CSF firewall is famous free firewall solution that integrates with cPanel very well. It is the most user friendly (in my opinion) firewall and takes only two steps to install and configure. Login to your server as root and run fullowing commands, you can copy paste all of them all togather. rm -fv csf.tgz wget http://www.configserver.com/free/csf.tgz OR wget […]
We use Config Server Firewall (CSF) on our Cpanel server, a good one and strongly integrated with WHM. This weekend a tweaking resulted in many many emails notifications from LFD which is very annoying. The content of notifications emails is like: excessive resource usage notifications and Suspicious process running under user XXXX It seems normal and nothing to […]
Config Server Explorer or CSE is an extremely powerful but dangerous, repeat *dangerous* utility. There is the warning that is shown on WHM CSE area itself. STOP! WARNING! While this utility can be very useful it is also very dangerous indeed. You can easily render your server inoperable and unrecoverable by performing ill advised actions. No warranty or […]
If you manage your cPanel server, like everyone out there, you will take steps secure your cPanel server. Once common practice in doing that is to disable PHP functions that are considered potentially dangerous. Dangerous in the sense that these are often used by hackers and rarely used otherwise in common scripts. I did the […]
Whenever recreate the email account it is always better to take emails backup after that you can restore the backup for newly created email accounts. For email account’s backup we need to login into shell as a root user and follow steps: […]
Sometimes when browse the website we got the error message (404 page not found)it occurs when you are trying to visit the page which has been removed or not available for some reasons. So it is better to create a 404 page for your site and redirect traffic from incorrect urls and prevent your website […]
DNS cache always stores the location of recently browse pages, If your DNS cache is not updated you will not be able to access the pages or most probably you are getting 404(not found) error. So this is a time to clean or restart Windows’ DNS cache, To clear DNS Cache in client, follow the […]
We are getting the error while creating procedure in MySQL on windows #1044 – Access denied for user ‘my_user’@’%’ to database ‘my_dataabse’ For this , web hosting have to give CREATE ROUTINE, ALTER ROUTINE, and EXECUTE rights to database and database user.in simple way you can say that you need the SUPER privilege for this […]
Previously, we wrote this comprehensive blog post, with all the possible cPanel log files and the log locations. But there was not much information on how to use those log files. So I am redoing the post to have that necessary information as my readers asked. The post will turn into a cPanel logs cheat […]
You are going to make a big configuration change, hardware upgrade or mass updating user files on your cpanel services. Making a backup is the first thing do in such cases, and you want to do it before your scheduled backup. Cpanel does not offer making instant backups just like plesk. You will need ssh […]