Change Root Password

You should change your server root password occasionally to maximize your site security. You should always change this password if you think someone else has access to your WebHost Manager account. NOTE: Do not give out your root password to anyone that does not absolutely need it. If you are

How to Change Exim SMTP IP Address on Linux Server

How to Change Exim SMTP IP Address on Linux Server: You can change the IP address that exim uses to send mail by changing the following in my exim.conf a follows: remote_smtp: driver = smtp to: remote_smtp: driver = smtp interface = 123.123.123.123 Resolution : In WHM on Exim Configuration

Transfer the address book from Neomail to Horde and SquirrelMail

How to Transfer the address book from Neomail to Horde and SquirrelMail ? ——————————————– From Neomail to Horde – If you had entries in your Addressbook in NeoMail it is a pretty easy process to import them into Horde. 1. Log into the account using an FTP program and download

Invalid Hostname error. (This account is currently not available.)

getting error as “Invalid Hostname. (This account is currently not available.). Hostnames must be fully…..” at login to WHM You need to set the hostname fully in your server. Follow these 3 steps: 1. Type “hostname HOSTNAMEHERE” 2. Type “vi /etc/hosts” and edit your hostname there 3. Type “vi /etc/sysconfig/network”

Server Configuration

1)cPanel Server Suit setup 2)Change Root Password 3)Initial Quota Setup 4)Server Time 5)Tweak Settings 6)Update Config

Configure Backup

Overview You can specify how often backups occur and where backups are placed – either on the same server or on a separate backup drive. You can also specify the specific parts of the backup process that are enabled.   NOTE: The backup interval options work in the following fashion:

Issue with the libdb libraries and trouble with email

When having trouble with email and the following error in the exim_paniclog on a cpanel server: User 0 set for local_delivery transport is on the never_users list The issue appears to be with some of the libraries the following commands should fix it: # ln -s libdb2.so.3 libdb.so.3 # /scripts/eximup

Prevent Brute Force Attacks

While someone might not be targeting your site or server specifically, they will have automated tools that will try to guess random usernames and passwords that are common against your system. They’re essentially forcing their way to user-only authorized areas of a system, such as FTP accounts, e-mail accounts, databases,

Installing Postgresql

Installing Postgresql – HOWTO cPanel requires Postgresql 7.3.x or later. 7.2.x will not work. =========================================== Step 1 =========================================== Upgrade to cPanel 7.4.0 build 45 or later =========================================== =========================================== Step 1a (If you do not have 7.2.x or earlier installed skip this step) =========================================== Login to a root shell via ssh

Fix open DNS servers as reported by dnsreport.com

This seems to be a common theme for cpanel servers. Please check your nameservers with this tool( https://dnsreport.com). If you get a red box that says Open DNS Servers, please fix it quickly by using the following instructions. Edit /etc/named.conf and find the section that looks like this: options {

Apache status is not showing up in WHM.

Solution This is usually due to the server-status directive being commented out. 1. Back up your current httpd.conf root@cpanel [~]# cd /usr/local/apache/conf root@cpanel [/usr/local/apache/conf]# cp httpd.conf httpd.conf.save.`date +%s` root@cpanel [/usr/local/apache/conf]# ls -la httpd.conf* -rw——- 1 root root 45279 Oct 28 18:44 httpd.conf -rw——- 1 root root 45279 Nov 10 01:27