One particular common mistake done by many of us is not disable directory browsing its always good to turn off the directory browsing for security reasons.while accessing website visitor always redirect to index page if the index page does not exist server shows the list of files and directories. By default server allows the directory […]
How to install CSF firewall on cpanel server
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 […]
Disabling excessive resource usage notifications in CSF cpanel
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 […]
How to uninstall Config Server Explorer (CSE)
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 […]
Fantastico warnings with disabled shell_exec()
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 […]
How to backup emails on cPanel
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: […]
Redirect For 404 Error page
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 […]
PHP.ini in plesk
Here we describe the configuration of php.ini file and the different version of PHP used into plesk windows. PHP 4 and PHP 5 are the two versions of PHP supported by plesk server.PHP can work in two modes as CGI or as ISAPI. For PHP 4 default location of php.ini file is the Windows base […]
Plesk Admin Panel Password retrieval
In Parallels Plesk Panel 9.x for Windows password reminder is available into login screen but we can use the plesksrvclient.exe available in the %plesk_bin% folder to get a new password or to recover the old one. To set up a new password we need to run a following command: “%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient” -set <new_password> true To retrieve the […]
Clean Your DNS Cache
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 […]