Website performance is crucial for user experience and SEO rankings. While cPanel hosting environments traditionally rely on Apache, many modern hosting providers now offer Nginx as a reverse proxy or primary web server. This powerful combination opens up advanced caching opportunities that can dramatically improve your site’s speed and reduce server load. Understanding Nginx Caching…
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Modern web development demands robust version control systems, and cPanel’s Git integration has evolved to meet these needs. This comprehensive guide explores advanced workflows that leverage cPanel’s Git functionality to streamline development processes, enhance collaboration, and maintain production stability. Understanding cPanel’s Git Architecture cPanel’s Git integration operates through a sophisticated interface that bridges traditional shared…
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Getting emails from the future is a classic sign of SPAM. Unfortunately, SpamAssassin only bumps the score of these emails by less than 2 points, which isn’t usually enough to get it marked as SPAM. To fix this, you can add a rule to SpamAssassin to block emails from the future. First, open /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf in…
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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 your site isn’t showing as secure, there…
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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 just hard links or bind mounts and…
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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:” contains “@domain.com”) then fail text “Emails to…
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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 being overloaded every time a new version…
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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. For example, you can simple put the…
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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 6 repositories. A Yum update isn’t going…
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With the Ruby developer community continuing to grow, we often get requests for Ruby support from providers wanting to be able to offer their customers the ability to run Rails applications. We do not recommend using the current Ruby on Rails feature provided by cPanel, as it relies on the CentOS-provided version of Ruby as well as…
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