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Allowing Users to Customize AwStats

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...

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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...

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Wildcard 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...

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Copy 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...

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Removing 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:...

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Upgrading 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...

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Exclude 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...

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How 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...

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Fix 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...

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Configure 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...

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Installing 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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