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Installing LetsEncrypt SSL Certificates on CentOS + cPanel Servers

nessa • February 15, 2016

Update! cPanel supports LetsEncrypt, but you just need to install the plugin for it to work. To do this, run: /scripts/install_lets_encrypt_autossl_provider Once installed, Let’s Encrypt will appear in WHM’s Manage AutoSSL interface (Home >> SSL/TLS >> Manage AutoSSL) where you can enable the provider. At the time of this writing, LetsEncrypt is in public beta […]

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Howto, MySQL, Scripts

How to Convert InnoDB to innodb_file_per_table and Shrink ibdata1

nessa • July 30, 2014

Years ago, MySQL started allowing InnoDB to possess separate tablespace per table instead of a massive unified ibdata1 file. Tablespace is basically a logical storage area that contains table information – references, if you will. Every table, regardless of the storage engine, has one, and without it the table will be unrecognizable to MySQL. MyISAM stores

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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Update: This module is for EasyApache 3, which is obsolete in favor of EasyApache 4.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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Hacks, Howto, Scripts

How to Set up Multiple Shared IPs on a cPanel Server

nessa • July 18, 2013

There are some situations where you may need to set up multiple shared IP addresses on a server. Some reasons may include grouping accounts per IP or lowering the effect of DDoS attacks if it becomes necessary to block traffic to a specific interface. Whatever the reason, multiple shared IP addresses on a cPanel server

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DNS, Fixes, Howto, Scripts

Restoring DNS Zones on a cPanel Server

nessa • April 29, 2013

In rare situations, the DNS zones located in /var/named might disappear. We’ve heard of this happening after certain bind package updates, or simply due to administrator error. In either case, it may be possible to restore or at least recreate the missing zones. Even if the server in question does not act as a nameserver,

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Apache, Hacks, Howto, Scripts, Security

Wildcard SSL Installation Script

nessa • December 23, 2010

Us administrators eventually come to the realization that when you have a wildcard SSL certificate for 40 subdomains, you can’t practically have separate IPs and cPanel accounts for all of them. If you have a wildcard SSL certificate for all your su cheap kamagra bdomains, you can easily install the certificate on a single IP

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Apps, Howto, Linux, Scripts

Setting up a Red5 Flash Media Server

nessa • November 3, 2010

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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Howto, Misc, Scripts

Presentation Slides for cPanel Conference 2010

nessa • October 7, 2010

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Fixes, Mail, Scripts

Fixing Permissions of Valiases

nessa • May 17, 2010

I wrote this script a while back to fix the permissions of alias files in /etc/valiases when users were having trouble creating forwarders. You can also download the script in plaintext here. #!/bin/bash # Script to fix permissions of valiases # Written by: Vanessa Vasile 5/17/10 # http://thecpaneladmin.com for domain in `cat /etc/userdomains |awk ‘{print

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