There may come a point in time where you need to change the shared IP address of a server, with little to no interruption in service for your users. This guide will show you how to change the shared IP of your cPanel server with the method I’ve used in the past. This is intended…
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There’s been a long-standing issue from a hosting provider’s point of where cPanel runs on abnormal ports, causing users behind firewalls to be unable to access cPanel. At first, there was cpanelproxy.net which offered (at that time) an automated script that users could install on their hosting accounts to route cPanel traffic over port 80.…
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Wildcard DNS allows a server to display and combination of subdomains for a website. For example, wildcard DNS for thecpaneladmin.com will allow any subdomain to resolve to this website, even if they have not been specifically created. Subdomains th The 24 Hour Sinus Breakthrough! at have been created individually in cPanel will still route to…
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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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A wildcard ssl basically allows you to use unlimited subdomains on a given domain name with one SSL certificate. A user will need to purchase a wildcard SSL from a vendor that supplies them. Similar to having multiple certificates installed on a Seduccion Peligrosa ** 75% Comision ** :: Ventas Y Conversiones Altas server, each…
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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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By default, cPanel supports the usage of one dedicated IP per account. However, you can get around this by editing just a few files on the server. Here are the steps: 1. Edit /var/cpanel/userdata/$user/$subdomain.$maindomain for each subdomain (for addon domains you’ll usually edit the file for the subdomain associated with the addondomain) and change the…
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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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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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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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