How to change cPanel theme for multiple accounts? The cPanel theme for an account is specified in the /var/cpanel/users/username file in the format RS=value For example: BWLIMIT=unlimited DEMO=0 DNS=domainname.com FEATURELIST=default HASCGI=1 IP=IPHERE LANG=english LOCALE=en MAXADDON=0 MAXFTP=0 MAXLST=0 MAXPARK=0 MAXPOP=5 MAXSQL=0 MAXSUB=0 MTIME=1271068514 OWNER=root PLAN=default STARTDATE=1228721668 USER=username RS=x3 where, x3 is the theme. WHM only provides [...]

If you are renting a server then chances are everything is lumped in / and a small amount partitioned for /boot and some for swap. With this current setup, you have no room for making more partitions unless you have a second hard-drive. Learn how to create a secure /tmp partition even while your server is already up [...]

Account Creation Status: failed (Your system has run out of available ip addresses, or you do not have permission to use any more ip addresses. (Unable to find an ip address.) ) You receive the “Account Creation Status: failed” error message while adding a domain from WHM >> Account Functions >> “Create a New Account” [...]

Q. How do I upgrade my CentOS Linux 5.0 dedicated server to WHM / cPanel edge release? A. You can upgrade to EDGE release from WHM manager. Please note that Edge is the bleeding edge tree. While it has the newest features; It has undergone the least amount of testing (if any). You generally shouldn’t [...]

LogView Install Instructions   Login to your server as a root user wget http://www.logview.org/logview-install chmod +x logview-install ./logview-install Wait for install complete message rm -f logview-install LogView is now installed on your server! Login to WHM Go to Add-Ons >> LogView – File System Log Viewer Start using LogView Incoming search terms:j2sdk-1_4_2_18-linux-i586-rpm bin (3)how to [...]

This is an exclusive! and free! add-on product for cPanel/WHM. The product provides you with a full featured Filesystem explorer and a Virtual Console to use within your web browser in WHM. It gives you root access from the top level of your disks and allows you to enter non-interactive commands and see the output. [...]

Sometimes the crond service fails quite often without any clue and it becomes necessary to monitor the cron service and auto-restart it. cPanel offers ‘chkservd’, a monitoring daemon that monitors the services on the server and restart them if found offline. cPanel/WHM do not provide an option to include the ‘crond’ service under the monitoring [...]

You may see the mysql database size as zero in cPanel >> ‘Mysql Databases’ option, though the databases contains tables and data. In order to include the size of the databases while displaying disk usage in cPanel/WHM, perform either of the following steps: 1) SSH to your server as root and edit the cpanel.config file [...]

Howto install CSF on your server: 1) cd /usr/local/src/ 2) download csf: wget http://www.configserver.com/free/csf.tgz 3) tar -xzf csf.tgz 4) goto the csf directory : cd csf 5) ./install.sh Once it is installed, you can either edit the configuration file from WHM >> Plugins >> “Config Server Security and Firewall” option. If you don’t have WHM/cPanel [...]