I have written this checklist to secure your newly installed cPanel server. We will keep improving it over time, by adding in details for each point. To harden your cPanel server can be split into six areas. Server security overall (not very much related to cPanel) Server Check (13 steps) SSH/Telnet Check (7 Steps) Mail […]
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Changing SSH Port for WHM/ cPanel Server
SSH is the most favorate way to connect to any Linux/ cPanel server when something goes wrong, and geeks still use it even for many tasks that a novice will do through the WHM interface. Have you ever noticed 1000s of invalid login attempts when you log in to SSH? On one of the servers […]
cPanel MySQL/MariaBB error: adminbin Cpanel/cpmysql/DBCACHE: exit 11 [SOLVED]
Many cPanel users are experiencing the above error within the cPanel interface recently; The error appears within cPanel, giving the impression that MariaDB/ MySQL is not working. Infect the error is a false positive, MariaDB/MySQL is infect working perfectly fine. Another similar error was being reported like this some time ago with “Exit 255” code. […]
How to Install wkhtmltopdf on cPanel/ Centos Server
show/hide wkhtmltopdf is an open-source command-line tool to convert HTML into PDF. It is widely used by applications to generate invoices and other pdf documents. for example, a python or PHP script will use it through its respective shell command to convert any URL to a PDF. The use is very easy, simple call wkhtmltopdf […]
How to auto delete Emails on cPanel
Today I will Let you know how to auto delete old Emails on cPanel : You have to set the cron by using cpanel >> cronjob and add the following command to run in cron. /usr/bin/archivemail –quiet –delete –days 20 /home/{USER}/mail/inbox By using above command you can delete the 20 days old emails . Make […]
How to stop spam attacks on cPanel Server
It is really necessary to stop malicious activities and SPAM attacks on cPanel server. There are number of steps but you must need to enable/disable some Tweaks on cPanel server. 1- Setting in “Exim Configuration Manager” 1. Login to WHM control panel by using root login details 2. Go to Exim Configuration Manager 3. Enable RBL filtering […]
How to start / stop / restart / enable / reload the OpenSSH server in Linux
If you want to start, stop, restart, enable, reload & check the status of the service follow the below commands to do it. Either root or sudo Authorization required to run the below commands. All the services is available “/etc/init.d/. […]
How to Set Default Document in IIS
The default document is the file which is served by web server when no file name is specified by user in web url. By standard most of web servers uses index.html, index.htm, default.aspx, etc file names as default document if no default file is specified for website. This article will help you to set default […]
How to read live writing logs on server
If we experience any problems on hosted website, Firs of all we have to check Apache error_log file, to know what is happening there and the facts. All the log information consistently composing, so if we want to view those file’s live update, we need to use tail command. By default, tail command will show […]
How to install and configure ISP Manager
There are many free control panel apps which we have already discuss in this blog, Today am going to introduce you another great non-free panel called ISP Manager with very affordable license price but Delivering awesome premium features. […]