Using Custom RBL’s with Exim and cPanel

cPanel 11.28 introduces an way to easily implement your own RBLs for Exim to perform lookups against.  To get started, log into WHM > Exim Configuration Editor and click on the RBLs tab, then Manage custom RBLs. From here, enter in the information for your RBL as follows: The DNS list would be the hostname…

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Setting up a Red5 Flash Media Server

This post will explain a simple process for installing a Red5 Flash Media server in a VPS or Dedicated environment. Install Subversion and Java yum -y install java-1.7.0-openjdk java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel yum -y install subversion Install Ant (get the latest from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi) cd /opt wget http://apache.spinellicreations.com/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.0-bin.zip unzip ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.0-bin.zip mv apache-ant-1.9.0 ant ln -s /opt/ant/bin/ant /usr/bin/ant Update bash…

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10 Tips for Improving Email Delivery

One of the most common problems that hosting providers face is the issue of user email not being delivered to other mail servers. Not only does it annoy the end user, but it’s extremely frustrating for the server administrator to deal with since there’s not always a clear indication of why email doesn’t get delivered…

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Adding New Feature Groups for a cPanel Theme

You’ll probably often see hosts that have a ton of extra icons in their cPanel for various items. When you’re customizing cPanel, it’s useful to be able to be able to add icon groups for features that either need to be grouped together, or that don’t fit into other categories. cPanel 11 makes it very…

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Installing ClamAV on a cPanel Server

ClamAV is an popular open source anti-virus toolkit for *nix, and while many people don’t find much value in using antivirus software on Unix, it is very useful for email scanning. cPanel’s implementation allows end users to run scans on their home folders, public FTP folders, mail, and public_html. It’s really hard to install ClamAV…

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Allowing Users to Customize AwStats

You can allow users to use their own configuration file for AwStats in case they are in need of customizations not provided by the server’s main config. To enable this option, add the following to /etc/stats.conf: allow_awstats_include=1 Alternatively, you can go to WHM > Statistics Software Configuration, and click on Allow Awstats configuration Include file…

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Manually Rearranging Accounts

There was a situation today where I had to mass-move a bunch of accounts from one partition to another. WHM’s Rearrange an Account function does this one account at a time, but to move over 50 of them, a more scripted solution was necessary. Here’s how I did it on a live server without causing…

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Changing The Default Web Templates for cPanel

cPanel currently has four templates that are visible to your users: Default website: Appears to visitors who navigate to a site that points to the server but isn’t configured in Apache Account move: Appears to visitors who navigate to a site that has moved Connection selection: Appears to visitors who navigate to a site that…

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