I’m sure that most of you have been to the point where one or more of your servers start to fill up as you get more customers. The server’s performing just fine, but there’s one problem…you’re out of disk space! Here are a few simple tricks to freeing up disk space on your cPanel server to help maximize your server’s potential.
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Cpanel 11.24 comes with an Autofixer that allows you to fix common problems that may prevent access to certain parts of your system.
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Anyone running a shared hosting server is probably now accustomed to dealing with constant complaints about blacklisting. It’s exim’s default setup on a cPanel server to use the shared IP of the server to send email, which means that all your clients on one server are sending out email on the same IP. All it
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PostgreSQL is an open-source database server similar (but different) than MySQL. cPanel has a built-in installer for setting up PostgreSQL easily. Keep in mind that the actual version of PostgreSQL you get depends on your OS version. For instance, CentOS 4 users will likely get version 7, CentOS 5 will get version 8. First, run
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Lately FTP has been a problem for a lot of hosting providers. Especially since the recent influx of Gumblar-related attacks and FTP exploits, some hosting providers are now considering changing their FTP ports as an added measure of security. If you’re on a cPanel server you have a couple extra steps to go through, but
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I’ve seen several features of cPanel appear to malfunction, and upon reviewing /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log, I’d see something similar to this: Out of memory during request for 2180 bytes, total sbrk() is 130234368 bytes! Common places this has been known to occur: In Webmail (Horde and Roundcube) when opening large attachments Using cPanel’s perl module installer You
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I've experienced from time to time a problem with webmail functioning after cPanel updates, particularly on larger servers. You can reinstall all three webmail applications, while not disrupting user content, with the following commands: Roundcube: /usr/local/cp The WordPress Classroom anel/bin/update-roundcube –force Horde: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/update-horde –force or /scripts/fullhordereset Squirrelmail /usr/local/cpanel/bin/update-squirrelmail –force zp8497586rq
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Cpanel confirmed via email and on their site that SpamAssassin has a bug: “The Quality Assurance team discovered a bug within the SpamAssassin ruleset that will mark messages sent in the year 2010 (that's today) and beyond with a higher spam score than expected. This bug can result in legitimate Girlfriend In A Week mail
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Note: It is preferred to use mod_wsgi instead of mod_python. If you want to use mod_python in Apache on a cPanel server, you’ll basically need to compile the module manually and load it into the Apache configuration: yum -y install subversion (IF it’s not already installed) svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/quetzalcoatl/mod_python/trunk mod_python cd mod_python ./configure –with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs make
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