not currently available in the CentOS 5 or…
Read more4.3 / 5 ( 27 votes ) UPDATE 6/18: Shortly after this was posted and one of the major hosting companies I’m affiliated with removed BetterLinux from their servers due to stability problems, BetterLinux announced that they are shutting down, effective July 1st. Customers ask us all the time whether they should use CloudLinux or…
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