Web-based tool used by server admins and hosting resellers to manage accounts on a Linux based webserver.
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Which free open source CPanel and WHM alternatives do you recommend/use?
I have been using webmin for some time now, however I miss the elegance and ease of WHM/CPanel combo I've had on shared hosting (and later dedicated hosting) platform.
Looking around the web, all I ...
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Find out how many DNS Queries/month via WHM or SSH?
Is it possible? We have complete control over our DNS server and the server actually being pointed to. We are interested in how many DNS Queries we are currently getting, as we want to move to Ultra ...
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Web Designer Permissions on a Production Web Server
Just started working with a small group of front-end web developers who all login to the dedicated WHM/Apache production server with root to modify client web sites. They claim they do not want to ...
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Subdomain redirect
When I enter some dummy subdomain like test.mysite.com I always get my site no matter that that subdomain does not exist, where do I tweak that in WHM so that if that subdomain does not exist, user ...
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Limit cron usage
I have a hosting on hostgator and I just found out that they don't allow * * * * * cron jobs. If I have one that runs less than every 15 minutes, they change it to */17 or something like that. I ...
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Why doesn't changing my default name servers in WebHost Manager take effect?
I'm using cPanel/WHM 11.28.87, and when I go into "Basic cPanel & WHM Setup" in WebHost Manager and change my default nameservers at the bottom of the page, save, and re-open "Basic cPanel & ...
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PHP Woes - 500 Internal Server Error (brand new server)
Anyone ever seen these errors, or something like it?
/usr/bin/php: error while loading shared libraries: libcom_err.so.2: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
[warn] UID ...
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How did a phisher upload to my server?
My webhost notified me they got a complaint from bank of america that one of my accounts under my reseller (WHM) account was compromised by a phisher. Once the host unsuspended my account I tried to ...
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Server Crashes Every 2 Weeks Days On The Exact Same Time
A few months ago our server started to crash every 14 days, at the exact same time(around 11:04 every time). We're pretty sure this isn't some kind of hardware failure, as hardware failures tend to be ...
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Catch-all DNS record
Intro
Our users have the ability to buy a domain (eg: user1.com) and make it point to out website, (eg: example.com), by simply pointing user1.com to ns1/ns2.example.com .
Issue
So far everything's ...
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Getting APC Fragmentation to a Minimum
After weeks of messing around in my setup I finally managed to get APC to work with Mod_Ruid2 enabled in WHM and setting DSO as PHP-handler. I own a XEN VPS with 2 GB RAM and 4 CPU-cores on which I ...
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cpanel and whm subdomains redirecting to cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi
I have a new installation of WHM and cPanel and I'm adding domains into WHM, but when I try access via cpanel or whm subdomains, I got redirected to cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi.
I've already tried ...
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Apache goes down taking my sites offline
My websites go offline several times a day. I can still go in to my WHM in cpanel. I hit the restart apache button and everything comes back online in seconds.
What could be causing this?
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nameserver of a domain is a subdomain of that domain, how?
I just bought a domain mydomain.com and a vps cpanel / whm. I am wondering how could I get nameservers as ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com for the mydomain.com itself? Having secondary nameserver ...
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WHM: how to add curl extension to PHP?
i need curl installed on php. how can i add it using WHM?
and does it have any security issue or may couse problem for accounts on the shared host?
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gem environment and $GEM_PATH not updating when using rvm
I'm trying to upgrade ruby and rails gem on a server with cPanel, to do this I installed rvm and I successfully installed different versions of ruby... great stuff!
Having a problem though, the ...
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Box Trapper Phobia
Is box trapper bad for web hosting on shared servers? Reason I ask is no one uses it because of the CSF message
Having boxtrapper enabled can very easily lead to your server being
listed in ...
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DNS Propagation Investigation Techniques?
So I changed the nameservers for my domain name veeter.com about 5 days ago now - and the domain is still not resolving over the net.
It does intermittently, but then cuts out again every few hours.
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Exim - Warning: Sender rate … / 1h
I have a server CentOS 5.3 and WHM/cPanel 11.24 installed. In exim log files I noticed these wordings next to most of the emails.
Warning: Sender rate (a number, like 2.4) / 1h
Do you have any idea ...
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WHM Cpanel Enable/Install MBstring module
This is related to my dedicated server, I have successfully created a package and linked up my domain yesterday. I am getting an error regarding mb_convert_encoding() wich after doing some reading ...
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Total number of unique visitors on a given day
We've got about 30 websites on our server. Some with Google Analytics, some without. They do come with Awstats (server is using WHM). I want to know the total number of unique visitors, serverwide. ...
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Run Logstalgia on Remote Global Apache Log On a WHM System
I work for a small web development shop. We have a dedicated Linux server running WHM. For fun we want to run Logstalgia on a machine in our office. We'd really like it to display information about ...
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(Free?) Hosting Control Panels
I've installed and used both cPanel and Plesk on my dedicated servers in the past and I truly enjoyed the features and simplicity of cPanel (specially the auto-update feature in WHM), recently (a ...
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Why can't i access the root via FTP?
I'm running a vps with a cpanel/whm/lamp, everything works fine. but i can't access the root using FTP. i type my ip and "root" and the root password but i get: Cannot connect.
Any ideas? i want to ...
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Don't run cron job if already running
I know this question has been asked already but I either didn't understand the answer or it didn't apply to me.
I have a php script that I am calling every 1 minute using CPanel to set up the Cron ...
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My LAMP server is getting hammered with traffic, how can I see what's causing the load?
We're getting tons of traffic but it's causing the site to respond extremely slowly, or not at all. I'm in WHM checking out the load, the top processes, etc but I can't seem to find exactly what the ...
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How to securely grant WordPress write access to certain directories?
Do I need to set the permissions to 775 or higher? At the moment, I can't do this, as apache runs as 'nobody'.
I use WHM/CPanel to administer the server.
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Server SSL configuration to stop warnings and errors
I've just setup SSL on the main domain in my whm/cpanel setup, the domain has it's own ip and is all up and running correctly.
However when browsing the site in Chrome I get the following:
Your ...
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Best way to duplicate a server?
We currently have a dedicated server with one company that utilizes cPanel/WHM and are moving to a new dedicated server also with Cpanel/WHM. I can get it so cpanel is installed then migrates the ...
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What is the relationship between Cpanel and WHM?
So, I guess I'm gonna be admining a Cpanel/WHM server. What exactly is Cpanel and WHM? What is the relationship between the two, and why do they always seem to be linked ?
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WHM/Cpanel: Sub accounts with most hits?
I have a standard reseller hosting account. The main account has WHM and all sub accounts run cpanel. All sub accounts also have stats on them in the form of:
AWStats
Webalizer
My question is, is ...
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Connection to accounts on my VPS hang for up to 20 seconds before a connection is established
I have a VPS Server running WHM 11.36.0 (build 14) and CENTOS 6.4 x86_64 xenpv – control
I have a number of accounts on my server and whenever I make a request to one of them, the request takes a ...
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How to stick my changes in httpd.conf on WHM/Cpanel/EasyApache
I'm setting up a server and trying to configure the Apache. It only needs to work as a frontend to Tomcat.
To do that I added some instructions to the VirtualHost directive, using mod_proxy:
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hosts.allow and hosts.deny WHM Host Access Control - what if my IP changes?
I want to use WHM/Cpanel's Host Access Control interface to change some settings in hosts.allow and hosts.deny. I want to block all access to our SSH exept from the IP we have from our office.
Daemon ...
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Synchronized DNS-servers return different responses
I have two servers:
alpha.mydomain.net - 209.110.172.195
beta.mydomain.net - 185.169.74.16
Both of these servers come with WHM software installed.
With the help of WHM I configure DNS cluster on ...
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On WHM/cPanel how can you tell which packages are in use?
I want to find out
a) which packages are currently in use, and
b) which accounts are using them,
so I can do some housekeeping.
If I go to 'Show Reseller Accounts', it'll list all the accounts by ...
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“gzip -f - ” on process manager. What it means?
From time to time, I find a command "gzip -f -" running, when I access WHM, process Manager.
Is it a suspect proccess?
Trace shows something like this:
Process 10437 attached - interrupt to quit
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Transferring cPanel accounts - email question
We're moving a bunch of sites from one of our cPanel servers to another one. What i'm interested in is the best solution for making sure that mail accounts are not affected by propagation. The cpanel ...
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Mail spam sending script injected
I apologize if this is already asked a million times.
One of accounts on my server got hacked.
An email spam sending script is injected and sending ton of emails to some random addresses.
I have ...
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CPanel Finished install..now what?
My organization currently has an account with www.greengeeks.com where we use cPanel to manage a handful of LAMP apps.
We wanted to move our server and apps in house. So I we purchased cPanel, and I ...
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SSH access requires firewall exception
I'm trying to connect to my server via ssh, but I can't connect unless I add a firewall exception in my server settings (add an IP address). Is there any way to let any IP address connect? Is this a ...
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Uninstalling MySQL for MariaDB Replacement on cPanel
Well the first part of my day was spent researching how to remove MySQL to install MariaDB and the second part of my day was spent trying to reinstall MySQL cause something was messed up. So now I ...
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500 errors when switching to fcgi in cPanel WHM
I am trying to switch to fcgi from DSO on a CentOS 5.7 x64 server. I did this within cPanel as suggested by the cPanel documentation.
Immediately, I start to get 500 internal server errors when ...
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How to prevent bombardment of hack attempts on VPS
Ever since I bought a VPS, I have been receiving emails like those shown below since day one, every single day. I was wondering if is this really normal? Is there anyway I can prevent it, or is ...
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Does enabling cPHulk from within WHM protect my entire server?
So I have enabled cPHulk on my web server, and just realized now that somebody (most likely a bot) is attempting to brute force their way into my WHM, thus leaving me out as well.
I was shown this ...
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Noob confused with DNS and WHM /cPanel install
I just signed up with Knownhost using their VPS. I have never used the WHM before, and it is confusing me a little. From what I understand the WHM is used to manage multiple domains on a single server ...
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Exim queue in WHM
I've got the centos server with WHM. The mail server is exim. I need exim put all messages in queue and not sending directly.Though I've added the queue_only option to exim configuration and the ...
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Where is phpmyadmin installed on linux web server
I have centos with cpanel whm.
I have phpmyadmin installed on whm.
i want to know where is the folder where phpmyadmin is installed
something like
/var/www/whm/phpmyadmin
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Server unstable after a WHM automated update
I have a server with WHM/cPanel server a website (Apache, PHP, MySQL) and a few days ago WHM performed some kind of update on itself (there are new icons and new appearance overall). Ever since that ...
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CPanel Change Password of POP Accounts (60,000 of them)
I have a server with CPanel/WHM and we have some 60,000 mailboxes, well some of them looks like compromized for easy password, and we want to reset all mailbox passwords.
I tried to run ...
