There are three ways to change a site’s IP address on a cPanel server: Via WHM: Go to WHM > Change site’s IP Address , select the account, then select the IP Via Command Line: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/setsiteip -u $user $ip Manually: (This is also useful for changing the IP address of a single domain in an […]
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Cpanel has a lot of supporting software that you may be using on your server. In case something goes amiss, here is a list of scripts that reinstall cpanel-provided software on your system. For most all of these, you can pass a –force as an argument to force a reinstall of the application. Update: Most
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Enabling Dovecot You can convert a server from cppop or Courier IMAP to dovecot by running the following command: /scripts/setupmailserver dovecot Configuring Dovecot Most relevant configurations can be made via WHM > Mailserver Configuration, but you can also change these via the config templates. You generally have to save the config via WHM at
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cPanel’s stock installation of Exim includes a Tailwatchd driver called Antirelayd . Antirelayd is a daemon that checks /var/log/maillog for POP3 and IMAP logins and keeps track of valid logins for SMTP relaying. It reads /etc/relayhosts file automatically which is dynamically-updated, so any IPs that you add to this file will not be retained. By
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Cpanel 11.25 introduces a new feature to allow you to set a reseller’s shared IP to be different from that of the server’s shared IP. This feature can be activated in WHM > Reseller Center > Manage reseller’s shared/main IP. While this will allow you to have multiple accounts on the same IP, those accounts
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This post is obsolete as of cPanel 11.36. To install ImageMagick: yum -y install ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick-c++-devel For PHP: /usr/bin/pecl install imagick For Perl: yum -y install ImageMagick-perl (You may need to temporarily remove “perl*” from /etc/yum.conf) LEGACY VERSION INSTALLATION: Some time in earlier 2009 cPanel added a new script to their repository to allow cPanel
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FTP hacks seem to be on the rise nowadays, with viruses like Gumblar stealing FTP passwords and farming buy cheap propecia them out to hackers so they can upload malicious code into user files. What you end up with is a flood of complaints from users about errors on their site and being flagged by
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From time to time I’ve had users ask me to install an SSL certificate for their MySQL server. Currently this support is not enabled in cPanel automatically, nor is there an option to use it in WHM > Manage Service SSL Certificates at the time this article was written. However, you can install a certificate manually by following a few simple steps.
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You may have noticed that cPanel’s default partition size for /tmp is 512 MB, which in some cases can be way too small. The /tmp partition on cPanel servers, assuming it was the one cPanel created and not one you did yourself, is a file-based partition that can easily be resized.
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