Wildcard DNS allows a server to display and combination of subdomains for a website. For example, wildcard DNS for thecpaneladmin.com will allow any subdomain to resolve to this website, even if they have not been specifically created. Subdomains th The 24 Hour Sinus Breakthrough! at have been created individually in cPanel will still route to […]
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A lot of hosts that deploy a large number of servers are automating updates instead of running them manually. While cPanel updates can be automated as well, it’s become a common question of how to automate Apache and PHP updates across a large number of servers without having to manually run EasyApache on each server,
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A wildcard ssl basically allows you to use unlimited subdomains on a given domain name with one SSL certificate. A user will need to purchase a wildcard SSL from a vendor that supplies them. Similar to having multiple certificates installed on a Seduccion Peligrosa ** 75% Comision ** :: Ventas Y Conversiones Altas server, each
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I wrote this script a while back to fix the permissions of alias files in /etc/valiases when users were having trouble creating forwarders. You can also download the script in plaintext here. #!/bin/bash # Script to fix permissions of valiases # Written by: Vanessa Vasile 5/17/10 # http://thecpaneladmin.com for domain in `cat /etc/userdomains |awk ‘{print
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500 Internal Server Errors are one of the most common PHP issues that I see customer experience, and it will occur mostly on servers with suPHP or PHP running as CGI. These errors can be caused by something on the server, or an issue on the user’s site. Here ‘s what you should do if
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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.$maindomain for each subdomain (for addon domains you’ll usually edit the file for the subdomain associated with the addondomain) and change the
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This is a simple bash script I wrote to fix the permissions and ownership of files within a cpanel account. To use, simply copy the script your server, chmod 755, and pass the usernames as arguments: ./fixperms user1 user2 user3 You can also run a server-wide loop like this: for i in `ls -A /var/cpanel/users`
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Passive FTP is not enabled with pure-ftp by default. To enable this, edit /etc/pure-ftpd.conf and uncomment out this line: PassivePortRange 30000 50000 This means that FTP will answer passively on the range of ports between 30000 and 50000, so you may want to narrow the scope to something like 30000 to 35000. Once you do
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When adding an email forwarder you may see an error like this: Fatal! Write Failure: /etc/valiases/thecpaneladmin.com. Ignore any messages of success this can only result in failure! To fix this, run (replace user with username and domain with the domain name) chown user:mail /etc/valiases/domain.com chmod 644 /etc/valiases/domain.com
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