When you upgrade from cPanel 11.24 to 11.25, your users may notice that in cPanel, their MySQL databases show 0MB of disk space used, when they know their databases are much larger. This is due to an option in cPanel that you specifically have to enable. To enable MySQL disk usage tracking: 1) Edit /var/cpanel/cpanel.config…
Read moreCpanel 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…
Read moreEnabling 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…
Read moreMaildir (run by Courier IMAP or Dovecot) is a mail format used in conjunction with an MTA to store email on the server as separate files within folders. This post covers Courier IMAP as a service, not in terms of mail client usage. Directory Structure A user’s email is store in ”’/home/user/mail/<domain>/<emailuser>/…”’. Below is a…
Read moreIf you’ve been running servers for a few years, you probably have at least one server or VPS in your fleet that’s running Redhat 9. Redhat 9 is old, but it’s stable (probably since there are never any updates for it), and the customers lingering on buy zithromax those servers are usually happy… …until you…
Read morecPanel’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…
Read moreCpanel 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…
Read moreThis post is obsolete as of cPanel 11.36.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…
Read moreFTP 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…
Read moreFrom 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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