Skipping the WHM Setup Wizard on New Servers
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...
View ArticleWildcard SSL Installation Script
Us administrators eventually come to the realization that when you have a wildcard SSL certificate for 40 subdomains, you can’t practically have separate IPs and cPanel accounts for all of them. If...
View ArticleCopy Outgoing Email on a cPanel Server with Exim
Note: It is mentioned in the comments that recent versions of cPanel include an Email Archiving feature that stores copies of email on the server for you. If this is what you’re trying to do, this...
View ArticleRemoving WHM Disk Space Errors
If your server is approaching 99% disk space, your users may be aware of this before you are. At the 1% free margin, the following error will pop up when accessing certain features in cPanel and WHM:...
View ArticleUpgrading MySQL Without Breaking PHP
There’s a dilemma amongst system administrators of high-traffic servers when it comes to doing updates – downtime. Most upgrades on a Linux/cPanel server can be done without interruption, but when it...
View ArticleExclude Domains from RBL Checks for Incoming Email
Update: This feature is automatically enabled as of cPanel 11.36.1.4 If you have RBL’s enabled globally on your server, there may be times when you want to keep certain domains from having their mail...
View ArticleHow to Set up Multiple Shared IPs on a cPanel Server
There are some situations where you may need to set up multiple shared IP addresses on a server. Some reasons may include grouping accounts per IP or lowering the effect of DDoS attacks if it becomes...
View ArticleFix for “Missing owner for domain X, force lookup to root”
On recent cPanel versions, rebuilding the Apache conf returns the following non-fatal error: root@savannah [~]# /scripts/rebuildhttpdconf info [rebuildhttpdconf] Missing owner for domain...
View ArticleConfigure Email Client Shows Wrong SSL Hostname
CPanel allows you to install a shared SSL certificate for email services so your users can connect securely to POP, IMAP, and SMTP. The only real drawback here is that you can only natively use one...
View ArticleInstalling LetsEncrypt SSL Certificates on CentOS + cPanel Servers
At the time of this writing, LetsEncrypt is in public beta and already in high demand. This service is a new certificate authority that allows you to generate your own signed certificates in an effort...
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