PHP – The cPanel Admin

Advanced PHP-FPM Configuration and Pool Management for High-Traffic Sites on cPanel Servers

nessa • September 26, 2025

When managing high-traffic websites on cPanel servers, proper PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) configuration can mean the difference between smooth performance and server crashes. This comprehensive guide will walk you through advanced PHP-FPM optimization techniques specifically tailored for cPanel environments. Understanding PHP-FPM in cPanel Context PHP-FPM operates differently in cPanel compared to standalone servers. cPanel’s MultiPHP […]

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Apache, Apps, PHP, Scripts

PHP Phalcon Module for cPanel EasyApache

nessa • May 3, 2014

Update: This module is for EasyApache 3, which is obsolete in favor of EasyApache 4. Due to recent changes in EA3, this module may not work on your server, and this is out of our control. Therefore, this module is currently no longer supported and we recommend using PECL to install it instead until it

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Apache, Linux, PHP

Overview of PHP Handlers

nessa • August 4, 2010

One user on the cPanel forums spent some time summarizing the four PHP handlers,currently available via EasyApache, into a neat little chart that makes it easy to do a quick comparison. With that user’s permission, I’m posting the chart here: Click on the image for the original-sized diagram. Thanks to Miraenda from errorcodex.com for providing

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Apache, Howto, PHP, Security

Automating Apache and PHP Updates

nessa • May 19, 2010

A lot of hosts that deploy a large number of servers are automating updates instead of running them manually. While cPanel updates can be automated as well, it’s become a common question of how to automate Apache and PHP updates across a large number of servers without having to manually run EasyApache on each server,

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Apache, Fixes, PHP, Troubleshooting

PHP 500 Internal Server Errors

nessa • May 17, 2010

500 Internal Server Errors are one of the most common PHP issues that I see customer experience, and it will occur mostly on servers with suPHP or PHP running as CGI. These errors can be caused by something on the server, or an issue on the user’s site. Here ‘s what you should do if

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Apache, Fixes, PHP, Troubleshooting

Dynamic PHP Extensions Not Loading

nessa • May 4, 2010

I recently saw an issue on one of our servers where we were trying to enable Zend Optimizer and IonCube Loaders, but they just won’t show up on a phpinfo page despite showing up via command line: -bash-3.2# php -v PHP 4.4.9 (cli) (built: May 4 2010 13:55:07) Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group Zend

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Apache, Fixes, PHP

Executable not set-uid root

nessa • May 2, 2010

One of the servers here at work was giving a 500 Internal Server error whenever a PHP page was loaded. Among the various things that can cause this error when you’re running PHP in CGI mode (suPHP), this error showing up in the Apache log was most unusual. Turns out it’s due to the suphp

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Apache, Apps, DNS, Howto, Linux, Mail, MySQL, PHP, Scripts

Re-Installing Auxiliary cPanel Software

nessa • April 1, 2010

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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Apache, Howto, Linux, MySQL, PHP

Upgrading or Downgrading MySQL

nessa • December 28, 2009

Update 2/15/14: These instructions have been updated for cPanel 11.36+. You can easily change the major version of MySQL running on your server, keeping in mind that the actual version will be dependent on what cPanel has released in their repository and what cPanel version you’re running. For example, if you’re running cPanel 11.40, you

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