Tag archive for ‘whm’

Account Creation Status: failed (out of available ip addresses)

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” [...]

Securing Your /tmp Partition with Cpanel/WHM

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 [...]

Upgrade WHM / cPanel Linux server to EDGE release

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 [...]

Howto: Change cPanel theme for multiple accounts.

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 [...]

LogView Install

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:log view programming (2)linux [...]

ConfigServer Explorer (cse)

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. [...]

How to monitor and auto restart cron service using cPanel chkservd?

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 [...]

cpanel: mysql database size 0MB

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.

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 [...]