A common question we get from cPanel administrators is whether it’s Ok to remove /home/.cpan since, on many servers, it tends to grow to a size exceeding 1G. The short answer is yes – installation files. If you find that yours is occupying too much disk space, delete it, and run the following commands: perl -MCPAN…
Read moreIf you have a server with single standalone drives, you may have considered the possibility of adding additional hard drives to provide more disk capacity to your system. Luckily, this is very easy to set up and use with cPanel. First things first, I’ll assume that you already have the hard drive physically installed in…
Read moreThere 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…
Read moreBy default, your main FTP (cPanel) user will have and FTP path to the user’s home folder, and each FTP user you create after that will have a path that you specify with you create the account in cPanel > FTP accounts. Unfortunately, cPanel’s interface does not currently let you change the FTP paths for…
Read moreThis is a simple bash script I wrote to fix the permissions and ownership of files within a cpanel account. To use, simply copy the script your server, chmod 755, and pass the usernames as arguments: ./fixperms user1 user2 user3 You can also run a server-wide loop like this: for i in `ls -A /var/cpanel/users`…
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 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Read moreThis post is obsolete as of cPanel 11.36.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 moreThis error has been bugging me for over a year now: touch: cannot touch `/aquota.user’: Permission denied This generally occurs when performing any function where the quota system is being modified, such as changing an account’s quota, suspending/unsuspended an account, or running one of cPanel’s quota scripts. First, check the permissions of /aquota.user (or the…
Read moreServer and network monitoring can be crucial to a host’s success. I mean, how embarrassing is it when your customers are aware of downtime before you are? You don’t have to pay big bucks or spend loads of time setting up monitoring for your server. We’ve compiled a list of free monitoring solutions you can use to guarantee minimal downtime for your users, and show customers how reliable your service is!…
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