Presentation Slides for cPanel Conference 2010
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Read moreAdding New Feature Groups for a cPanel Theme
- Written by Vanessa Vasile
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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…
Read moreInstalling ClamAV on a cPanel Server
- Written by Vanessa Vasile
- Published in Apps, Howto, Security
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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…
Read moreSkipping the WHM Setup Wizard on New Servers
- Written by Vanessa Vasile
- Published in Hacks, Howto
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If you have a fully automated cPanel/WHM setup method used to deploy a large number of servers, you’ve probably found it to be annoying that upon loading WHM for the first time, you’re greeted with a setup wizard that you have to click through. To skip this wizard, all you need to do is touch…
Read moreAllowing Users to Customize AwStats
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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…
Read moreManually Rearranging Accounts
- Written by Vanessa Vasile
- Published in Howto, Linux
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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…
Read moreChanging The Default Web Templates for cPanel
- Written by Vanessa Vasile
- Published in Howto
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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…
Read morecPanel 11.25 Cheat Sheet
- Written by Vanessa Vasile
- Published in Apache, Apps, DNS, Howto, Linux, Mail, Misc, MySQL
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We’ve developed our first cPanel 11.25 cheat sheet, now available for your downloading pleasure. The sheet is comprised of common file, script, and configuration locations for help at a quick glance. [dm]1[/dm] More cheat sheets will be available soon! Check back on our Cheat Sheets page for more.…
Read moreHow to Rebuild cPanel Bandwidth Graphs
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Cpanel 11.25 restructured the way that bandwidth RRD files are being processed, in that each service has two RRD files – one for peak, and one for rate. The “peak” file is used for long timespans of a month or longer, and the “rate” file covers a timespan of a week or less. The following…
Read morePerformance Tip: Disable Optimizefs
- Written by Vanessa Vasile
- Published in Fixes, Howto, Linux
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CPanel utilizes a script called “optimizefs” that removes the atime attribute from certain files on the system. For larger servers, this can create a lot of i/o load for a problem that can be fixed simply by mounting your file systems with the noatim Metabolic Masterpiece e flag if your file system is ext2 or…
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