You’ll probably often see hosts that have a ton of extra icons in their cPanel for various items. When you’re customizing cPanel, it’s useful to be able to be able to add icon groups for features that either need to be grouped together, or that don’t fit into other categories. cPanel 11 makes it very…
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ClamAV is an popular open source anti-virus toolkit for *nix, and while many people don’t find much value in using antivirus software on Unix, it is very useful for email scanning. cPanel’s implementation allows end users to run scans on their home folders, public FTP folders, mail, and public_html. It’s really hard to install ClamAV…
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One user on the cPanel forums spent some time summarizing the four PHP handlers,currently available via EasyApache, into a neat little chart that makes it easy to do a quick comparison. With that user’s permission, I’m posting the chart here: Click on the image for the original-sized diagram. Thanks to Miraenda from errorcodex.com for providing…
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I’m excited to announce that this year I will be speaking at the cPanel conference, so if you haven’t yet registered, make sure you do it soon! The conference will be held in cPanel’s hometown of Houston, TX at the Westin Oaks Hotel between Oct 4-6,2010. My topic specifically will be covering full server automation…
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If you have a fully automated cPanel/WHM setup method used to deploy a large number of servers, you’ve probably found it to be annoying that upon loading WHM for the first time, you’re greeted with a setup wizard that you have to click through. To skip this wizard, all you need to do is touch…
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You can allow users to use their own configuration file for AwStats in case they are in need of customizations not provided by the server’s main config. To enable this option, add the following to /etc/stats.conf: allow_awstats_include=1 Alternatively, you can go to WHM > Statistics Software Configuration, and click on Allow Awstats configuration Include file…
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There was a situation today where I had to mass-move a bunch of accounts from one partition to another. WHM’s Rearrange an Account function does this one account at a time, but to move over 50 of them, a more scripted solution was necessary. Here’s how I did it on a live server without causing…
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cPanel currently has four templates that are visible to your users: Default website: Appears to visitors who navigate to a site that points to the server but isn’t configured in Apache Account move: Appears to visitors who navigate to a site that has moved Connection selection: Appears to visitors who navigate to a site that…
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We’ve developed our first cPanel 11.25 cheat sheet, now available for your downloading pleasure. The sheet is comprised of common file, script, and configuration locations for help at a quick glance. [dm]1[/dm] More cheat sheets will be available soon! Check back on our Cheat Sheets page for more.…
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Cpanel 11.25 restructured the way that bandwidth RRD files are being processed, in that each service has two RRD files – one for peak, and one for rate. The “peak” file is used for long timespans of a month or longer, and the “rate” file covers a timespan of a week or less. The following…
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