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Daily Tech Tip: Recompiling Apache/PHP on your cPanel Server

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Sorry about the lack of updates, I have gotten the new game Rift and have been playing that non-stop.

Ok, in today’s tech tip I am going to be showing you how to use Easyapache through your web browser to recompile Apache/PHP for your server and enable suPHP. I won’t go over the pros/cons to each setup but I do recommend suPHP for increased security.

Firstly,you’ll need to navigate to your WHM and login. From there file the option “Easyapache (Apache Update)” and click on it.

Next from there you might have an existing profile you want to use (or you can download mine here). I am going to start off with “PHP Image Manipulation” and build off that.

Once you have that clickled your just going to press the “Start customizing based on profile”.

The next screen should bring up the Apache version screen. Unless you have a reason to run the other versions, I recommend Apache 2.2, so click that and then press ‘Next Step’.

The next screen will ask you what versions of PHP to compile. In this tutorial we will be compiling both in for the sake of showing everyone, so in my case I would check both and then click Next Step.

28Feb

Daily Tech Tip: Deleting the cPanel Cache.

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Ever have a problem were cPanel would always show inaccurate info, or did a user mess one of there settings up and you want it to be restored? Sometimes this is as easy as deleting the cPanel cache, or a cached set of files per account that make cPanel faster than having to obtain the data on demand.

It’s very easy and only takes one line to do. All you need to do is cd to the users home directory, for instance if the username of the user is blong we would cd to /home/blong with the following command.

# cd /home/blog

Then after that it’s as easy as removing the .cpanel folder.

# rm -rf .cpanel

And now the user’s cPanel cache is deleted…next time they reload there cPanel it’ll feel like a fresh account just made. If this doesn’t fix a problem you think it would it’s more deep than that.

Please note this article is provided as a how-to and I can not be held responsible for any errors. If an error is occurred and you need any help please feel free to e-mail me at brandon[@]brandonlong[.]me and I will assist you as good as I can. With that said happy server administrating!

27Feb

Daily Tech Tip: Removing a stray domain from a cPanel account

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Ever have that problem were your user goes to add a domain and it says “Sorry: This domain is owned by another user”. It could even be something other than that, but right now I will show you how to remove the domain from the account entirely in three easy steps.

Requirments

Basic SSH Knowleddge
Root access to server

Ok, the first step is to login to the server with the root account (some people may need to login and use su to obtain this.) First we need to know if it’s an addon domain or parked domain, but operate in different ways. A parked domain is just an extra DNS entry and then added to another domains ‘ServerAlias’ in their VirtualHost directive. An add-on domain is a sub-domain of the users main domain and then the actual domain is parked on that sub-domain.

First we will need to open the users cPanel users file and investigate more. To do this we will need the users cPanel username.

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03Jan

First Login: WHM

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Hello,

Today I will be continuing from the first tutorial, which was how to install cPanel/WHM on your server. By starting this guide, I assume you 1) Have cPanel installed and 2) Know your servers IP.

Ok, the first step today is to login to WHM. You can do this by going to http://IPHERE:2086. In my case, I am running a test server on 192.168.1.11, so my URL would be http://192.168.1.11:2086/.

Once there it’ll ask me for a username and a password. For the username, please input ‘root’. This is the master account which has complete control over WHM. The password is your current root password, after inputing these please click the login button.

02Jan

How to install cPanel/WHM on CentOS.

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Hello Folks,

Today we will be starting with the basics, how to install cPanel/WHM on CentOS. I will be using CentOS 5.5 64-bit as my base OS; this will be the same for RedHat and for 32-bit also.

First we need to start with a fresh install of CentOS, you don’t need to install anything like Apache, MySQL, etc as the cPanel installer will take care of it all for us.

When reading this tutorial, I am going to assuming you know the basics of a shell (aka using SSH as some would say, if your running Windows I recommend PuTTy).

Ok, the first step is to make sure you are logged into your shell, the screen should look something similar to below.

Once we are both there, the next command will be to make the ‘cpinstall’ folder in your /home directory, you can do that by running the code below.
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