For security reason, it is necessary to enable these cPanel/WHM and SSH Root Login alert. Enable WHM login Alerts You can enable this option in CSF firewall configuration. /etc/csf/csf.conf WHM >> Plugins >> ConfigServer Security&Firewall > csf – ConfigServer Firewall”. Just click the “Firewall Configuration” # Send an email alert if anyone accesses WHM via … Read moreHow to Get cPanel/WHM Root and SSH Login Email Alerts
OpenVZ is an operating system-level virtualization technology based on the Linux kernel and operating system. OpenVZ allows a physical server to run multiple isolated operating system instances, called containers, virtual private servers (VPSs), or virtual environments (VEs). OpenVZ comes with command line tools only. Let’s start, here CTID representing the ID of a container(VPS – … Read moreOpenVZ Commands and Its usages
In OpenVZ based VPS unlimited disk quota is common problem. Fresh cPanel server often don’t show proper disk usages. It show zero usages and unlimited disk allocation. To fix unlimited fix quotation on dedicated server we can run following command. # /scripts/fixquotas It will fix dedicated server quota issue, but OpenVZ VPSs requires a second … Read moreHow to fix unlimited quota problem in cPanel server: OpenVZ VPS
One of the techniques I use to setup servers is to use the command scp (secure copy) to transfer files between servers. This is how to use this command. If you have a host A that has a file that host B needs, you will do the following: Log into host A (has the file). … Read moreUsing SCP to Transfer files securely
For shared hosting, big /tmp partition is recommended. If /tmp is too small then you may face /tmp full issue. How to increase /tmp partition in cpanel First stop cpanel, apache, mysql services. /etc/init.d/cpanel stop /etc/init.d/httpd stop /etc/init.d/mysql stop Now unmount /tmp and /var/tmp umount -l /tmp umount -l /var/tmp Move /usr/tmpDSK file to another … Read moreHow to increase /tmp size and secure
If your /tmp is too small, then you will face /tmp full issue. cPanel by default create /tmp with 512mb space. For shared hosting server 512mb is too small. However, we will teach you “how to increate /tmp size” on our next tutorial. If you face /tmp full issue, you can clear your tmp using … Read moreHow to clear /tmp on Centos/cPanel server
Use service $servicename restart Replace the $servicename with the one you need. List below. eg: service httpd restart exim (Exim mail transfer agent (MTA).) named (BIND nameserver daemon.) proftpd (ProFTP FTP server daemon.) pureftpd (Pure-FTP FTP server daemon.) httpd (Apache web server daemon.) courier (Courier mail server daemon.) dovecot (Dovecot mail server daemon.) syslogd (System … Read moreRestart service using SSH on cPanel Server
First login your server using SSH. Then run following command mysqldump -u dbuser -p dbpassword dbname | gzip > dbname.sql.gz Change dbuser, dbpassword and dbname with your database user name, password and database name. If you want to restore the database on another server. Then we need to copy exported database on another server. We … Read moreHow to export mysql database and restore using SSH
If you have Linux cPanel/WHM servers and sometimes you will face “Service Status” in WHM not showing all services. So how we can show all important services in Service Status page? No problem, we need to edit chkservd.conf file. Login to your server using ssh with root privileges. Then open file using your favorite editor like … Read more“Service Status” in WHM not showing all services
cPanel doesn’t support php 5.2. cPanel only comes with php 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 but we can only use single version php on our default install. Few people still use older version php. So If we update our server then apps can break. Also some apps need higher version php. So we need multiple version … Read moreHow To Use Multiple PHP Versions on cPanel server