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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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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