Directory index forbidden by rule

One of our client installed joomla successfully, and tried to access the administrative URL:: http://www.domainname.com/administrator/ and  got an error. While checking on Server error logs it displayed: [wpfmb type=’error’ theme=2][error] [client XX.XX.XX.XX]Directory index forbidden by rule: /home/user/public_html/domainname.com/administrator/[/wpfmb] This error normally occurred due to multiple index files in the “administrator” folder. Follow the steps in order to remove the […]

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Error: awstats failed to create directory DirData

When trying to access awstat getting following error: [wpfmb type=’error’ theme=2]Error: awstats failed to create directory DirData (DirData=”/home/old_username/tmp/awstats”, CreateDirDataIfNotExists=1). Setup (‘/home/new_username/tmp/awstats/awstats.domain.com.conf’ file, web server or permissions) may be wrong.[/wpfmb] To resolve the error: move /home/new_username/tmp to different name. Run: /scripts/runweblogs Now access awstat. [wpfmb type=’info’ theme=2]If you are facing error while adding or removing IP’s […]

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Error: To add, edit, or remove IPs, please contact your server administrator.

When you add IP from WHM, you may get the following message: [wpfmb type=’warning’ theme=2]To add, edit, or remove IPs, please contact your server administrator.[/wpfmb] To fix this issue, Login to your server as root and try adding the IP Address + Netmask to /etc/ips. cat /etc/ips ip:netmask:broadcast 192.168.1.XX:255.255.255.255:192.168.1.255 After that restart the ipalias service /etc/init.d/ipaliases […]

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Script to change cpanel password for many users in server

First of all get all the users name in a file : users.txt Then touch a file script.sh chmod 755 script.sh Copy the following code to that file: #!/bin/bash for i in `more users.txt` do randstring=`tr -dc _#$%^\&*\(\)\=A-Za-z0-9\~\+@! < /dev/urandom | head -c 8` echo “$i $randstring” >> newpass.txt /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/realchpass $i $randstring /scripts/mysqlpasswd $i $randstring […]

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Error after changing WHM theme

After changing the WHM theme sometimes you can deal with following error while trying to revert the changed theme. [wpfmb type=’error’ theme=2]Error: [a fatal error or timeout occurred while processing this directive]file error – /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/themes/canarias/templates/setmytheme.tmpl: not found[/wpfmb] This error is generally occurs when the theme is not set properly. The file that stores the WHM […]

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